Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 908-012
Date: Tuesday, May 1, 1973 at 10:34 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; [Unknown person(s)]
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/908-012

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[0:05] Yeah, the way we'll do it is that they'll take a picture of you and...
[0:11] Right.
[0:12] And then, after a few minutes, that bar and I will come in.
[0:16] Fine.
[0:17] Oh, I believe you.
[0:18] The major thing to get across to them is they have a tendency to say that defense is the only bond we have.
[0:26] Now, that sounds very tough.
[0:28] But that means that if they can find a substitute for it through European Security Conference, they can squeeze us out of Europe.
[0:36] And whatever you can say as strongly as you feel on the danger of neutralizing Europe and spreading Europe from America will strengthen Brandt against his own leftists.
[0:50] I mean, we shouldn't say that Brandt is not a crucial one, but I think that the government is going to have to reach to some of the points
[1:08] I'm still thinking.
[1:35] You believe that's all it says, huh?
[1:37] It was made one day.
[1:40] All right.
[1:42] That is it.
[1:43] That can't be the answer to that account, is it?
[1:46] I'll wait outside until the pictures are taken and submitted.
[1:48] Yeah, I know.
[1:48] You said it, boy.
[1:51] You might as well go back out and check your records right outside of the way you walked over me.
[2:06] Thank you.