Nixon Administration | Series: Fatal Politics
Time: 15:15 | Duration: 1:35
Conversation 246-017 (PRDE Excerpt A)
The President and his National Security Adviser spent much of 7 April 1971, discussing the Vietnam War in anticipation of Nixon’s televised speech that night announcing another partial troop withdrawal. In a brief and unclear exchange about Senate Republicans, Henry A. Kissinger told the President that GOP lawmakers have been in the minority for so many years that they’re acting like the occupant of the White House was a stranger. Kissinger assured the President that Nixon would have a place in ...