President Nixon raised the idea of using a nuclear bomb against North Vietnam in 1972, but his national security adviser quickly dismissed the notion. "That, I think, would just be too much," Kissinger replies softly in his baritone voice, in a conversation that is among 500 hours of Nixon tapes released Thursday. Nixon closes the subject by telling Kissinger: "I just want you to think big." He also says "I don't give a damn" about civilians killed by U.S. bombing. That exchange in the Executive Office Building on April 25, 1972, is contained in the largest batch of tapes ever released by the National Archives.
Nixon's Big Thought
President Nixon raised the idea of using a nuclear bomb against North Vietnam in 1972, but his national security adviser quickly dismissed the notion. "That, I think, would just be too much," Kissinger replies softly in his baritone voice, in a conversation that is among 500 hours of Nixon tapes released Thursday. Nixon closes the subject by telling Kissinger: "I just want you to think big." He also says "I don't give a damn" about civilians killed by U.S. bombing. That exchange in the Executive Office Building on April 25, 1972, is contained in the largest batch of tapes ever released by the National Archives.
