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Trudeau lectures rambling Nixon in long-lost recording
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Last Edited | Monsieur Dec 07, 2008 01:42pm |
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News Date | Sunday, December 7, 2008 07:40:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | WASHINGTON -- A scratchy, long-lost recording reveals a rambling Richard Nixon struggling to discuss trade issues in the Oval Office with a wily and eloquent Pierre Trudeau, someone the president had referred to hours earlier as a "son of a bitch."
The two-hour conversation is believed to be the only discussion between the two men captured on the infamous Nixon recording system -- and the storied chat that later prompted the sputtering president to call Trudeau "an *******" and a "pompous egghead."
Indeed, Trudeau serves up a miniature lecture on economics to the president throughout a discussion about the Nixon administration's controversial shift towards more protectionist practices against its trading partners, including Canada, which was previously exempt from some punitive American tariffs.
"If you're going to be protectionist, let's be in it together," Trudeau tells Nixon at one point during the tape that's often punctuated by loud but largely indiscernible background noises.
"I am not a nationalist, I am not a protectionist ... if you were going to take a very protectionist trend, our whole economy is so importantly tied to yours, we'd have to make some very fundamental decisions," Trudeau says. |
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