老土豆被尼克松骂过。
Just-released 1971 recording captures talks between Nixon, 'pompous' Trudeau
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CBC News · Posted: Dec 08, 2008 9:48 AM ET | Last Updated: December 8, 2008
A taped conversation that led former U.S. president Richard Nixon to call then prime minister
Pierre Trudeau a "pompous egghead" has been released publicly.
The two-hour discussion that took place on Dec. 6, 1971, in the Oval Office is believed to be the only exchange between the two leaders captured on the infamous Nixon recording system.
The recording, parts of which are scratchy and inaudible, was found among 200 hours of tapes and 90,000 pages of documents recently released by the Nixon Library.
In the recording, Nixon is heard asking his aides for guidance on how to "lead" that
"son-of-a-bitch" Trudeau before the meeting begins.
At times during the conversation, Nixon seems to grapple to articulate his administration's intentions when it comes to trade relations with Canada and then security adviser Henry Kissinger occasionally weighs in to provide the Canadian prime minister with more details.
Nixon also demonstrates some paranoia, telling Trudeau that other countries are "ganging up" on the United States on trade issues.
Trudeau then lectures Nixon on economics related to the Americans' controversial shift toward more protectionist practices against its trading partners, including Canada.
"If you're going to be protectionist, let's be in it together," Trudeau tells Nixon. "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 the U.S. could easily build up a trade surplus with Canada in an attempt to essentially colonize the country.
