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Dobrynin: "In the calendar. I think she was on this Playboy calendar."

Kissinger: "Oh, you're a dirty old man."

Dobrynin: "... she's a real nice girl."

Kissinger: "... she's very attractive. I hope she isn't a nice girl."

This exchange between White House chief of staff Alexander Haig and Kissinger reveals Nixon jokingly threatening to drop a nuclear bomb on Congress as it moves to impeach him in March 1974:

Haig: "I was told to get the football."

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