Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 001-066
Date: Sunday, April 11, 1971 at 9:19 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/001-066

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[0:00] Hello?
[0:00] Mr. Colson, sir.
[0:04] Chuck?
[0:04] Yes, sir.
[0:05] Oh, I forgot to ask you.
[0:07] What did you hear from your friend Harris?
[0:10] He started his poll this week, or he was supposed to have.
[0:13] I tried to reach him Friday in Detroit.
[0:15] I thought he was going to pull right after the broadcast.
[0:20] He told me he was going to start Thursday, and then he...
[0:24] I assume he did, although I wasn't able to reach him on Friday yet.
[0:27] He probably stretches it out over three, four days, I suppose.
[0:30] Normally it takes about four days.
[0:31] Normally he would be finished tonight.
[0:33] Oh, I see.
[0:34] Well, then he won't have anything this week, then probably until next.
[0:37] No, he would, his raw data, Mr. President, he would have in on Thursday of this coming week.
[0:43] Yeah.
[0:45] And I, as I say, I tried to call on Friday to see if he started, but I wasn't able to reach him.
[0:50] He was doing a TV show out in Detroit.
[0:52] Uh-huh.
[0:53] But I will get him in the morning.
[0:54] Yeah.
[0:55] I'm sure he started.
[0:56] He's being extremely cooperative.
[0:59] Well, you can be sure he knows what we pulled, you know.
[1:03] Well, the ORC thing, I think some of it was put out today, wasn't it?
[1:07] It ran on the wires today, yes, sir.
[1:08] Yeah, that was the one we took just before the broadcast.
[1:12] Right.
[1:13] Right.
[1:13] But I'll see that he has that, and I'm sure Lou started.
[1:18] Lou has risen to the bait, and...
[1:21] Well, I don't know the sum of peace of what happens to him.
[1:23] No, but what he told me is he'd put his men in the field starting Thursday.
[1:28] Yeah.
[1:28] Which normally he'd be through the night of tomorrow.
[1:31] Yeah, good.
[1:32] We'll have some more data on Thursday.
[1:35] Right, right, right.
[1:37] But I'll let you know.
[1:37] Just so he knows that we are doing the same thing.
[1:41] Oh, yes.
[1:43] Yeah.
[1:43] Helps keep him honest a little bit.
[1:45] Yeah, yeah.
[1:47] And as I say, he's been helpful.
[1:48] He's given me a lot of...
[1:51] A lot of his raw data that he never gave out before.
[1:53] Good.
[1:54] Good.
[1:55] Well, and we're ready to cooperate with him, too.
[1:57] Sure.
[1:58] He knows that.
[1:59] Right.
[1:59] Right.
[2:00] Well, I'll check with him in the morning.
[2:02] Wow.
[2:03] Okay.
[2:03] Let you know what the... Sure.
[2:05] If he's pulling and we'll get his results.
[2:07] Fine.
[2:08] Fine.
[2:08] Okay.
[2:09] Fine.
[2:09] Thank you.
[2:09] Thank you, sir.