Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 002-065
Date: Thursday, April 29, 1971 at 10:36 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Buchanan, Patrick J.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/002-065

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[0:00] Yeah.
[0:22] Hello.
[0:22] Hello, Pat.
[0:22] How are you?
[0:22] Well, you picked most of the answers.
[0:23] Yeah, that woman asked a silly question about Johnny Rose.
[0:24] Oh, well, it was a good thing that dude showed up, the poor guy.
[0:26] They were giving him a bad rap, you know, and all that.
[0:27] Yeah.
[0:31] Well, the main thing was to get across the feeling of confidence.
[0:46] Tell the demonstrators that we weren't going to be affected.
[0:47] We sure got that across, didn't we?
[0:48] And also, I put down the State Department and their silly goddamn comments about, you know, God, they're going all off the rockers, you know.
[0:56] Yeah, I'm hoping the attorney is very effective.
[0:57] What?
[0:57] The what?
[0:57] The attorney.
[0:58] Yeah.
[0:58] Yeah.
[0:58] Right.
[0:58] Right.
[0:59] Well, yeah.
[1:15] Yeah.
[1:15] We didn't stop it right on time.
[1:23] We let it go at about, actually, five minutes over, actually.
[1:25] But, uh, I think the, uh, I think that the real lead, though, is something that, there were two leads that, you know, things that, little things that stuck.
[1:28] One that, as I looked at the teenagers, my concern
[1:30] was not peace just in our time, but peace in their time.
[1:44] See, that gets across.
[1:44] People understand that.
[1:45] The other thing is that with regard to China, he's broken the ice.
[1:50] Now he's got to test the water to see how deep it is.
[1:51] People understand that, huh?
[1:52] But to tell these little bastards that are demonstrating, hey, look, we're not worried about peace in our time.
[1:55] We can get that very easy.
[1:56] But what about you little shit-ass?
[1:56] What's going to happen to you, huh?
[1:58] And that Washington's not under siege.
[2:23] I looked at the camera, you know, I said, tell them that was out of your region.
[2:25] Well, we'll see.
[2:26] But very good, very good preparation.
[2:27] Tell Alan and all the rest of the crew, very good job.
[2:28] Okay, fine.
[2:47] How'd you like my answer when I said it?
[2:49] Except that I was the only lawyer in the White House that nobody could afford.
[2:57] Okay.