Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 003-026
Date: Wednesday, May 12, 1971 at 5:29 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Arends, Leslie C.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/003-026

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[0:00] Yeah.
[0:00] Congressman Ahrens is on the line, sir.
[0:02] Yeah.
[0:03] Hello.
[0:03] Hello.
[0:04] Well, you won a close one.
[0:05] Oh, Mr. President.
[0:06] Yeah, I just wanted to tell you how pleased I was, and I've been trying to reach you earlier, but you were running around.
[0:12] Yeah, yeah.
[0:13] You've been out of Burning Tree?
[0:15] No, no.
[0:17] Not with that.
[0:17] Not with that.
[0:18] Well, that was a wonderful job.
[0:19] Wonderful job.
[0:20] Real hard work.
[0:21] Yeah, it's great.
[0:22] Now, you know, just get good conferees, because we'll force that Senate, you know, even if we lose it there, you can't recede completely, can you?
[0:29] No, no.
[0:30] No, sir.
[0:31] No, sir.
[0:31] Never.
[0:32] No, that's right.
[0:33] No, we kind of got them on a little bit.
[0:34] How do our guys feel now that they won it?
[0:36] Do they feel good?
[0:37] A lot of the boys feel real good about it, Jan.
[0:39] I think some of the boys who even voted against us are a little happy about it now, you know.
[0:42] Great.
[0:43] We changed four of them in Illinois.
[0:45] We got four boys from Illinois, Michael and Collier and Crane.
[0:48] Isn't that wonderful?
[0:50] Got them to withdraw their no votes and vote present.
[0:53] We got pairs for them.
[0:55] Good.
[0:55] That made the difference.
[0:56] That's great.
[0:57] Oh, yeah.
[0:58] It was great.
[0:59] Well, I'm glad it worked out well.
[1:00] I appreciate it, Les.
[1:01] Bye.
[1:01] You do.
[1:02] Gosh, we're on the team.
[1:03] Right.
[1:03] Bye.
[1:04] Thanks, Mr. President.