Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 003-028
Date: Wednesday, May 12, 1971 at 5:34 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Boland, Edward P.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/003-028

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[0:00] Mr. President, how are you?
[0:03] Well, I just wanted to call you to tell you how grateful I am for your fine work in this SST.
[0:09] I know that you take a lot of heat, you know, from people that are on the other side, but without your help, we could have never done
[0:16] Well, without that, down there we could have done all that.
[0:18] And I must say that, you know, you went in there and you took the leadership on your side, and I'm very grateful, and we're going to do our best to try to see if we can turn the Senate around.
[0:28] If we can't, we're going to make those conferees do their best.
[0:30] Well, that's fine.
[0:31] But I think from the standpoint of the country, that's the main thing.
[0:34] I agree.
[0:34] And that's what's really involved there, apart from whether we can go faster to Europe.
[0:38] You and I don't care about that.
[0:39] But, my God, we don't want the United States to be number two in a place where we've been number one around the world.
[0:44] Exactly.
[0:44] Right.
[0:45] I appreciate your call, Mr. President.
[0:47] Okay.