Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 003-172
Date: Friday, May 28, 1971 at 11:03 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Andrews, John K., Jr.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/003-172

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[0:00] Hello.
[0:01] I have Mr. John Price, sir.
[0:03] Who?
[0:03] John Price.
[0:04] No, no, no.
[0:05] I'm trying.
[0:05] I'm sorry.
[0:06] Andrews.
[0:06] Yeah.
[0:07] I'm sorry.
[0:08] It's John Andrews.
[0:09] Yeah.
[0:09] Yes, sir.
[0:09] I was wondering if you and you can talk maybe to Cook about this, who's pretty good at this stuff.
[0:17] I don't know that you can find one, but I wondered if you could give thought to the possibility of something for the conclusion of this rather than this is
[0:28] a brief anecdote of some sort.
[0:31] Now, it could be, you know, you've got a lot of letters.
[0:35] I've never used any that we've had from POWIs, from Vietnam fathers, and all that sort of thing, or a boy who served, and something of that sort.
[0:48] So why don't you be a good process anyway to get the crew over there to spend a couple hours looking through.
[0:57] Maybe there's a letter.
[0:58] a brief, very brief one that could be read.
[1:01] Maybe there's an historical anecdote that would sort of put the whole problem of service and so forth in its proper context.
[1:11] I'm sure we can come up with something.
[1:13] I'd like to have two or three, a few choices so that there's a rather emotional lift at the end rather than an intellectual lift.
[1:20] Yes, sir.
[1:21] Just think about it.
[1:23] And I won't maybe buy...
[1:27] I won't be able to look at anything until around 4 o'clock this afternoon.
[1:33] Okay.
[1:34] Okay.
[1:34] And you want us to provide then the several choices if we can come up with them?
[1:37] Well, yeah.
[1:38] Yeah.
[1:38] And a recommendation or two or three choices.
[1:41] Yeah.
[1:42] Two or three choices or something of that sort.
[1:45] You can see where it comes toward the end.
[1:48] Yes, sir.
[1:49] Substitute for the end.
[1:50] Okay?
[1:50] Okay.
[1:50] We'll get it.
[1:51] Bye.