Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 007-140
Date: Sunday, August 15, 1971 at 11:03 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Klein, Herbert G.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/007-140

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[0:00] Yeah.
[0:02] Goodbye, Mr. President.
[0:04] Hello.
[0:04] President, that was a great job.
[0:06] Well, it shook him up a little.
[0:08] Well, it shook him up in a very good way.
[0:09] I got all of them to give me a little report on that.
[0:14] Apparently they're all...
[0:16] They realize that we have the initiative for the moment, at least.
[0:20] No, they really do, and a whole variety of... One I was most interested in, I don't know if you've seen Jack May.
[0:25] Yeah, I got that.
[0:27] Yeah, that was good.
[0:29] You know, and Jack...
[0:30] That was the one thing he talked to me right after that we hadn't had much chance to talk on that, and so he was quite pleased.
[0:40] I think that you'll find it really will have wide support, and I think that it'll be on what it'll actually do substantially.
[0:51] It'll feel psychologically like you've really moved in hard, and I think that really is the key to it.
[1:01] Well, there's no doubt that the immediate reaction is going to be excellent.
[1:05] It'll be, as you say, a follow-up in three or four weeks, but I think it really will be great.
[1:11] Good.
[1:11] We've got a good, wide program, as Bob probably told you, people on TV again.
[1:17] Oh, I know.
[1:18] That's great.
[1:20] Great.
[1:20] He told me about it.
[1:21] Yeah.
[1:21] Conley on it, too, which is good.
[1:23] And then we've got some briefings here.
[1:24] columnist, bureau chief, things like that.
[1:28] Paul McCracken did a very good job on ABC tonight.
[1:33] Good, good, good.
[1:35] Well, I really congratulate you, sir.
[1:38] Okay, thanks, sir.