Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 007-144
Date: Sunday, August 15, 1971 at 11:12 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Gosden, Freeman F., Jr.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/007-144

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[0:01] Hello?
[0:01] Mr. President?
[0:03] Hi, Freeman, how are you?
[0:05] Fine.
[0:05] I know you have heard some nice things, but I have heard nicer things than you have.
[0:10] Well, how nice of you to call.
[0:11] Well, I'll tell you what.
[0:12] First of all, I called to talk to Dave Martin in New York, so that you won't think I'm just making up names.
[0:18] He has talked to two or three people there.
[0:21] They were simply delighted.
[0:23] Dave said, like I did, I told him that I got a tear in my eye about this thing again because you were so sincere about it.
[0:30] And he said he did too.
[0:32] He was very excited.
[0:34] My broker, who is 70 years old but very active, I had a Henson company.
[0:39] It's a broker's firm here.
[0:42] He got up there.
[0:43] He said, I was alone.
[0:44] My wife was out for dinner.
[0:45] He said, I danced around the room.
[0:48] He said, I had called eight people, and they are all excited.
[0:52] I just talked to Justin Dart, Lee Batson.
[0:55] Lee Batson went out 100%.
[0:57] Justin Dart thought it was great.
[0:59] I called the Democrats.
[1:00] who doesn't like the Republicans.
[1:06] Right.
[1:06] And he said, well, the big so-and-so should have done that sooner.
[1:11] That's all he could say.
[1:12] That's the only detrimental thing he could say.
[1:16] Now, the thing on the radio that faces the man, and I told General Haig about it tonight, that after you finished on CBS...
[1:24] Instead of the media giving a fair chance, he says, now what does this mean about this free?
[1:29] He says, well, it means this.
[1:30] If you're going to get a raise next week, you can't have it.
[1:35] But he wouldn't say, but if you're buying an automobile, you'll save a couple of hundred bucks.
[1:41] Yeah, that's right.
[1:42] But I'll tell you, the people I have talked to are ecstatic about it.
[1:46] Well, we just hope that that's great to hear.
[1:49] You've had great comment, haven't you?
[1:52] We have, up back here, yeah.
[1:53] But, you know, the thing is, it's more important than what we did as a psychologist.
[1:59] We could turn the psychologist around.
[2:00] This country is strong, and the economy is moving, and people just got to get off their asses and start to work.
[2:06] That's right.
[2:07] I tell you what you got me doing.
[2:08] I was going to look at a Mercedes, and I'm not going to look at it.
[2:12] Okay.
[2:12] Nice talking to you.
[2:14] Thank you for calling back.
[2:15] Bye, Chrysler.
[2:16] Bye, Chrysler.
[2:17] Okay.
[2:17] Okay.
[2:17] Bye.