Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 009-055
Date: Thursday, September 16, 1971 at 9:24 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/009-055

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[0:00] Hello?
[0:08] Hello?
[0:10] Good evening, Mr. President.
[0:17] Were you on the Sequoia?
[0:18] Yes, sir.
[0:19] I took several members of the senior staff out, which was a very nice thing to do.
[0:21] Good.
[0:21] Just coming in when you called.
[0:22] Right, right.
[0:22] Well, I thought I'd better not talk over that open... Oh, hell no.
[0:23] I didn't want to get you there.
[0:24] That open radio circuit, I don't trust.
[3:53] Well, also your remarks on the draft were just more than most irresponsible.
[4:14] I can imagine some of you.
[4:15] Yeah, and to say that they are going to vote against the draft is a vote to make the United States number two in the world.
[4:17] A vote against the draft is to seriously jeopardize our peace initiatives all over the world.
[4:19] In the Mideast, I said.
[4:20] And, you know, what are the Jews about?
[4:21] Well, I would hate myself to be a senator tomorrow voting against the draft.
[4:22] Well, it looks like we're going to win the vote.
[4:42] We're going to have one more senator than we planned today.
[4:44] Is he going to be it?
[4:44] Will he vote with us?
[4:45] He's got to vote with us on this test, will he?
[5:07] I want you to tell him we've got to have him on this vote.
[5:08] First vote.
[5:08] He's got to vote with us.
[5:09] He's aching, you know.
[5:09] He's slobbering away on it.
[5:11] Well, they can go from that field over.
[5:32] I know.
[5:32] That's true.
[5:32] No, no, but Bob, Bob very clearly was open to it.
[5:33] He was good.
[5:33] That's the reason he...
[5:34] It'll make it.
[5:34] The answer really isn't the answer.
[5:35] It's not clear about... Oh, hell no.
[5:36] Thank you, guys.
[5:36] You're more popular in all three of them cities, really, today.
[5:37] Well, these days, the governor is a lot sober tonight.
[5:38] But all the staff at that school is...
[5:40] Really?
[6:03] Okay.
[6:03] Well, I also got in a couple of good looks on the economy.
[6:04] I said we would have a follow-on program and it would have tea.
[6:05] Well, your phrase was excellent.
[6:06] The drug on it can't be affected without tea.
[6:07] You had some great catch-on.
[6:07] It was beautiful the way you surprised me.
[6:08] I didn't like it either.
[6:11] Of course, winning this doesn't really do anything but just protract the debate.
[6:34] It just protracts the debate.
[6:35] Even if we win it, it just means that we just go back to the jury filibuster.
[6:38] Well, maybe if they lose the tabling motion, then there isn't much tripping when they continue to deviate.
[7:00] I can prevail or still try to, but I just don't know.
[7:01] It breaks their back psychologically.
[7:02] If they don't have the motion to reconnect, or to come back to campus, they'll peter out.
[7:03] I hope so.
[7:04] Okay, bye.
[7:04] Bye.
[7:04] Bye.
[7:04] Thank you.