Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 010-034
Date: Wednesday, September 29, 1971 at 7:33 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/010-034

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[0:00] Mr. President, I have Mr. Colt.
[0:23] Hello?
[0:23] What's the evening line from the nutcutter?
[0:25] Did he happen to pick up, Chuck, I was going to call you back, that line where he said, I would crawl...
[0:30] That's the most horrible thing, for a president of the United States to crawl.
[0:48] And what did he do?
[0:49] What was the line he took, Chuck?
[1:14] Great, great, great, great.
[1:38] Really?
[1:43] Yeah.
[1:54] Right.
[2:04] Oh, they probably wouldn't, but that's all right.
[2:18] Good.
[2:18] Particularly the crawling thing was so disgusting.
[2:19] It's like Jack Kennedy's comment in 60 where he said, I would apologize to Khrushchev, you see.
[2:39] Right.
[2:52] Were they?
[2:55] But were they second?
[2:56] I hope they were.
[3:02] Oh.
[3:11] Oh, for Christ sakes.
[3:15] He didn't even know.
[3:31] Yeah.
[3:46] I think what was the reaction to the fact that I came?
[4:02] That was really quite a reaction.
[4:06] The press didn't really play it up as the enthusiasm that I thought they were.
[4:09] I didn't know that.
[4:13] How'd they do it?
[4:15] It's not going to destroy it, but it's going to have an emotional impact on you.
[5:16] Yeah.
[5:31] Well, actually, tonight the network's on.
[5:37] Donnelly Carey for MECO.
[5:37] That was the big news, you see.
[5:38] Yeah.
[5:38] I hope they use his.
[5:38] That's right.
[5:52] He said that, good for him.
[5:58] He's a Democrat, you know.
[6:00] But he's a good man.
[6:27] Well, uh, it was a tough thing, but we had to do it.
[6:52] Alright.
[6:53] Yeah.
[6:53] You won't do it.
[6:53] I know.
[6:53] Well...
[7:02] No.
[7:22] No, this is something where Bill ought to really have a press conference and lash the bastard.
[7:37] Right.
[7:49] What?
[7:49] Dignify it.
[7:53] We want to make an issue.
[7:57] That's right.
[7:57] Good, good.
[7:58] I understand, yes, that he did very well.
[8:07] Yeah, he finally got the... Alright.
[8:21] Good.
[8:49] They've got to stay in line on this.
[8:51] They've got to.
[9:27] Is that right?
[9:36] You mean in the Senate?
[9:37] I couldn't believe it would be there.
[9:38] Well, we get more votes than we had before.
[9:56] No.
[9:56] That's right.
[9:57] Keep it on.
[10:05] Good.
[10:21] All right.
[10:21] Good.
[10:21] Good.
[10:21] Here's the one.
[10:21] Heat start.
[10:27] What do you think of it?
[10:57] Well, that's good.
[11:08] That's good.
[11:10] How are you coming with our friend from CBS?
[11:15] Huh?
[11:15] No, no, no, no.
[11:15] Yeah.
[11:18] Yeah.
[11:38] We really should...
[11:49] The main thing is that I trust that through the administration now, and this includes Elliot Richardson particularly, there must be never anybody to talk to the son of a bitch again.
[12:08] All right.
[12:21] Yeah.
[12:39] Nah.
[12:39] That's right.
[12:39] Well, and it's a legitimate thing.
[12:52] Right.
[13:12] Right.
[13:15] Right.
[13:18] Well, I did the IMF today.
[13:40] We're trying to sort of keep firm there.
[13:41] We've got to keep firm, you know, in this international way.
[13:42] Oh, well.
[13:42] We have to do that, though.
[13:43] Yeah.
[13:43] Yeah.
[13:43] Thank God we got him.
[13:44] Because, boy, he was good.
[13:45] He didn't mind, you know, if you'd called him on, if you did Rogers, right, he'd be out there cracking Teddy right over the ass.
[14:08] All right.
[14:13] All right.
[14:19] He certainly should.
[14:32] He did.
[14:32] You wouldn't have to ask him.
[14:33] He would have done it before.
[14:38] Yeah.
[14:45] That's right.
[14:52] Oh, sure, sure.
[15:20] Well, we'll keep looking at it.
[15:20] Good.
[15:21] Sure.
[15:21] If he's already provided this, he thinks he's going to...
[15:22] You know, get a good story out of it.
[15:49] You really ought to.
[15:50] Sure.
[15:50] Did they?
[15:50] Good.
[15:50] Good.
[15:51] The crawling thing really is terrible.
[16:02] Yeah Oh boy Yeah Yeah
[16:47] We really have to get there unless, you know, I was thinking of this vote on the pay thing.
[17:05] We've got to put the monkey on their back.
[17:06] They do that.
[17:06] They are busting the whole effort to stop the rise in the cost of living.
[17:09] They're really, you know, they're sabotaging the president's plan.
[17:40] That's right.
[18:00] That's right.
[18:00] That's right.
[18:03] Mm-hmm.
[18:10] Take the heat.
[18:39] It's much better.
[18:39] Very good.
[18:45] But he gets the control, eh?
[18:50] Yeah, that's right.
[19:17] And also, a lot of people think that Stein now thinks that the hell he looks like is a liberal trying to protect the president.
[19:44] You know what I mean, right?
[19:44] What are you doing?
[19:45] Sure.
[19:45] No, sir.
[19:45] Take the heat, get it over with.
[19:46] That's right.
[19:48] That's right.
[20:10] That's right.
[20:10] I am inclined to think we're going to get some good numbers in the balance of the years.
[20:16] I just think there's a hell of a lot going on here in Victoria.
[20:54] There it goes.
[21:38] But there shall await to see.
[21:57] Of course Goldstein will write those, write the figures for this one unfortunately.
[22:15] Oh, he'll give us a little help, I guess.
[22:32] God damn it.
[22:33] Well, we'll see.
[22:33] Well, we'll see.
[23:41] Okay.
[24:09] Well, okay.
[24:11] Bye.