Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 011-018
Date: Thursday, October 7, 1971 at 9:40 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Graham, William F. ("Billy")
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/011-018

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[0:01] Hello.
[0:04] Hello, Mr. President.
[0:04] Billy, how are you?
[0:07] I thought you did a great job tonight.
[0:08] Where are you?
[0:09] I'm in North Carolina.
[0:10] Oh, fine.
[0:11] Good.
[0:21] And I thought that I think that piece will pay richer political dividends than probably any of you have made since you've been in the White House.
[0:24] I tried to sit here and analyze it as just an average ordinary citizen who has to go shopping.
[0:25] Yeah, yeah.
[0:27] Well, we had
[0:51] get them going.
[0:52] They don't want to come out for it, but they've got to because the people are for it.
[0:56] Those letters I referred to were all from people that had wage increases.
[1:09] That's terrible.
[1:13] No, well, they're going after the poor fellow, you know, he's a
[1:17] Of course, I have nothing.
[1:19] I'm not even in any of these deals.
[1:21] George is.
[1:22] George's managing the business a lot, but I'm not.
[1:25] But they just go after the most terribly pipsqueak thing.
[1:36] It's awful.
[1:37] Just a few dollars here and there.
[1:37] It's fantastic that they would make stories like that, but of course, you know, they're after it.
[1:39] Oh, sure they are, yeah.
[1:40] I just wanted to tell you that.
[1:41] Well, I appreciate that.
[1:42] You're going to West Virginia tomorrow, aren't you?
[1:43] Yeah, I'm going out to crown some queen or something.
[1:47] Yeah, this will be the 50th state we've visited since I've been in.
[1:51] It's the first time in the history of the country that any president has visited all the states, let alone 50.
[1:56] In the old days, they couldn't do it.
[1:59] Now, with airplanes, we do.
[2:04] Well, he'll do great.
[2:06] He'll do great.
[2:08] He'll knock them dead.
[2:11] I'm bringing him with me down to your place, you know.
[2:14] Sure he is.
[2:16] And I told Holloman to be sure they arranged a separate car for him so that, you know, let the people...
[2:28] I wanted to ask you one little thing.
[2:37] I'm going to make a remark that lasts about seven minutes, very little.
[2:39] Yeah, sure.
[2:39] But I have in there three or four paragraphs about you, and I hope that I haven't said some things that you waited on and embarrassed you.
[2:42] I might send it to Bob.
[2:43] No, no, no, no.
[2:43] You do what you want.
[2:44] Don't you sense to anybody.
[2:44] I know, but I want to be sure I don't, you know,
[2:47] Sure.
[2:52] Oh, that's great.
[2:53] That's fine.
[2:59] Great, great.
[3:00] Well, I think it's good that John Connolly can come, and I'm sure he can, that he and Nellie, they're great supporters of yours.
[3:08] Also, everybody knows he's sort of the second man in the country at the moment.
[3:12] Do you like that?
[3:15] Right.
[3:16] Right.
[3:20] Great.
[3:21] Great.
[3:24] Great.
[3:24] Well, I'll see you, Billy, and I do appreciate your call.
[3:27] All right, sir.
[3:27] Thank you.