Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 013-148
Date: Friday, November 5, 1971 at 9:24 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Regan, Edward V.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/013-148

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[0:00] Hello.
[0:02] Mr. President, I have Mr. Edward Reagan for you.
[0:04] Yeah.
[0:05] All right, go ahead.
[1:07] All right.
[1:08] Well, I'm so delighted, and we want to be as helpful as we can.
[1:12] I'm sitting here right now just walking off with John Ehrlichman.
[1:16] Right.
[1:16] John's the head of the domestic council.
[1:18] That I know.
[1:19] And whenever you have something affecting county government, where a problem or something, we don't have much money, but we now and then can be helpful.
[1:29] But you just get on the horn with John, because he knows that I've told him that we'll talk to you.
[1:34] Thank you very much.
[1:35] Fine.
[2:34] I wonder if the bond issue hurt.
[2:38] The bond issue did to some extent.
[2:40] Yeah, people don't want those taxes, do they?
[2:42] Oh boy, it's just... What position did you take on the bond issue?
[2:46] I was in favor of it.
[2:47] I know, well that was the responsible thing to do.
[2:49] Only thing to do.
[2:50] I said, listen, I know about the per capita debt in New York State and everything else, but I'm going to look for it because we need it.
[2:58] That was it.
[2:59] But it didn't hurt me, I guess.
[3:45] I just hope you do better than the bills done.
[3:47] Okay.
[3:47] All right.
[3:47] Thank you, Mr. President.
[3:51] They still need Kemp.
[3:52] Okay.
[3:53] That's right.