Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 016-084
Date: Friday, December 10, 1971 at 5:15 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Griffin, Robert P.; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/016-084

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[0:00] Senator Griffin.
[0:02] Hello.
[0:02] Mr. President?
[0:03] Yeah.
[0:05] We have to wait until the 15 minutes runs out until they officially announce it, but the vote right now stands 68 to 26, so I think you can make your phone call.
[0:14] 68 to 26, good.
[0:16] Incidentally, Bob, you've got a minute.
[0:18] I just had, from memory, I didn't have this, some other votes where they had them.
[0:25] Would you like to take them down in case you're asking to make a statement?
[0:27] Sure.
[0:27] Brandeis was 47 to 22.
[0:29] Uh-huh.
[0:29] 47 to 22.
[0:31] So this is about the same magnitude.
[0:36] Uh-huh.
[0:37] And Chief Justice Hughes, this is a surprise to me, 52 to 26.
[0:41] Oh, yeah.
[0:43] So you probably remember that from your experience, but the Hughes one was just 2 to 1.
[0:48] Yeah.
[0:49] What was it, 68 to?
[0:50] 68 to 26.
[0:52] 68 to 26.
[0:53] So it's officially announced.
[0:55] There might be another senator to drag in here, say, but we'll give Clark the final say.
[1:01] That's a great vote, great vote.
[1:04] a whopping majority.
[1:06] Right.
[1:06] Incidentally, we may sustain your veto here in the Senate.
[1:10] Really?
[1:10] Yeah, we're pretty close.
[1:11] We've got about 29 sure votes on our side, and if we get any there or from the other side at all, we'll make it.
[1:19] Yeah, well, that's great.
[1:20] So that'd be good if you didn't have to go to the House for that.
[1:23] I was certainly glad you could come down on the tax thing.
[1:29] After all, you were the... Quite a lot to me.
[1:31] You're the mother of that, if you want to call him that, of that, you and Charlie Chamber.
[1:38] Remember we talked about it?
[1:40] Oh, you bet I do.
[1:41] Do I ever.
[1:42] You fellows probably didn't think anything was going to happen either.
[1:44] Shows you we do things down there, don't we?
[1:45] That's right.
[1:46] You've got to hand John Connolly a lot on this, too, you know.
[1:49] He's a fighter.
[1:50] The final vote was 68 to 26.
[1:52] Good.
[1:53] All right, thank you.
[1:55] You bet.