Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 017-033
Date: Friday, December 24, 1971 at 5:22 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator; Alsop, Stewart J. O.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-033

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[0:00] Hello.
[0:07] I have Stuart also.
[0:10] Yeah.
[0:10] Hello.
[0:10] Hello, Mr. President.
[0:12] I have nothing on my mind except to wish you a Merry Christmas and to say I'm so delighted to hear that your prospectus is better than it was when I talked to you on the phone last.
[0:22] That's a great deal, Mr. President.
[0:23] Good.
[0:23] Very nice of you to call.
[0:23] Good, good.
[0:24] And much like Dr. Corsair, this is a collaboration.
[0:25] That's the stuff.
[0:28] Boy, I like that kind of aberrations.
[0:30] We have a lot of them I don't like, but that's a good one.
[0:37] That's a good one.
[0:37] That's a good one.
[0:38] That's a good one.
[0:38] Well, you know, looking back someday, and we can only pray this will be the case, that really could turn out to have been the most important program we did.
[0:47] When you stop at it, if it works.
[0:48] I mean, now, God knows that there may not be an answer, a total answer, but there'll be some answer.
[0:53] But if it would work,
[0:54] You just think of the number of lives a year that are saved.
[1:03] It's just unbelievable.
[1:04] 53 million of the people now alive.
[1:08] Well, when they said that, I looked to my right and looked to my left and wondered, who's who?
[1:11] You know?
[1:13] That's right.
[1:17] Right.
[1:17] I think it'll at least help in getting a lot of comfort in the land.
[1:19] Well, one thing it'll do, you know, I've studied this enough to know that about 40% could be saved by just diagnosis, quick treatment.
[1:43] Thank you.