Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 019-015
Date: Wednesday, January 19, 1972 at 4:39 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Connally, John B.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/019-015

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[0:01] Mr. President, Secretary Connolly calling.
[0:05] Hello, Mr. President.
[0:06] Hi, John.
[0:06] How are you?
[0:07] I think it's a very excellent speech.
[0:09] I have only three suggestions.
[0:11] Yeah, just a minute.
[0:11] I've got my copy out.
[0:14] Okay, page... First page.
[0:17] All right.
[0:18] I suggest that you use some word other than the majesty.
[0:22] All right.
[0:23] I shall never forget that moment or any other just the word match.
[0:28] Okay.
[0:29] On page 13.
[0:29] 13.
[0:34] Paragraph 2 at the bottom.
[0:38] All right.
[0:39] The historic monetary agreements we have reached will help meet it.
[0:43] I'm just suggesting you leave out with the major European nations and Japan.
[0:47] You're leaving out Canada.
[0:49] We add the major European nations, Canada and Japan.
[0:54] Good, I'll put it in.
[0:55] You're exactly right.
[0:56] I always think of Canada as a European nation, which is wrong.
[1:00] The major European nations, Canada and Japan.
[1:04] And then on page 21, I gave these to John Ehrlichman earlier, this particular one, on page 21, bottom paragraph 2.
[1:14] Wait, hold just a minute.
[1:16] My pages are not...
[1:21] Okay, 21.
[1:25] Under the leadership of the Secretary of the Treasury, it says, we have carefully reviewed...
[1:30] I've changed that already.
[1:32] I'll tell you what I said.
[1:33] We are carefully reviewing.
[1:35] That's good.
[1:36] I thought that's...
[1:38] When I saw I have carefully reviewed, I could see that the next question you'd get at a press conference would be, now what do you decide?
[1:45] That's right.
[1:45] Is that right?
[1:46] Yes, sir.
[1:47] That's all I have.
[1:48] I think it's excellent.
[1:49] I think it's very, very good.
[1:51] Well, it says it's very low-key.
[1:54] No, but I think it's good.
[1:56] You like the tone, do you?
[1:57] I sure do.
[1:58] That's the important thing.
[1:59] I sure do.
[2:00] I think it's just the right touch because you remind them a bit, you jive them a bit, and yet you do it in a very adroit, subtle way.
[2:12] You talk about the fact that they're not riots in the streets, that college campuses are the scenes of education, not battlefields.
[2:20] Yet I say we don't point fingers at blame.
[2:22] That's right.
[2:23] And all through, I think you... How about the foreign policy part?
[2:27] The foreign policy part's excellent.
[2:29] That's about as short as you can put foreign policy.
[2:32] I think the tone of it just couldn't be better.
[2:35] That's good.
[2:37] And those are the only changes I would... Good.
[2:38] Well, it's interesting.
[2:40] I had made the one already because I knew that would be, that that had to be changed.
[2:43] And the Canada one, I'll just... Just add that one.
[2:48] I'll just take care of it.
[2:49] You don't have to call Hurley.
[2:52] Because I'll make them on my own draft and that'll do it.
[2:54] All right.
[2:55] Good.
[2:56] Fine.
[2:56] Good.
[2:56] Many thanks.