Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 019-017
Date: Wednesday, January 19, 1972 at 4:46 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Price, Raymond K., Jr.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/019-017

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[0:00] I'm trying to think.
[0:04] I had one small thought on the first page.
[0:10] I don't want to use the
[0:12] or I say the majesty of the moment.
[0:14] Can you think of another way to describe it?
[0:16] I mean, I can say I shall never forget that moment, but I mean, can you think of something other than majesty?
[0:21] Majesty isn't the right word.
[0:24] That was an inaugural phrase.
[0:26] That's right.
[0:26] I used it before, see, and that's the reason.
[0:29] It doesn't quite fit that.
[0:31] It's really...
[0:35] I mean, you know, it's a great moment and all that crap, but we can't think, or should we just say, I shall never forget that moment or that occasion, or I don't know.
[0:48] It was my phrase.
[0:49] I know I suggested it first, but I just don't feel comfortable with it at the moment.
[0:56] I shall never forget that moment would not be bad.
[0:58] I shall never forget that moment.
[1:05] Maybe that's it.
[1:06] What do you think?
[1:07] I think perhaps it is.
[1:08] It fits the sort of understated tone.
[1:11] Sort of understated.
[1:12] I shall never forget that moment.
[1:13] Good.
[1:14] Okay, you just call Marge.
[1:16] She's over there.
[1:18] I had a couple of other technical things that Connolly, we changed.
[1:21] We had to put in Canada.
[1:22] with Japan, and we had to change to the we're considering on the tax thing rather than have considered, and otherwise everything's fine.
[1:32] In other words, I shall never forget that moment, so you just order to strike out the majesty of, please.
[1:37] All right, I will.
[1:37] and the uh the uh we uh uh are on the text thing they uh they are considering that uh i think that is in your reading copy isn't it uh excuse me what i think the uh that connolly thing on uh we have been considering rather than we that's already been changed i think yes yeah because but and the other one is the the only other thing that he had which which was important and and of course i had forgotten it was to insert the word canada you know where we talk about the europe
[2:03] you have to put in Canada because they feel very hurt if they aren't included.
[2:08] More chance of that, though?
[2:09] Yeah, I've covered Canada, and I've covered changing the other one to the were, which Connolly had already passed to Ehrlichman.
[2:16] But this one, this is the only one.
[2:18] So you just say, I shall never forget that moment.
[2:20] Okay?
[2:20] Yes, sir.
[2:21] All right, Ray.
[2:21] Thank you very much.
[2:22] And then ready to roll on it?
[2:23] I'm through.
[2:24] All right, fine.
[2:25] I'm not going to do another thing to it.
[2:26] Okay, good.