Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 019-176
Date: Sunday, January 30, 1972 at 5:07 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/019-176
National Archives Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417192671 (NAID 417192671)

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[0:01] I called Wayland and he was very grateful.
[0:19] I told him I appreciate it.
[0:47] Well, Henry was happy, and I said, you know, to the theater, where he worked last night, and everybody was coming up to him and watching, and he was running all the time, and he said, well, it's not real.
[1:13] Of course, it's not real.
[1:14] He said that he'd send me some messages.
[1:15] Well, no, no, no.
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[2:30] Stay close, stay close.
[6:45] Another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one.
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[10:41] Mm-hmm.
[11:10] Now let's go to the main point.
[11:10] And our point is that the person
[11:25] All right.
[11:52] The bombing.
[11:52] The bombing.
[11:53] I really feel it.
[11:53] I understand.
[11:56] See that?
[12:44] Henry was the first man in the world to have a post-baccalaureate.
[14:09] for the pilot's purpose.
[14:56] Of course, one of them is a doctor, totally honest, very honest.
[15:26] Uninsured, unemployed.
[15:54] Depends on how many people they add to the labor force.
[15:55] I talked to Ray Conniff today, and, you know, he's a great guy.
[16:21] He's been one of our supporters for years.
[16:22] He said, you know, right?
[16:23] I checked with my people.
[16:45] I said, it wouldn't have done any good this time because I reject this girl.
[16:46] She said she'd be proud and honored to come.
[16:47] She's with the substitute.
[16:48] But I thought she was a plan, but I didn't do any harm to her.
[16:49] I don't think he did it for them.
[16:49] I think if you were the kind to do it, he did it for all of them.
[16:51] And also, it was such a grossly bad manner.
[16:52] Well, it was.
[16:52] But I think if you were the kind to do it,
[16:53] The sympathy that people have for the beating he's taken on Ford, which now I think everybody feels he's guilty about, and I think even the critics feel so, the honest ones.
[17:16] For her to do it now, it just makes people angry.
[17:17] I don't know what sympathy is.
[17:17] If she'd done it two weeks ago, that might have had some effect.
[17:19] But she picked the wrong time, and everybody else don't get that experience.
[17:22] Public will feel very sympathetic to put up with that.
[17:35] I'll get Shelton's call.
[17:35] Thank you.
[17:35] No, I think you're going to be just as layered.
[17:36] I'll take that call.
[17:37] Yeah, I'm going to have a rerun in the morning.
[17:38] Good.
[17:38] Okay.
[17:38] Thank you.
[17:38] Thank you, Mr. President.