Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 022-160
Date: Sunday, April 16, 1972 at 3:57 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Graham, William F. ("Billy")
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/022-160
National Archives Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417193285 (NAID 417193285)

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[0:01] Hello?
[0:03] Yeah.
[0:05] Hello?
[0:06] Billy, have you been feeling all right?
[0:10] Yeah, that's good, that's good.
[0:13] Oh, I'm fine.
[0:14] You know, John Connolly's not been feeling too well, and as you probably know, he's had a little bit worried about his high blood pressure.
[0:24] He told me that he talked to you and you recommended some medicine, but he went back home to Texas this weekend.
[0:30] Maybe that'll
[0:31] make him feel better.
[0:32] He gets too stirred up about stuff, you know.
[0:39] That's right, that's right, that's right, that's right.
[0:44] Well, he's a very intense fellow, you know, underneath that very extrovert exterior, and he just gets, you know, he gets stirred up.
[0:56] But he has never had high blood pressure before, and I think that's why it worries him.
[1:01] But people can have it.
[1:03] They get over it.
[1:05] It's not going to be neither here nor there.
[1:07] That's what I told him.
[1:11] We were talking about it on Monday this week.
[1:18] I said, you get over it.
[1:18] And it's just one of those.
[1:22] Well, I'll take a little time.
[1:24] We'll get it over.
[1:25] I got your message from Johnson.
[1:27] I appreciated that very much.
[1:29] Apparently, you had a good talk with him.
[1:34] Oh, yeah.
[1:36] No, the only thing is...
[2:12] Very nice.
[2:28] You know, as a matter of fact, Billy, his party has treated him shamefully, too.
[2:34] Not one of those Democratic candidates has gone down to see him.
[2:37] You know?
[2:38] And that's just a vicious thing.
[2:41] I mean, I think Jackson might have, I don't know, but I don't even know whether he did.
[2:45] Well, now, after all, to treat him like a pariah is not right after the way he made Humphrey and he made Muskie, both of them.
[2:54] And so I think, but I don't know.
[2:59] Yeah.
[3:00] See, he would expect a Republican on the other side, after whom he'd taken on pretty good to treat him badly, but his own party
[3:08] He's just wrong.
[3:13] His children.
[3:15] Right.
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[3:24] Incidentally, I think you should be pleased to know that the strikes we had.
[3:29] Hello.
[3:31] Yeah.
[3:32] Just the operator.
[3:34] The strikes we had yesterday were enormously successful.
[3:37] on the Haiphong area.
[3:40] We took that.