Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 023-014
Date: Tuesday, April 18, 1972 at 9:20 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Rogers, William P.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/023-014

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[0:00] Hello.
[0:01] Secretary Rogers.
[0:02] Hello.
[0:04] Well, I called you last night because Julie gave me a call about 10.30, and she and David had seen that.
[0:09] She said a special on your testimony, and she called to say she just thought it was great, so I want to pass it on to you.
[0:15] Isn't that nice?
[0:16] I don't know what it was.
[0:17] Apparently they must have run a...
[0:18] tick-ticked a half hour out and run it as a special.
[0:21] You know, interesting, you might be interested, Mrs. Johnson called.
[0:26] LBJ?
[0:26] Yeah, and said that they'd both watched it and how pleased they were and they congratulated them.
[0:30] Did they see the news or the special?
[0:32] I think they saw both.
[0:33] Uh-huh.
[0:34] I think they saw it on live television.
[0:35] You see, I didn't know.
[0:37] I didn't know that, oh, oh, during the day.
[0:39] Sure, they could have done that.
[0:41] But David and Julie had seen it between 10 and 10.30, because she called me at 10.30, and that's when I called you.
[0:47] So I was glad it was carried in, because you see,
[0:50] 15 times as many would see it on live television, I mean then as on live television.
[0:54] That's right.
[0:55] And also they replayed it on educational television the whole three hours.
[0:59] Good.
[1:01] I was with your other daughter last night.
[1:02] How'd it go out there?
[1:04] I thought it went well.
[1:05] I didn't see how the... Well, the matches were good.
[1:09] It's a motley crew, you know, a lot of booing, but you couldn't, they were booing so many different causes, you couldn't tell who was booing what.
[1:16] Yeah.
[1:16] I mean, there were Maoists and anti-Maoists and Taiwanese and Indore and McIntyre was out there.
[1:25] I was glad I was there because it was good and Trish is such a wonderful girl.
[1:31] Did they have a good crowd for it?
[1:32] Yeah, very good crowd.
[1:33] Largest crowd ever to see a ping pong match.
[1:36] To see a ping pong, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[1:39] Well, I thought that...
[1:40] Otherwise, as you...
[1:43] I think the testimony's got a good play, don't you think?
[1:46] Yes, I think so, and I think that the young people seem to even be somewhat impressed.
[1:50] I've had several calls from young people, and some of my friends here have had calls from people in college that liked it.
[1:56] Well, I understand why.
[1:57] Yeah, well, I think the military situation looks a little brighter today, too.
[2:02] Yeah.
[2:03] Well, I talked to Moore yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock, and he seemed to feel it was looking better, and I'm just going to go over it now, just to take a look.
[2:11] Well, I've gone over and had the briefing this morning.
[2:14] It looks pretty good.
[2:15] Thank you very much, Mr. President.
[2:16] I appreciate it.
[2:17] I know you've got to get a little rest.