Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 029-010
Date: Thursday, August 3, 1972 at 4:57 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Stennis, John C.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/029-010

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[0:00] Hello.
[0:22] John, I'm calling you on two things.
[0:22] One, to wish you a happy birthday, and two, to thank you for another really great job on, you know, fighting out of the stupid and the pleasant sort of a tough vote.
[0:26] And now you've got the confidence to just hope that some of them can be ironed out.
[0:33] I must say we put an awful load on you.
[0:47] Particularly when we can't even provide you our own republic.
[0:51] The vice president called me last night.
[0:51] He was really outraged.
[0:52] I said, well, I said, well, I understand, you know, I can understand our
[1:11] Well, we don't, we don't want them all in on this one.
[1:28] We hope the house is strong enough so that we can really work it out.
[1:29] So, we're, we're, we're on the right track.
[1:30] Well, good and have it.
[1:34] I can assure you that on my time in the war, without saying a thing, you all know you're on the right side.
[1:50] History will record it, but we didn't have to say much.
[1:51] And you know why.
[1:51] Incidentally, they do give us a picture of us, too.