Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 031-045
Date: Saturday, October 14, 1972 at 10:58 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Price, Raymond K., Jr.; Nixon, Richard M. (President); Price, Raymond K., Jr.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/031-045

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[0:00] Yeah.
[0:01] Mr. Price.
[0:02] Sure.
[0:03] Ray, I just approved the final draft, and that's fine.
[0:06] And I'm glad we were able to add those 200 words.
[0:10] Well, I like that Huxley thing in there.
[0:14] The reason I had the impression the other was shorter
[0:18] is that I told Haldeman to check.
[0:20] I had the feeling.
[0:21] I didn't realize it had gone 2,000 words.
[0:24] But we want to keep it beneath 15.
[0:26] Not that we can't buy more, but I'd just like to run over.
[0:31] How long did it take?
[0:32] Does anybody know?
[0:34] It took about 16 minutes, but I don't have the whether it's just under or just over.
[0:39] Basically, in the future ones, let's run them about this length.
[0:42] 1,700 will run.
[0:44] In a 15-minute broadcast, we should go 13 and a half minutes.
[0:48] Because one of the reasons is it isn't like a presidential thing.
[0:51] They have to have the political sign-off.
[0:54] This is paid for by the committee to re-elect the president.
[0:58] You see, it takes a little bit of time.
[1:00] So 16 and a half.
[1:01] This is a change that I have made, and I just sent it back to Rose for final typing, is this.
[1:08] On the letter from the boy in the Midwest, as you probably are aware, I called that boy.
[1:13] I have stricken out the name David in both cases, the point being that I don't want him to be that identifiable.
[1:22] And I don't want the letter to be put out.
[1:26] You understand?
[1:27] Mm-hmm.
[1:27] What I mean is if anybody in the press asks about it, say, no, that's a confidential letter.
[1:35] The point being, we don't know what this boy now, the brother, is up to.
[1:39] So I just said my brother in both instances.
[1:41] What I wanted you to know why I'd done that.
[1:43] See?
[1:45] Because we haven't consulted.
[1:47] about using the letter, but we don't identify the letter.
[1:51] Do you think there's any problem there, do you?
[1:53] I don't know.
[1:53] I think it's the sort of thing that's very personal.
[1:57] And the point is, though, I want us all to know that they were not going to put out the letter or identify it.
[2:04] The only identification we have is that it's from the Midwest.
[2:09] I wonder if we need that in it, even.
[2:12] Uh, it probably helps authenticate it a little bit.
[2:15] All right, fine.
[2:15] Okay.
[2:16] Fine.
[2:16] Fine.
[2:17] You tell the Andrews everything is fine.
[2:19] I was just in the process of doing a memo to you on the question of the education one.
[2:24] Oh, you decided?
[2:25] Well, I thought we were leaning against that now.
[2:27] Well, my recommendation, we've been crashing to try to get one that could be done.
[2:32] My recommendation at this point would be to hold off because I think we're going to have some, you know, it's going to take some time clearing it and so forth.
[2:38] I don't need it now.
[2:39] I don't need it right away.
[2:40] Don't worry too much about it.
[2:41] Just move on some of the others.
[2:43] All right.
[2:44] But if you can't get it done, we'll wait until next week.
[2:47] Okay?
[2:47] All right.
[2:48] Fine.
[2:48] We've got plenty of them.
[2:50] Okay.
[2:50] Good.
[2:50] Bye.