Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 031-052
Date: Monday, October 16, 1972 at 10:47 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Goldwater, Barry M.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/031-052

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[0:03] Mr. President.
[0:04] Hello.
[0:05] Mr. President.
[0:06] Yeah.
[0:06] Mr. Goldwater.
[0:07] Hello.
[0:09] Hello.
[0:09] Hello.
[0:09] Are you in Alabama?
[0:11] Yes, sir, I am.
[0:12] Well, give him all my best down there, and I hope that you call the governor when you're there.
[0:18] I'm having breakfast with him tomorrow, Mr. President.
[0:20] Great.
[0:21] Well, would you give him my warmest regards and tell him, as I've often said, that I feel that I consider him as the same person
[0:31] as I consider anybody who's been wounded in battle, and that we're going to get exactly the same treatment.
[0:37] You see, you know, we've got VA facilities, and that if he ever has anything he wants, he has only the phone to pick up and call me.
[0:44] Oh, fair play to him.
[0:44] Right.
[0:45] In the meantime, I want to tell you, we appreciate the way you're slamming these people a bit, you know.
[0:49] What do you think of all this hocus-pocus about the dirty tricks and the rest?
[0:53] God, you know, you hit it well.
[0:54] Look what they did to you in the campaign.
[0:57] Well, the thing about it, Mr. President, it is no issue any place in this country except in Washington.
[1:04] It's a very weak one there.
[1:05] I was thinking of cooking up a little reverse English on them by having somebody confess that it was a Democratic bloc.
[1:14] Okay.
[1:16] Okay.
[1:17] Well, give them hell.
[1:20] We will, Mr. President.
[1:21] Thanks.
[1:22] Many thanks.