Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 032-075
Date: Friday, October 27, 1972 at 1:01 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butz, Earl L.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/032-075

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[0:00] Hello?
[0:01] Secretary Butts, Mr. President.
[0:02] Yeah.
[0:05] Hello?
[0:06] Mr. President, I just want to say you came through beautifully in that broadcast.
[0:10] Well, I hope a few people listened.
[0:12] Oh, they did.
[0:13] I built up that bully boy Butts, didn't I?
[0:18] That was beside the point, but your delivery was good, and you came through with great sincerity.
[0:22] I want you to know that I personally appreciate it very much.
[0:24] Great.
[0:24] I'm sitting here, I was having lunch with Clayton Geider, who heads the farm committee, or the committee to re-elect.
[0:29] Oh, yeah.
[0:30] We listened together, and he said they had personally called the farm chairman in every state and asked him to get in touch with the county people.
[0:37] We had a good audience, and our people likewise.
[0:39] Well, if you could take the tape, Earl, and ship it around, you know, I guess they will do that to all the local stations, and they're going to have reruns and so forth, because that's what we did it for, you see.
[0:51] Well,
[0:51] Be sure to hit, in addition to all the other states, be sure to hit heavily the Central Valley and California.
[0:57] I just came from there, Mr. President.
[1:00] I've worked that whole Central Valley.
[1:02] I've been out there twice in the last three weeks.
[1:04] The fine part of it looks awfully good out there.
[1:08] And Ohio and Illinois and Pennsylvania, central Pennsylvania.
[1:12] and upper Michigan isn't bad, and Wisconsin.
[1:15] Be sure you hit it heavy in Wisconsin.
[1:17] Well, we'll do that.
[1:17] We'll play it for the very best.
[1:19] Fine.
[1:19] And I just wanted to say, a lot of this flack we're getting in this eastern press doesn't appear in that western press.
[1:24] I know that.
[1:25] I know that.
[1:26] In California, they think Watergate has something to do with irrigation.
[1:29] That's right.
[1:30] Okay.
[1:31] Thanks a lot.
[1:31] All right.
[1:32] Thank you.
[1:32] Good luck to you.
[1:33] Thank you.