Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 032-101
Date: Tuesday, October 31, 1972 at 7:03 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/032-101

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[0:01] Hello?
[0:01] Yes, sir, Mr. President.
[0:13] He can say that the president needs a vote of confidence as he continues to negotiate for an honorable peace in Vietnam and not peace with surrender.
[0:21] Right.
[0:21] He needs a vote of confidence as he continues to deal with the Russians and the Chinese.
[0:25] I mean, let's give our president a big vote of confidence.
[0:28] It goes really beyond just the present state of negotiations.
[0:32] That's right.
[0:33] Because in the next four years, let's be sure that we know that the Russians and the Chinese, the line that I would use, that I may be using even myself, but others can use it more effectively.
[0:43] The whole world is going to be watching this election.
[0:45] The men in Hanoi will be watching it.
[0:47] The men in Moscow will be watching it.
[0:48] The men in Peking.
[0:50] And if we give the president a big vote, he will be more effective.
[0:53] You can strengthen his hand in negotiating a generation of peace.
[0:57] See my point?
[0:57] Strengthen his hand.
[0:59] Strengthen his hand.
[0:59] But the world is going to be watching.
[1:01] The men in Moscow will be watching.
[1:03] The men in Peking.
[1:03] The men in Hanoi.
[1:05] That's a great line.
[1:05] How about that?
[1:06] Great line.
[1:07] Now get that in a commercial.
[1:19] You see, today, too, I had the picture taken in the office of signing the last bill.
[1:24] Yep.
[1:24] So that's done, see?
[1:26] And tomorrow I do radio.
[1:27] And that kind of, see, we're sort of positioned.
[1:29] Yes, it's moved beautifully, Mr. President.
[1:31] The play we got yesterday with the old folks, I'm still shaking my head in disbelief.
[1:35] We got such a hell of a good ride out of signing H.R.
[1:39] 1 and led the New York Times this morning, and it was page one all over the place.
[1:45] Right.
[1:46] Damn good TV, damn good radio here.
[1:49] Your radio speech on the aging yesterday was excellent.
[1:52] Just right.
[1:53] And the stories that have flowed out of that have been good.
[1:57] Tell Haldeman I told him, I want that run in the morning by morning radio time.
[2:03] Let's saturate that radio.
[2:05] Any good radio talk we've got, run in the morning.
[2:09] We can buy that time.
[2:10] That doesn't cost us much, don't you agree?
[2:11] You mean rerun the radio?
[2:12] Rerun it?
[2:13] Sure.
[2:13] Rerun it?
[2:14] Hell yes.
[2:15] The radio stuff is awfully good.
[2:16] Really is.
[2:17] Yeah.
[2:18] Damn defective technique that I don't think the other... Well, they've gotten on to it with their spots, but they haven't gotten on to using it the way you've used it.