Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 033-042
Date: Tuesday, November 7, 1972 at 7:54 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Eisenhower, [Dwight] David, II
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/033-042

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[0:00] David calling you, sir.
[0:03] Oh, yeah.
[0:05] Hi.
[0:05] Hello?
[0:05] Hi, David.
[0:06] Yes, okay, well, we've got some word here.
[0:08] Alabama's ours, and apparently Blount is going to lose.
[0:12] Oh, he's out.
[0:13] I thought he wouldn't be yet.
[0:15] Right, about 56.44.
[0:16] Connecticut is looking very good.
[0:18] We've gotten some good news from Waterbury, but there are no firm.
[0:21] What's Alabama?
[0:21] What's the figure there?
[0:23] Alabama is already given to us by CBS and NBC, but there's no margin on that right now.
[0:30] Georgia is ours with 70% of the vote and none.
[0:33] Democratic candidate is apparently going to win.
[0:35] Illinois.
[0:36] Oh, none's going to beat the damn.
[0:39] Right.
[0:40] Okay, Illinois is yours, 62-38.
[0:41] That's their projection?
[0:45] Well, one is 55-45 and the other is 62-38, but 62-38 is looking good right now.
[0:51] Percy is an apparent winner at about 55-45.
[0:54] We're doing a little better than he is?
[0:55] Apparently, right now.
[0:56] Yes, the projections varied on Percy between 53-47 and 55-45, but they don't...
[1:02] They're basing this entirely on Chicago wards, I guess.
[1:05] What are they basing us on then?
[1:08] How do they get...
[1:09] Same thing, Cook County.
[1:10] Cook County, and so it's everywhere from 55 to what?
[1:13] 62.
[1:15] So 62 could be.
[1:16] But that's Cook County only or the whole state?
[1:18] No, just Cook County is all we've heard from so far.
[1:21] But the CBS projection is 62% in Illinois.
[1:26] For the state?
[1:27] Right, for the state.
[1:28] And for Percy?
[1:30] Apparently 50.
[1:31] I'd like to see us beat him.
[1:32] 55, 53 to 55 right now.
[1:35] That's the last I've got on it.
[1:36] All right.
[1:37] Indiana is ours.
[1:38] None is falling behind and Kentucky is down 49-51 right now.
[1:42] Well, that'll be a squeaker all time.
[1:44] Looks like the Senate's tough though.
[1:46] You mean, do they project Thompson lost yet or?
[1:50] Yes, 62-38.
[1:53] Oh boy.
[1:54] So take that back 64-36, so it wasn't even really that close.
[2:00] Ohio is holding at 58, and as a matter of fact, CBS has given us 61 now, 61.39.
[2:08] So they've upped that.
[2:10] South Carolina is ours.
[2:12] Tennessee is holding.
[2:13] What's the figure at Tennessee, at South Carolina?
[2:17] No figure?
[2:17] They've just based it on about 1%.
[2:19] That's nothing.
[2:20] They've projected Thurman at, what was Thurman's margin, about 62?
[2:26] Thurman was in the mid-60s, about 65, 35.
[2:28] So we're about the same place.
[2:30] Right.
[2:30] I assume.
[2:31] I haven't got a hard figure on it.
[2:34] And there's no word on the Texas race so far.
[2:36] Apparently there's a very good turnout in Texas.
[2:40] All right.
[2:40] Whether that's good or bad, I'm not sure.
[2:42] Vermont's ours, Virginia's ours, and Scott is leading right now in Virginia.
[2:45] Good.
[2:47] And that's all I've got right now.
[2:49] Okay, good.
[2:50] I'll let you know if we get anything else.
[2:52] Bye.
[2:53] Bye.