Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 035-116
Date: Tuesday, January 9, 1973 at 3:24 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Romney, Lenore L.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/035-116

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[0:00] Mr. President, I have Mrs. Romney now.
[0:03] Hello.
[0:03] Thank you.
[0:05] Mrs. Romney, the President.
[0:06] Hello.
[0:07] Hello.
[0:08] I tried to reach George, and he's on his way back from Texas, but you can pass the message to him.
[0:12] I just wanted to tell him that that was a fine, courageous speech he made on housing down there.
[0:18] And we had to bite that bullet, and I appreciated his doing it for us.
[0:22] Thank you, Mr. President.
[0:24] He'll really appreciate it.
[0:25] I know that he'd worked on it all day yesterday with, you know, working out the things with the people here, but we had to do subsidies and so forth.
[0:34] And I know he became convinced it was the right thing to do, but it was still a darn courageous thing to do.
[0:39] And he didn't have to do it, so I appreciated it.
[0:43] Thank you.
[0:43] I appreciate your calling, and I know he will.
[0:46] All right.
[0:46] Thanks very much.