Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 039-019
Date: Friday, May 25, 1973 at 1:39 AM
Participants: White House operator; Eisenhower, Julie Nixon; Ziegler, Ronald L.; Nixon, Richard M. (President); Cox, Tricia Nixon
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/039-019

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[0:00] Hello?
[0:01] Mr. Ziegler's on the line for the president.
[0:03] Thank you.
[0:05] Ron?
[0:05] Hi, Julie.
[0:06] Hi, Ron.
[0:07] I wanted to know what the press's reaction was to the evening.
[0:12] Do you have any reactions to tell us?
[0:17] You know, were they really upset when the men applauded the bombing statement Daddy made, how necessary that was?
[0:31] Well, I think the reaction was good, Julie.
[0:34] You do?
[0:34] The whole evening, yes.
[0:36] Yeah, I think so, too.
[0:37] Oh, absolutely.
[0:38] Yeah, I think so.
[0:40] And I think there's going to be a lot of positive press out of it, don't you?
[0:44] There's going to be a lot written out of this.
[0:46] There's going to be a lot that's going to be, you know, part of the whole, you know, sense of things that people will have.
[0:54] Absolutely.
[0:54] Absolutely.
[0:55] Yeah.
[0:56] Well, then the press did not seem unhappy.
[1:01] In other words, they weren't unhappy with the evening because it was going well.
[1:05] You didn't get that sense.
[1:06] No, I didn't.
[1:07] Yeah.
[1:07] No.
[1:08] Well, good.
[1:09] I think they, you know, I think they recognized both with the State Department and the Knight that they may have over-graduated some things, but I think they're kind of stunned back into reality.
[1:24] Good.
[1:26] Did they notice that Daddy moved around from table to table and all that?
[1:29] Absolutely.
[1:30] Good.
[1:31] Sure.
[1:31] Good.
[1:31] Did they notice him standing today in line?
[1:34] Yeah.
[1:34] Yes.
[1:36] Well, that's great.
[1:37] Good.
[1:38] There's a lot of good press coming out of this, and there will be.
[1:40] Good.
[1:40] I'll tell him.
[1:41] We'll get some, you know.
[1:43] negative shots.
[1:44] You don't have to say that.
[1:45] But overall, to be quite frank with you, Julia, it was a good day.
[1:49] Daddy wanted to know if you felt that the speech today got good play.
[1:53] I felt it did.
[1:54] Well, you tell them on TV tonight, on every network, they showed the tremendous applause when they walked in.
[2:00] Yeah.
[2:01] They showed the perfect line about the national security.
[2:04] National security, right.
[2:06] And then they showed the standing ovation and the overwhelming standing ovation.
[2:09] Standing ovation, right.
[2:11] By the
[2:13] by the crowd, and it was a good, hard... And there were about four or five minutes, weren't there?
[2:18] Yeah.
[2:19] Yeah.
[2:21] I thought it was, too.
[2:22] It was very good coverage.
[2:24] Very good, because they covered the important lines.
[2:27] There's a speech.
[2:28] And they showed the reaction, too.
[2:30] Yeah, right.
[2:31] They don't always do.
[2:32] That's true.
[2:33] That's true.
[2:34] Well, are you going down to Key Biscayne?
[2:37] Yes.
[2:37] Yeah, well, we'll see you down there.
[2:38] Okay.
[2:39] It was a good day.
[2:40] I thought it was, too.
[2:42] I thought so.
[2:43] Okay.
[2:44] Okay.
[2:45] Okay, bye.
[2:47] Bye-bye.