Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 045-056
Date: Monday, April 30, 1973 at 10:54 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator; Nixon, Thelma C. ("Pat") (Ryan); Eisenhower, Julie Nixon; Cox, Tricia Nixon; Ziegler, Ronald L.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/045-056

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[0:00] Trisha's calling Mr. Ziegler.
[0:06] Thank you.
[0:20] That's right.
[0:22] Hello?
[0:22] I have Mr. Ziegler.
[0:23] Okay, fine.
[0:25] Hello?
[0:25] Yes, hello.
[0:26] Well, I'm Tricia.
[0:27] Hi, Tricia.
[0:28] Hi.
[0:28] Did you hear it?
[0:29] Oh, very good.
[0:30] Wasn't it great?
[0:31] It really was.
[0:31] I was really moved.
[0:33] I was wondering what the press reaction was.
[0:36] You know, just straight.
[0:38] We already got a little bit from Billy Graham, but I was wondering what you thought.
[0:43] I think the president going into the press room afterwards was great.
[0:48] It was a good reaction to that.
[0:50] It was a good reaction to what?
[0:51] The president going into the press room afterwards.
[0:54] Oh, really?
[0:54] Did you know that?
[0:55] No, I didn't know that.
[0:56] He walked by the press room.
[0:58] Oh, I heard that he did, but I didn't know the reaction was good to that.
[1:00] That's interesting.
[1:01] No, it was very good.
[1:02] Great.
[1:03] And then how was the reaction to the speech?
[1:06] I think very good.
[1:07] You do?
[1:07] He stepped up to it, I think most of them think, and they believe him.
[1:12] That's good.
[1:14] And as Hank Truitt of Newsweek said, he said...
[1:18] In many ways, it was eloquent.
[1:20] It was very difficult for the president to do.
[1:23] And I think, Tricia, quite frankly, and as you said directly, I think the press, since the difficulty of the decision and the difficulty of the situation, had fairly stepped up to move on.
[1:37] Good.
[1:38] That's a good report.
[1:39] I think, you know, the important thing is that now we do move on.
[1:44] Right.
[1:45] And the mistakes that were made by those people around the president, we, you know, forget now.
[1:54] And he moves on and does what he does.
[1:55] Right.
[1:55] Goes on to bigger things.
[1:56] Absolutely.
[1:58] Yeah.
[1:58] Good.
[1:58] I think that's a sense of thanks, Tricia.
[2:00] Yeah.
[2:00] Well, thank you.
[2:01] I really appreciate that.
[2:02] And I'm going to tell Daddy, okay?
[2:03] Okay.
[2:04] Thank you.
[2:04] Bye-bye.