Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 045-113
Date: Tuesday, May 1, 1973 at 7:04 PM
Participants: Rebozo, Charles G. ("Bebe"); Nixon, Richard M. (President)
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/045-113

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[0:01] Bozo, returning your call.
[0:02] Oh, yeah.
[0:05] Bebe?
[0:05] Hello, Mr. President.
[0:06] How's the weather going to be this weekend?
[0:08] Well, it's sure beautiful right now.
[0:11] Good, good.
[0:11] Just got in.
[0:13] Yeah, well, we'll be down, I hope to get down Thursday afternoon.
[0:17] Great.
[0:19] Stay with you a little while, then maybe go over to the island for a day, you know, the usual thing.
[0:24] Very good.
[0:25] Very good.
[0:26] Fine, fine, fine.
[0:27] I look forward to seeing you.
[0:29] Right, right, right.
[0:30] Your reaction to the speech is still the day is the same in the coal-lighted day as it was last night?
[0:34] Oh, my God, it's even better.
[0:37] Absolutely even better.
[0:38] Have you talked to anybody?
[0:39] Yes, sir.
[0:40] I've talked to a lot of people, and Bob talked to a lot of people, got a lot of people.
[0:44] They say?
[0:44] Well, the reaction seems to be that the whole picture is totally reversed.
[0:49] totally reversed.
[0:50] I really believe from—you know I'm prejudiced, so sometimes what I say may not carry the weight that it might otherwise, but the fact of the matter is that people feel that you have totally reversed the direction.
[1:09] And I even noticed an air of
[1:14] of optimism around staff people and all, for that matter.
[1:18] Whereas just yesterday, they were sort of gloomy and all that.
[1:23] Very, very noticeable change, President.
[1:26] Very noticeable.
[1:27] And everybody feels that way.
[1:29] They knew that you had nothing to do with it, but they just needed something said and something done, and they know now that it's an open book.
[1:39] And we've begun to fight.
[1:42] Yes, sir.
[1:42] I know I think that now...
[1:44] Check around with the folks down in Florida and see what the average people feel, and I'll give you a ring tomorrow.
[1:51] All right, sir.
[1:52] Fine.
[1:52] You bet.