Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 153-055
Date: Friday, November 17, 1972 at 8:53 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Keyes, Paul W.
Recording device: Camp David Study Table
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/153-055

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[0:00] Hello?
[0:01] Mr. Keyes?
[0:02] Mr. President?
[0:05] Hello?
[0:05] Yes, sir.
[0:06] How are you?
[0:08] Paul, how are you?
[0:10] Fine.
[0:10] How are things going out there?
[0:11] Fine, sir.
[0:14] You know, on the day after Thanksgiving, I'm going down to Mermaid Key.
[0:24] You've been there, you know?
[0:25] No, I haven't been there.
[0:27] Well, if you can get off for that, you know, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Bob Appelamp, Bebe Rebozo, and if you can go, you and I will go down there and have a little fun.
[0:38] Fine.
[0:38] I'm free and I'd love to.
[0:39] Fine.
[0:40] Yes, sir.
[0:40] You'll have to—what we should do is take a plane so that you arrive—let me see—arrive to Thanksgiving—no, go to Florida.
[0:52] That's the best thing.
[0:54] And then—
[0:56] and see Bebe there Thanksgiving night, if you can.
[1:01] And then from there we'll go over to Walker's and have a little, you know, we have nothing to do except just to relax
[1:08] I hope you've got a couple of new jokes.
[1:12] I do.
[1:13] I think that would be marvelous.
[1:14] How'd you feel about the election?
[1:17] I—how did that come out?
[1:18] I missed a news meeting.
[1:20] I thought it was marvelous.
[1:21] You must have been very, very delighted, I thought.
[1:25] It's come out now, you know, we're going to get, I think, a bigger overall margin—well, the margin is bigger than Johnson's.
[1:32] Oh, it is?
[1:33] But overall, we're going to get a bigger
[1:36] a bigger percentage even than he got, 61.1, I think, or 61.2.
[1:40] I watched that night, of course, and I saw your remarks in the Oval Room and then later at the showroom were marvelous.
[1:51] You think they came off okay?
[1:53] I deliberately played it, you know, very low key and all that.
[1:57] You thought that was right, don't you think?
[1:58] It was very, you know, it was a chance to stand up there and
[2:02] and tell them what to do with themselves.
[2:04] But, you know, the thing that you did about the margin, it's what you do with it, I thought was very, very good.
[2:12] And I know everybody did.
[2:15] Yeah.
[2:15] How'd the people out in California take the whole thing?
[2:18] I suppose many of your friends were...
[2:20] They couldn't be happier.
[2:22] They really couldn't.
[2:23] Really?
[2:24] Yes, sir.
[2:25] They just couldn't be happier.
[2:26] Good, Bob.
[2:27] Well, then, we'll see you in...
[2:29] Okay.
[2:29] Now, when do you arrive there, sir?
[2:31] Well...
[2:31] We're going to leave.
[2:33] I don't arrive there until I'm going to go down there, let's see, Friday morning, the day after Thanksgiving.
[2:44] But if you could get there, say, Thursday night or Friday morning, that'll be fine.
[2:49] Great.
[2:49] Look forward to seeing you.
[2:50] I'm going to a stag party.
[2:52] Okay.
[2:52] Okay, bye.
[2:56] Bye.