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Conversation 019-015

TapeTape 19StartWednesday, January 19, 1972 at 4:39 PMEndWednesday, January 19, 1972 at 4:42 PMParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Connally, John B.Recording deviceWhite House Telephone
AudioNARA Description

On January 19, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and John B. Connally talked on the telephone from 4:39 pm to 4:42 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 019-015 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 19-15

Date: January 19, 1972
Time: 4:39 pm - 4:42 pm
Location: White House Telephone

John B. Connally talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 315-24B]

     The President's forthcoming “State of the Union” speech
          -Phraseology
               -Monetary agreements
                      -Europe, Japan
                            -Canada

                -John D. Ehrlichman
                      -Connally
           -Tone
                -Campus unrest
                -Foreign policy
           -Change
                -Canada
                -Ehrlichman
Transcript (AI-Generated)

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Mr. President, Secretary Connolly calling.
Hello, Mr. President.
Hi, John.
How are you?
I think it's a very excellent speech.
I have only three suggestions.
Yeah, just a minute.
I've got my copy out.
Okay, page... First page.
All right.
I suggest that you use some word other than the majesty.
All right.
I shall never forget that moment or any other just the word match.
Okay.
On page 13.
13.
Paragraph 2 at the bottom.
All right.
The historic monetary agreements we have reached will help meet it.
I'm just suggesting you leave out with the major European nations and Japan.
You're leaving out Canada.
We add the major European nations, Canada and Japan.
Good, I'll put it in.
You're exactly right.
I always think of Canada as a European nation, which is wrong.
The major European nations, Canada and Japan.
And then on page 21, I gave these to John Ehrlichman earlier, this particular one, on page 21, bottom paragraph 2.
Wait, hold just a minute.
My pages are not...
Okay, 21.
Under the leadership of the Secretary of the Treasury, it says, we have carefully reviewed...
I've changed that already.
I'll tell you what I said.
We are carefully reviewing.
That's good.
I thought that's...
When I saw I have carefully reviewed, I could see that the next question you'd get at a press conference would be, now what do you decide?
That's right.
Is that right?
Yes, sir.
That's all I have.
I think it's excellent.
I think it's very, very good.
Well, it says it's very low-key.
No, but I think it's good.
You like the tone, do you?
I sure do.
That's the important thing.
I sure do.
I think it's just the right touch because you remind them a bit, you jive them a bit, and yet you do it in a very adroit, subtle way.
You talk about the fact that they're not riots in the streets, that college campuses are the scenes of education, not battlefields.
Yet I say we don't point fingers at blame.
That's right.
And all through, I think you... How about the foreign policy part?
The foreign policy part's excellent.
That's about as short as you can put foreign policy.
I think the tone of it just couldn't be better.
That's good.
And those are the only changes I would... Good.
Well, it's interesting.
I had made the one already because I knew that would be, that that had to be changed.
And the Canada one, I'll just... Just add that one.
I'll just take care of it.
You don't have to call Hurley.
Because I'll make them on my own draft and that'll do it.
All right.
Good.
Fine.
Good.
Many thanks.
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