Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 190-010 Date: Wednesday, May 17, 1972 at 7:49 PM Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W. Recording device: Camp David Hard Wire Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/190-010 This transcript was generated automatically by AI (WhisperX) and has not been reviewed for accuracy. Do not cite it as authoritative. [35:56] Yeah. [35:57] Like, yeah, yeah, that's the, uh, this is where we're at right now, and all that. [37:47] I must say, the whole bunch here on the left, because of the way they went off the event after he announced it on Monday. [37:58] Really, they did go off there. [37:59] I told you, you know, he finds a lot of these things. [38:05] There we go. [38:09] Right. [38:16] He'll kill them. [38:23] They bet they were wrong. [38:25] It's really tough. [38:34] Having somebody hit the top people, you know, the same, you know, the owners of the networks are also affected. [38:53] They don't want to be way out there, out of step with the factory. [38:56] Keep at it, that's right. [39:04] That's right, just so people will find their way around here. [39:11] You know, the interesting thing is that I think the Democratic critics, they do find out that they're a little leery that aren't they there. [39:22] They're not there as loud as they were about three days ago. [39:25] There's nobody better than he is, isn't that true? [40:20] Kill her. [40:20] We just gotta fight him now. [40:32] We gotta fight these two, you know. [40:36] I'm scared to kill him. [40:41] I'm scared to do that. [40:45] That's too bad. [40:50] That's right, and then if they want to vote it down in a partisan way, it's fine. [41:07] I think they're very right. [41:15] Right? [41:22] I think they ought to start hitting the dance floor. [41:27] Just hard as hell. [41:28] And just because Mike is a nice guy, goddammit, he's not for what we're trying to do. [41:32] We still get it. [41:35] Hell no. [41:37] That's right. [41:51] I'm circuiting them right now about the painful tomorrow. [41:58] Run against them. [41:59] Run against them. [42:02] Well, anyway, it's a lot different from what it was in the days of AT&T. [42:07] Makes us sorry, but not better than we can be. [42:13] Sorry, but I don't get on this stuff. [42:14] It's their crap. [42:15] No, they're at school. [42:17] That's right. [42:23] They don't care about water pollution and all that crap. [42:26] That doesn't matter. [42:26] It's not fun. [42:28] Revenants are there. [42:29] We'll alter everyone. [42:30] Oh. [42:31] There's nothing coming out of that.