Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 201-013 Date: Saturday, August 12, 1972 at 10:35 AM Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W. Recording device: Camp David Hard Wire Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/201-013 This transcript was generated automatically by AI (WhisperX) and has not been reviewed for accuracy. Do not cite it as authoritative. [0:00] off. [0:03] Well, how are things going today? [0:23] Good. [0:24] Your tag is credibility. [0:24] Now, of course, we fill them up some this way. [0:29] It gets in as a fact that you've got to respond [0:30] He responded yet. [0:39] You can check the bios, I think. [0:45] I told him to check it. [0:46] There's the godsend. [1:00] And Ben Williams is thinking to listen to himself. [1:22] But that's all right. [1:22] Right ahead. [1:22] He ought to particularly get a defense expenditure in order to recover. [1:24] No draft. [1:25] We've got so many men out of the armed services. [1:40] We've got five men out of Vietnam. [1:40] We're not drafting any, no draftees in Vietnam. [1:41] And the number of draftees around is so many. [1:42] And it is going to be zero. [1:43] And that's a tremendous accomplishment. [1:44] We've got the campaign.