Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 204-007
Date: Thursday, August 17, 1972 at 11:04 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President)
Recording device: Camp David Hard Wire
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/204-007

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[0:06] Let's pledge ourselves to work for an even greater victory in 1972.
[0:34] This convention has laid the foundation for that victory.
[0:35] Fair enough.
[0:36] I congratulate those.
[1:15] I thought he was the best.
[1:58] ...recognize that there has been and is unjustified discrimination on the basis of race, religion, sex, rage, and national origin.
[2:19] Those who move relentlessly remove the last vestiges of that discrimination.
[2:23] But the way to end discrimination
[2:35] Americans don't want to be part of the quarter, period.
[2:49] They want to be part of America.
[2:50] Dash has proud self, self-respecting individual citizens.
[2:54] This nation proudly calls itself the United States of America.
[2:55] Let us reject any philosophy which would make us a divided society.
[3:03] And that's period.
[3:04] I address
[3:07] Not as a partisan of party.
[3:15] I'll be sure to put it that way.
[3:21] Not as a partisan of party.
[3:36] Six weeks ago our opponents adopted a platform
[4:20] we Americans believe in together.
[4:39] Those historic opportunities which come once in a political lifetime, period, have the action to build a new majority in America.
[4:42] Everyone listening to me tonight, Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, young and old, black and white, labor and business, farmers and
[4:52] We are proud people of different national backgrounds who make up the American people to join our new majority.
[5:13] Not on the basis of the old politics, but on the basis of the new politics.
[5:19] or what counts is not the party label you wear in your lapel.
[6:01] a lifetime.
[6:02] There he is.