Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 213-010
Date: Saturday, September 23, 1972 at 5:32 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.
Recording device: Camp David Hard Wire
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/213-010

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[0:12] and I deliberately got into some of the foreign policy and the embassy stuff and so forth, because they need to hear that.
[0:19] I mean, they believe that, and we just may as well lay that out there.
[0:23] We'll get McGovern talking about it.
[0:27] What can he say about it?
[0:32] He'll say, well, we'll have them work in a peace corps.
[0:35] Uh-uh.
[0:37] Uh-uh.
[0:37] Sir, hell no.
[0:38] These poor bastards have got chuffed from working in a peace corps.
[0:42] No.
[0:46] Either that or change his position.
[0:51] He'll come to school.
[0:55] Yeah.
[0:56] That's what they feel you meant, don't they?
[1:11] You know, Julie was saying that she'd heard McGovern say that he's not for legalizing marijuana.
[1:17] And I said, what did he say?
[1:18] He said, well, he wants to be like alcohol.
[1:20] I said, that's legalizing it.
[1:22] Alcohol is illegal.
[1:22] You know, I don't even get off of that view.
[1:32] Actually, I am for modification of penalties in many areas, but I don't talk about it anymore.
[1:43] I know, on TV time, haven't we?
[1:46] Yeah.
[1:48] Right.
[1:50] It's got to be, upon emphasis, we've all got to be exactly the same.
[2:06] And we've got to say, as what I said there, that people who deserve must pay up heavily.
[2:10] use the word penalty so that it doesn't look like they're just going to come back, you know, because, and they should.
[2:16] I mean, it's wrong for anybody to come back.
[2:19] They're going to come back, as Lincoln said, I thought they could serve a number of days they're out of the country in prison.
[2:30] They ought to take away their citizenship.
[2:35] Why shouldn't we?
[2:40] All right, right?
[2:47] Yeah.
[2:48] Good.