On November 16, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Norman Chandler met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David from 2:18 pm to 2:23 pm. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 225-038 of the White House Tapes.
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Hello?
Norm, and more importantly, how are you?
Great, great.
Well, what are you?
Your voice sounds great.
Well, I'll tell you what I heard about this.
I said, well, and I had somebody tell me that they had a few problems.
I said, well, we need you.
That's the main thing.
We just can't.
You know, at least, you know, I've got to go to the Grove sometime, and I want you to be there, you know.
You know, by the time I get there, I'll probably be in that group where they put over at the side there, you know, the old guard.
Well, what I want to tell you, too, is I've been sitting here at Camp David, actually, in Minnesota, and we're trying to work out all the... We're going to have a massive reorganization, which you'll be very pleased with, I'm sure, but any event.
I have also been working on all the letters and so forth, with thousands of people who have contributed and so forth.
Well, let me say, as I thought about it, I can think of a few indispensables.
And as I've told you before, one of the indispensables was not only the endorsement of the Times in 1946, which of course was essential in my ever-getting nomination as a congressman,
But in 1950, I will never forget when Kyle Palmer, when I was in California, I didn't know what I was going to do at night, you know, just a junior congressman.
Kyle invited me to lunch with him, and he took me to the old milk bar.
And I remember, I remember, I remember to say what I had.
I had a tamale, one of those great big tamales.
And Kyle, now he's sort of blunt, sort of rumbled around, he said, he said, well, David,
He said, I don't think it's a good idea, but Norman told me that I should tell you that if you want to run for the Senate, I will support you.
And I said, well, you know, I told him that.
But without that little word from you, I would have never run, and I'd never be here now.
So, yeah, yeah.
Because I imagine, well, I'll tell you, you were the man, and what you have done through the years, your support has
I mean, not only in the paper, but I remember the time at the Grove after the, you know, before the 68th, when you and Walter Hanover came over to Cayman, you remember?
Yeah, we had a good talk.
Well, I'm going to keep him on for a while.
I'm asking too much next time.
He's done it.
Good.
Yeah.
Well, if you could, you might, you know, I talked to him myself.
I dropped this one.
I wrote a note before the election.
Let me say, everybody wants that job.
And I think, I just feel he should stay there for a while.
And if you, if you're a grommet, you have a notary, you could say, you and I were chatting, he's my same friend.
We get a, you know, a few, a third hand.
That's right.
I sort of had that in mind.
I got enough heat as it is.
Right.
Right.
Now that our total percentage might even, it's already the biggest absolute margin in terms of both, but also the margin may go over 61 points, which is not bad.
Yes, sir, right on the line.
That's right, that's right.
Well, anyway, now you take care, and you're going to meet this thing, you know?
Yes.
I know, I know.
It must be.
Well, yeah.
Oh, well.
Well, yeah.
You'll get a note from me, but just one other little thank you.
That's what I wanted to call you and tell you what we were thinking about.
Give our best about it.