Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 253-020
Date: Wednesday, May 26, 1971 at 3:30 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Garment, Leonard
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/253-020

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[0:01] Yeah.
[0:03] Not bad.
[0:04] Yeah.
[0:05] Well, how did your artist go?
[0:18] It may be worth going.
[0:19] Well, I don't know.
[0:25] You never know with this issue.
[0:28] At least it's something that's important to these people and also important in the long run to what we do, so we just gotta go with it.
[0:38] Oh, yeah.
[0:41] Oh, turn it up.
[0:41] You can fire that fire.
[0:51] Oh, yeah.
[0:54] Oh, yeah, I see.
[0:55] All right.
[1:00] I didn't care.
[1:28] So that had something to those people, they got that.
[1:32] And I thought it was interesting, too, that the little story about the Chilean second class, and I remember that, you know, that story, I believe it was 40 years old that I recall when I was working there.
[1:42] It's really true, a woman, you know, a remarkable woman did it for nothing to come there and tell us that she came back to the United States.
[1:48] The family voted for her, she would buy a name for her to go second class, and she decided to go.
[1:56] a horrible first class, which I think is about the best way.
[2:04] What we need is that we can get across something like that.
[2:09] And I do feel strongly about that.
[2:11] Just food stamps and a little more income and increase my social security and give me a better plumbing and so forth is not all that's in line, but there's a hell of a lot of people in the world that don't have much, but who
[2:25] Well, there are a lot of people that have everything and have nothing.
[2:29] And there are a lot of people that have very little and very, that's really what these people in the arts, what we need to tell people.
[2:36] In other words, a person who says that, you know, and I tell some of the greatest people in music, they have angels later on, but they started from fairly poor families, you know.
[2:50] Not that they had that.
[2:51] Otherwise, you know,
[2:57] The main things that I told Nancy is, no, no, tell her to get behind those beards and I will keep her loose.
[3:04] Okay.