Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 254-020
Date: Monday, May 31, 1971 at 6:30 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Rogers, William P.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/254-020

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[0:00] Hello?
[0:01] Good evening, Arnie.
[0:03] What?
[0:03] You finished?
[0:05] You finished all the work?
[0:07] Right.
[0:07] Right.
[0:07] Sure.
[0:09] I just got back from San Diego.
[0:13] We're going to the cities.
[0:14] I, uh, plan to play a very cool, I'm not saying a little off, uh, particularly, you know, scene.
[0:22] Come on.
[0:22] Or is there anything, is there anything positive I can throw at you?
[0:29] I try to say, naturally, if they ask anything, I try to say, well, it wasn't a deal.
[0:37] You're right.
[0:39] Keep that bargaining position.
[0:44] All that.
[0:45] There are very big pressures, I'm sure, on the left in this country.
[0:51] On the whole problem of the tech trade and the metal on that.
[0:59] I know it's not even, by all means, that's the goal we've been working for for a year.
[1:07] We are now in the process of starting to shape up the development.
[1:11] It was good for Americans, I mean, particularly, which we need.
[1:16] We need to make sure we have control over the economy.
[1:21] I'm sure the media is now all over the place, totally, or what is on everything.
[1:26] If there's anything that's left out,
[1:29] Try to fight a battle and be responsible.
[1:32] How do they put Memorial Day over there?
[1:36] Yeah.
[1:36] Yeah.
[1:38] I don't know if somebody's putting me down.
[1:44] I think I was wet, but I went to West Point for that reason.
[1:53] Had a really good rain for me.
[1:56] I mean, well, status and everything's going to hell and everybody has got to be, you know, you know, they know the rest and they want to feel like, my God, it's still a pretty good country.
[2:14] I mean, the Delaware.
[2:19] Exactly, yeah, right.
[2:20] I'll give you that.
[2:24] Okay.
[2:25] Bye.