Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 255-004
Date: Friday, June 4, 1971 at 2:34 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/255-004

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[0:02] Hello.
[0:02] Well, I already got to get along.
[0:03] That's all.
[0:04] Oh, yeah, yeah, I'll get close.
[0:04] I think that's when I tell them, I say, oh, we'll take it equal time.
[0:08] I think, you know, we'll do it around, you know, January, February, and then, you know, September.
[0:32] They haven't given up.
[0:34] Sometimes I want to thank them.
[0:37] They think we've done the right thing.
[0:40] That's something.
[0:41] I don't want to pick up on this potential candidate.
[0:45] It's too late.
[0:46] It's too important.
[0:59] I'm sure that we'd get some Vietnam veterans under these candidates.
[1:06] But all of us were just World War II veterans.
[1:09] I was fresh out of World War II.
[1:11] Jack Henry was a whole bunch of them.
[1:13] Vietnam veterans, big time.
[1:17] And I think that black hole with Murphy made the story bigger.
[1:20] And actually, Murphy, I would have had a son of a bitch there, because of David Wilson.
[1:23] I didn't make the decision, but I was delighted to mention him.
[1:25] Thank you for saying that.
[1:26] He took Jerry Wilson on board.
[1:27] There, a police chief was fine in the meeting, too.
[1:29] A Boston police chief.
[1:29] He was real good.
[1:30] Those chiefs, they were refreshing.
[1:31] They never met in the White House before, you know?
[1:47] Well, you know, no president ever sat down with the police chiefs and sheriffs of the nation to do that.
[1:49] They said, we have never had it.
[1:50] I mean, it would be just so overwhelming.
[1:51] You invited us to carry it for us.
[1:51] We're willing to sit for a moment and stand.
[1:52] Well, for Christ's sake, that's a hell of a move.
[2:05] And boy, I have to tell you, we were, we had to, we had to turn it in.
[2:06] This time, they were the chiefs.
[2:07] They were the sheriffs.
[2:08] One day, they were just, and the other day, they were gun owners.
[2:09] One of them said, I've heard this, and the other said, you know, I'm not going to press for any of this.
[2:11] If you do it now, we're going to have an accident.
[2:12] You know, that's what happened.
[2:37] We could just, uh, we gotta keep repeating the story.
[2:40] Keep it around, you know, if you make a little blip and it drops off in the water, we'll find a way to get it from 762 to 175.
[2:46] We probably had some fun, mainly because the press kept asking questions.
[3:02] If they, if the pressure dropped, I mean, there's one answer.
[3:05] But the batteries were about bigger than that.
[3:08] So they kept hitting it.
[3:09] And while I was alive, while they asked it, I was told they'd ask it again.
[3:12] I tried to stick to it.
[3:15] I, I, I don't, I never believed it.
[3:16] We had to realize a little controversy was on our hands.
[3:19] The only way to get to the point.
[3:21] And the crack of that, we finally got across the point.
[3:24] It was for a great reason.
[3:26] We were strong on that issue.
[3:33] That's the breast.
[3:34] Okay.
[3:34] Now he bit you, huh?
[3:35] Show me a little how they're going with this.
[3:36] Yeah, they're going to be musky-ness and deep-ness.
[3:37] That's the reason.
[3:38] That's the reason for the government to stop.
[3:39] Yeah, that's the thing is that
[4:01] I'm trying to affect the closure of all of them.
[4:06] All of the Jews in the state of Colorado are who was catching on later.
[4:13] The Democrats gained some airships, so us gave them up then.
[4:17] So, you know, they're carrying a lot of companies.
[4:22] Yes, that's right.
[4:23] That's right.
[4:24] I didn't, I didn't, y'all know what I'm doing.
[4:30] I think there's a campaign going on.
[4:31] I don't know.
[4:41] We're going to take a break.
[4:41] We'll be right back.
[4:42] We'll be right back.
[5:05] I think that's intellectuals, right?
[5:33] The war has overrided the other nations.
[5:51] And you had to search for that piece of stuff.
[5:52] I mean, yeah, the factory pulled some of the wood, I expect, and they pulled that thing, and they bounced it off to the fire, and, uh... Oh, well, yes, they did get it.
[5:55] But the guy who put it there...
[5:56] I heard we didn't hold it up, and they asked us if we had all the time, and they, they got all of us on the move.
[5:59] And, uh, I don't know if this is what you're talking about.
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[6:54] Okay.