Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 261-037
Date: Thursday, July 1, 1971 at 4:25 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.; White House operator; Nixon, Thelma C. ("Pat") (Ryan)
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/261-037

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[3:33:25] And a little vote is for the girl, for their wife, our secretary.
[3:34:20] Mr. Nixon, please.
[3:34:23] Sorry.
[3:34:24] Sorry.
[3:34:24] I just wanted to give you a- Right, yeah, sure.
[3:34:28] I forgot about it.
[3:34:32] Yeah.
[3:34:33] They were positive .
[3:35:45] Let me say this.
[3:36:12] You've got to have a problem.
[3:36:13] It's a big problem.
[3:36:14] Oh, yeah.
[3:36:53] And that's just for posture and so forth and so forth.
[3:37:16] But it's not reflecting on that.
[3:37:20] It's not, that the positive does not relate to the other side.
[3:37:27] See, when Mansfield stated that, the point of stirring is speculation.
[3:37:35] Well, they don't realize it.
[3:37:38] There's that sense in the air that they have
[3:37:44] In the summer, of course, I would advocate right away, oh, we should accept this.
[3:37:47] Of course, you can't accept it even if you get out at the end of the year, you can't accept it.
[3:37:55] You're going to have to look at it now.
[3:38:00] No, I haven't.
[3:38:01] The, uh, I don't know.
[3:38:02] Maybe, uh, maybe break.
[3:38:08] You have to look at it.
[3:38:11] What is the situation on that?
[3:38:20] My inclination still is to resist the... Well, I know that the...
[3:38:29] I see in myself nothing to be... gained by going on black and out of shape about this... these papers.
[3:38:56] Everybody has a precious soul.
[3:38:58] The obsession that they have that I like to have.
[3:39:00] I don't think there has to be an expensive statement.
[3:39:02] Well, the major question is, however, wherever you are, the next time you submit a question, it will be the first question.
[3:39:16] Well, I don't know if you submit a question.
[3:39:20] Well, it's not the next one.
[3:39:25] I'm wondering if that would probably say something like that, but I don't know about you.
[3:39:37] But that time, if you're playing, you know something about me.
[3:39:44] So he was like, tell me.
[3:39:45] Well, by this time, by that time, it's a lot of writing.
[3:39:47] Well, Dick Warren's going to be working in a very small company.
[3:39:54] My own view is that it's not all that important.
[3:39:58] I think the repression is just great.
[3:40:03] I'm all for it.
[3:40:04] I'm not going to worry about repression.
[3:40:07] We're not trying to repress the South.
[3:40:21] I don't know that it has said.
[3:40:26] What people would we look for?
[3:40:32] The government has already managed to .
[3:40:39] I can't do that.
[3:41:02] Something very brief.
[3:41:11] Excuse me.
[3:41:11] I'm not advocating that.
[3:41:13] What I meant is I think you're covered.