Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 269-018
Date: Tuesday, August 3, 1971 at 10:19 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/269-018

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[2:02:52] Call some police.
[2:04:14] Hello?
[2:04:15] Yeah.
[2:04:17] Hello?
[2:04:17] Well, what's new today?
[2:04:19] Yeah, except for Steele's price rise.
[2:04:24] Well, we didn't expect that.
[2:04:25] Yeah.
[2:04:25] Yeah, there was a big win one day.
[2:04:42] Steele and Railroads, yeah.
[2:04:51] Yeah.
[2:05:02] One thing I noted, incidentally, on looking at Weicker's blast, is that, remember I said that not only should we keep that thing for about a day, not a whole lot of two days, but not only should we try to freeze the 19 candidates, but I agree with Bob that we have to get rid of Weicker, we have to get rid of him, and I think we've got to return to common sense on those things.
[2:05:33] Yeah.
[2:05:34] Yeah.
[2:05:35] Yeah.
[2:05:40] Yeah.
[2:05:40] Yeah.
[2:05:43] Yeah.
[2:05:44] Yeah.
[2:05:57] Yeah.
[2:05:58] Well, we have some people that are quite close to him.
[2:06:01] Somebody ought to have a talk with him.
[2:06:02] Gregor probably doesn't know him yet.
[2:06:05] Somebody is probably going to take a look here.
[2:06:07] You just don't know who to get yourself a name on the list by taking this line.
[2:06:13] He's great.
[2:06:15] He's great.
[2:06:15] He's done a great job.
[2:06:22] Yeah, he's playing an airline right down the line, and also he's just coming out to Dr. Henry to get help from us to eat cold turkey.
[2:06:33] Oh, I know that.
[2:06:34] Yeah.
[2:06:39] We know that.
[2:06:40] I know that.
[2:06:43] So we're working on it.
[2:06:44] We're going to arrest him and put the hell away.
[2:06:54] Yeah, you say, look, gee, we're all boys.
[2:06:56] Don't blame the Democrats.
[2:06:57] Talk about the problem.
[2:06:59] And then some of those people up there, of course, are after the income policy.
[2:07:04] Unfortunately, they'll be out of here during the month of August.
[2:07:06] They're going to give us some time to rest.
[2:07:09] Although they may, of course, do it from outside.
[2:07:34] Well, I feel they will if they run an intersection such as I have.
[2:07:37] In other words, it even affects that stupid sanctuary.
[2:07:49] Great.
[2:08:12] He actually was a very capable man, a Massachusetts fellow who got that benefit from the hand-held Senate.
[2:08:24] Yeah.
[2:08:24] Yeah.
[2:08:24] But he really showed that, I see.
[2:08:32] He replaced him in China probably.
[2:08:34] The Democrats were divided.
[2:08:58] as long as you get it, that's for sure.
[2:09:03] What do retail sales come up with?
[2:09:07] They're not out yet.
[2:09:29] How was June?
[2:09:31] Yeah.
[2:10:02] Oh, they can fly in a few, just never know what's going to happen.
[2:10:05] Just what are they going to do?
[2:10:13] That'll blow up.
[2:10:14] Oh, no.
[2:10:19] Six maybe.
[2:10:22] Well, you see, the difficulty is, remember, they think there's an aberration because that was taken in the first week in June.
[2:10:32] You know, when the kids were not allowed to go to jobs.
[2:10:38] Yeah.
[2:10:38] Yeah, it doesn't mean that there's any change.
[2:10:50] I know, yeah, yeah.
[2:10:51] Well, that wasn't affected this one, too.
[2:10:56] Yeah, yeah.
[2:11:02] Let me ask you this, if the Connolly, the talking points, you know, with regard to the strong points of the economy, did Connolly get, is there a page on that or something that I, yeah, send that to Buchanan.
[2:11:16] Yeah, I'd like to see what the, I'd like to get that to Buchanan to get a crack at preparing something for me that I want to use for the election.
[2:11:31] Jesus, it's terrible.
[2:11:33] He just doesn't get anything.
[2:11:35] He just can't put it down in any update language, any language or anything.
[2:11:44] That's right.
[2:11:46] That's good.
[2:11:46] Well, if Daddy could also, so God may him honest, you know, just put our side down.
[2:11:54] Good one, Patriot.
[2:11:54] Good.
[2:11:55] Good.
[2:11:58] Send over both.
[2:11:59] Can't wait.
[2:12:02] Great.
[2:12:02] Right.
[2:12:04] Yeah.
[2:12:06] Yeah.
[2:12:16] They're the worst pointers of all.
[2:12:19] Yeah.
[2:12:20] Well, why are you supposed to be doing those if you can't make any headway on them?
[2:12:30] Yeah.
[2:12:32] decisions.
[2:12:38] The month of August is a good month to do it.
[2:12:49] It's before you get into the September
[2:12:59] can help build up the psychology of marriage and service of change here.
[2:13:37] Yeah.
[2:13:38] Well, it's a major survey now, and I would hope it should begin to show some turnaround of that part of that field curve.
[2:13:52] Well, that's what we should have, you know.
[2:13:56] And also, you said, you want to point out these receptions that we have out there in Iowa and Ohio.
[2:14:05] Have you done that?
[2:14:08] Yeah.
[2:14:19] Right.
[2:14:20] Well, of course if he doesn't find it, you can't show him anything.
[2:14:24] Yeah.
[2:14:25] But I don't want any of the herds that are down the list, you know what I mean?
[2:14:31] If you can't do the galloping, you can't know what game he's playing.
[2:14:37] Those around there.
[2:14:41] The school is at 10 George Junior High.
[2:14:53] That's what it is.
[2:14:56] Well, anyway, if you can get some more psychology like Brad Marshall, that's a good idea.
[2:15:00] Have somebody work right on Weicker.
[2:15:01] I mean, not just Weicker, but get two, three, or four of those people, call Weicker and say, what do you think, Senator, if you're a Republican, let's get him in.