Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 274-007
Date: Monday, August 16, 1971 at 2:44 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Safire, William L.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/274-007

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[9:36] Yeah.
[9:36] Hello.
[9:37] I am going to send over to you a poem which I would like you to do for me.
[9:42] I'm going to send you a thousand-word draft that Father McLaughlin did and another 1,500 words that you can in another direction on 19 Columbus.
[10:01] I want 1,500 words outside on 19 Columbus.
[10:04] Let me say it.
[10:06] But I think the two, you could take the two and meld them together.
[10:19] And it seems to me that I will say this in my introduction.
[10:27] I am the first president of the Congress, and I want to point out that
[10:40] I think really the theme that we can do is sort of cutting off our last night.
[10:49] Today, we're entering a new era of all we started with, planning on a piece of competition.
[11:01] I would start writing the last of the speech last night, and then say, it depends on the people, but this organization, and we've got all the fine things about, you know, about the night, the sense of history, and everything.
[11:19] Buchanan's got some good...
[11:24] arguing stuff about people who are non-American and so forth, which I think would be said there.
[11:30] It's that kind of, you know, they're kind of a down-to-earth, mason-like type of audience, so you need a little of that in.
[11:38] I'd like to hear what you're wanting to say, but I really think that we can't accept enough.
[11:44] They're a little rougher than any of them, and I can say, I'll send the copies to your office, okay?
[11:52] Yeah.
[11:53] well let me say there's no problem
[12:12] And then I think, too, the idea of those so-called compromises.
[12:41] Mr. President, they seem to be late.