Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 278-001
Date: Thursday, September 9, 1971 at 1:20 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/278-001

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[0:02] Well, it's a damn dull subject, but that's about as interesting, as Tricia was saying, as you can make economics.
[0:07] Have you noticed how you work the chair lines?
[0:12] Have you noticed the difference in those drafts?
[0:19] I think it's the best I can do.
[0:24] And I think, too, what I had in about the work and the American spirit was just essential to top it off with the truth.
[0:36] It surprised about all of us.
[0:37] The only thing people would remember is that they cheered for a couple of minutes when I started taking care of America.
[0:43] The isolationists were cheering, see?
[0:46] And I couldn't leave it that way.
[0:52] I could have, I did go on, but you should have put it out and said, but we still got to play a role in the world, not build a wall around the world.
[1:00] That's a terribly important line, because that's what the ladies want.
[1:03] They want the law.
[1:03] And a lot of them are just stupid.
[1:05] They just need to say, the hell with me, number one.
[1:11] I think that part was pretty good, number one.
[1:18] It's never as warm as it probably ought to be, partly because we just don't have it.
[1:21] You understand, it's an election year, and we've got more Democrats than Republicans, and it's just goddamn hard.
[1:26] Our Republicans did pretty well.
[1:28] I watched them cheer, and I was like, I never did let them cheer on the place.
[1:31] They wanted to be honest with me.
[1:36] The lines that I wrote last night, that I think were the average of office, let's get rid of the system.
[1:45] It makes it more positive.
[1:48] to go on welfare and to go to work.
[1:58] I sure think so.
[1:59] That's it.
[1:59] That's it.
[2:05] And to go to work.
[2:06] Yeah.
[2:07] That's it.
[2:07] Bye.