Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 282-008
Date: Wednesday, October 20, 1971 at 2:23 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/282-008

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[0:00] Hello.
[0:01] Well, how's your battle today, Daniel?
[0:16] Yeah, pretty good.
[0:21] They don't cover that.
[0:30] Oh, yeah, I saw that one.
[0:36] That was unconscionable.
[0:38] I just figured anywhere people had the guts to take them on, that would be a smear if we used it.
[0:45] Or on every page in the nation.
[0:47] Nobody did.
[0:48] Not one goddamn country made it.
[0:52] Oh, terrible.
[0:55] Now, he just, he's saying we're a bunch of, frankly, radical ruckus.
[1:14] That's right.
[1:17] You see, the Burke Society is both anti-Semitic and anti-black, you know.
[1:20] It is both.
[1:21] Everybody knows it.
[1:23] Yeah.
[1:23] That's right.
[1:30] Yeah.
[1:32] Other than me.
[1:34] It won't unless somebody takes them on.
[1:36] See, you don't, it doesn't backfire if everybody sits by and says, hey, Ray Ray, isn't that great?
[1:41] Why doesn't the cabinet officer take them on, for Christ's sake?
[1:48] Yeah.
[1:49] But I mean, what's the Christ's matter with Ron and both of you and all those clowns when they say something?
[1:59] They ought to defend the president and defend the fellow cabinet officer on their last day.
[2:04] You know what I mean?
[2:04] That's what I do.
[2:04] Yeah.
[2:07] Yeah.
[2:08] That's right, I know he's a great soldier, but you know, he doesn't make any news.
[2:16] He attacks Kennedy, he might make some news.
[2:20] Yeah.
[2:21] Yeah.
[2:21] That's a good idea.
[2:23] Great.
[2:31] Yeah.
[2:43] One that seems so strange and quiet isn't he speaking?
[2:46] I don't know what the hell I'm having to enjoy.
[2:50] Is that right?
[2:57] Applebill!
[3:21] I don't know.
[3:30] That's what I understood.
[3:37] We've got to do some bulk buying just to cover our list, Chuck.
[3:41] Now, that list must be covered immediately.
[3:44] Now, is that being done?
[3:45] I want to be sure that they've got to start people talking about it.
[3:55] Oh, see you doing something.
[3:59] Be there for me, Nicker.
[4:08] Good.
[4:09] Good.
[4:11] That's good.
[4:20] Come on, Nicker.
[4:26] Okay.
[4:29] I know, I know.
[4:33] I'm sorry.
[4:37] It's okay.
[4:39] It's okay.
[4:44] It's okay.
[4:57] Do you think we have, we think we have had some effect on that?
[4:59] Have we raved all about him?
[5:02] Oh, good.
[5:03] Yeah.
[5:03] I don't know if that's true.
[5:13] Another one, huh?
[5:23] What?
[5:26] Another hand-in-hand receipt.
[5:29] Will this be published?
[5:30] Yeah.
[5:34] Yeah.
[5:35] That is very true.
[5:38] Are they going to print it?
[5:42] Well, I don't know.
[5:47] Six to go.
[5:49] What if Gallup might come up with it?
[5:53] No, don't press it.
[5:54] Just
[5:56] I don't, I don't, we don't want to press, let them, let them tell us what they do.
[6:04] I don't, I don't, Gallup's got to show something.
[6:06] If the others take this, let's suppose the damn thing is 25% off.
[6:10] It's still, in Connecticut, to run better than even is a landslide for the country, you know.
[6:20] Really, that's true.
[6:21] Always, every year, we did it in 60, we lost by 40,000.
[6:24] 75 and 80,000.
[6:25] Well, not much more than that.
[6:27] It runs 40 to 60,000 every year.
[6:28] How many other coals are up there?
[6:39] Well, I guess they all show some increase.
[6:48] Gallop, because Gallop, my children, despite all their protestations,
[6:53] Security is all the closer it can be dropped.
[7:01] We've always felt that it's just a hunch.
[7:09] Now, if Harris comes up with this, it has very, it has relatively high unemployment.
[7:13] No, not like, not as bad as the jury.
[7:16] The way it works, and what the hell, this must be totally foreign policy.
[7:27] Yeah.
[7:32] They're there.
[7:33] That's the one on the candidate.
[7:35] That's unbelievable.
[7:36] Okay.
[7:36] Well, Connecticut's a candidate state.
[7:42] And also a suburban, so it must be a little better there.
[7:46] Yeah, I see.
[7:47] It is a poor candidate state.
[7:49] They have some poor candidates around.
[7:52] Bridgeport, not many.
[7:54] It's more than, it's more basically the middle and upper middle classes.
[7:58] That's the kind of thing about the morale of the governor.
[8:05] We ought to let them know this issue.
[8:06] This is unbelievable, this kind of a goal.
[8:29] Two to one.
[8:33] Then what is it?
[8:43] I'm just wondering where Kennedy picks up his strength from the other national foes.
[8:48] Here he runs behind him.
[8:51] But now we have Kennedy and both of us galloping.
[8:54] Well, Harris, he runs about the same.
[8:57] Yeah, no, he runs a little behind.
[8:59] Yes, but not a very little, 1%.
[9:03] Gallup still hasn't run it to a degree, but what in the hell is this?
[9:06] Where did Kennedy fix up all this?
[9:11] This is a heck of a question.
[9:26] Space it, but the trouble is nobody except Goldwater is taking him off.
[9:29] Am I right or not?
[9:30] Well, that may do him up.
[9:37] You just never know what taking on does.
[9:39] That's what I heard.
[9:39] Well, we'll see.
[9:43] I'll tell you this, boy, I can build a grand country in that school.
[9:47] I don't need to build.
[9:50] They'll go out and pray and work like nothing.
[10:00] As he over a period of time, she was behind the genetic.
[10:20] Well, that's that's.
[10:34] Better.
[10:34] We may be able to.
[10:42] That's right.
[10:43] We may be better mechanics than we meant to be.
[10:45] After all, they all know about that.
[10:48] I always meant better than anything.
[10:52] Nice and close.
[10:56] Order coming.
[11:01] All right, let's go.
[11:28] Well, if you can.
[11:29] Well, let me say that I gave somebody on that job a comment.
[11:32] God damn, what's the hell of a thing to say?
[11:36] Virtue?
[11:37] Jesus Christ.
[11:38] Really.
[11:39] I mean, I discovered somebody on that.
[11:42] He's been great.
[11:43] I'm just telling you what the president is.
[11:48] He's just been great.
[11:49] We don't want him to carry everything, but that's the only thing I'm saying.
[11:54] Somebody ought to defend on this thing, and we'll have good appointments to the court.
[12:04] Scott knows that.
[12:06] This is what they've got to do, though, is try to get Buchanan to write the statement.
[12:09] I don't think our statements are strong enough to do it.
[12:13] Smear the hill of him back.
[12:14] I'm trying to get him to just say that this is dirty gutter politics.
[12:22] I just say dirty gutters politics is going to smear in the worst, you know, get terrible at you.
[12:38] Okay?
[12:42] Okay.
[12:42] Okay.