Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 301-021
Date: Wednesday, November 3, 1971 at 2:45 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/301-021

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[0:00] Coach, do you have any particular problems today?
[0:22] No.
[0:22] I did call Annenberg, so he's pleased to share.
[0:23] Yeah, he needs a lounge over there, I'm sure.
[0:24] It'll be difficult, I'm sure.
[0:28] I heard there's a way that we could maybe get a note off to a few of them.
[0:57] I don't think we'll try to do it, though.
[1:00] You see, and as far as calls are concerned, if I started to call Harrison, and I've got Roy Crocker, and I've got, I don't know, Roy Day.
[1:28] Yeah.
[1:29] They did and ignored what everybody did and they all felt they did.
[1:55] You're absolutely right.
[1:55] We mustn't... You'd get hurt too many feelings.
[1:56] That's right.
[1:57] That's right.
[1:57] You're absolutely right.
[1:58] Except for the fact that we may... Yeah.
[1:59] Fine, fine, why don't you offer that?
[2:15] Yeah, right, right, fine, fine, great, great.
[2:17] That is fine, that's fine.
[2:18] Yeah, yeah.
[2:19] You're out.
[2:19] Fine, let's just offer it in any event, and we may not, I think we may stop.
[2:21] We're going to stop.
[2:22] Well, much better, but if we do, that doesn't end the problem.
[2:47] We have her go to a nice, one of those careful places for the rest of the while.
[2:49] I think you're right.
[2:49] That's right.
[2:50] That's right.
[2:50] You know, I was looking at these results and thinking in terms of Cleveland and Rizzo and particularly,
[2:53] It makes us realize how important that Polish, Irish, basically what happened here is the blacks, what they call the raw acts, worked for that kind of candidate.
[3:18] And it worked for our guys as well.
[3:19] Yeah, yeah.
[3:24] Yeah, yeah.
[3:42] They had him, they had him in Teddy's name, of course.
[3:47] And frankly, it's a great thing that he did.
[3:48] It does remind me, though, that when you're making up our list for the future, I know we're doing something that's anyway good for us.
[3:51] You can lean hard on those.
[4:07] You can't have such important things like the church and dinner and everything else.
[4:14] You can't have a whole, you can't have more than four or five or so, but we do do the blacks, you know, and I get as many blacks as we ever can ever be.
[4:18] That's what I mean, that's everything.
[4:18] So I must say, I mean, well, I think we should do the blacks for every reason.
[4:20] That's just the right thing to do.
[4:22] There are no votes.
[4:39] Yeah.
[4:39] It was good at this dinner, though, for the man.
[4:45] I know that he was very good.
[4:46] We had several members of the jury, sir.
[4:47] Yeah.
[4:47] And we're going to mix up some of that.
[4:47] That's a very good idea that you
[4:57] They, they really, they really have had the recognition, haven't they?
[5:24] And, uh...
[5:24] Unhappy hell.
[5:24] I really think that that's the situation.
[5:25] I still couldn't agree more.
[5:26] I think we...
[5:27] We tend to overdo this government people anyway.
[5:51] And you know, it does mean a lot to members.
[5:52] Yeah, yeah.
[5:53] Well, that's the way you lean, will you?
[5:54] Fine, fine.
[5:55] And, uh, we'll, uh, we could, one way or another, we could do, like, Rizzo may have some people who would, you know, have him down with us.
[6:16] I don't know.
[6:16] I don't, I wouldn't, I wouldn't have it until next year.
[6:17] That's what I meant.
[6:18] I, we'll address him.
[6:18] And then we have a right to have a mayor, you know, and, uh, yeah.
[6:19] And should have.
[6:20] Because, because he's a mayor, we have Democrats down there.
[6:21] And when you want a Democrat, put him on rather than one that's against us.
[6:24] Uh, one other thing, because he's been doing a lot of things for us, I think it would be helpful to have, uh, Goldwater again, to do something.
[6:48] I know he's been through, but the medicule might be all right for him.
[6:49] He's very interested in that.
[6:50] I don't know.
[6:50] He goes to the bathroom a lot, you know, some of these things.
[6:51] That's good.
[6:51] That's good.
[6:52] Check it out.
[6:52] I was just saying to Henry, uh, some of this data,
[6:53] and realize that it was two years from November 3rd to 8th.
[7:18] Now that's quite a day.
[7:19] I know we're done.
[7:19] Just like yesterday.
[7:20] What's going on there.
[7:20] But Paul, I...
[7:20] I'm pretty sure he's going to come back.
[7:21] I don't know.
[7:21] I don't know.
[7:22] I don't know.
[7:22] I don't know.
[7:22] I don't know.
[7:23] I don't know.
[7:24] All right, Mom.