Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 304-008
Date: Monday, October 25, 1971 at 2:40 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/304-008

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[0:02] Hello?
[0:07] Yeah.
[0:08] Where are you today?
[0:10] Oh, you're staying here.
[0:20] Well, how are things going?
[0:29] Are we sure what it is?
[0:30] It's alright.
[0:30] You sure?
[0:30] No problem.
[0:33] A lot of time in this week we're bound to because they were out in the limelight.
[0:53] That's all right.
[0:54] The stories will never catch up with the television.
[1:08] Yeah, that's right.
[1:13] I've heard all this business about how it's done, only the Washington Center isn't doing that.
[1:30] Well, there isn't much of a story to be told.
[1:34] I mean, that's basically the story.
[1:36] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[2:04] That's going to be very tough.
[2:18] I pray we may lose a couple of people.
[2:26] Well, in addition to working on this day in the belly, we may lose a couple of people.
[2:43] Well, we'll have to take that.
[2:48] We'll take some depreciation to write on that.
[2:56] We'll just write it through and that's what we'll do.
[3:08] It's going to happen anyway.
[3:08] Oh, yeah.
[3:08] It's made up to me.
[3:13] I wouldn't be worried about it.
[3:18] I mean, I told him, you know, he didn't back around for the whole time.
[3:25] But he may have done a little stuff across the board.
[3:56] All right.
[4:57] How about, uh, what's the, uh, what is the, what is the Harris thing, unless you tell me off?
[5:23] I would be hurt.
[5:24] I think I don't have a question on that.
[5:25] The Russian thing, before it was, uh,
[5:26] And this green card, this green card I'm sure is going to be marked plus and minus.
[5:41] I'm just counting to that.
[5:50] Oh, it'll be quite a bit marked plus.
[5:50] Yes, I get it.
[5:52] Yeah.
[6:06] Who affects the president?
[6:14] Why did he do it that way?
[6:23] Why didn't he do this and that in court?
[6:24] I mean, what the hell was it?
[6:24] I considered a woman.
[6:25] I considered a senator.
[6:25] I have some compliments of them.
[6:26] What the hell?
[6:26] Everybody here, I think, recognizes these were minor choices, too.
[6:29] You know, at least somebody didn't bring them down to how many tangles.
[6:37] That's what I mean.
[6:40] Yeah, I think that's good.
[6:49] It's a good line to get across.
[7:02] I suppose I wrote the speech, but it doesn't really work.
[7:03] That's one of the things we had to think about.
[7:04] Of course, we had records of himself all the time.
[7:08] That's your right, that's your right.
[9:09] From what I have heard from the people I've talked to today, they didn't even have the tolerance to be too resistant, which is apparently quite effective in their own world too.
[9:27] That's good.
[9:40] You know, the thing that's interesting to me, and we're going to have a hell of a lot more of this, is that the Democrats are all traction-oriented, almost as traction-oriented.
[10:10] The economy is basically our toughest issue because it really gets down to what the hell happens.
[10:27] See, when you look at Harris' poll, it still shows what we do for approval here.
[10:31] policy, they still have a negative rating as far as jobs, employment, and all that is concerned.
[10:52] I would work a little better.
[10:53] But I think other times, you know, I have this feeling that they're off, that in some way it's the last of this year, you know, to start bubbling up some.
[10:56] I've got it.
[10:57] We're just wrong.
[11:07] He opposed the holding of a national park.
[11:32] We've done a play about that, and he goes to the world.
[11:40] A lot of people are at that show.
[11:49] But we hear all isolated reports .
[12:06] Oh yeah, I think it'll move up.
[12:27] Up front center, I think Rumsfeld will be well.
[12:31] Yeah, let's keep him up.
[12:34] I found him an edge.
[12:56] Now let's let him get off the cell like hell.
[12:57] Good.
[12:57] Good.
[12:58] Try to do everything you can.
[12:58] Good.
[12:58] Good.
[12:58] I don't want to put you in trouble, but I know you should do something.
[13:00] You're fine.
[13:00] You're good.
[13:00] You're fine.
[13:01] You're good.
[13:01] You're fine.
[13:01] You're good.
[13:01] You're fine.
[13:06] I hope that means the fourth party rather than the Democratic Party, but I guess it doesn't.
[13:34] He's wise to not get started until just now.
[13:35] He must be very worried right now.
[13:41] and also they'll get a tax allow
[14:22] Okay.