Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 309-010
Date: Friday, December 24, 1971 at 1:56 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Chancellor, John W.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/309-010

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[0:05] So I have two purposes for my call.
[0:13] First, to wish you a very Merry Christmas.
[0:22] And second, to thank you for the very much that you and your staff did on this day in the life of the President.
[0:28] And I hope you survived it.
[0:28] Yeah.
[0:29] Yeah.
[0:29] Oh, of course.
[0:54] Well, I think probably leaving the audience for one, two, or three, five.
[0:56] First, they got a lot of hard work, but you can't put it all on.
[0:57] But I think you get a feel of it.
[0:58] And that came true.
[0:58] And it's already been good.
[0:59] I didn't engage enough on the plane for one year and a half.
[1:14] Maybe a year or two we'll try again.
[1:21] You know, one good thing about it, as it occurred to me, is that
[1:28] He was very kind to me regarding the event.
[1:43] He said, apparently, my talk was used the way that I remember.
[1:46] I said, if that event could be over by the time this program is on, and by God, it is.
[1:53] It's not a happy ending in any event, but there's no way that party will ever be happy in a parade.
[1:55] You've been down there before, haven't you?
[1:56] And you know that teachers are the only place that are equal to the community.
[1:58] I think the religious and other hatreds in the Middle East are like that problem for sure.
[2:23] It's what we're going through in Pakistan.
[2:24] And when you get the great power of all, particularly in the Pakistan region, China, and the Middle East, and the U.S., it's a real threat to the Middle East.
[2:27] You've seen the political ideas
[2:29] for your pride information, I have to quote you on this, but you realize that women's lives, and maybe sometimes, you know, a nice way of having a woman's life, if only we had women in positions of power, we'd have a reward.
[2:54] You look at the history of nations,
[2:56] And when you have that, women are really tougher than men.
[3:09] Very curious, isn't it?
[3:13] If you look back, in this instance, if you look around the world, the two, basically, strong in terms of willingness to take risks.
[3:22] I happen to believe two women.
[3:23] Curious, isn't it?
[3:23] Andrea Goddard, you know, has this great, good background in that.
[3:24] She's an enormously woman of great respect for what she is.
[3:26] Tell me.
[3:38] Oh, yes.
[3:42] She's nowhere.
[3:44] She's here.
[3:46] Boy, I killed a woman.
[3:49] That'd be something.
[3:50] You've got enough trouble with him.
[3:51] Well, anyway, I know that so many members are true, and the rest of them are stupid, but I do know what a measure it is to do such a thing.
[3:55] But they did a fine job, and I appreciate their work on it.
[3:57] Horrible.