Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 310-029
Date: Sunday, December 26, 1971 at 12:12 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Moorer, Thomas H. (Adm.)
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/310-029

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[3:14:15] I think there's another briefcase there over in the Oval Office.
[3:16:27] Step over to you and me, please.
[3:16:30] Hello?
[3:16:30] Yeah.
[3:16:31] Hello?
[3:16:39] Hello?
[3:16:40] Yeah.
[3:16:42] Fine.
[3:16:44] Merry Christmas to you.
[3:16:47] You have a good one.
[3:16:48] Hope you saw that game.
[3:16:52] Wasn't that fantastic?
[3:16:54] That's probably the best one.
[3:16:55] I mean, while they're always the best, the only thing I do if I were to have them play off the roll, I think it's a mistake for them to have it in the sudden death thing because it makes it basically so unlike football and so conventional.
[3:17:11] Everybody plays it to save a pair of an error.
[3:17:13] They really ought to play a third quarter, a fifth quarter, and then they, you know, you have all the excitement of both teams going for broke again, you know.
[3:17:21] I think it might be working.