Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 315-016
Date: Monday, January 17, 1972 at 2:29 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Connally, John B.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/315-016

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[1:06:50] Hello.
[1:06:51] Hi, John.
[1:06:53] I don't want to bother you, but I know you've got a lot of attention.
[1:06:56] The Haldeman is bringing over a copy of what I call my final copy of the State of the Union.
[1:07:00] And after you finish with them, and you can, I don't know if you can finish with them, you can take time to read through.
[1:07:15] I give you a ring.
[1:07:16] I have tried, in fact, we talked in my interview today, I have gone over that, I have just made the old little smile, but I just thought, in view of the rather vicious attacks that the likes of Kennedy and Harris and others have made, that I ought to, frankly, to a certain extent, try to get it achieved.
[1:07:58] The one which we sort of say that maybe later in the year we may have something on the tax matter.
[1:08:05] And the other thing, of course, is the totally non-controversial technological stuff, you know, which we've heard about.
[1:08:14] But my main interest is what I'd like to do is to read it from home.
[1:08:20] I don't think it will bother me.
[1:08:26] But when you see one
[1:08:49] I don't say that.
[1:08:50] The purpose is to get my own brilliant case, which you might have rather interested in.
[1:09:01] How one other guy does it, but it is deliberately, like I said, it lays it out there for... Well, when you and I talked, we were talking about it, I just kind of scratched my head.
[1:09:18] Right.
[1:09:19] Yeah, well, you may have noticed.
[1:09:44] And this was as a result of Colson's operation on the freighter.
[1:09:51] We did have some pretty good answers.
[1:09:55] Scott, if that was all right, Scott Ford took them on real hard, and Dole got in a couple of lengths.
[1:10:02] I think we got a hit right back every time the Navy launched this.
[1:10:07] Let me ask you one question.
[1:10:11] I was quite pleased with it.
[1:10:13] I hate to have other people elevate him and all, but what do you think?
[1:10:23] I mean, what do you think?
[1:10:26] Yeah.
[1:10:29] Oh, they are, yeah.
[1:10:38] That's right.
[1:10:41] Yeah, yeah.
[1:10:43] Well, the thing about that is that I'm taking the oil thing.
[1:10:47] Hell, you know we made a lot of oil people mad by what we've done, and by the same token.
[1:10:54] Frankly, I do not want to go out and say that I'm not a friend of the oil people, because basically, John, I am.
[1:11:03] You know, that's what I believe.
[1:11:06] Ja, ja, ja.
[1:11:07] Ja, ja.
[1:11:35] For some of which he can grow a mustache.
[1:11:40] Well, that's finished.
[1:11:42] Yeah.
[1:11:44] Yeah.
[1:11:45] Well, he's finished anyway.
[1:11:46] He's not running.
[1:11:47] He gave up running for president.
[1:11:50] He can't be re-elected.
[1:12:14] Again, we'll be followed by October 8th with the major foreign policy report, and we'll be done with foreign policy on such foreign documents very clearly, and I hope you like it.
[1:12:25] Okay, bye.