Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 318-022
Date: Wednesday, February 2, 1972 at 2:14 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Dent, Harry S.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/318-022
National Archives Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417185703 (NAID 417185703)

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[0:00] Hello?
[0:05] Hello, Harry?
[0:12] How are you, how are the governor's temperatures after the day?
[0:15] Do they feel pretty good?
[0:16] Well, they didn't all get to talk, but I, of course, got a good chance to talk to both Peterson and Kane, and that's when all of them all were sitting at the table.
[0:23] And I think having the big boys talk that way, they don't like to hear it.
[0:25] And they did well.
[0:27] They did a Rockefeller break.
[0:33] I frankly, I don't know why Holton always has to bring up that thing about his kid.
[0:43] But I guess that's the thing.
[0:48] But wasn't that Rockefeller's surprise?
[0:49] He was all up with it.
[0:50] Well, you've been doing a fine job.
[0:51] I want to tell you, you did a very good job.
[0:53] tell them what your reason is, tell them whether this is a CRA or something, you know.
[1:11] We're going to try to get agonists who want to hear it.
[1:12] You might, you might, uh, I, uh, I was sitting with Mitchell at the time, but you might call the vice president and tell him, you know, I was chatting, and I said, you'll hear from other sources that you've been out of, and you can tell them about it, and, you know, do it.
[1:26] They really got the cold cock.
[1:44] Good.
[1:46] Sure.
[1:46] Of course, well, I knew they had that at night, and I knew that there wasn't any night to have those other fellows there.
[1:50] And also, I didn't want to get too darn partisan with the cops there, you know, too much there.
[1:55] So it turned out it was mine.
[1:58] But I think one thing that I did there that I think is very important to leave that around is that when I, which gave me an opportunity to say, well, we could do a 50-state strategy, you know.
[2:17] Now, you know very well what it will be.
[2:18] But on the other hand, it's good for the guy on Massachusetts, Michigan, to figure that we're not forgetting those guys that he wants to try.
[2:21] I don't think, well, I could forget, but what did you say?
[2:28] All right, Mark.
[3:08] Well, we started praying and ended up playing.
[3:20] Right?
[3:21] Well, that's a good group of people.
[3:24] There's a fine, long line of people.
[3:27] I had to get out of the Christian context.
[3:30] I knew a Jew on the program.
[3:30] You know, this is our first speaker from Florida.
[3:32] This is a Christian country, which I hated before we had a voice.
[3:38] You, incidentally, did not disapprove of my wanting to do that Negro thing with you.
[3:54] In fact, they tell me that, well, that's why I say this to you, because Holloman was telling me that you were the one that felt that, particularly in the South, we could break under the Negro law, right?
[4:00] Do you have to tell me you're good?
[4:01] Well, were you there for the background?
[4:19] I'm sorry.
[4:48] It makes him a big man, which he deserves.
[5:13] How's that?
[5:15] What's gonna, what's gonna win for him?
[5:20] And who's, uh...
[5:40] Muscle.
[5:44] Yeah.
[5:44] Hungry campaign.
[5:45] What about Jackson?
[5:45] How about Jackson?
[5:46] Yeah, I know that.
[5:47] Good man.
[5:48] He's the best.
[5:49] How about Lindsay?
[5:51] Unless he goes on TV, he could cut into the mustard plant, couldn't he?
[6:13] All the way.
[6:13] All the way.
[6:13] Okay.
[6:14] All right, Harry.
[6:14] Well, thanks for your good work.
[6:17] If you don't hear, we know you do well.
[6:18] Okay.
[6:18] Bye.