Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 335-007
Date: Wednesday, May 3, 1972 at 12:41 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/335-007

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[32:26] You know, it isn't going very well.
[32:31] They were justified.
[32:33] I mean, it isn't as bad as I say, but, you know, and it is, and incidentally, it's exactly what I predicted when we were out.
[32:37] I said, over and over, I said, we're going to have some losses, and they're having a massive investment.
[32:41] Hopefully, we're going to have some more.
[32:47] We're going to go for three or four more weeks.
[32:53] We're going to lose some.
[33:08] Frankly, there's no one who would be damn sure I'm not going to go to Moscow.
[33:13] I think you would agree, but if I went to Moscow, I'm going to slowly attend to rumbling around in the way.
[33:19] I'll never go.
[33:21] And I think on that point, well, most people would say it's been terrible.
[33:27] It'll hurt us because they'll say, what happened to the Generation T?
[33:34] Come back again.
[33:35] We simply can't take this anymore.
[33:46] What the hell?
[33:52] We tried.
[33:54] We were doing a damn thing again.
[34:07] We'll keep, we'll keep them, keep them going.
[34:10] You know, one thing I, well, we're all sad about it.
[34:13] I think that we had one good break this weekend, and on the law and order issue, there's no better way for me to identify, to identify with my friend Hoover.
[34:25] You know, and I, I stood by him, and I didn't snap on the fire, and I called, and I never did, and I stood by him to pick him down, and I defended him, and, and,
[35:22] Yeah.
[35:23] Yeah.