Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 337-024
Date: Wednesday, May 10, 1972 at 3:35 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/337-024

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[3:56:54] Wow.
[3:57:20] These are the, you know, the three things.
[3:57:23] They used one for the official party and unofficial, and I had one for the press, and I gave them one for the technician.
[3:57:32] And then they made up, I think that's for you, I don't know.
[3:57:38] They used a pair of cufflinks out of the official team.
[3:57:42] And tied it.
[3:57:54] That's very nice.
[3:57:55] Oh, that's very nice.
[3:57:56] That's very nice.
[3:57:57] That's very nice.
[3:57:58] That's very nice.
[3:58:29] Well, we sort of did that last week, but I stopped around.
[3:58:32] Oh, I thought, um... You want these put anywhere or just put away?
[3:58:36] Um... Well, I'll tell you, the cup next to me should be...
[3:58:38] I'm aware of this.
[3:58:39] Yeah, I am.
[3:58:40] Easy.
[3:58:59] Oh good, I bet he was so pleased to hear that.
[3:59:02] He was so mad that he wasn't out of room.
[3:59:05] Time to get your call yesterday.
[3:59:29] Oh, look at him, all of them.
[3:59:30] No, you know, I couldn't believe it when I saw the pictures of some of them.
[3:59:33] I thought they were in school with you.
[3:59:59] I think some of them look a lot older than I do, but maybe yes.
[4:00:05] Oh yes, they do.
[4:00:06] So if you had a boring life, and there's probably a lot of dissipate, and if you don't have something with enthusiasm to keep up, I think that's when people start looking a lot older.
[4:00:24] They're having a great time.
[4:00:27] I'm sure they do.
[4:00:41] Right, we heard it.
[4:01:04] He was very pleased.
[4:01:05] He was pleased.
[4:01:05] He thought it came off wrong.
[4:01:07] He thought it was just beautifully done.
[4:01:08] He was very, just very pleased about it.
[4:01:09] Well, we continue to get there.
[4:01:10] We continue to get there.
[4:01:10] The reaction rate is cold, over 70%.
[4:01:11] That's fantastic.
[4:01:12] The world is something that we've got to try to lessen.
[4:01:14] We need to get it, folks.
[4:01:33] I thought what was wrong.
[4:01:34] I stirred up.
[4:01:35] Madeline's a good kid.
[4:01:36] All of these kids, they're just waiting for any excuse to try and do something on Madeline.
[4:01:39] I think most of those kids are dead.
[4:01:41] Oh, I think so.
[4:01:55] I think everyone, no matter what they feel about it, there's just people rioting.
[4:02:01] And the other thing, when they go around breaking windows and trying to set fire to places, the best doesn't get anybody anywhere, I don't think.
[4:02:13] People resent that.
[4:03:54] Oh.
[4:03:55] Oh, that's better.
[4:03:56] And then you have to give it.
[4:03:58] You have to write it for something else.
[4:04:25] He's gotten off somewhere, he doesn't make a call.
[4:06:18] Oh.
[4:06:18] Oh, that would be better.
[4:06:20] Yeah.
[4:06:21] And then you have to give it to your band up.
[4:06:24] You have to write it for someone else.
[4:06:25] Yeah.
[4:07:18] I can't take everybody home, that's the problem.
[4:07:20] I have a car too.
[4:07:20] Nobody anymore thinks I'm away when I can't take them.
[4:07:22] Because I know that's where I can speak to the plants.
[4:07:23] Hello?
[4:07:47] The thing that a couple of people are calling us to say is the same thing here.
[4:07:54] It's one of the many houses that has come to us seven or eight years ago.
[4:07:57] Yeah.
[4:08:02] And it's funny to think that Kennedy's caught, you know, they, they, the people are thinking.
[4:08:07] Well, God damn it, Kennedy's had the first 35,000 people in there.
[4:08:10] First.
[4:08:10] First.
[4:08:10] And Don Hughes said that, you know, he's made me talk to a team of other people, you know, kind of worked upon that.
[4:08:19] He did.
[4:08:21] He thought that everything was great.
[4:08:24] He said that he wanted to tell you, he was so proud of it.
[4:08:28] He remembers that in 1965, he met your peer, the mayor of Iowa, and he talked about, every time, that Tompkins, Gulf of Tompkins, Tompkins Berry thing.
[4:08:36] That you said that was what should be done.
[4:08:39] Sure.
[4:08:39] The two of you agreed with that.
[4:08:42] Well, I said it should be mine.
[4:08:43] That was something that fell many years ago, and you had to go
[4:09:22] That's right.
[4:09:22] And they're where they know.
[4:09:24] And I think, I think the fact that people, they're all gone like she said, and it's from our conference on Sunday.
[4:09:31] I think they are, I think it's terribly hard on the fighting man the way our idiots have behaved.
[4:09:37] Not now as much as even all along they've done.
[4:09:40] They've tried to erode any morale they could have.
[4:09:43] Yeah, well, I'm talking to Julie about it.
[4:09:57] You know what they want?
[4:10:01] They want all of the benefits of a great country.
[4:10:10] They want to remain free.
[4:10:14] They want to be able to kick everybody around and strike.
[4:10:19] You can't do it, but they couldn't do what they do here in Indiana.
[4:10:28] I'll tell you, it really is.
[4:10:29] It's gone and gone like when it's iconic.
[4:10:31] It's right back to it.
[4:10:32] It's iconic.
[4:10:33] It's infiltrated our whole way of life, years ago.
[4:10:37] I mean, it is there in all the schools there.
[4:10:42] Oh, McCarthy was right.
[4:10:43] Oh, McCarthy was right.
[4:10:45] If he hadn't been so hard.