Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 341-023
Date: Sunday, June 11, 1972 at 10:54 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President)
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/341-023

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[1:57:36] With the right hand, that would be good.
[1:57:39] Because the right, the right is distinguished from the left.
[1:57:43] It's a very, very fundamental distinction.
[1:57:48] Generally speaking, the right wingers, it is certain that what we would rather lose, despite the principle that we have, the left wingers, on the other hand, would always generally be willing
[1:58:05] to, in order to get power, to compromise, to do what he needs to do.
[1:58:12] And I think that McGovern, he said his idealists, they were idealists, but they didn't want to be so.
[1:58:20] And I'll go down the form of a clue.
[1:58:29] So he moved, though I could never move from his right, because
[1:59:03] I'm obsessed with the idea of power.
[1:59:05] The right wing is changing now.
[1:59:07] It's not.
[1:59:08] It's not.
[1:59:09] It's not.
[1:59:09] It's not.
[1:59:10] It's not.
[1:59:11] It's not.