Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 353-023
Date: Thursday, August 3, 1972 at 4:57 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Stennis, John C.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/353-023

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[0:00] Hello.
[0:06] Yeah.
[0:06] Hello.
[0:07] God, I'm calling on two things.
[0:08] One, to wish you a happy birthday, and two, to thank you for another really great job on, you know, fighting under the appropriations.
[0:18] And we, unless it's sort of a tough vote, but now you've got the conference, and we just hope that some of it can be ironed out.
[0:33] I must say, we put them off a little bit.
[0:36] Particularly when we can't even provide to our own Republicans.
[0:40] The Vice President called me last night.
[0:43] He was re-operating.
[0:45] I said, well, I said, well, I said, I understand, you know, I understand our Democrats.
[0:54] I said, well, it's election year, but the Republicans have got no business doing this.
[1:01] Yeah.
[1:04] That was great.
[1:05] That was a great one.
[1:11] That was right.
[1:11] Right.
[1:11] Well, we don't win them all.
[1:13] And on this one, we hope the house is strong enough so that we can work it out in conference.
[1:25] No.
[1:25] Sure.
[1:26] Sure.
[1:29] Right.
[1:29] Well, good in heaven.
[1:33] You just, you appreciate it.
[1:35] You get, I can assure you that on this and more and without saying a thing, you don't know if you're on the right side.
[1:42] History will record it, but we just can't say much.
[1:45] And you know why.
[1:48] It's an L.A. that you get the, that's the next one I got to do.
[1:53] You go home and have a quiet dinner, I hope.
[1:57] You do that.
[1:58] Okay.
[1:59] All right.