Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 359-015
Date: Thursday, September 14, 1972 at 2:50 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.; Sanchez, Manolo
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/359-015

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[0:20] The other thing that's leaking in my opinion is building up public interest in the trade.
[0:51] Today, today, today, today, today, today, today, today, today, today, today, today, today,
[1:21] He's fighting now.
[1:52] I don't know if you wrote it.
[2:15] You might want to.
[2:15] It's a very excellent speech.
[2:16] It takes the shame away.
[2:17] It just grips it apart.
[2:17] It takes it statement by statement.
[2:18] It tears it down.
[2:18] It tosses it up.
[2:18] It's a naivete of the senators.
[2:19] But how many of the other parties would toss it up?
[2:20] I think that they, in some ways, would regard me as a friend.
[2:25] I can assure you on the basis of years,
[3:11] So I don't say I was wrong to say that.
[3:45] And then I think that I was so delighted that Peggy Hector stood up.
[4:07] I go over this one.
[4:08] I put a note on it the other summer.
[4:08] Somebody called me and told me, I don't want to get in the middle of every one of these folks.
[4:10] I said, did you tell her that I had seen her?
[4:11] And I said, did you have another guy that you wanted to see?
[4:13] And I said, well, she was really great.
[4:13] What did she say?
[4:17] You know, I think the governor, of course, he's got to splash around.
[4:41] He's part of politics.
[4:41] But he's now attacking early.
[4:42] What the crisis is doing, it's been after just a period.
[4:43] I got that early.
[4:43] Would you do that if you were president of Syria?
[4:44] I don't know.
[4:45] Well, he's thus far attacked history.
[4:47] of us to terminate
[5:40] And the mania is really, really, really hard.
[5:55] This is not a personal, this is not, well, I'm sure it's mania.
[5:57] It's mania, you can't let anyone.
[5:57] Absolutely, well, he's finished.
[5:58] He can't.
[5:58] And he basically, he, he, he, according to what's done,
[7:40] that they have sent to America.
[8:20] Yeah, the two of them.
[8:38] There's only, they've got his name everywhere.
[8:39] Oh, yeah.
[8:39] And just so they don't see the essence of it.
[8:40] The better, not better, worse.
[8:41] Just for that issue.
[8:52] One of the guys, they just pushed it into the water again.
[9:03] They really did.
[9:03] I didn't see it.
[9:03] I didn't know if they were going to go through with the action.
[9:05] I was in the camp.
[9:05] I didn't give them much time.
[9:06] It was the end.
[9:06] They would be home at that point.
[9:23] and then they had Marzullo, and then they had Coleman, and then they had General Marzullo, and then they had the third one, and then the last one, and then they had six men of our sergeants around the country, and then we had probably one of the best pieces we've done.
[9:57] I think what they're doing is they don't get it.
[10:43] What are you going to do about the Washington Post?
[11:32] And finally she threw it on her television license.
[11:50] I didn't see that.
[11:51] How?
[11:51] Just not really.
[11:51] Is there a way we can do that?
[11:52] Yes, there is.
[11:52] Yes, there is.
[11:52] When will it come up?
[11:53] I don't know.
[11:53] Hopefully Christ comes up this year.
[11:54] Sooner or quicker.
[11:54] Then how do we do that?
[11:55] We put a group together that
[12:11] They should have a lot of money.
[12:28] I hate to be too much of a suggestive, but I'm sure it's enough money.
[12:29] Why, I said.
[12:42] I'm convinced that those volunteers are so sensitive, so
[13:22] We know that.
[13:43] We know that.
[13:43] We know that.
[13:43] We know that.
[14:46] I'm scared of that.
[15:12] I'm scared of that.
[15:13] I'm scared of that.
[15:13] I'm scared of that.
[15:14] I'm scared of that.
[15:14] I'm scared of that.
[15:14] I'm scared of that.
[15:15] I'm scared of that.
[15:16] So thrilled.
[15:32] I said, well, I haven't come to see you in a while.
[15:33] He said, oh.
[15:34] He said, do you know what video?
[15:34] I said, that guy.
[15:35] I said, yeah, he told me.
[15:35] He said, I'm sure they also never watched what I did.
[15:50] the worst kind of home.
[16:12] I mean that, I really mean, I don't know.
[16:13] I think he's arrogant.
[16:13] He's arrogant, certainly.
[16:14] And I think they've got a good business.
[16:15] But he also has a best friend.
[16:15] He also proceeds with his number one.
[16:16] So if you're a businessman, and you won't know where to stop to see if you can figure it out, I'll let him run it.
[16:18] But if he isn't perfect, I'll have to do something.
[16:24] Probably in Washington, some of the initiatives were bigger than what I was going to say on the screen.
[16:44] And that they have a whole different version of it.
[16:45] So that would be a hell of a day in terms of how much they can fill this one.
[16:47] Yeah.
[16:47] So my advice is that
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[17:31] My view of it is we should get a hang of it every time there is a site.
[18:03] So I wish I was looking into it there, but you can't.
[18:15] They just say they're trying to convert attention.
[18:16] Just to convert attention.
[18:17] Major issue is the confidence of their own candidates.
[18:38] Well, whatever it is, it's not a winner.
[18:56] Don't let it be such a loser.
[18:56] Worry about yourself.