Nixon, Colson & Bull on 1972 Presidential Campaign and Watergate

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We're very, very close.

We're just going to go right now.

Welcome here.

They go back to the convention, and they pump you tires.

$15,000 worth of damage in San Francisco, burned down $100,000 headquarters, firebombs, and six different places to do it, a lot of times.

Everybody is silenced.

It's proven.

It's just an ad hoc free speech.

An ad hoc free speech.

It's just not everybody.

I think the lie on government is very, very simple.

The local church does probably have the will to run in that area.

It's going to start doing it in certain places, too.

We've got Rumsfeld, I know he's not in Central, trying to get a little boost to that issue here.

I talked to Schultz this morning.

He was reading a statement to a reporter this morning.

He said he saw a TV camera just to say a little bit about the higher prices and higher taxes and more people on the road.

stuff with our recession.

That was what they said.

They said that there was a great depression in the country where it was the best industries.

That's gone, but I think, I also think we got our advertising on the right track now.

It was very, very helpful.

Well, to keep it on the Native side, attack, attack, attack.

We're just trying to, our people are already on the head for it.

We've got to do it with attack.

We'll give the Democrats a reason to go back and come.

That's exactly it.

There is a lot of Democratic voters who really don't want to vote for us.

They can't vote for us.

It was an unvarnished lie, a communist campaign trip.

They were covering it as if I was claiming 45% of the market, 15% of the market, and a lecture in communist speech.

It was going to be a smear campaign, a scare campaign, a story narrative.

Thank you.

And they, number one.

And number two, they really are scared of the blacks and getting everything in.

They're not still being left out of that group.

They told us back then, that's really what's going to happen to you when you're left with a blue collar working.

That's the group that we, if we go into that group, we're going to be the ones that are, that's the group that's going to be the ones that are

I don't think we're going to lose any time until September.

I don't know what they were doing.

Ah.

You notice that, I like that.

I remember, I used to remember.

Yeah.

Organizing it.

Next thing you know, I need it.

But maybe he did.

The name.

Right.

I don't know.

One of the players.

Yeah.

And he gave a hell of a speech.

I don't have any suggestions on the California thing.

It doesn't matter to you.

When you go to the campaign, it doesn't matter to you anymore.

I don't have all that to do with it.

It's just sort of up to you now.

You can do anything you want with it.

See, I have no confidence in trying to get an oscillator out there.

how he's working hard and so forth.

He's so worried about the Republican Party.

He's so worried about the religion.

He doesn't put a limerick in it.

But he sure does put it in.

He's caught on to it.

Everybody tells me that.

He's a great guy.

And it's hard for him to do this.

But Reagan, I mean, he's a great guy.

The government will vote.

The government will cut the defense budget by 30 million dollars.

But being one would be terminating.

A vote for the government is a vote to push you out of work.

Instead of human people handing that out to the police and motor cars and a lot of people.

high ice, right?

We didn't care.

Not, not, not, I wasn't impressed.

I mean, safety, we did that in the state, and I'm not sure if I just said, here, here we go.

To be honest with you, I have a good crew of people that I've been working with.

Like, four or five of them I've been working with.

That, and a lot of students, and a couple of other students that I've been working with.

So, I've heard from other families.

I would give us an edge.

That's it.

So we got a good, we got a good bounce out of that.

We got a marvelous bounce out of it.

Just great.

I was stunned.

I won't do it.

I wonder what they did.

Do you want this kind of people?

I'm suggesting that we get some good articles about it.

Some marvelous pictures.

That's what you look like.

If you hear it, it looks like a God story.

It says in the article that we developed it.

Of course, you didn't.

When I teach, I teach it.

So it's a bomb for it.

Yeah, but it makes the use of all the radical revolutionaries in that picture.

I think he did the right thing.

You never know.

But he challenged the government tonight to come out with clean hands.

In other words, if he wants to preach morals, that's fine.

But he's going to answer a series of questions before he takes his own suit.

Morals of righteousness.

You know, it answers the question, the question I think pretty well about the organizing of the service, all the things we've talked about.

But then it goes into Kimmeling, how Kimmeling is cheap, fun, very secretive.

and you have to return the money

We have that at some point.

The press goes after that.

We think it's accurate.

But let me talk about it.

In his own biography, how he admits how he got bombs on civilians in Minnesota, and how he

You notice how he's trying to climb off.

He just lies.

He's trying to climb off of the head.

I'll have to

The fact that he campaigned for the United States Senate for four months while still on the federal table because of the peace program, he already has two candidates that are not.

A lot of stuff that really is.

But you see what I mean is that they said they sent wires to us.

What are the answer?

Nixon, Colson & Bull on 1972 Presidential Campaign and Watergate

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