Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 374-020
Date: Friday, October 27, 1972 at 2:40 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.; Bull, Stephen B.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/374-020

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[0:10] He's kind of right-of-way with this sign.
[0:35] This sign shows one day impact on the defense.
[0:36] But he has shown some very significant changes in the underlying data.
[0:37] For example, you're reading a negotiating settlement with the amount of $109,354.
[0:39] In this poll, it turns around a complete baseline of $239,500.
[0:41] on the government being too negative to look at, too radical to look at.
[1:04] That's up to 66%.
[1:05] Make so many mistakes and reflect on these judgments.
[1:06] That's up to 61% to 66%.
[1:06] In analyzing the economy, our positive rating has gone up.
[1:07] I don't have all the basic data.
[1:08] How could that be with the negative average?
[1:09] I don't know.
[1:09] Maybe I...
[1:10] When he said the 7th and 14th League would have a negotiation with the Russians and the Chinese, now, as people look at this in terms of the finance side of the negotiations with the Russians and the Chinese, I had this idea of how we had him go out to Paris.
[1:36] And he said, go ahead and hang yourself for a couple of days.
[1:38] And I'm out of heaven.
[1:59] But then, and we kind of worked this out together.
[2:00] He said, then someone from a very high level has to say, and this is basically what we wanted to do, that we now had to ban this election.
[2:03] The clearest possible choice.
[2:03] We thought the choice was clear before, but it's even more clear now than it was.
[2:06] President Nixon is ending the world war.
[2:20] He's bringing home the real world.
[2:21] He's going to give a free subcommittee, the non-capitalists, you know, the co-partners, free elections.
[2:23] What a tragedy it would be if the American people would have shoes, whatever.
[2:25] The man who would throw away 10 years of blood, sweat and tears.
[2:27] He said right there, put all that down.
[2:34] I said, well, that's the speech for somebody to make.
[2:42] It really is.
[2:43] We kind of worked with him.
[2:43] He said, in the game, what was the plan?
[2:46] In the game, we decided to do what was necessary for perhaps a year to ensure that the election machine didn't place itself behind.
[2:53] To ensure that there aren't re-elections.
[2:55] To ensure that the ceasefire didn't happen.
[2:55] How about that?
[2:56] Roger said this.
[2:57] Brunches would be great.
[3:11] If you have too many eggs, you could do this too.
[3:14] But you wait until the magazine is out.
[3:15] Then you say, let's put it all in this thing.
[3:16] If we do, then we ought to buy television, right?
[3:17] This is it, because maybe buy television, right?
[3:19] Because you see, what all the other artists say, or you could buy television for comedy.
[3:23] But the point is that all the other arguments are, could we have done this four years ago?
[3:48] You can argue that's sort of equivalent to the history of that, but people don't like that.
[3:49] And the rest is all part of the argument, but I think if you really put this thing into
[3:52] proper context, what this is, is a decision by the emergency department, whether they want to implement it, or do you have some skillful innovation in question?
[4:12] You know, two and a half may have already been supported, we didn't some of these days.
[4:14] Or do you want just to let someone who was already sick, and then you want to let them just surrender to the bank?
[4:17] Right.
[4:17] When you laid our field up, it was for the emergency person, and the department seemed to have got an issue with us.
[4:20] You have to make that time period when we had a lot of... Sir, you told us that we're outside your officer.