Nixon & Price on 1972 Presidential Campaign and Vietnam War

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I agree with her.

I think that the Doran College stuff is so good that they take it out.

It's not a good idea.

It's our issue.

We should hit it.

We'll hit it again.

You never know.

Repetition is sometimes less.

Well, most of them will still hit better than most of the bullets.

But don't, don't.

I don't want to see it.

I'll go back and hit it.

If you like to hit bullets better, that's okay.

Now let's see what Henry's problems are.

We'll see if there's some problem, but I won't be able to look at it until the night comes.

You're satisfied with it?

Well, I don't got any to worry about it.

I've got no problem at all.

that I...

Well, I say in my speech to the nation, I say, what do you want?

How do you see my fight over?

Accomplish the basic question that I insisted on.

What do you believe?

Well, he doesn't believe it.

I think that's it.

You see, it puts, it, that probably breaks down.

All right.

There are still some issues

I thought that the way it read before, it was a little thumpsy-thumpsy picture, so it's not in front of me to make issues that bother me.

If it's a problem or an interest on both, then it's an issue.

It's negotiable.

A problem is not negotiable.

It's an issue.

That's what I was thinking.

I'm sure you can pick up the changes I make here.

One is there, and I say, we want peace.

Peace with honor.

Peace there at all.

Peace at the last.

Peace at the last is the problem.

So we don't say, no, no peace at the last.

All right.

We'll cut all this before we move on.

Now, the other thing that I had here, I was going to say, and it's going to be for this whole time, the leaders of Hanoi will be watching for the answer of the American people, for your answer to this question.

I think they'll read it and try to answer it.

Okay.

Follow the page.

Not 10, but I've got here, and I've got a lot of work to do this night.

I think that the sentence was too long.

If I tried to read it, I think it would have taken too much time.

And I say, we cannot be treated for no responsibilities.

I don't have the two.

If we did, America would cease to be a great nation and be free when we could live in jeopardy throughout the world.

Ours is a great nation.

It doesn't have to be our nation.

It doesn't have to be ours.

Very good.

I really didn't have a thing that I would change.

Now, on the whole, the programs and so forth, I recommend a couple of them in the first place, if they came along well.

I think your taxes are already too high.

That is why I oppose any new programs which would add to your tax burden.

And then I go on to the next paragraph.

So that's the market's a little better if I say the federal dollars rather than the taxpayer dollars, say pure dollars.

Now, did you get the welfare?

The reason I'm putting that in is because of that issue.

I imagine it's a horrible number.

Well, uh, it comes from a way out.

Oh, wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

It was 1932.

So, uh, we did it on the 10-year vision.

32 on the 10-year vision.

Okay.

Now it's 10 years, it's 1 to 7, and the problem is it's trickier than it was in 1968.

I leave out the gold and all that sort of thing.

I've got more of it.

Would you want to go back a little bit?

I think maybe we'll just take out this pint.

It's a hell of a good pint as well.

You see, it doesn't quite attract you.

That's the point.

It doesn't quite attract you.

This doesn't.

We're talking about the size of the federal records here.

When you take this out, the tax on this, it relates to something else.

When I come down, you know, that is why I, in order to conquer this, that's why I am a fool.

I think this will come down.

What do you think?

You made the tax point.

I made the tax point before.

And then I, another small change.

Why I believe in giving people everything they deserve.

Okay.

So that's what I want.

I want it to be the last stage.

I want it to be a little bit more political than that here.

rather than this.

These are not partisan votes.

They are American's votes.

That is why I asked you to join the Republican majority in voting for candidates who are strong in these polls in Massachusetts.

That is why I asked for your support after the election in helping people who voted for these votes in the next four years.

In the end, we will be succeeding this time.

Thank you very much.

directly please but so many of them told me i've got to do it well you know it's not going to go to him but it's not going to be delivered

He had a very hard, a very tough life.

yet they all have poignant personalities.

You know what we do?

But a breaker is much better.

We're all on the path, right?

Wonderful.

So we, uh, focus in corridors over one minute, 60.

Monday.

The Monday one, I want, we're going to make it for five minutes, right?

We're not going to say it, but we're going to have five minutes of time and then run stuff afterwards, but I want five minutes.

Now that'd be basically, I'm not going to be, I'm going to be talking about kind of a thing, but I, what I had to really align was to say we,

It comes at the end of a campaign.

And it has been agreed by most political observers that there's never been a clear choice.

I'm not going to, at this night before election, to talk about that.

I mean to go into the issues that I have discussed in great detail

I think we might put a little needle in it, but I'm not going to.

I'm going to refrain if I have to, obviously.

But what we ask is for the opportunity, for our goal, for what we would like to say, we're going to do our best, we're going to do our best, we're going to do our best, we're going to do our best.

And your vote.

you know another way of course

America is too big.

and not simply those that are, that bother to put their voice to work.

However, we're going to vote for Jesus Christ.

For those who support me, I express my deep appreciation.

And for those who oppose, I respect and thank you.

That's sort of what Tom and I thought.

See where I'm in the right situation.

time to move forward

Well, he is, but that is pretty hard.

I mean, it is pretty hard.

It's a real good turn on, isn't it?

Yeah, it's pretty good.

Magnet was charged with eight planets.

I mean, would anybody really think that?

They burned cars and said, if I want to go out there and bust you, I've got to get that kind of file.

Where else?

There is a...

Also, I think there's a strategy to show that there's a passion inside of it.

There's a lot of demonstrations over the past four or five years.

There's a lot happening throughout the history of the United States.

One of those early lines was this.

We had to explain to the United States that there was some complexity there.

But that wasn't in front of their eyes.

That wasn't necessarily part of the idea.

.

Thank you.

Nixon & Price on 1972 Presidential Campaign and Vietnam War

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