Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 389-005
Date: Saturday, November 4, 1972 at 8:52 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Rogers, William P.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/389-005

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[0:00] Hello?
[0:13] Yeah.
[0:13] Hello?
[0:13] Are you getting work started, Mark?
[0:14] Yeah.
[0:14] Alright.
[0:14] Talk about what they call it.
[0:30] I feel I'm just going to stay right on the line.
[0:36] I've been on and on and on.
[0:36] Let me pray for you.
[1:05] However, there are details and issues
[1:34] Right.
[1:43] I was going to say, I never tried to coach.
[1:44] I expected him to.
[1:45] I'm still interested.
[1:45] I know very well what the coach is.
[1:53] But what is your feeling with that?
[2:11] I don't know, frankly, how much attention you can give to it.
[2:15] I mean, I'm not going to give anything to it.
[2:16] I gave three times today, huh?
[2:16] But I... No, no, no, no television today.
[2:17] Well, I have, but it won't be an opportunity to do this because it's the place I like to be.
[2:19] Please propose.
[2:19] But all day today, I'll be speaking in ways I'll never even do.
[2:23] I don't think I caused any attention to him.
[2:38] I have said we're not going to make any mistakes.
[2:39] We're going to have peace with honor and not surrender.
[2:40] I always need to throw that in with honor because that's the most important thing.
[2:42] Go ahead.
[2:42] Go ahead.
[2:59] We didn't, we didn't pick them up.
[3:03] We didn't blow the cover on the same thing.
[3:32] The points they raised really are to assure that there will be a ceasefire, and that there will be a last, and that it will last, and that the war will start again, and that's all we're trying to get from it.
[3:50] And that those points should be worked out, and they can be, and will be.
[3:52] So I'd be very confident that we'll be in agreement on these points.
[4:01] I think it's, uh, I think the more you can be attacked, the better.
[4:16] I mean, the more that you can be, you know, I mean, not attacked for, I think, a person, it's, uh, it comes with filtration somewhat, often.
[4:34] ... ... ... ...
[5:06] But I think we should be very confident that we've got to agree on the big issues.
[5:25] But we have to do it.
[5:39] You know, he's starting to become a part of the team.
[5:58] It's natural.
[5:58] It's natural.
[5:59] But, you know, he doesn't have the problems that we have.
[6:00] He's very good.
[6:00] I think he's on the team.
[6:01] He's got a whole team.
[6:01] He's really, really good.
[6:09] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[6:31] Yeah, well.
[6:31] Well, today I do, yeah, I...
[6:58] Monday is, well, I go to a little campaign headquarters in the morning, you know, and I meet, you know, and I do a television time, which is mainly, however, not a, not a, not a, not a, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
[7:27] Oh, another thing I need my government to do is go to that party.
[7:54] I'm going to live.
[7:54] I'm going to live.
[7:54] I'm going to live.
[7:55] I'm going to live.
[7:55] I'm going to live.
[7:55] I'm going to live.
[7:56] I'm going to live.
[7:56] I'm going to live.