Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 460-010
Date: Friday, February 26, 1971 at 1:00 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Jones, T. Harding; Radd, Anthony; Kolb, Charles; Magruder, Jeb Stuart; White House photographer
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/460-010

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[0:00] Hello Bill, how are you?
[0:13] We are all from Princeton.
[0:18] We are all from Princeton.
[0:18] We are all from Princeton.
[0:22] Oh, yeah, yeah.
[0:32] You're part of the Prince of Hardcore.
[0:40] Yeah, that's right.
[0:41] Oh, that's good country down there.
[0:42] You like Christmas?
[0:42] The other thing I'm going to say is that I remember what you did supporting us.
[1:10] I'm just grateful for that.
[1:27] I'm just telling you, for anybody, for anybody on the college campus, and particularly on the east, there's a lot of guns.
[1:33] If there are any organizations like ours on the eastern college campus at this time, it's a recognition that we get from either the district, encourage everyone, and again, my most important thing to all of you is to be active on the east.
[1:37] Aren't you all, sir, Michael, one day proud of you?
[1:39] Why don't you say well?
[1:39] I hope that you will help provide the support that you need.
[1:50] We were just talking about amounts and question how.
[1:51] How do you get it?
[1:52] How do you get it quickly?
[1:52] Sometimes you've got to do a hard thing in order to get a good life that you want.
[1:56] When I got to the house, now I remember, I remember I used to sit in the convention.
[2:13] I was engaged in a high-end building, and I was sitting behind you over the roads when you made the exception speech, and I remember looking up and I said, and I was a very, very confident man of mine, I just knew you were going to be president, and I read it in television at school in my freshman year at Princeton, and we were going through all the, you know, it was just a terrible environment I felt, and so many little people, and they all said, I can't make it, and I sat there, and I was just,
[2:23] But that day when we came out, you know, and it was all over with, and you were the president, and I just thought, you know, I couldn't ask for anything more.
[2:42] And then we, you know, I was confident in it.
[2:43] And then we were, we were just hearing about the, uh, the success of Ivan Klaus.
[2:45] I don't feel like I'll get another chance.
[2:46] Yeah, I mean, he's, he's gonna blow such a beam tonight.
[2:47] I mean, like, Chris, I'm trying to get you to take that.
[2:48] He is still there.
[2:48] I'm not sure I can see him, sir.
[2:49] Well, this is the very thing about Donald Trump, which is, like, I don't know if this is something that...
[2:52] It's difficult for younger people to realize.
[3:04] I mean, I know, you know, we're all in there.
[3:04] The American people are impatient.
[3:05] Young people, by definition, are impatient.
[3:06] And that's their great priority.
[3:07] But perspective is what is.
[3:08] Yes.
[3:15] And now we realize, as a result of Cambodia, the southern half of South Vietnam is secure.
[3:29] Now, while this is tough, there's going to be two or three weeks of pretty bloody fighting.
[3:31] We'll be out and down in Cambodia.
[3:32] But in the end, the main purpose is every day to stop the Vietnamese during that.
[3:34] It means the less stuff goes down there, the fewer Americans who can get out in an honorable way.
[3:36] That's what it's all about.
[3:36] Just keep your perspective.
[3:37] It's how it works at COPS.
[3:38] If we could only get some way to get to television, I'd just put it on every night.
[3:50] You heard?
[3:50] Since I told some of you guys to go on television, I'd like you to go on the network, right?
[3:52] Are you planning to go on television?
[3:54] Well, that's all politics to me, then.
[3:55] That's all politics to me.
[3:55] I'm amazing in history, but I might go to a box school one time.
[4:07] I liked public relations and stuff like that.
[4:11] Well, maybe I'll be able to bring that in.
[4:13] There it is.
[4:13] There's a box.
[4:13] There we are.
[4:14] That is the song that goes to the special people.
[4:29] And we do appreciate what you've done.
[4:30] I want you to know we've got a lot of faith.
[4:31] I have a piece of pattern that's very good.
[4:32] And when we talk about, you know, like, yeah, he was a young man and so forth.
[4:34] He was trying to be cool, you know, right?
[4:34] You know, when you do this in charge of Twitter, it shows most of the places you are in.
[4:55] You know, I'm an artist, I'm going to show the more liberal side.
[4:56] But, I'm going to show 55% of them.
[4:57] Not in any way.
[4:57] That is a target.
[4:58] We've got people in this country, I'm sure, that have a golden mind.
[4:59] And the majority of this is always in the comments.
[5:00] And you heard that.
[5:00] So what they do is we get a war on them.
[5:01] Thank you very much.
[5:30] Thank you
[5:30] Thank you.
[5:37] Keep your courage.
[5:37] I'll let it grab you now.