Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 494-006
Date: Saturday, May 8, 1971 at 1:35 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/494-006

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[2:56:22] It's a little better before the press spread.
[2:56:25] It's the three points left.
[2:56:28] Both the support end on end.
[2:56:29] All right.
[2:56:32] Disapproved.
[2:56:35] I am inclined to think that, in the same approval of the war, it was 48-41 after the press conference, which was a seven-point spread.
[2:56:40] Now it's 46-38, which is an eight-point spread now.
[2:56:43] And once that you've gained them.
[2:56:44] But that's because the war demonstrators haven't gone.
[2:56:49] Yeah, let me say that I think the, I think the little thing proved the disapproval of that.
[2:56:54] That high number of undecided, you would not have that high of an undecided in a commercial poll, do you think so?
[2:57:05] Yeah, I've stopped that once in a while, you know, too.
[2:57:08] Very often.
[2:57:10] And we don't usually, we usually go, you know, there's about 14, you know, just as long as I've decided to move in our direction.
[2:57:18] I think so.
[2:57:19] Now that he, he's been deposited.
[2:57:22] And when I met, yeah, they're all, so he said, even if I had decided to be pushed, they would move more in our direction than the other direction.
[2:57:40] See how much weight he had gained.
[2:58:37] There I am.
[2:59:25] Well, it says Dr. Lee or something.