Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 503-003
Date: Friday, May 21, 1971 at 9:37 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Safire, William L.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/503-003

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[0:06] Would you send over for me, I was in one of the talks I made recently about the Jefferson vote, about fear.
[0:16] Yeah, was that what it was?
[0:24] Was it despair or fear, fear and hope?
[0:28] What?
[0:30] Consolidate fears.
[0:34] Well, I guess I won't fit into my life as such.
[0:53] I'm gonna have to make presents with science medals, and I was trying to get a little kick in the past for the people, and all of a sudden, that's gone.
[0:56] The rare, severe, great truth, and so forth, because of our fears, and we're gonna explode, or we're gonna get skin cancer.
[0:58] Getting old feds, I don't know.
[0:59] It wouldn't matter.
[1:00] I think that the way you put a few paraphrases then in the top three is that we, as Thomas Jefferson said, we prefer hope.
[1:23] And in the top three, I'm going to stand there and just send it over to the third.
[1:27] Yeah.
[1:27] Correct.
[1:27] That paraphrase is audience-friendly.
[1:28] Science is science, and I wouldn't appreciate that.
[1:29] Thank you, Jefferson.
[1:30] They ought to appreciate it, nonetheless.
[1:45] Frank was, of course, a great scientist.
[1:47] Of course, all Jefferson, Frank, and all those early guys, they were all interested in architecture.
[1:49] There is some there, but that won't mean much.
[1:50] I won't need it until around the 10th or 13th.
[1:51] Thank you.
[1:51] Thank you.