Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 569-012
Date: Friday, September 10, 1971 at 2:05 PM
Participants: United States Secret Service agents
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/569-012

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[2:21:04] That's the one force of fear because it's the most potent and least controllable.
[2:21:06] Well, except that it's got that enormous ability to go over areas of water and at times, and we've got some events to go over areas with the Chinese and the Russians.
[2:21:37] You've got to go on and do press conferences.
[2:21:38] Those are events.
[2:21:38] That's not it.
[2:21:38] Otherwise, they let the country see you through their eyes.
[2:21:39] That's the problem with the campaign, though.
[2:21:40] They need it.
[2:21:55] You know, we, for example, I put it this way.
[2:21:56] We came out of the 68th convention on top of an acceptance speech from the faculty.
[2:21:58] So we had a big one through their eyes.
[2:21:59] And, you know, we had a very, very substantial lead.
[2:22:00] Now, actually, we held that thing very well.
[2:22:29] So I walked through that period.
[2:22:30] Night after night, they checked us away.
[2:22:31] No matter what we were doing.
[2:22:32] They were showing us through their eyes and knocking us down.
[2:22:33] We'd break our neck.
[2:22:34] I'd all of a sudden have all of our neck traveling.
[2:22:35] In a sense, maybe they didn't have much time.
[2:22:36] I don't know.