Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 592-003
Date: Thursday, October 14, 1971 at 9:14 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/592-003

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[16:02] It'll be, uh... That's when they have a start.
[16:02] That's a great line.
[16:03] No, a picture of Ted Kennedy saying, would you ride in a car with this man?
[16:07] We've got some of those mod posters there.
[16:10] You've got one of those posters painted around.
[16:14] That's what the whole lot of Kennedy rounds.
[16:17] Oh, is there?
[16:17] Well, you know how they hurt you, or they try to hurt you with this when you buy a new car?
[16:22] Well, would you ride in a car with this man?
[16:26] He's really, he said it very tenderly.
[16:27] Of course, the whole column is fantastic.
[16:30] He said, if you're going to make a used car, he ought to say, would you ride in a used car with this man?
[16:35] He talks about all the things that you have done in your first three years, and he said, if your name were Kennedy, I imagine that if a person named Kennedy had done these things, his followers would be singing songs from Camelot, while the workmen began carving his handsome likeness in a non-Russian one.
[16:51] It's a fabulous guy.
[16:53] It's being distributed.
[16:59] One of the difficulties, Mr. President,
[17:03] points like this Kennedy remark that they're down.
[17:07] We only see, you know, the new summary analysis just can't be that complete.
[17:11] I agree with you.
[17:12] I just want to just, you know, you hear what it is.
[17:16] But I see some of those things that have to continue to bounce around.
[17:21] This was a big article in the Boston Globe.
[17:22] Go to blast Kennedy for a remark about the idea that we can send.
[17:26] And it's a hell of a negative story on Kennedy.
[17:30] Then it goes on.
[17:31] There was the front page of the Traveller called what it says, Ted Exploits President.
[17:39] It was on the radio when he did it.
[17:43] These kind of things, they're hard to measure because we sit here just glued to that damn tube on the three headworks.
[17:50] But around the country, these things aren't lost.
[17:53] They have a cumulative impression, cumulative impact.
[18:01] Hey, I can't understand kind of these fellas except for this Q-Bertie.
[18:04] What is the gallop then now coming up?
[18:07] What is his next figure?
[18:08] Has he got it yet?
[18:09] Pulled last weekend, got a handle.
[18:11] Still pulling, I think.
[18:13] Why is he delayed now?
[18:15] God damn it, he's delayed.
[18:16] Well, his story is that because he runs three of them almost in a row there, you know, and he didn't show who's going to skip a throw.