Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 642-030
Date: Monday, January 3, 1972 at 12:07 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Hoffman, Clarence C.; Hoffman, Clarence C. (Mrs.); Colson, Charles W.; McGill, John P.; [Unknown person(s)]; White House photographer
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/642-030

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[5:06:22] You're laying in the water now.
[5:06:23] That'd be nice.
[5:06:23] So we have a startling shift in that interview, so it's...
[5:06:29] He asked you that question about the differences between black and white, and you could see the way he asked it that he thought he had really nailed you.
[5:06:37] And that one, you know, he just hit right out of the ballpark.
[5:06:42] He just sort of left it.
[5:06:43] It's a rather stupid question.
[5:06:48] It was, you know, he had this line.
[5:06:49] Why don't you begin with that?
[5:06:51] I'll put barrels in one of the openings.
[5:06:56] Frequently, they give you a quote that wasn't ever made before and ask you to comment on it.
[5:06:59] That's very, very dirty business.
[5:07:00] Well, that's how it is.
[5:07:01] In some cases, where you see what I did, blacks and whites, which probably was part of the interview where I was talking about, they grow up in different schools and different neighborhoods and so on and so on.
[5:07:16] They're different.
[5:07:25] and everybody's the same.
[5:07:25] And everybody's the same.
[5:07:26] I mean, whites are not the same.
[5:07:27] You know, what is that ad on television, you know, the literature?
[5:07:29] There's this boy that was speaking at the back of the lab, where they show the pool there, and the golf player, and all the rest.
[5:07:50] The rich are very different from the rest of us.
[5:08:20] I don't know if you can see George Allen, but he's George Allen.
[5:08:22] I don't know if this is not me or it's the bad George.
[5:08:25] You know, the one with the smarts, the one with the smarts.
[5:08:28] And now the, there's several, one of them is in the back on the street, one of them is on the right side.
[5:08:37] The other one is George Allen.
[5:08:55] He was the fellow that, uh, prisoned Eisenhardt in July, playing bridge with him.
[5:09:05] He was a criminal.
[5:09:10] He was a criminal.
[5:09:14] He was a criminal.
[5:09:18] He was a criminal.
[5:09:19] He was a criminal.
[5:09:22] He was out playing golf with the person in the car, though, just before the arm attack.
[5:09:26] Yeah.
[5:09:27] He doesn't play at all.
[5:09:28] He's too down.
[5:09:28] Too back.
[5:09:31] Sorry.
[5:09:37] Oh, shoot.
[5:10:04] That's a lot of figures.
[5:10:06] I see you've got the best driver of the year.
[5:11:19] That's a great record.
[5:11:19] That's a great record.
[5:11:43] Have you ever worked on them?
[5:11:44] Yes.
[5:11:44] Have you ever worked on them?
[5:11:45] Yeah, we have done a lot.
[5:11:46] We look out for your problems, and we congratulate you.
[5:12:12] All right.