Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 676-009
Date: Wednesday, March 1, 1972 at 8:50 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/676-009

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[0:00] Hello?
[0:04] Yeah.
[0:06] Aye, what's new today before I take off?
[0:12] So Margaret didn't say that again.
[0:50] Oh yeah, try this, this, this.
[1:02] Yeah.
[1:02] 5.9 now, aren't we?
[1:16] Yeah.
[1:18] Yeah.
[1:29] Yeah, we're gonna need that.
[1:30] But I sure don't want to get him.
[2:34] That's almost unheard of, you know.
[3:16] or so.
[3:32] Jesus did never do that.
[3:36] He might be kind.
[3:40] He's very good for him.
[3:42] Yeah.
[4:19] You already know anything?
[4:20] Is he?
[4:20] I'll be there.
[4:45] I thought it was just unbelievable.
[4:48] It was in Nashville and over and over.
[4:51] Good job.
[4:52] It is really helpful.
[4:56] Yeah, yeah.
[4:59] And you've got to shake their hands and see them and do everything in a little coffee glass thing.
[5:03] It is unbelievable.
[5:19] Sit down.
[6:05] All right.
[6:35] We know we all, it was all her, Mrs. Marker-Smith always said that he was not happy enough.
[6:44] But the press has done him a great disfavor by making it appear that he was unflattable.
[6:50] Now he doesn't break anything.
[6:52] He got away with some of this.
[6:53] The press, they created a problem for him.
[6:56] The bastards who wanted to help him, now they're hurting him.
[8:08] Yeah, well, at least it could have to do with the fact that he's just known to, you know.
[8:33] But as the others fall off, they go back to the old rival.
[8:46] That makes it more of a horse race.
[9:00] But don't you, aren't you now convinced that Teddy is greedy in the wings?
[9:05] You, of course, have felt that.
[9:07] I think so.
[9:18] Now, try it.
[9:18] Do you praise the trip?
[9:33] That's extreme.
[9:47] That's right.
[9:47] He just thinks people aren't going to remember that he was this and that.
[9:50] And he's probably right.
[10:27] That's why I got drawn to him.
[10:38] He said he was in heaven screaming and swaying like that, huh?
[11:25] They're busting the very sun.
[11:28] They turned down the sultry thing.
[11:31] Oh, the other way around.
[11:38] And they're beating it by homage yesterday.
[12:26] Why are you doing that?
[12:35] That surprised me.
[13:06] Yeah.
[13:07] Liberals are always going to turn out.
[13:12] Always the more extreme people do.
[13:13] On the Republican side, they agree.
[13:16] The conservatives turn out.
[13:32] Goodbye.
[14:01] Teddy Contigliano.
[14:04] Pro.
[14:04] Yeah, because of the Negroes.
[14:36] Humphreys really can't be any harder.
[14:49] God damn, what it's...
[14:51] I tell you, those poor guys, I've done all those, like, it's awful in those, in primary stage, you know, it's great.
[14:58] Helicopters, small crowds.
[15:00] God damn.
[15:19] Yeah, 1968, the primary was more interesting because of the war issue.
[15:25] They don't have a version of that now.
[16:01] I'm going to have to take off for a few days to get my sheet pattern back.
[16:17] So I probably won't be in touch with your group until Monday.
[16:20] So if you've got any energy, you can pass it on to me.
[16:28] All right.
[16:29] Well, yeah.
[16:32] We don't care.
[16:36] Okay.
[16:37] Bang!