Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 685-001
Date: Tuesday, March 14, 1972 at 8:24 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ehrlichman, John D.; Bull, Stephen B.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/685-001

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[9:47] I wrote over an eighth draft in the race.
[9:50] Left last night and made that, I mean, I was reading basically the editorial notes and had a few changes, and it's been a challenge coming along.
[10:00] Well, that's funny, but I want to do the, if you've got somebody, make sure I know who you're working with.
[10:06] So, he left out this time.
[10:10] What I wrote was a very effective paragraph in one of the 32nd drafts, or a few sentences.
[10:16] about that black schools are not necessarily inferior.
[10:21] You know, I don't mean a part where he's going through all the examples for a black school.
[10:27] The word he says, it reverses.
[10:29] You remember that very hard line, which I want to end.
[10:39] Ah, good, good.
[10:41] Yeah, yeah.
[10:42] Well, I think that he's come around to the other things.
[10:47] He's done an awfully good job.
[10:51] Yeah.
[10:51] And he doesn't, he seems to want to leave in all those examples, but I don't think they added up a lot.
[10:57] Yeah.
[10:58] Well, he's already, he's already turned a lot, turned a lot.
[11:06] You know, the thing that I think about it is that it loses momentum.
[11:10] If you see it, it's going along at a pretty good pace, and then you start giving examples of this happening in California, and this happening in Connecticut, and this happening in Florida, and so forth and so on.
[11:21] That is not, that's just how crazy the car is actually.
[11:26] I'm going up to New York today to meet the Chinese ambassador in the afternoon to set up all these
[11:53] I'm lunching with the Wall Street Journal.