Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 720-006
Date: Friday, May 5, 1972 at 11:40 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Rauscher, Frank J.; Richardson, Elliot L.; Cole, Kenneth R., Jr.; Cavanaugh, James H.; White House photographer
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/720-006

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[1:27:49] I'm sorry to keep you waiting.
[1:27:50] I've got a meeting to call before it.
[1:27:52] I'll just fire you.
[1:27:53] Well, I'm going to first talk to Frank Rock.
[1:27:55] Yes, you're the savior of the evening.
[1:27:56] I'm going to have you come here.
[1:27:58] I'm going to try and set up businesses.
[1:28:00] I'm going to try.
[1:28:01] I'm going to try.
[1:28:03] Well, this is the day you go out and tell them how you're going to do it.
[1:28:06] I know you now.
[1:28:06] It's great to have a young man like you on the show.
[1:28:11] Thank you for your compliment.
[1:28:13] Why is it distinguished as a woman with a ten-ounce standing?
[1:28:16] She was chosen to be a spot in something you're old for.
[1:28:21] Come on over here.
[1:28:21] What's that?
[1:28:22] Yes, sir.
[1:28:23] Press 1.
[1:28:24] Press 2.
[1:28:24] Oh, sure.
[1:28:24] That's what it used to be in it, too.
[1:28:27] Well, and, uh, say, Doctor, uh, I think you should be in the middle here.
[1:28:34] I'm treating the two of us.
[1:28:37] You're the man.
[1:28:38] I've got to get a move with each of that stuff.
[1:28:41] Yeah, that's, uh, a gift of Walter Annenberg.
[1:28:43] It's made by a student.
[1:28:45] He had, he decided to make it.
[1:28:47] So, we put it on the desk.
[1:28:55] I'm going to have to come up with a new video.
[1:28:56] I'm going to have to come up with a new video.
[1:29:26] Thank you.
[1:29:42] One thing that's not very bad about this, is that we have a very, very good, very good, very good, very good, very good, very good, very good, very good, very good.
[1:29:59] Oh, yeah.
[1:30:15] Thank you.
[1:30:49] I just felt right now.
[1:30:51] That's why we need you.
[1:30:54] I mean, we're totally back to you.
[1:30:57] I know you're not.
[1:30:58] I'm clear that the secretary's back to you.
[1:31:00] You won't hear from me except to, you know, our team.
[1:31:07] I want you, wherever you go when you make a speech, I mean, in terms of poetic license, and you can say that I, in society, you can say that I am disgusted, that I feel this way, that this is a, that the President cannot, of course, concentrate on.
[1:31:22] on every particular field of society.
[1:31:26] And every illness affects society.
[1:31:33] And there are so many others.
[1:31:35] But we have selected this as the target of it.
[1:31:38] And we're going after it.
[1:31:39] And if this kind of approach works here, we're going to try in other fields.
[1:31:42] That's another good point.
[1:31:42] So that people that are interested in heart disease and arthritis and all the rest say, why are you just doing it for cancer?
[1:31:48] Yes.
[1:31:48] But this is a program.
[1:31:50] It works here, this concentration of money and effort and talent works here, which I'm excellent at.
[1:31:55] I'll do it when I share it with you.
[1:31:57] All right.
[1:31:57] Your confidence will not be displaced.
[1:32:01] We'll do it.
[1:32:02] We're going to do it.
[1:32:03] Thanks very much.
[1:32:05] Gosh, I'm so proud of you.
[1:32:07] Well, we have some new presidential conflicts here.
[1:32:10] That's the seal.
[1:32:14] Thank you very much.
[1:32:15] Thank you.
[1:32:39] I can't even get along with the instructors.
[1:32:41] I don't know.
[1:32:42] I can't.
[1:32:42] Isn't it awkward that I do?
[1:32:44] Unbelievable.
[1:32:45] Unbelievable.
[1:32:47] They're total.
[1:32:47] I mean, my God.
[1:32:48] The way they handle it.
[1:32:50] The way they handle it.
[1:32:53] It is unbelievable.
[1:32:55] Social Security is unbelievable.
[1:33:00] Did you ever, did you ever stand by a trade and said that we could, you know, change the way you like to, you know, I mean, the main thing is to get responsibility out there.
[1:33:06] The leadership is going to see it.
[1:33:07] You go out there and you meet your friends out there and you talk to them.
[1:33:11] But that, but looking at what we're making out of the Senate, we were probably not even supporting.
[1:33:19] Well, there's two of them that cost $13 billion a year.
[1:33:22] I'm going to have an indefinite expansion of it.
[1:33:25] I'm going to have a subgroup of people.
[1:33:27] Right.
[1:33:28] All right.
[1:33:28] Good luck.
[1:33:29] Don't give up, though.
[1:33:30] Keep your spirit up.
[1:33:32] Okay.
[1:33:32] Thank you, sir.
[1:33:33] I'm happy.
[1:33:33] We're much.
[1:33:35] Thank you.
[1:34:24] Oh, sure.
[1:34:25] 30 seconds of shot.
[1:34:26] Sure.
[1:34:26] No, it isn't.
[1:34:28] No, no, no.
[1:34:29] I have to do it.
[1:34:31] I mean, because there are people in the service.
[1:34:35] Do you want to see how many of them?
[1:34:40] No, I didn't get the word in.
[1:34:43] Did I say the accuracy?
[1:34:44] Okay, do you want a writer or a candidate?
[1:34:51] We don't have any.