Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 725-019
Date: Tuesday, May 16, 1972 at 10:00 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Nixon, Thelma C. ("Pat") (Ryan); Tkach, Walter R.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/725-019

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[2:04:53] All right, fine.
[2:04:54] Good.
[2:04:54] Great.
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[2:05:02] Good.
[2:07:21] and the air force would all know that but why don't we say that we will we will uh he's apparently
[2:07:46] The little guy thinks there's a 50% chance that he's going to lose mobility in his legs.
[2:07:49] What do you think?
[2:07:49] Is it breathing?
[2:07:50] Of course, it's an ovation.
[2:07:55] It's too bad.
[2:07:57] Why?
[2:07:57] Because of the mobility.
[2:07:58] Because of the mobility, he's going to have a lot of lives in his spine.
[2:08:30] Guess what?
[2:08:30] I'm sorry.
[2:08:35] Well, he'll do that the one he is.
[2:08:37] The prospect should put it on him.
[2:08:37] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[2:08:49] Yeah, exactly, yeah.
[2:08:49] Captain, he should just leave at the end.
[2:08:52] I can't do that.
[2:09:09] Yeah.
[2:09:09] And so he'd prefer Walter Reed or Alabama.
[2:09:11] But I will often say that we have offered the president just a, yeah, fine.
[2:09:16] I'll make another one.
[2:09:20] I'll talk to you soon.
[2:09:29] Oh, I just wanted to get sort of a more .
[2:09:32] How did everybody think about providing things to look at, of course, or something?
[2:09:37] Great.
[2:09:38] How did the rest of the people think about how they react to it?
[2:09:54] Well, it was sort of, well, not so bad, but I mean, they just said the usual, uh, certain names included, and it was real.
[2:10:08] Right, right.
[2:10:14] And what'd they say?
[2:10:28] Oh, well, I've got to go.
[2:10:39] I've got to go.
[2:10:40] I've got to go.
[2:10:43] I've got to go.
[2:10:44] I've got to go.
[2:10:45] I've got to go.
[2:10:46] I've got to go.
[2:10:55] Tonight, I mean, in fact, as I am going to