Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 751-011
Date: Monday, July 24, 1972 at 3:32 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Elliott, Roland L.; Smith, Michael B.; Jenkins, Karen D.; Allin, Mary Ann; Higgins, Anne V.; Bull, Stephen B.; White House photographer
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/751-011

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[0:02] Yes, sir.
[0:31] You do all the 10,000 letters a day.
[0:34] How do you get it out?
[0:42] Quickly.
[0:42] We don't really have a picture of the whole group.
[0:46] Let's see, why don't we put...
[1:05] Yeah, that's right.
[1:07] All right.
[1:07] Thank you very much, sir.
[1:12] You can become more liberal.
[1:15] No.
[1:15] These are conservative people.
[1:17] I want you to know that we are all aware of you.
[1:19] All of our groups.
[1:20] We see you very often.
[1:21] I don't see you very often.
[1:24] But I think you're going to have a great day.
[1:35] Right.
[1:37] You won't get, do you have a left, too?
[1:38] Yes.
[1:38] Or do you try to shut a little piece?
[1:40] We'll probably have a lot of them over at the freighter shop.
[1:43] Well, that was my next line of mail, was we're trying to people that need this, they want to put it aside.
[1:51] But on the other hand, there'll be an awful lot that has to do with this straight support.
[1:59] We want issues, too, which I think we have to be extremely careful with.
[2:02] You know, this, they have a minister.
[2:04] All right.
[2:07] We're trying to do it by the staff members.
[2:10] And it's always a possibility that you can do that.
[2:13] We try and, uh...
[2:16] It's quite expensive.
[2:16] You use all of the departments, of course.
[2:18] Yes.
[2:19] We need to have a time-to-time also for any problems we may have.
[2:22] They may have some kind of working relationship.
[2:24] Uh-huh.
[2:25] And, uh, we seem to spend down a lot of money.
[2:31] Right, right.
[2:32] Do you have volunteers out there?
[2:39] Is there anything you give them sometimes?
[2:46] Yeah, when we have a great lion, for instance, on a different day, I have a thing for the camo music.
[3:06] Follow the names.
[3:07] We took a great deal of mail.
[3:11] The volunteers were very helpful.
[3:16] So right now, in the States, we're working in the state right now.
[3:18] Right, right, right.
[3:19] Yeah, we have a number of people in New England.
[3:20] That's right.
[3:20] Do they want to go?
[3:20] Oh, they want to go.
[3:22] They want to read.
[3:22] They want to read something.
[3:24] I think if you expect you can give people a chance to read something.
[3:28] They get it anyway, even if I don't want them to.
[3:29] Yeah.
[3:29] I mean, very good.
[3:30] The other thing I was saying is,
[3:34] It's a very good time for you to do something, you know, for Emily, Annie, and the guests that could be used, particularly for speakers.
[3:43] I don't mean for me, but for us, it's an accident.
[3:48] You know, when you see something, a little line that somebody wrote, you know, a little story, a little lady come here, and a student come here, and this happened.
[4:02] With the idea that it's a suggestion that this would be very effective, you can use some kind of a speech that you do.
[4:08] You've got to be quite good at it.
[4:09] And from now on, we need to do a lot more of that, too.
[4:14] The books, I'm just looking consciously for something that you can read.
[4:20] It's very subtle, an entire letter can never be read.
[4:23] And sometimes, you can say, look, I'm going to share that with you.
[4:27] I'm going to share it with somebody else.
[4:29] It's like that.
[4:32] Yeah.
[4:32] It's pretty hard to find.
[4:34] When you tell across the lines, they can be extremely effective.
[4:38] They said at a pilgrimage the other day, a mountain dweller saying, why don't you say that the government has described speaking fields as a nation?
[4:52] That was really colorful.
[4:54] I don't want to go to bed.
[4:56] I love it, too.
[4:57] Well, anyway, we've got you.
[4:58] She drills it with a little bit of cotton.
[5:00] This can't be seen.
[5:06] Thank you for coming.
[5:11] Thank you very much.
[5:15] I wish you well.
[5:17] It's really wonderful to do this with the President's box.
[5:31] That's great.
[5:32] That's great.
[5:33] You'll get, for example, at the convention, fashion mail.
[5:37] It'll be very important to watch that.
[5:58] That's usually, you get a little bit more gold out of that than the rest of us people would be thinking of.
[6:09] Sometimes you might even get something that is good for a campaign story.
[6:14] Right.
[6:14] People sometimes, you know, your writers.
[6:18] We've got one from now after this past convention.
[6:20] Yeah?
[6:21] Yeah.
[6:23] Did that make sense?
[6:24] I think so.
[6:25] Thanks a lot.
[6:26] Thank you.