Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 758-012
Date: Tuesday, August 1, 1972 at 11:51 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.; Winer, Samuel D.; LeTendre, Andre; Rhatican, William F.; White House photographer
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/758-012

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[0:18] Thank you.
[0:44] It's done?
[0:45] Yeah, it's done.
[0:46] I'm going to take a couple of them.
[0:52] We have one over here.
[0:56] This is a traditional photograph.
[1:01] All right.
[1:10] Wonderful.
[1:17] I would say, I don't know what you're going to say.
[1:24] I don't know what you're going to say.
[1:50] I'm sorry.
[2:20] How much drug?
[2:20] We have an interesting by-law of the women's campaign where we last visited four states.
[2:32] We can't decide.
[2:33] Each of us is Vice President of 10th or 5th or 5th state.
[2:35] And we're going to make the state vote for you.
[2:37] If you do any type of job at all and you try to get support outside of that area,
[2:51] It worked out that on the 13th ballot
[3:18] That happened at 2 o'clock in the morning.
[3:19] Oh, I know.
[3:21] They come up and they're out.
[3:22] And he brought most of his support to the meeting.
[3:27] You heard that first question.
[3:28] He had to be elected, aren't you?
[3:30] He must be Dr.
[3:30] Proud of what he's done.
[3:31] He's a great senator, Mr.
[3:33] Proud of what he's done.
[3:34] He's one of the youngest presidents to ever be elected.
[3:40] If they existed.
[3:41] Okay.
[3:41] How old are you?
[3:44] I'm 20.
[3:44] Yeah.
[3:44] You still got seven years to go.
[3:46] How old are you?
[3:47] I'm 32.
[3:47] Yeah.
[3:48] That's still in the 50 years.
[3:48] Well, that's great.
[3:49] What part of it?
[3:49] From the north.
[3:50] Just that?
[3:51] I don't know.
[3:52] I've been on it.
[3:53] There's a little town in New Martinsville, which is about 65 miles.
[3:55] I'm in the retail part of it.
[4:01] Oh, yeah.
[4:01] I see.
[4:01] Martinsville is called New Martinsville.
[4:10] There's a Martinsville in Virginia.
[4:15] Virginia.
[4:16] That's why ours is New Martinsville.
[4:18] I requested or called a few friends when the decision was made on mining the harbor.
[4:41] And the response there was 98% positive.
[4:50] I think organizationally, you know, this maximum project that can be tied right in with all the
[5:20] I don't mean you don't, you're trying to say to somebody, don't vote because you're going to be against it.
[5:27] You can't.
[5:29] Everybody draws that, but that's what it is.
[5:31] You don't know if you can get your own vote out because they're going to get their own vote out.
[5:36] But we're sending mail to every JC in the country, and we're asking them to get five friends or neighbors to work with us.
[5:42] That's right.
[5:44] Half of the ACs would be American.
[5:45] Oh, yes.
[5:46] More than that.
[5:48] More than that.
[5:48] 85 to 99%.
[5:53] I think we're less concerned about the beauty page than the certain issues and we're more concerned about the social issues.
[6:21] simply means that you have been solving people's problems throughout the country.
[6:28] And the federal dollars that we have in the area of alcohol abuse, environment, and drug abuse will be establishing a network of communications which will touch practically every community in this country.
[6:40] You're working with something like Herb and Agnes too, don't you?
[6:44] Yeah, we get involved in that type of situation.
[6:47] As far as what we've done, U.S. J.C. has seen what we've done.
[6:55] We haven't done too much in that area that state organizations have.
[6:58] They're closer to the problem.
[7:00] Pennsylvania J.C.'s, I think, has worked well after our honor.
[7:04] We had a flood in our hometown.
[7:05] I live in Everam.
[7:06] I'm down.
[7:07] When I came back to the convention, I ended up having over three feet of water in the stores.
[7:14] But I've been working here as far as north of
[7:21] where I live.
[7:26] It's really disastrous in Harrisburg and Eastern Pennsylvania.
[7:28] An area that I've given a lot of thought to, and I know you've given a lot of thought to, is the Vice Centennial Committee.
[7:35] I'd like to offer our services on that committee.
[7:37] Incidentally, I don't know if I've referenced the case.
[7:41] You can forget it.
[7:42] You can tell them all.
[7:45] It's an excellent idea.
[7:50] and he'll welcome the opportunity to put one of your real donors on, you know, a real donor.
[7:56] But I didn't pick a vice president or something like that, or, you know, I wouldn't do that.
[8:03] I might need you to go to a past, a recent current past officer.
[8:06] How do I prove?
[8:07] You have to serve through the vice.
[8:08] That's right.
[8:09] That's another thing you could do.
[8:10] You could pick a past president.
[8:12] That's right.
[8:12] I know a vice president would be heavy on the hands of mine, but you could pick a past president.
[8:17] That'd be perfect.
[8:18] You give them a good name, and Mahoney will put them on.
[8:21] We'd like to help.
[8:21] I think the one thing that would be great, the one thing that would put the organization together is patriotism and love for this country.
[8:29] Sure.
[8:30] And I know the chairmen would be very eager to read it.
[8:33] Well, they're trying to make it still.
[8:34] Right after the election, we'll start pushing this harder.
[8:36] It's a sort of political moment there, where the Congress is afraid to give us the money for fear of the will.
[8:44] and then we're down to our magic bulletin, but if we had to get going on it fast, because the bicentennial takes four years to plan at least.
[8:49] Now with regard to that, it's going to be intentional too.
[8:51] We're gonna have to have, we're gonna wanna have something in every state, rather than center concentration.
[8:57] I had the idea of just having something in, well, having it concentrated in Philadelphia.
[9:07] Philadelphia could put up a dome,
[9:10] and they're going to have a celebration.
[9:12] But since it is national, that means it was a national organization for you.
[9:18] I received many memories and individual patients and chapters asking, could they do it?
[9:23] Well, you check with Mary and get all the information you can.
[9:27] He didn't start.
[9:27] He was on the scene two days ago.
[9:29] He's a very upbeat and optimistic kind of guy.
[9:34] And he could...
[9:38] He would be a very good one as not only to come to address your convention next year.
[9:45] So I started in the good humor.
[9:51] That's great.
[9:51] I started in the entire great convention in Minneapolis next year.
[9:57] Oh, yeah.
[9:58] It was a beautiful city.
[9:58] Beautiful at that time of year, too.
[10:00] Great.
[10:00] They have a famous festival, a water festival at that time of year.
[10:02] I was once there for it.
[10:03] I advise you.
[10:11] Why didn't you appear in Atlanta?
[10:12] They wouldn't have let you speak for 30 minutes down there.
[10:15] Yeah!
[10:15] I mean, he didn't call for me to say Louis.
[10:17] He didn't even know.
[10:18] That was one of the things that happened.
[10:19] One of those movie experiences I had to say Louis.
[10:24] Oh, it was.
[10:24] That was really great.
[10:28] Oh, we've got to give you a badge.
[10:38] We have wives too.
[10:49] Is she here?
[11:06] She said, I don't hate you for anything you do, but this is one time that I hate you.
[11:21] A year and a half.
[11:29] A year and a half.
[11:43] A couple of pens for the kids.
[11:48] He's got a year and a half, a year and a half.
[12:01] And a journal, yeah.
[12:03] Every gentleman has a color at the convention down there.
[12:15] Thank you for investing in me.
[12:20] And I already told you, I'm a liar.
[12:22] I need to ride on the shoulders of my followers.
[12:27] And we can do that to you a lot easier than you think.
[12:29] I wish you the very best with that.
[12:32] It's also a good time.
[12:36] It's a good time.
[12:38] It's a good time.
[12:39] It's a good time.
[12:40] It's a good time.
[12:42] Thank you.