Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 767-010
Date: Friday, August 11, 1972 at 8:55 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Buchanan, Patrick J.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/767-010

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[0:43] Thank you.
[1:27] and so on and so on and so on.
[1:30] So, well, anyway, I didn't anticipate all that.
[1:35] I would say on the base, well, you say that, I would say that, well, Chairman Prager has answered that question, and I think he's probably right.
[1:46] Do you think that's the best way to do that?
[1:48] Yeah, they'll follow up on that, don't you think?
[1:50] If they open questions.
[1:52] No, well, I just think that I understand.
[2:01] just stay right there on that.
[2:39] The first responsibility, for example, the vice president, except for the Chicago campaign, but the president, his first responsibility
[3:09] It's also particularly true because the Congress is not going to be in session until it's third of April.
[3:15] So until Congress is out of session, we can only say that whatever the President does is going to have to be on a very limited basis.
[3:46] the responsibility.
[3:47] It isn't the number of women that are in government accounts.
[3:51] There's always a huge number of stenographers and the rest.
[3:56] Finally, the important thing is, are they in policy positions?
[4:01] And we have made historic changes in policy positions.
[4:06] And you can say, yes, we should have a woman in the Supreme Court, but what about a woman in the Cabinet?
[4:50] 20.
[5:23] We had decided that we were wrong.
[5:27] Well, that was very .
[5:28] I think they should say, well, there shouldn't be a double standard here.
[6:04] We got Dan Sievers, NBC reporter that got on the track and was welcomed by a large New Zealand crowd in the Hampshire.
[6:16] So he said 100.
[6:18] 100 showed up there.
[6:19] 100 people.
[6:20] They said 100 people right there.
[6:22] Incredible.
[6:23] For Christ's sakes.
[6:24] You know, that's, I mean, even for, when I was even a private citizen.
[6:28] You showed up and got 100.
[6:30] Remember in 64?
[6:30] In 64 when I was nothing.
[6:41] If you had less than that, they'd say it was a vacation.
[6:43] Public support complete.
[6:45] They only had 100 out of about 600 in the family.
[6:47] And he had a perfect few, some good reason, a thousand partners.
[6:53] You get crowds, but that shows you what you're up against.
[6:58] You see, here, they can take 100 and make a lot of enthusiasm.
[7:01] If we have 10,000,
[7:13] I do agree with you.
[7:14] I do agree with you.
[7:15] I do agree with you.
[7:17] I do agree with you.
[7:48] Also related by the, that we're having today, the most vulnerable point now,
[8:16] Ramsey Park would be a perfect environment for the FBI.
[8:19] I'm a real man.
[8:21] If they were comfortable, they'd have enough room by the name of John.
[8:24] And I go to all of them, because they're meeting this morning.
[8:27] And if I have questions, people will see whether they're doing it.
[8:30] This may be a time to leave Shaggy with us.
[8:33] OK. See, my question is.
[8:35] We did something for Dole yesterday.
[8:36] I know that.
[8:37] It didn't make the.
[8:38] They didn't make the FBI one.
[8:39] You said, remember, they can't.
[8:40] Right.
[8:40] I know it.
[8:41] But we told them to do that.
[8:42] Say, your FBI chief is right over there in Illinois.
[8:45] Yeah.
[8:46] The point is, that should be repeated by every speaker from now on until he repudiates it.
[8:55] Because Ramsey Clark, who has been giving aid and comfort to the enemy, who, you know, says that he apologizes to the enemy.
[9:04] I agree 100%.
[9:06] There is one thing.
[9:07] I'm not for strife.
[9:19] As a matter of fact, we weren't striving to sell them.
[9:23] They forget that.
[9:24] The only thing that was striving was to sell that film.
[9:28] But the point is, there was no striving.
[9:31] What we're talking about here is you get these guys, you've got to remember, all they're going to do is cram around about $10 million in the cave water.
[9:41] That's bullshit.
[10:22] You can call the beep up there.
[10:27] I'm sure I could grab even a statement which you could read and release at the same time.
[10:30] I'm going to make a speech tomorrow night.
[10:32] Tomorrow night?
[10:33] Saturday night.
[10:34] Now.
[10:35] As loud as the time.
[10:36] Yeah, I know about it.
[10:38] It is, but you can put the speech out at Saturday.
[10:44] Okay.
[10:45] Noon.
[10:45] See?
[10:46] Okay.
[10:46] Delivered at night.
[10:47] Okay.
[10:50] All right.
[10:50] His speech on amnesty, did you work with him?
[10:53] No, I haven't read the speech on amnesty.
[10:55] The hell with it.