Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 768-018
Date: Monday, August 14, 1972 at 12:39 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.; Forst, Robert A.; Evans, L. John; White House photographer
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/768-018

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[0:00] Thank you.
[0:00] Thank you.
[0:35] Oh, don't we know?
[0:36] Thank God.
[0:36] Let's come back here.
[1:32] Right?
[1:35] We don't say the country right or wrong.
[1:38] But we try to make it right.
[1:42] Well, these people couldn't agree with you more, sir.
[1:46] The one thing that I'm trying to say, you will surely.
[1:51] The one thing that I'm trying to say, you will surely.
[1:56] The one thing that I'm trying to say,
[2:03] They're not what they've got.
[2:07] That's the point.
[2:08] They work all their lives.
[2:09] I understand the difference.
[2:11] And they don't want to be put in the same category with a group of people that want to sit in their families and do nothing.
[2:17] These people are people that work all their lives.
[2:20] They reach the day to when they should be able to reap some of the benefits of retirement.
[2:26] And then they're entitled to it.
[2:27] Absolutely.
[2:28] It's a matter of right.
[2:36] Now, as I understand, if you can get them, that's right.
[2:42] I guarantee you that we can get you.
[2:45] Don't worry.
[2:47] We must treat the older people as a matter of life.
[2:54] That's right.
[2:55] It's better crime.
[2:57] It's better crime.
[3:02] I love that country.
[3:06] And they just darken it up.
[3:08] And yet, you know, there is a tendency among some of the ultra-liberal types these days to just put the whole bunches in and put the blind and the poor and the old, you know, right, and the unwed mother.
[3:33] We will help them with the ones that are done.
[3:36] We'll provide the data.
[3:38] And we'll help you.
[3:39] I'm sure.
[3:42] But now let's see.
[3:43] Anybody who comes in this office and reports, it's always going to the presidential complex.
[3:48] This is the ceiling.
[3:51] And on the floor, there is the country.
[3:54] And your wife.
[3:55] It's the same thing.
[3:57] It's a little pinch.
[3:59] Great.
[3:59] So thank you very, very much, sir.
[4:02] Do you have one of these?
[4:21] You don't have to report these.
[4:23] It's not worth that much.
[4:25] Mr. President, I presume that we shall do everything we possibly can to serve the nation.
[4:51] A friend of mine that they fired told me about this.
[4:56] And I came on in.
[4:58] I live in California now for about nine, ten years.
[5:06] I live in Bel Air.
[5:09] I am married to a native Californian.
[5:11] I have three kids that have been born in California.
[5:15] And I have one advantage over you, sir.
[5:18] You're a Californian by birth.
[5:25] 12, 10, and 5.
[5:26] Boys or girls?
[5:29] I have a girl and two boys.
[5:30] A girl with the illness.
[5:33] A girl and two boys.
[5:36] I'm going to pick some up, too.
[5:43] A girl and two boys.
[5:48] Boys or girls?
[5:50] I have a girl.
[5:50] Well, why is it, sir?
[5:52] I have a second, sir.
[5:53] I can see you.
[5:54] I don't know.