Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 786-001
Date: Monday, September 25, 1972 at 9:08 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/786-001

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[0:12] What the hell does Conley do?
[0:14] She's awful, but she's just too smart, you know.
[0:20] And it doesn't, he has to be alone.
[0:21] He has to be alone.
[0:23] Or Dronson has to be alone.
[0:24] And he has to be tough with it.
[0:26] Dronson.
[0:28] The main thing about him is that he is so terribly cool.
[0:31] He's good for me, you know.
[0:34] He never comes in all the time.
[0:37] He always does it.
[0:39] He's got guts.
[0:40] I say, I don't want to do this.
[0:47] But he's cool.
[0:48] He's smart.
[0:49] And he goes out in front of those people.
[0:51] And if I tell him, Brown, you can't say that.
[0:53] You've got to just say that.
[0:55] He doesn't try or slip off of it.
[0:57] No.
[0:57] Boy, he is great.
[0:58] He is amazing.
[0:59] He is absolutely wonderful.
[1:01] I think it was a terribly tough job.
[1:05] But I'll keep working on the other one.
[1:08] Well, we have to tell all of our people that, right?
[1:13] No, you only get six long weeks that you know you've given him.
[1:15] That's what they say anyway.
[1:16] You know, like, you go on a campaign with several of them, you know?
[1:24] What did you say?
[1:25] You don't get six long weeks to even be concerned with whether they say that you can't make it or not.
[1:32] Yeah, I know.
[1:33] I understand.
[1:36] And I think most people still don't have anything to come out of it.
[1:42] You've worked on hard speeches, the economic policy and all that.
[1:46] I think most people think you work for your head up.
[1:49] So there's no doubt.