Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 795-015
Date: Tuesday, October 10, 1972 at 1:20 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.; Woods, Rose Mary
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/795-015

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[0:13] Well, I'll be about half an hour, an hour working these guns.
[0:20] Just in a hurry.
[0:23] This is a letter.
[0:24] What?
[0:24] Well, that's about an hour.
[0:26] I should be running this off.
[0:28] I'm going to be working on this letter.
[0:37] Thank you.
[0:43] Thank you.
[1:51] On Friday, Jim Copley, I'd like you to bring Jim Copley in for about a 20-minute talk with yourself and his editorial address and put it out in his 16 papers.
[2:08] Oh, all right.
[2:10] All of them are sort of opposed to that.
[2:15] The client is eager to push him on it.
[2:20] That's the last one, no more.
[2:21] There would be no more of these people coming down there.
[2:26] Now we're going to be cut.
[2:27] We've been sick.
[2:28] Oh, it's not going to work.
[2:29] Oh.
[2:29] We'll have to come in.
[2:32] We've done enough of that.
[2:33] Bob was also opposed to this one, but Bolzano and Malik and Dick Moore were spontaneously brought by the Marriott Key Bridge, where the committee was entertaining about 200 ethnic leaders.
[2:47] Just for you.
[2:49] five- or ten-minute remarks to that group.
[2:53] No.
[2:55] They had your problem.
[2:56] I'm glad.
[2:56] Thursday, Thursday is my day of campaigning.
[2:59] I'm not going to do that.
[3:00] That would be Saturday.
[3:02] Because that's making a difference.
[3:03] I won't be here Saturday.
[3:04] I'm going to try to be here next week.
[3:09] A week from Thursday, the 19th, the signing ceremony of the Polish-U.S. Science and Technology Agreement that Dr. David and the Secretary of State signed.
[3:18] No.
[3:19] I don't want that to come to this level.
[3:21] There are some reasons why that would not help with the pollution every year.
[3:28] They don't understand.
[3:31] The point is that the common discover of all this and all that popular pollution.
[3:37] I don't want to do this thing here today about the motion picture.
[3:43] I don't want to do that then.
[3:45] I will not do it.
[3:50] Veterans Day is October 23rd.
[3:52] TV spot, 52nd TV spot, TV spot sometime in the next five or six days.
[3:59] No.
[3:59] No.
[4:00] For what?
[4:01] Well, to be a broadcast on the television and all the veterans hospitals around the nation.
[4:07] No.
[4:08] No.
[4:10] I think they could do radio.
[4:13] I'll do a radio spot for those, but I'm not going to do it.
[4:17] I'm not going to exploit the better issue of the TV spot.
[4:21] No.
[4:21] They won't use the TV spot.
[4:23] We're not going to do a better radio talk than any of that.
[4:28] And that's what we'll do.
[4:29] I'm not going to do a TV spot.
[4:31] I'll do a radio spot.
[4:34] Radio, not TV.
[4:38] The last one is just any time, as a gap killer, had sort of a working session of about eight or ten of the administration blacks.
[4:49] So is it there?
[4:50] No, no, no.
[4:51] No more blacks.
[4:53] Even the administration?
[4:54] No, no administration blacks, no blacks, no.
[4:56] We just can't do it.
[4:58] Yeah, no, we've done a lot.
[4:59] Well, we've done a lot, but we're just not going to have to do it.
[5:04] You've got to ask about this case, but now you know we're now on the guidance.
[5:15] If you send in a letter to one of these editors, we can't do it.
[5:20] It's too late.
[5:21] It's four weeks from the election.
[5:23] It's just not right to bring it in and take all this time.
[5:28] I'm curious.
[5:30] The Vice President is going to be going to this shindig tonight, this reception.
[5:33] Do you want the Vice President, Mr. Dagan, to receive with you?
[5:37] Or, alternatively, they could just go in the State Dining Room and serve a service post in there.
[5:48] Thank you.