Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 797-023
Date: Friday, October 13, 1972 at 4:06 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Copley, James S.; Copley, James S. (Mrs.); Krulak, Victor H.; Warren, Gerald L.; White House photographer; Bull, Stephen B.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/797-023

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[0:01] Hello, how are you?
[0:06] Nice to see you again.
[0:09] How are you?
[0:09] Nice to see you again.
[0:29] You have pressure right here.
[0:30] Pressure.
[0:31] Like that.
[0:33] All right.
[0:36] All right.
[0:44] Well, there has to be A-S-P-A.
[0:46] A-S-P-A?
[0:47] No.
[0:48] A-S-P-A.
[0:48] A-S-P-A.
[0:49] A-S-P-A.
[0:50] A-S-P-A.
[0:51] A-S-P-A.
[0:52] A-S-P-A.
[1:00] But we're having a meeting at the board of the Association of Press.
[1:14] I know it's what you want.
[1:17] I know.
[1:17] I remember five years ago.
[1:19] It should have been us.
[1:21] We've got to do it.
[1:23] Wow.
[1:29] Well, let me say it.
[1:30] I'm sure I can't do all of this stuff.
[1:36] I wish I could copy all of our papers.
[1:37] I'm sure I can do all of this stuff.
[1:42] I'm sure I can do all of this stuff.
[2:11] And I was talking to him, and he said, what's your favorite telephone?
[2:17] And he said, well, it's the number of my ex-comrades and stuff.
[2:20] And I said, well, sure.
[2:22] And he said, what's your favorite piece?
[2:24] And I said, well, I have to say, it's certainly reassuring, you know, people who live in this town have to wake up and be watching the post at quite a few other times.
[2:43] And then you get out into the country, one day in my time, I went to Atlanta yesterday.
[2:47] It's a different world out there.
[2:49] It's a different world in San Diego than it is here.
[2:52] Do you read the Washington Post?
[2:54] Not about the television.
[2:55] Of course, I have, it's there.
[2:57] But what I do, we have a news summary, unfortunately, which covers the country.
[3:05] And also covers the television.
[3:07] So I read that, and that gives me a good feeling.
[3:11] As far as the editorial portion,
[3:14] their own.
[3:16] It's the same thing with the Times.
[3:19] You have to read their news columns due to the fact that that's what the Congressman and Senator read.
[3:26] So you've got to know what other people are being exposed to, but I don't even use it because they are advocates rather than reporters.
[3:36] I don't want those advocates on our side.
[3:40] They've been completely out of the
[3:46] The paper we most of us read here, we're trying to get some sort of balance to the Star.
[3:51] The Star, in fact, is a much more balanced paper.
[3:56] It always has a mood to it.
[3:59] Yes.
[4:00] And the Post is just, you know, just an orderly thing.
[4:05] Democratic National Committee in the middle of the time.
[4:08] And that goes with the country.
[4:09] I mean, there's the Pentagon Papers, or I think I can think of their... Oh, yeah.
[4:17] But you agree that it's hard.
[4:18] No, she's also repulsive.
[4:19] I mean that from a personal perspective.
[4:27] Sort of swapping.
[4:46] just doesn't have any of the family graces, apart from our parents.
[4:50] I really like the community people that have family graces.
[4:57] Absolutely.
[4:57] John, I went to work, I always around here, ever since I made that speech, I've always been here.
[5:02] I hear it all the time.
[5:04] Here it is, the press out here so much.
[5:07] They hate it.
[5:08] I don't know anything about it.
[5:10] You're kidding.
[5:11] All these people are people.
[5:16] You know why?
[5:16] Because the hard hats wear a flag.
[5:18] They think the hard hats look illiterate, and also that they're for the country.
[5:21] These people aren't for the country.
[5:24] You walk into that question, but they still agree.
[5:25] Now, when I say these people, there are three or four out there who don't want that.
[5:30] Eight or ten.
[5:32] They're basically, I don't think they're just want it.
[5:47] give up our responsibility to the world and want to tear our nation out of existence.
[5:52] It's almost untold.
[5:53] We will not believe.
[6:17] I'd say a couple times a week, that's what I do.
[6:32] I do cartoons.
[6:34] I do cartoons.
[6:55] We went there to save ourselves, and there she was.
[7:15] We got our guys across the border, and that these were not their own wage.
[7:20] These are simply simple peasant girls.
[7:24] with what the Soviet tanks ate
[8:00] Always good.
[8:38] I appreciate it.
[8:39] You see, the way this is done...
[9:21] Those are bean birds, of course, that we were given to the White House.
[9:28] And here's a lovely thing from somebody you know, Walter Hansen.
[9:32] He had that made, he had this made by Susan.
[9:37] It's a seal.
[9:39] The only one in the world I do, of course, the presidential seal in the stock.
[9:42] But I think that's really nice.
[9:46] It's that tree.
[9:48] Dwarf trees are not unusual.
[9:55] Oh, that's a 38-year-old.
[9:57] That's a 38-year-old.
[10:00] Oh, sure.
[10:01] You know, that would be that.
[10:02] It's this one, too.
[10:03] That's a Dwarf Creek.
[10:05] All of those trees were brought all the way.
[10:08] You sent us a J-Gel.
[10:09] You got the all... We didn't have a rope in the plane to bring anything back.
[10:14] And that help was not as good as it used to be.
[10:19] But it was from us.
[10:20] Absolutely.
[10:22] Well, we wish you the very best
[10:24] I don't want to be in a position where I say, well, I've seen it and I've proven it or not, but I know you're going to like it from what I've heard.
[10:38] Thank you.
[10:39] Keep the faith.
[10:40] Well, I'm glad to see you.
[10:59] I know.
[11:00] Get that over in your spirit now.
[11:03] Are you going to tell the people something?
[11:06] Yeah, I'm happy.
[11:07] That's bad.
[11:08] I don't know about it.