Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 798-010
Date: Saturday, October 14, 1972 at 10:58 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Price, Raymond K., Jr.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/798-010

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[0:02] Yeah.
[0:04] Yeah.
[0:04] Ray, I just approved the final draft.
[0:12] That's a very good effort.
[0:14] I like that.
[0:16] The reason I had the impression that it was shorter is that I didn't realize it had gone up to 2,000 words.
[0:25] But we want to keep
[0:37] That's what I thought.
[0:40] So basically, in the future, let's run them about this one, 1700 will run.
[0:45] In a 15 minute broadcast, we should go 13 and a half minutes.
[0:49] Because one of the reasons it isn't like presidential, they have to have the political synopsis.
[0:55] This is paid for by the committee to reelect the president.
[0:59] It takes a little bit of time.
[1:02] This is a change that I have made.
[1:12] where I called that boy.
[1:14] Now, I have stricken out the name David in both cases, the point being that I don't want him to be that identifiable, and I don't want the letter to be put out.
[1:28] You understand?
[1:29] What I mean is if anybody in the press asks about it, it's kind of, the point being we don't know what this boy, the brother, is up to.
[1:40] So I just said, my brother,
[1:42] but I want you to know why I've done that.
[1:44] See, because we haven't consulted about using the letter, but we don't identify the letter.
[1:51] You seem to think there's a problem there.
[1:57] Very personal.
[1:58] And the point is, though, I want us all to know that if they were not going to put out the letter or identify it, the only identification we have is it's from the Midwest.
[2:09] Why don't we leave that in here?
[2:25] Are you excited?
[2:25] Well, I thought we were meeting at 7 o'clock.
[2:32] Yeah.
[2:33] Yeah.
[2:36] Any problems?
[2:38] Well, I don't need it now.
[2:39] I don't need it right away.
[2:40] Don't worry too much about it.
[2:41] We can just move on to some of the others.
[2:44] But if we can't get it done, we'll wait until next week.
[2:48] OK. Fine.
[2:49] We've got one hill.
[2:50] OK. Fine.