Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 829-007
Date: Monday, January 1, 1973 at 7:32 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/829-007

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[0:03] that's 8 30 out there
[0:36] Appears to go until about 1.30.
[0:41] Watch that game yesterday, sir.
[0:44] That's what I did.
[0:45] Oh, you went to the game.
[0:47] Well, I heard of it.
[0:49] Well, no, I heard of it.
[0:51] I heard of it.
[1:04] They're moving around all the time, people standing.
[1:08] By the end of the third quarter, the Redskins did anything.
[1:11] You know, they flipped their hat in the air.
[1:13] And that place just went wild.
[1:15] Yeah, a lot of fun.
[1:17] Well, Kilmer, of course, just had one of those days.
[1:22] But the Redskins defense, whoo, they just smashed it.
[1:26] That's all it was.
[1:27] The Redskins were a good team.
[1:29] I mean, they don't have the personnel.
[1:31] They're not as big, not as fast.
[1:33] Well, they made me a little faster in a couple of spots, but my God, no, no, he's as fast as Taylor.
[1:39] Taylor just makes the moves.
[1:41] Taylor can run as fast as he needs to.
[1:42] God, nobody, nobody that played that game better than Kilmer.
[1:49] Kilmer, he was something like 13 or 18, 14 or 18 this year.
[1:53] I believe that pass to Charlie Taylor in that second session, just the threat of the needle was perfect.
[2:00] Well, you know, that 50-yard run of the
[2:03] Prior to scurvy touchdown, it was the same kind of thing.
[2:10] That's the part of the field we can't see.
[2:15] Oh, you can't fight that while we're down.
[2:20] We have seats over on the 80 yard line.
[2:22] Oh.
[2:23] They must have gone crazy every time I started to touch down that first touchdown, didn't they?
[2:27] Yes, the second session.
[2:30] That brought it to pass.
[2:34] They were just punching through holes where everything wanted to go.
[2:41] There was one particular play where Chris Hamburger
[3:03] literally vaulted over the line and sacked Stowe after about an 80-yard loss.
[3:09] And these guys, you know, the old men, supposedly, were just not going to be held up.
[3:16] Well, this is great fun.
[3:17] You called the last time we were in Hawaii when I told you that Washington had beaten Miami 27-24.
[3:23] You said, well, those are the two Super Bowl games.
[3:27] Our teams.
[3:28] Is that right?
[3:29] Yes, sir.
[3:30] You're meeting the prime minister tonight.
[3:34] Did I call?
[3:35] Well, no, but you were walking back to your room, and I just told you that they'd largely been in the 27th and 28th in the preseason game.
[3:43] And he said, those are going to be the two Super Bowl teams you watch.