Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 866-014
Date: Thursday, March 1, 1973 at 10:57 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); White, William L.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/866-014

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[0:01] Hello.
[0:04] You know, I wanted to tell you that yesterday I saw the governor's name, our mutual friend, Governor Don, and that he told me that you had some very kind words to say about me a few days ago, and that he was talking to you, and that I told him I reciprocated it, and I only wish to God you were here in the Washington corner now because we need you.
[0:25] I remember those times, you know, when I was out of office, when you and Hope Lewis and I would sit around and talk, remember, in New York.
[0:31] And let me say that those braided articles you wrote for the Digest and so forth, boy, that kind of writing is rare now.
[0:40] And I just want you to know we're thinking about you and we're praying for you, and you just keep an old spirit of it.
[0:47] Well...
[0:56] I'll tell you.
[1:00] Right, right.
[1:01] Well, I'll tell you.
[1:02] The main thing is that that stuff is fighting.
[1:09] You just keep that spirit up and we're working like the hickors on this game.
[1:15] One day it's going to break.
[1:24] But it's always a value that Billy managed to know.
[1:26] We got the list for today by, you know, I just told him when they turned the horse around, he said, saying they weren't going to give us the next list.
[1:35] I just said, all right, we stopped clearing the mines.
[1:38] We stopped withdrawing horses.
[1:40] Boy, they came around $48.
[1:41] That's the only way these people can be held.
[1:44] That's right.
[1:52] Well, I'll tell you now, you just keep your spirit up and remember you've got this lead in the ground so it's all good.
[2:00] Okay?
[2:01] You still wear that very, you were the best dressed man with the vest and everything.
[2:05] You still do that?
[2:07] Okay.
[2:07] I don't, I don't, I don't know.
[2:12] Good luck to you.