Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 875-004
Date: Friday, March 9, 1973 at 3:53 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)]
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/875-004

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[0:01] Thank you.
[0:30] Thank you.
[0:56] Thank you.
[1:35] Thank you.
[2:10] Thank you.
[2:49] Mr. President, Americans have the right to be free from the fear of crime.
[2:50] I shall soon propose a revision of the entire federal criminal code, which will give us tougher penalties against drugs and against crime.
[2:53] I will ask for the restoration of the death penalty for hijackers, kidnappers, terrorists, and others convicted of major federal crimes.
[2:57] I shall propose mandatory
[3:19] new tough penalties for drug abusers.
[3:20] I shall continue to oppose efforts to legalize marijuana.
[3:21] If we fail in the battle against crime, then we fail not only ourselves, but our heritage and the future of our children.
[3:23] I ask all of you to join with me in the battle against crime in America.
[3:54] All those great news about Downey and all that, how was it?
[3:55] I called his brother in.
[4:22] Thank you.
[4:22] Thank you.
[4:50] I don't see these people, but they do.
[4:58] So many reasons to catch them.
[5:15] We should come.
[5:15] Come on, sit.
[7:23] What's his name?
[7:23] I don't know.
[7:24] He looks like a sailor.
[7:24] So, if it's a graduate, he's like a sailor.
[7:25] No, he's outside of the factory.
[7:26] He's got some of it.
[7:26] He's got some of it.
[7:27] He's got some of it.
[7:51] Listen, let me tell you.
[7:51] Anytime you've got to do this, man, hold on.
[7:52] I've got this stuff.
[7:53] You know?
[7:53] Just like when I call a field, I don't know.
[7:54] I'm in it again.
[7:54] It's too easy.
[7:54] You know?
[7:55] You've got to break it up.
[8:18] Thank you, sir.
[8:51] Thank you.
[9:20] Thank you.
[9:20] Thank you.
[9:20] Thank you.
[9:48] Now, I'm doing the same thing outside.
[9:49] It looks like it's ridden in a lot.
[9:50] Well, we're going to go to that place anyway.
[9:51] Oh, yeah.
[9:51] That's right.
[9:51] That's right.
[10:16] Listen, if I can do this too, I'm going to do it.
[10:17] It doesn't mean I can do this, but I'm going to do it.
[10:18] I'm going to do it.
[10:19] That's right.
[10:19] That's right.
[10:19] Listen, if anything I can do that, I'm going to holler at you.
[10:20] Yeah.
[10:20] I'm going to do it.
[10:21] I'm going to do it.
[10:21] I'm going to do it.
[10:46] You know what it is?
[10:46] It's outside.
[10:46] It's coming to tell me something.
[10:47] I put the shop on it.
[10:47] I wouldn't mind.
[10:48] The one I like the most is this.
[10:48] The black door.
[10:49] These two.
[10:49] You know, I'm in this one.
[10:49] You don't see it that slow.
[10:50] You don't have any options.
[10:51] I'm going to come down here.
[10:51] I'm going to come down here.
[10:52] I'm going to come down here.
[11:22] No, that's good.
[11:22] I'm going to get all the gear up.