RICHARD NIXON TAPES: Vietnam War Speech (Rose Mary Woods)

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April 7, 1971 - Around 11:00 PM
White House Telephone

President Richard Nixon talks to his secretary Rose Mary Woods in a late night conversation discussing a speech Nixon had given earlier that night announcing troop withdrawals from Vietnam and praising the military. Woods was also a family friend of Nixon and his wife Pat and later became infamous in the scandal that erupted over the 18 1/2 minute gap on one of Nixon's subpoenaed White House tapes. In this conversation, she tells Nixon about the reactions of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Thomas Moorer and Nixon's friend television writer Paul Keyes (Laugh In). Woods also suggests that Nixon may not have heard from more Cabinet officers after the speech because some of the "little guys" in the Cabinet may not want to speak to her (she often took his calls after important events).

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[crazychrisva]

I like Nixon, he was considered sneeky but he knew how to run a nation.

[knightschwartz]

the liberals hate him, and that hatred makes us find him good when we hear him on these tapes.

[LilSpankey93]

@JUNDAAZNGEEK Bush Sr.?

[navek1]

nixon done things friom his heart, there was and is worse leaders

[dhingnyc]

@slimes23 except respect for america internationally.  please, this man was the beginning of the end of americas supremacy.

[slimes23]

I think with the mess that george Bush's wreakage, there's a nostalgia for Richard NIxon. No one got killed because of Watergate.

[maltonbranch]

What by lying to the american people and sending loads to there deaths in a uncalled for war? Or was it for wire tapping citizens in the press and media? Great way to run a nation!