RICHARD NIXON TAPES: Political tricks, China, & Protests (1) (Colson)

001-081 (Part 1)
April 14, 1971 -- 7:27PM
White House Telephone

President Richard Nixon talks with aide Chuck Colson on a variety of important political topics of the day, including the economy, stock market, Congressional resolutions on the Vietnam War, reactions to Nixon's China initiative, the Vietnam War, anti-war demonstrations, senators and Congressmen, including Ted Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey. They also discuss what Colson calls "tricks in our bag" to agitate blue-collar "hard hats" against hippie protestors. Classical music plays in the background as it does in several evening phone calls of Nixon's.

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[stewartkee]

I Wish You Would Lay Off The Mood Music. Your Not Nixon's Number 1 Fan. We get The Idea.

[rmm413c]

Stewart, there is no "mood music" in this clip. Nixon was sitting in the Lincoln Sitting Room listening to music when he called Colson. The music is on the original recording. Nixon was a big fan of Romantic-era classical music, and you can hear music playing in the background on several of his recorded telephone conversations.

(And by the way, I have both positive and negative conversations with Nixon up--being a fan or not has nothing to do with it.)

[deltapunk21]

He was reffering to Campaign strategies not polticIcal TRICKS

[rmm413c]

Deltapunk, listen to part two of this conversation. Nixon suggests a potential way to get "hard hat" unionists to attack protesting hippies engaging in guerrilla theater in Lafayette Park. I would suggest that that is more than a "campaign strategy."

(I had to divide the conversation up into two parts because of YouTube's time limit for most clips.)

[philosopher1967]

"Those guys in New York....those bastards do not die unless they know what the hell is going on...." Classic.

[196712345]

ooooffffff

[phausser]

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