Nixon's The One (2013) s01e03 Episode Script
Episode 3
Richard Nixon was born and raised a Quaker, a member of a sect of pacifist Christians.
Perhaps because of the pacifism, and its contrast with his political pugnaciousness, he was one of the rare American politicians not to flaunt their faith.
But, like Presidents before and after him, he sought the halo effect of regular meetings with famous, and mainly Christian, religious figures, most notably the evangelist Billy Graham.
Oral Roberts apparently paid only one visit to the White House, but what a visit! The wildly successful Oklahoma preacher and healer, who was a regular figure on television and even started his own university, made the most of his unusual opportunity to spend time alone with Nixon, as you will see.
Ironically, given Nixon's frequently-expressed negative opinions of Jews, the only religious figure to regularly visit the ex-President in the exile that followed his disgrace was Baruch Korff, a Jewish rabbi.
'The conversations you're about to see 'were recorded by Nixon's secret taping equipment, 'and these are the words actually spoken by the participants 'and edited only for time.
'In-keeping with the era in which the original tapes were recorded, 'this programme is presented in standard definition.
' The real question is whether this country's gonna believe anything? Now, we all have different degrees of religions and different ways of expressing, but, among the professors, and the associate professors, and the colleges and universities, and the junior colleges and high schools, I think 90% of them are atheists, or worse.
They have no confidence in themselves.
They have no faith in this country.
They're undermining the country.
And they're communists.
Now, therefore, you see we simply cannot allow, uh, such a thing to prevail.
Now, thank God, at this moment, majority of Americans, not not a large majority, but maybe 55% of the American people will support those decent, strong virtues.
Let me say, that 55%, however, would have to be strongly modified in some areas.
In the Northeast, it's not 50%.
In New York, very problematical whether it is.
Er, Pennsylvania on, on the edge.
The Midwest probably, but going down.
Er, Pennsyl er, Ohio and so forth.
The South.
The South is the strongest, er, probably, probably because it's religious.
The South is the most patriotic, decent part of this country today.
It really is.
Without the South, this country would be in terrible shape.
California.
California's being undermined because of Hollywood, and the lousy colleges and universities.
California's over-educated, they're ruining it.
Now, that's where we stand in this country today.
Now, what we have to do, we have to fight it, er, skilfully.
First we have to get in.
Once in, believe me, we have to start to really er, reward the decent people and to, frankly, to throw, er, throw out the, er the, er I was going to say, with the, er And you understand I'm not overstating the assumption here? Oh, no.
I know that.
Here, I think that the really scary thing is that the media control used to be, erm In certain places, the writers on television have always been Jewish.
Jack Benny's writers Yeah and all those people, they always have been.
But now, what's become the old time press corps, the old time White House press corps wasn't Jewish.
Yeah.
But you look at, at what covers the President today, and it's really kind of scary.
You know, I mean, I don't care how conservative.
I think I'm more conservative than you are.
You told me that one time, and I think it's true, but I have to lean a little bit, you know? I go to, er I'm friends with Mr Rosenthal of the New York Times, and people of that sort, you know? Abe Rosenthal, yeah? And a lot of the well, not all of the Jews, but a lot of the Jews are great friends of mine.
They swarm around me.
They're friendly to me because they know that I'm a friend to Israel, but they don't know how I really feel about what they're doing to this country, and I have no power and I have no way to handle 'em.
Oh, we must let them know.
But I would stand up if it, if, if, you know, if under proper circumstances.
Well, there is a way for you to handle 'em, because the only way to handle 'em is to have an effective counter-force, a new example of By the way, that's another thing I brought up to you about the fact a lot of these papers are going out of business and so forth.
We were talking about that because of the mail thing? Yeah.
We were trying to help that nationally.
We were supporting legislation for a subsidy.
My own magazine, if that went through is going to rise 700%, my postal rates.
Pornography rise 25.
Somehow they had a discrepancy.
I got our lawyers, they're drawing it up right now to submit to the proper people.
But, er Pornography is 25%? But I told you we could absorb it.
My organisation can absorb that.
Yeah.
It would be hard on us, but we can absorb it What is the new rate? .
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because our income is very large.
What is the situation? Because, as I understand the legislation But the religious people are really howling over it.
Hmm.
Well Well, and a lot of them ought to close, you know? Oh, I know.
The Christian Century is just about out of business.
It's horrible.
It's gone out of business.
Now Christianity Today.
We used to read it as a kid.
They used to sell it in colleges.
No more.
No more.
It's most left-wing of all the religious press in the country.
Good.
Who publishes that? It's published in Chicago by Foundation.
And the man that's been an angel in the back of it is a fellow who supported you, is J.
Irwin Miller.
Who? Well, I found out some very interesting thing this morning.
Er, Colson discovered He's a clever bastard.
He had his office call the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Oh, jeez, time to report, then? Time to report, and, er, everybody they heard from, they all said it was Goldstein.
Which means Goldstein hasn't done anything.
Yeah.
Er, so I, you know I said, "Who were they?" Well, the government.
Well, but I mean what kind of people? "Were they all Jews?" He said, "Yes.
" Every one of those people is Jewish.
Now, question - Malek's not Jewish? No.
I want to look into any sensitive areas around where Jews are involved, Bob.
See, the Jews are all through the government, and what we've got to do, we've got to get in those areas, we've got to get a man in charge who is not Jewish, to, er control the Jewish.
Understand? Er, sure.
Government's full of Jews.
I sure do.
Second point most Jews are disloyal.
Now, we've got a Garment and a Kissinger, and, frankly, a Safire.
By God, they're exceptions, but, generally speaking, Bob, you can't trust the bastards.
They turn on you.
Are you corr Er, am I wrong? Am I right? Sure.
And their whole orientation is against this administration anyway.
You know, they have this arrogant attitude, too.
That's right.
So And they're smart.
They have the ability to do what they want to do, which is to hurt us, which is probably They have the ability.
Some people that are Interestingly enough, Henry hasn't got a lot of Jews.
He's got, er He's only got this, the one, erm He's got quite a few.
Horrible bastard.
He's probably all right Sonnenfeld? I don't know.
He may be al right.
He has this little stare.
I know you can't judge a person by his looks.
It's wrong, and er, and you never know, but See, he had Halperin.
I know but, you know, let's look at his others.
He's got Haig.
The secretaries aren't Jewish.
Very, very interesting.
I watch all the girls His aides, none of his aides have ever been Jewish.
I noticed that.
Even Tony Lake, who turned on us.
That's right.
But his, er, the guys, the young guys that he's always staffed.
Was Tony Lake homosexual? I don't think so.
I wondered about that.
He looked it.
I know it.
OK.
Thank you.
Maybe I'll have to sell you one! The photographer's just going to take a few, so don't worry.
They're very good at it.
You are looking so young, and at heart, too.
Oh, thank you.
You are.
I'll tell you, I'm just barely behind you in years.
Yeah.
Now, sit down.
Sit down.
How old are you now? 54.
Hmm, well, no no matter how old See, I'm, I'm peaking up on you.
No, you're never gonna catch up on me.
If you don't watch, I'll Now, you, er How's it going? You've had a wonderful, er, wonderful reception in TV, radio, everywhere.
I must tell you something.
All right.
It's about yourself, and, er, related to 3? years ago.
Uh-huh.
You had just become President Yeah.
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against which I consider the most improbable odds Yeah.
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but you had run once and lost.
Oh, yeah.
I had been off television for three years.
I built the university.
I returned to the Methodist Church and, heavens, I got a lot of flak about it, and, er, my work ends overnight.
What year was it that it happened? This was 1900-and What year did you take office? Well, this time, '68, '69 was the election, uh All right.
January, I took office.
Right here, it was March after that, March, March 2nd, and I didn't know if God was through with me, or what was going to happen.
And you came to my mind with such force that this man wasn't going to let anything hold him back.
I flew to NBC in Burbank, came up with a new television format.
I went back on the air, and that year, my biggest year, I had received 1,200,000 letters.
This year, I would get five million.
My work has tripled.
Now, let me tell you this, the fact that you have gone through all this had a profound effect upon me to get up off the floor.
Mmm.
I didn't know if I was ever gonna have a chance to tell you that.
That's interesting.
But, er the fact that you became President under these improbable odds, that's done a lot to many of us.
Well, that's I'm very grateful to hear that.
Hope it's true.
Oh, it is true.
It is true.
Yeah, you know too many people give up, they give up, and they vegetate, they resign themselves to mediocrity.
You don't have to.
The fact that I had a half million at that time, at that, er Well, I gained a million fans.
A million, a million fans.
Brand-new people that made new contact with me.
3? years? Yes, 3? years.
That's just great.
That's the power of television.
You know what it is.
Television is it for you.
Well, I have 22,900,000 on my last special, and I have a half hour of television every Sunday morning.
Oh, I see.
And I'm the number one ranked programme, either secular or religious on Sunday mornings.
Sunday mornings? I get it.
80% of all TVs turned on watch us.
Mmm.
Now, once a quarter, I have a prime-time hour special at which I have guest stars.
That would get a big, huge, huge audience.
I had 22,900,000 on my last one, and I just finished a special in London and I've just come home with some great British stars, and I should have my largest rating.
But I'll tell you, you see, the, er there's only 2? people in the home watching television.
Mmm.
And I'm a person that relates to you.
I only talk to you.
I never talk to an audience, or to a crowd, or to America.
Yeah, right.
I talk to you.
Hmm.
And, er, I, I picture The reading comprehension of the American public is the seventh grade.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This is a new public's figure.
It's only the seventh grade.
Yeah.
So, I I'm a born-and-bred Oklahoman.
Hmm.
I came up the hard way.
I had tuberculosis and stammered and stuttered, and was poor.
So, when I talk to you, I talk out of my gut.
I talk out of my spirit.
I'm talking to you.
Mmm, mmm.
And this is what has brought me up, and only TV can give you that.
Now, your last, er, your performance on TV back from China and Russia, you talked more to me than you ever have before.
It was like you were saying, "Oral, now, I was over in China, and, er" I don't know if anyone told you this or not, but there's a change coming from your eyes and from you in your manner.
Before, er, you seemed to talk to the nation.
Yeah.
Now, Billy, in a sense Billy and I are very, very warm friends.
In fact, he's going to be a guest star on my Fall special.
Ah.
But, er, but Billy talks to America, and somebody has to do this.
Yeah.
I talk to you.
You have more of the person-to-person Now, the last two times I saw you Was that in China, after coming back? After Russia and China.
I don't recall the incident, but you explained to us What had happened.
It was like you were saying it more like, "I was talking to the Premier of China, "and he said this to me, and I said this to him.
" And I turned to my wife, I said, "Honey, watch this.
"He's talking to us tonight.
" Mmm.
You see, there were only two of us in the room.
Right, right, right.
Right, right.
That's a very, very shrewd observation.
Now, I-I-I could never advise you, Oh But, if I had a word Yeah.
If I had a word, based upon my 3? years Yeah.
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coming back up Mm-hmm.
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out of the ashes, you might say Right, mm-hmm.
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this is what I have done, and there may be a change in your feelings.
I don't know.
It's very interesting.
But you're talking to us now.
Mm-hmm.
You were, you were relaxed.
Relaxed, yeah.
Now, I teach myself, when that camera's on and, er, you see that little light on it? Sure.
Yeah, er, when you have to change cameras Mm-hmm.
and they have that The red light.
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that light that goes off and on.
I look at that light.
That's a human being to me.
The moment the light comes on, I'm talking to John Smith, or, poor Mary Jones, and her level of comprehension is the seventh grade Yeah, yeah.
Of course, some viewers are up there.
Never, never, you've always communicated with But you have to know now, I'm only talking to you and your wife, and maybe your child.
And the last two times, you did that.
Mm-hmm.
It was subtle.
There was a subtle change in you.
That's very interesting.
That was after the China trip and the Russia trip? Yes.
Here's what you communicated to me.
You Do you want me to tell you? Sure.
I want to hear it.
When you got back from China and Russia, your, er, face, your eyes, even some of your words, but mostly you, just the man who's saying, "Now" Who's saying, "It's been tough, "and we've been far apart, but I went over there as a man, "and we sat down like fellow human beings and we talked.
"And we probably will never settle all our differences.
"They see it one way, we see it another way.
"I didn't compromise.
I didn't give up anything.
"And they didn't compromise and give up anything.
"But we talked, "and there was a feeling that came out that was priceless.
" Hmm.
It's a feeling.
It's all over the country.
Great story.
And did you feel that way? See, I don't even remember the words.
Oh, well, you don't sometimes I remember what was coming out of your spirit.
Doesn't matter so much if you don't know the words at times.
And that's what we learned on television.
A lot of people can see better than I can see, but they can't feel better than I can feel.
Yeah, well, that's the difference.
The difference.
And I, as a human being, I only want one thing.
I want to know if this man is concerned about all of us.
I don't like what's going on in the world, what's going on in the country, but you come in and say "I'm very, very concerned about that.
" Now, that makes me feel better than all the words you say.
Mm-hmm.
And in the last six weeks to six months, you have an image in America that is probably a 60 degree turn from what I see and feel.
Before? Yes.
Yeah.
Or maybe they say, "Well, Nixon went to China and he went to Russia, yes.
" But they don't think of it in these other terms.
What other terms? You see? That's probably because it's happening to you maybe unconsciously.
Well, first, some would raise the question, based on your seven-year-old mentality, Seven seventh grade.
Seventh grade, seventh grade mentality, 12-year-old.
Seventh grade.
Yeah.
Yeah.
See, I'm concerned about what happens to my wife and my children, my job, my my taxes.
I don't want my taxes raised.
I don't care how little the cost.
Well, this very helpful, because, you know, the art of communication is a great mystery, particularly with television.
Take William Jennings Bryan, the great orator, er, of the elections of 191896, and 1900, straight through to 1916.
He would probably never have gone on television, probably, because he was a mass speaker.
He spoke to the mass.
Even Lincoln.
He might have.
He might have, because he spoke well to the audience, but he also had a more personal thing.
It's whether you talk at 'em or talk to 'em.
And did anyone tell you on your last television, you talked to you talked more to 'em? I don't recall.
But you did notice that? Something's happening to your speeches.
They're not as lofty as they used to be.
You're really talking to me.
And I say, basically, and again, this is the man who will get the votes.
It's happened to me.
That's great.
The New York Times, and the Washington Post, and the network queers, piss on us every night.
Decadent, incestuous homosexual.
Ah, you've got to put them to the sword, Mr President.
Back off.
I'm not one of them, and it distresses them.
I guess it's best if we pay no attention to 'em and give 'em the contempt they deserve.
Perhaps because of the pacifism, and its contrast with his political pugnaciousness, he was one of the rare American politicians not to flaunt their faith.
But, like Presidents before and after him, he sought the halo effect of regular meetings with famous, and mainly Christian, religious figures, most notably the evangelist Billy Graham.
Oral Roberts apparently paid only one visit to the White House, but what a visit! The wildly successful Oklahoma preacher and healer, who was a regular figure on television and even started his own university, made the most of his unusual opportunity to spend time alone with Nixon, as you will see.
Ironically, given Nixon's frequently-expressed negative opinions of Jews, the only religious figure to regularly visit the ex-President in the exile that followed his disgrace was Baruch Korff, a Jewish rabbi.
'The conversations you're about to see 'were recorded by Nixon's secret taping equipment, 'and these are the words actually spoken by the participants 'and edited only for time.
'In-keeping with the era in which the original tapes were recorded, 'this programme is presented in standard definition.
' The real question is whether this country's gonna believe anything? Now, we all have different degrees of religions and different ways of expressing, but, among the professors, and the associate professors, and the colleges and universities, and the junior colleges and high schools, I think 90% of them are atheists, or worse.
They have no confidence in themselves.
They have no faith in this country.
They're undermining the country.
And they're communists.
Now, therefore, you see we simply cannot allow, uh, such a thing to prevail.
Now, thank God, at this moment, majority of Americans, not not a large majority, but maybe 55% of the American people will support those decent, strong virtues.
Let me say, that 55%, however, would have to be strongly modified in some areas.
In the Northeast, it's not 50%.
In New York, very problematical whether it is.
Er, Pennsylvania on, on the edge.
The Midwest probably, but going down.
Er, Pennsyl er, Ohio and so forth.
The South.
The South is the strongest, er, probably, probably because it's religious.
The South is the most patriotic, decent part of this country today.
It really is.
Without the South, this country would be in terrible shape.
California.
California's being undermined because of Hollywood, and the lousy colleges and universities.
California's over-educated, they're ruining it.
Now, that's where we stand in this country today.
Now, what we have to do, we have to fight it, er, skilfully.
First we have to get in.
Once in, believe me, we have to start to really er, reward the decent people and to, frankly, to throw, er, throw out the, er the, er I was going to say, with the, er And you understand I'm not overstating the assumption here? Oh, no.
I know that.
Here, I think that the really scary thing is that the media control used to be, erm In certain places, the writers on television have always been Jewish.
Jack Benny's writers Yeah and all those people, they always have been.
But now, what's become the old time press corps, the old time White House press corps wasn't Jewish.
Yeah.
But you look at, at what covers the President today, and it's really kind of scary.
You know, I mean, I don't care how conservative.
I think I'm more conservative than you are.
You told me that one time, and I think it's true, but I have to lean a little bit, you know? I go to, er I'm friends with Mr Rosenthal of the New York Times, and people of that sort, you know? Abe Rosenthal, yeah? And a lot of the well, not all of the Jews, but a lot of the Jews are great friends of mine.
They swarm around me.
They're friendly to me because they know that I'm a friend to Israel, but they don't know how I really feel about what they're doing to this country, and I have no power and I have no way to handle 'em.
Oh, we must let them know.
But I would stand up if it, if, if, you know, if under proper circumstances.
Well, there is a way for you to handle 'em, because the only way to handle 'em is to have an effective counter-force, a new example of By the way, that's another thing I brought up to you about the fact a lot of these papers are going out of business and so forth.
We were talking about that because of the mail thing? Yeah.
We were trying to help that nationally.
We were supporting legislation for a subsidy.
My own magazine, if that went through is going to rise 700%, my postal rates.
Pornography rise 25.
Somehow they had a discrepancy.
I got our lawyers, they're drawing it up right now to submit to the proper people.
But, er Pornography is 25%? But I told you we could absorb it.
My organisation can absorb that.
Yeah.
It would be hard on us, but we can absorb it What is the new rate? .
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because our income is very large.
What is the situation? Because, as I understand the legislation But the religious people are really howling over it.
Hmm.
Well Well, and a lot of them ought to close, you know? Oh, I know.
The Christian Century is just about out of business.
It's horrible.
It's gone out of business.
Now Christianity Today.
We used to read it as a kid.
They used to sell it in colleges.
No more.
No more.
It's most left-wing of all the religious press in the country.
Good.
Who publishes that? It's published in Chicago by Foundation.
And the man that's been an angel in the back of it is a fellow who supported you, is J.
Irwin Miller.
Who? Well, I found out some very interesting thing this morning.
Er, Colson discovered He's a clever bastard.
He had his office call the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Oh, jeez, time to report, then? Time to report, and, er, everybody they heard from, they all said it was Goldstein.
Which means Goldstein hasn't done anything.
Yeah.
Er, so I, you know I said, "Who were they?" Well, the government.
Well, but I mean what kind of people? "Were they all Jews?" He said, "Yes.
" Every one of those people is Jewish.
Now, question - Malek's not Jewish? No.
I want to look into any sensitive areas around where Jews are involved, Bob.
See, the Jews are all through the government, and what we've got to do, we've got to get in those areas, we've got to get a man in charge who is not Jewish, to, er control the Jewish.
Understand? Er, sure.
Government's full of Jews.
I sure do.
Second point most Jews are disloyal.
Now, we've got a Garment and a Kissinger, and, frankly, a Safire.
By God, they're exceptions, but, generally speaking, Bob, you can't trust the bastards.
They turn on you.
Are you corr Er, am I wrong? Am I right? Sure.
And their whole orientation is against this administration anyway.
You know, they have this arrogant attitude, too.
That's right.
So And they're smart.
They have the ability to do what they want to do, which is to hurt us, which is probably They have the ability.
Some people that are Interestingly enough, Henry hasn't got a lot of Jews.
He's got, er He's only got this, the one, erm He's got quite a few.
Horrible bastard.
He's probably all right Sonnenfeld? I don't know.
He may be al right.
He has this little stare.
I know you can't judge a person by his looks.
It's wrong, and er, and you never know, but See, he had Halperin.
I know but, you know, let's look at his others.
He's got Haig.
The secretaries aren't Jewish.
Very, very interesting.
I watch all the girls His aides, none of his aides have ever been Jewish.
I noticed that.
Even Tony Lake, who turned on us.
That's right.
But his, er, the guys, the young guys that he's always staffed.
Was Tony Lake homosexual? I don't think so.
I wondered about that.
He looked it.
I know it.
OK.
Thank you.
Maybe I'll have to sell you one! The photographer's just going to take a few, so don't worry.
They're very good at it.
You are looking so young, and at heart, too.
Oh, thank you.
You are.
I'll tell you, I'm just barely behind you in years.
Yeah.
Now, sit down.
Sit down.
How old are you now? 54.
Hmm, well, no no matter how old See, I'm, I'm peaking up on you.
No, you're never gonna catch up on me.
If you don't watch, I'll Now, you, er How's it going? You've had a wonderful, er, wonderful reception in TV, radio, everywhere.
I must tell you something.
All right.
It's about yourself, and, er, related to 3? years ago.
Uh-huh.
You had just become President Yeah.
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against which I consider the most improbable odds Yeah.
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but you had run once and lost.
Oh, yeah.
I had been off television for three years.
I built the university.
I returned to the Methodist Church and, heavens, I got a lot of flak about it, and, er, my work ends overnight.
What year was it that it happened? This was 1900-and What year did you take office? Well, this time, '68, '69 was the election, uh All right.
January, I took office.
Right here, it was March after that, March, March 2nd, and I didn't know if God was through with me, or what was going to happen.
And you came to my mind with such force that this man wasn't going to let anything hold him back.
I flew to NBC in Burbank, came up with a new television format.
I went back on the air, and that year, my biggest year, I had received 1,200,000 letters.
This year, I would get five million.
My work has tripled.
Now, let me tell you this, the fact that you have gone through all this had a profound effect upon me to get up off the floor.
Mmm.
I didn't know if I was ever gonna have a chance to tell you that.
That's interesting.
But, er the fact that you became President under these improbable odds, that's done a lot to many of us.
Well, that's I'm very grateful to hear that.
Hope it's true.
Oh, it is true.
It is true.
Yeah, you know too many people give up, they give up, and they vegetate, they resign themselves to mediocrity.
You don't have to.
The fact that I had a half million at that time, at that, er Well, I gained a million fans.
A million, a million fans.
Brand-new people that made new contact with me.
3? years? Yes, 3? years.
That's just great.
That's the power of television.
You know what it is.
Television is it for you.
Well, I have 22,900,000 on my last special, and I have a half hour of television every Sunday morning.
Oh, I see.
And I'm the number one ranked programme, either secular or religious on Sunday mornings.
Sunday mornings? I get it.
80% of all TVs turned on watch us.
Mmm.
Now, once a quarter, I have a prime-time hour special at which I have guest stars.
That would get a big, huge, huge audience.
I had 22,900,000 on my last one, and I just finished a special in London and I've just come home with some great British stars, and I should have my largest rating.
But I'll tell you, you see, the, er there's only 2? people in the home watching television.
Mmm.
And I'm a person that relates to you.
I only talk to you.
I never talk to an audience, or to a crowd, or to America.
Yeah, right.
I talk to you.
Hmm.
And, er, I, I picture The reading comprehension of the American public is the seventh grade.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This is a new public's figure.
It's only the seventh grade.
Yeah.
So, I I'm a born-and-bred Oklahoman.
Hmm.
I came up the hard way.
I had tuberculosis and stammered and stuttered, and was poor.
So, when I talk to you, I talk out of my gut.
I talk out of my spirit.
I'm talking to you.
Mmm, mmm.
And this is what has brought me up, and only TV can give you that.
Now, your last, er, your performance on TV back from China and Russia, you talked more to me than you ever have before.
It was like you were saying, "Oral, now, I was over in China, and, er" I don't know if anyone told you this or not, but there's a change coming from your eyes and from you in your manner.
Before, er, you seemed to talk to the nation.
Yeah.
Now, Billy, in a sense Billy and I are very, very warm friends.
In fact, he's going to be a guest star on my Fall special.
Ah.
But, er, but Billy talks to America, and somebody has to do this.
Yeah.
I talk to you.
You have more of the person-to-person Now, the last two times I saw you Was that in China, after coming back? After Russia and China.
I don't recall the incident, but you explained to us What had happened.
It was like you were saying it more like, "I was talking to the Premier of China, "and he said this to me, and I said this to him.
" And I turned to my wife, I said, "Honey, watch this.
"He's talking to us tonight.
" Mmm.
You see, there were only two of us in the room.
Right, right, right.
Right, right.
That's a very, very shrewd observation.
Now, I-I-I could never advise you, Oh But, if I had a word Yeah.
If I had a word, based upon my 3? years Yeah.
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coming back up Mm-hmm.
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out of the ashes, you might say Right, mm-hmm.
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this is what I have done, and there may be a change in your feelings.
I don't know.
It's very interesting.
But you're talking to us now.
Mm-hmm.
You were, you were relaxed.
Relaxed, yeah.
Now, I teach myself, when that camera's on and, er, you see that little light on it? Sure.
Yeah, er, when you have to change cameras Mm-hmm.
and they have that The red light.
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that light that goes off and on.
I look at that light.
That's a human being to me.
The moment the light comes on, I'm talking to John Smith, or, poor Mary Jones, and her level of comprehension is the seventh grade Yeah, yeah.
Of course, some viewers are up there.
Never, never, you've always communicated with But you have to know now, I'm only talking to you and your wife, and maybe your child.
And the last two times, you did that.
Mm-hmm.
It was subtle.
There was a subtle change in you.
That's very interesting.
That was after the China trip and the Russia trip? Yes.
Here's what you communicated to me.
You Do you want me to tell you? Sure.
I want to hear it.
When you got back from China and Russia, your, er, face, your eyes, even some of your words, but mostly you, just the man who's saying, "Now" Who's saying, "It's been tough, "and we've been far apart, but I went over there as a man, "and we sat down like fellow human beings and we talked.
"And we probably will never settle all our differences.
"They see it one way, we see it another way.
"I didn't compromise.
I didn't give up anything.
"And they didn't compromise and give up anything.
"But we talked, "and there was a feeling that came out that was priceless.
" Hmm.
It's a feeling.
It's all over the country.
Great story.
And did you feel that way? See, I don't even remember the words.
Oh, well, you don't sometimes I remember what was coming out of your spirit.
Doesn't matter so much if you don't know the words at times.
And that's what we learned on television.
A lot of people can see better than I can see, but they can't feel better than I can feel.
Yeah, well, that's the difference.
The difference.
And I, as a human being, I only want one thing.
I want to know if this man is concerned about all of us.
I don't like what's going on in the world, what's going on in the country, but you come in and say "I'm very, very concerned about that.
" Now, that makes me feel better than all the words you say.
Mm-hmm.
And in the last six weeks to six months, you have an image in America that is probably a 60 degree turn from what I see and feel.
Before? Yes.
Yeah.
Or maybe they say, "Well, Nixon went to China and he went to Russia, yes.
" But they don't think of it in these other terms.
What other terms? You see? That's probably because it's happening to you maybe unconsciously.
Well, first, some would raise the question, based on your seven-year-old mentality, Seven seventh grade.
Seventh grade, seventh grade mentality, 12-year-old.
Seventh grade.
Yeah.
Yeah.
See, I'm concerned about what happens to my wife and my children, my job, my my taxes.
I don't want my taxes raised.
I don't care how little the cost.
Well, this very helpful, because, you know, the art of communication is a great mystery, particularly with television.
Take William Jennings Bryan, the great orator, er, of the elections of 191896, and 1900, straight through to 1916.
He would probably never have gone on television, probably, because he was a mass speaker.
He spoke to the mass.
Even Lincoln.
He might have.
He might have, because he spoke well to the audience, but he also had a more personal thing.
It's whether you talk at 'em or talk to 'em.
And did anyone tell you on your last television, you talked to you talked more to 'em? I don't recall.
But you did notice that? Something's happening to your speeches.
They're not as lofty as they used to be.
You're really talking to me.
And I say, basically, and again, this is the man who will get the votes.
It's happened to me.
That's great.
The New York Times, and the Washington Post, and the network queers, piss on us every night.
Decadent, incestuous homosexual.
Ah, you've got to put them to the sword, Mr President.
Back off.
I'm not one of them, and it distresses them.
I guess it's best if we pay no attention to 'em and give 'em the contempt they deserve.