Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 003-204
Date: Monday, May 31, 1971 at 6:38 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/003-204

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[0:00] Yeah.
[0:01] I have Mr. Haldeman now, sir.
[0:03] Yeah.
[0:04] Hello.
[0:04] Hello.
[0:06] Did you call me?
[0:06] No, sir.
[0:08] No.
[0:08] I was returning your call.
[0:10] They said you had called at 6 o'clock.
[0:11] Oh, yes, yes.
[0:16] I think I covered everything in the other one.
[0:17] I think it's the same call, you know, which we had at the office.
[0:23] Okay.
[0:24] Okay.
[0:26] Pat's going to have the stuff, I guess, by 7.
[0:29] Oh, seven now.
[0:30] Yeah, I was just waiting for it.
[0:31] Well, he said he was still humping when I left, and he said he'd have it in by seven.
[0:37] It's all right.
[0:38] Just hold just a minute.
[1:02] One thing I was going to suggest is this, that it's, I think it's very important to start immediately with regard to that Saturday operation.
[1:13] Saturday or both, and incidentally you can use both days to use Saturday and Sunday for purposes of radio or major statements.
[1:23] that we don't want to elevate to the other side.
[1:27] Or, as a matter of fact, for appearances, as we did at West Point, that do elevate to the other side.
[1:33] But will you develop a program?
[1:36] Because Ray's stuff comes in a little slow.
[1:40] But I think there's no reason, Bob, we can't be on every Saturday for Sunday or every Sunday for Monday or both for the whole summer months.
[1:48] And that's a hell of a big audience.
[1:51] It is, and it's just so easy to dominate.
[1:54] You can dominate both on radio.
[1:55] And take these holiday weekends.
[1:57] You realize anything we do, any statement I make, you can put on radio.
[2:02] So you put the radio statement out.
[2:04] You have radio, and you have the TV.
[2:12] Possibility, if we do a speech.
[2:15] Unfortunately, looking at this week...
[2:17] All we've got is Tulsa.
[2:19] That ain't particularly good.
[2:20] No, but you'll get TV on that.
[2:23] Well, it might not be too bad because it'll be friendly.
[2:27] But what I meant is it isn't an upbeat forum.
[2:31] Yeah.
[2:32] No, it's not bad.
[2:33] It's not bad, though.
[2:37] But let's try to figure out right down the line every weekend, Saturday and Sunday, throw it in there, you know, and not compete during the week.
[2:48] I mean, let that go the other way.
[2:52] Yep.
[2:55] It sure is wide open then, isn't it?
[2:56] Yeah, it really is.
[2:59] And we've got plenty of things in the rest of the week that we can put out.
[3:03] Well, we inevitably have stuff during the week, no matter what.
[3:05] We have to make appearances.
[3:07] There's just no way to avoid it.
[3:08] But Saturday and Sunday, we should make up appearances.
[3:10] That's the whole point.
[3:11] Yeah.
[3:12] Right.
[3:13] Okay.
[3:13] Okay.