Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 005-152
Date: Wednesday, June 23, 1971 at 3:48 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/005-152
National Archives Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/644218099 (NAID 644218099)

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[0:01] Yeah.
[0:03] Hello.
[0:03] Yes, sir.
[0:04] After you get along, get out that story, all right?
[0:06] Yes, sir.
[0:07] It seems to be moving well.
[0:08] Fine.
[0:09] And defense has issued a statement this afternoon, too, indicating the fact that Laird is working it out with congressional leaders in a way that will maintain full security of the documents so it doesn't compromise any of the court proceedings.
[0:25] Good.
[0:26] But, well, I think it moved, as we had discussed.
[0:29] And the main thing is to...
[0:31] Just keep our, sure it doesn't appear to be a defensive action on our part.
[0:37] I made it clear.
[0:38] I was asked a question.
[0:41] Well, it appears that the president made this decision after the vote last night.
[0:45] I came back very quickly.
[0:46] I said, no, as a matter of fact, the president made this decision in Key Biscayne over the weekend, period.
[0:50] So it doesn't seem that we're reacting to any one event or anything particularly.
[0:56] You made it over the weekend and...
[0:58] in Key Biscayne because we didn't want confusion to exist in the minds of the Congressmen.
[1:04] Well, we couldn't have set up a breakfast that soon anyway.
[1:06] That's right.
[1:08] Full assessment.
[1:09] I think, Mr. President, what the gentleman last night at the dinner was referring to,
[1:13] In terms of the, he indicated in the negative report that the news stories were very positive.
[1:19] Yeah.
[1:20] I think on the AMA, I think what he's referring to, NBC did a piece about the AMA attitudes toward health reform and so forth.
[1:30] But it did not relate to your visit at all.
[1:32] Well, I would expect that.
[1:34] That's all right.
[1:35] Fine.
[1:36] Okay, sir.