Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 009-056
Date: Thursday, September 16, 1971 at 9:34 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/009-056

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[0:00] Well, you had a night on the Sequoia, huh?
[0:16] Yep, yep.
[0:31] Yeah, go ahead.
[0:49] Sapphire?
[0:50] I didn't have the right group, but Ray is head of that group, and Alex is out with Butterfield.
[1:08] That's a good group, and that's why it's really easy to compliment the same individual group.
[1:10] Right.
[1:10] So, we'll do that for a while.
[1:42] I think that it's important to get the stuff in the draft, the stuff down.
[2:04] Vietnam, very heavily down among our congressional people.
[2:06] And the vice president, too.
[2:06] They've got a line.
[2:07] They all want to follow the line now.
[2:13] Yeah.
[2:38] Powerful argument.
[2:39] Yeah.
[2:39] Well, the president says that this will make us number two.
[2:40] And second, that it will jeopardize our negotiated peace initiatives all over the world.
[2:42] Now, goddammit, how the hell can you vote that way?
[2:46] Well, we shall see.
[3:09] I hope they have a chance.
[3:10] Yeah, in other words, break the filibuster.
[3:12] Okay.
[3:12] All right.