Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 010-042
Date: Tuesday, October 5, 1971 at 3:59 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Mitchell, John N.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/010-042

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[0:00] Hello.
[0:01] The Attorney General, sir.
[0:03] There you are.
[0:04] Yes, Mr. President.
[0:05] Well, anything new on your search?
[0:08] We're still on the same course that we talked yesterday morning and are doing the background.
[0:13] One question that I had that I was going to try and catch you on the helicopter.
[0:19] Would you feel it appropriate that we put your friend Dyer into this southern malaise?
[0:28] Dave?
[0:30] Isn't he too old?
[0:31] Well, he's 61.
[0:32] No, I think it would be appropriate.
[0:35] It might be an attractive fallback position, you know, if that came to the top.
[0:41] And I can't think it'd be other than complimentary.
[0:44] Yeah, well, he's maybe not too old, I mean, really, and you come to think of it, he's the same age as Berger.
[0:50] Berger, 62, as a matter of fact.
[0:52] And we have the three others that will be in there that are all much younger, of course.
[0:58] One other one, incidentally, a name came up before me by Dudley Swim, who is in here today, who is, as you know, to the right of...
[1:09] whoever is right.
[1:10] But anyway, he said there's a fellow that's going to be the next president of the EBA or the present president from Texas with some sort of a Polish name.
[1:21] Leon Jaworski.
[1:22] Jaworski.
[1:23] Leon is the present president.
[1:25] I know him very well.
[1:26] He's a very close friend of Lyndon Johnson's.
[1:29] Oh.
[1:29] And Leon has to be 62 or 63.
[1:33] That's enough.
[1:33] That's right.
[1:35] That's good.
[1:36] Well, I hope you can sell Lily.
[1:38] I believe that this can be done.
[1:42] I don't believe that anybody's going to be able to stand the way of her.
[1:45] I hope you can sell her to the C.J.
[1:49] He understands the politics.
[1:50] He's just got to it.
[1:51] Well, and the other one on the man.
[1:53] I just wouldn't...
[1:55] I'd put the Mississippi guy in there, too, John.
[1:58] I've talked to Jim Eastland, and he feels that...
[2:02] that we can do this without too much difficulty, and we'll take a look and see what comes out.
[2:09] What's Jim think of Friday?
[2:10] Did you mention him to him?
[2:13] Yes.
[2:13] He didn't know him too well.
[2:15] He knew who he was, of course.
[2:16] But he liked the idea that you were still staying with this type of people.
[2:22] And I told him that as far as I know, you weren't about to get off them.
[2:27] And he said, well, I'm with you and I'll do anything you want me to.
[2:30] I told him that.
[2:31] Does McClellan know Friday?
[2:33] Oh, yes.
[2:34] Very, very, very, very close to him.
[2:36] Very strong.
[2:36] And strong for him.
[2:38] Well, that helped.
[2:38] No question about that.
[2:40] Okay, well, Your Honor, just get it, incidentally, you'd have no idea as to when you can get any name we can submit.
[2:47] I just think that it's, we don't want to appear to be just, I know we don't want to rush, but, so that we have the wrong fellow, but I just feel that
[2:55] You see what I mean, that there's just sort of a feeling of what the hell with the court meeting and the rest, and what are we doing?
[3:02] Well, I would hope that before the week is out, we can have the package up there.
[3:06] Good.
[3:07] All right.
[3:08] Fine.
[3:08] Whatever you recommend, I'll do.
[3:10] Well, we're working on all of the angles to make sure that we cover the bases.
[3:14] Right.
[3:15] Hopefully we'll have these people back here and have our prayer sessions with them and get it going.
[3:21] Good.
[3:21] Okay.
[3:22] Right, sir.
[3:22] I'll see you later.