Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 013-018
Date: Tuesday, October 26, 1971 at 8:01 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/013-018

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[0:00] Well, I got Henry out.
[0:06] I got him to bed.
[0:08] He's in pretty good spirits, isn't he?
[0:10] Oh, sure.
[0:11] Yeah.
[0:11] Did he call Reagan?
[0:13] Yeah, he called him, and he's going to call him again tomorrow.
[0:27] Yeah.
[0:31] We're on the course.
[0:44] Let's follow it through.
[0:58] Yeah.
[1:18] And they were really going to cut their water off.
[1:19] The main thing was that Kip, which was, well, Joe Henry, but I think, too, it's important to say that he was really pretty disgusted by those who voted against us, not because of this, this, this attack.
[1:23] They, you know.
[1:24] Don't you agree?
[1:24] Yeah.
[1:32] He's tired.
[1:53] I'm sure he doesn't feel that he's doing very well with that.
[1:54] Yes.
[1:54] He's doing a ton easier overall.
[1:55] Encouraging.
[1:55] Well, it's going to be a hell of a tough trip.
[1:56] Yeah.
[2:01] But I think all of that will tend to .
[2:22] It sure is.
[2:22] It's the goddamn thing we can do in this UN.
[2:30] We can't just throw off the UN rather than us.
[2:32] No.
[2:49] Do you want me to have a talk?
[2:50] No, I don't.
[2:50] And nobody else seems to have a good point.
[2:51] There really isn't any other...
[2:52] I don't know if I should draft this over.
[2:53] There really isn't any other way to take Bob.
[3:05] But you'll see.
[3:17] Yeah.
[3:19] That, I think, like Mitchell felt that just doing that at this point was all you should do.
[3:25] And you get a little feel of what the reaction is.
[3:27] Right.
[3:28] that may be covered because you've got
[3:59] They've got so much other stuff that they didn't look to what they've gained.
[4:26] An awful lot, too, of course.
[4:31] I think Roger did well.
[4:51] I think so, yeah.
[4:52] I think he did pretty well.
[4:52] It was a tragic day.
[4:53] Yeah.
[4:53] I can't expect him to say, well, we're going to cut off, and we're going to hit them.
[4:55] He can't say that.
[4:56] No, but he purposely, as he said, tried to make the, get the point, but we weren't sure.
[5:19] Okay.
[5:19] The Reagan thing is...
[5:21] The problem is the fact that we've got to keep him from, you know, jumping off the reservation.
[5:44] I don't know why.
[5:45] I think that Mitchell should be able to help there.
[5:46] Oh, yeah.
[5:46] That's right.
[5:46] Reagan can't go anyplace with this coming along.
[5:47] He can't get out.
[5:47] He's dressed a lot of people.
[5:48] I don't know if Mitchell has any other thoughts on that.
[5:49] Nope.
[5:49] He wanted to think about it.
[5:52] Okay.