Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 017-046
Date: Friday, December 24, 1971 at 9:14 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Hoover, J. Edgar
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-046

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[0:00] You're at your home right there.
[2:05] Because I've got to meet the German the next day and I've got to be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
[2:12] Boy, I tell you, these meetings are hard work.
[2:16] They're going well, though.
[2:17] They're going well.
[2:26] Do you really think so?
[2:28] Right.
[2:30] Incidentally, I...
[2:31] You know, I decided after long deliberation, and John Mitchell recommended that we ought to let Jimmy out.
[2:41] Well, his wife is terribly sick, you know, and the guy is, he's been a model prisoner, and I thought, what the heck.
[2:51] Well, that's what John said you thought, and I asked him about things.
[2:55] I didn't follow it at that time, but I thought that Bobby was on a vendetta against the man.
[3:04] Yeah.
[3:09] Well, it wasn't?
[3:14] Yeah.
[3:16] Yeah.
[3:17] Well... Bye.
[3:30] Yeah.
[3:31] And the same to you.
[3:33] Bye.