Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 017-061
Date: Saturday, December 25, 1971 at 9:34 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Morton, Rogers C. B.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-061

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[0:01] No.
[0:04] Well, I just, you beat me to it.
[0:07] Well, you an eastern char?
[0:10] Over there, you're going to go hunting or anything?
[0:21] Yes, sir.
[0:25] Well, I just hope everything goes well, Rog.
[0:28] You feeling good?
[0:30] Feeling good, fine.
[0:31] I hope you are.
[0:32] You haven't fallen off any horses?
[0:35] No, sir.
[0:35] No, not yet, not yet.
[0:35] No, we're not going to fall off any horses.
[0:38] Yeah, you never would.
[0:39] You're too good at... Well, you'll be going out to the Pacific pretty soon, won't you?
[0:52] Yes, sir.
[0:54] No, we disrupted.
[0:54] We decided to...
[0:55] I called it off, you know, and I talked to you about it.
[0:56] I wondered about the time.
[0:56] You may have to go out there later and go out maybe for one or two days.
[0:58] But you won't have to do the whole... Good, well, that's better.
[1:00] I think you should go by, but if you can, I mean, I'm just thinking of the amount of time that...
[3:16] Oh, no, I'm here at the White House.
[3:18] Are you?
[3:19] Yeah, we're having the family here.
[3:22] And I go to Florida for the meeting with Bront next week, and then I go to California the week after that for the meeting with Sato.
[3:28] I'm having a rather easy beer time.
[3:32] Well, I know you are.
[3:32] But it's come a long ride.
[3:35] Incidentally, don't back down if anybody takes you on on Hoffa.
[3:40] That was the right thing to do.
[3:42] We had to do it because the poor man's wife is very sick, you know.
[3:46] And he looked, I think, people sympathetic.
[3:54] Well, some people hate him so much.
[3:55] It's because of Bobby Kennedy.
[3:56] But Edgar Hoover told me last night that he, Edgar, testified the fact that Bureau didn't do the investigating.
[4:03] He says that the fellow was really railroaded.
[4:06] I think he was guilty, I understand.
[4:08] But his being guilty and being railroaded, too.
[4:12] Well, good luck, Rog.
[4:14] Thanks a lot.
[4:14] Bye.
[4:15] Alright, bye.