Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 020-087
Date: Wednesday, February 9, 1972 at 3:38 PM
Participants: Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); White House operator; Nixon, Richard M. (President); Buchanan, Patrick J.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/020-087

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[0:03] Haldeman, could I have Buchanan, please?
[0:06] Thank you.
[0:22] Yeah.
[0:32] There you are.
[0:36] Yeah.
[0:37] How do you think it came out, Pat?
[0:38] I think it came out well.
[0:39] Do you?
[0:40] Oh, yeah.
[0:40] I think he made, on three or four points, it came out very well substantively, you know.
[0:46] And he made the points he wanted to make on any number of issues, and we got by a lot of them.
[0:51] So I didn't see any problems in the whole thing, frankly.
[0:54] You know, he wasn't the most eloquent one.
[0:56] He talks a hell of a lot slower than he does...
[0:59] But by continuing an extra 15 minutes, we got a lot of stuff in there.
[1:03] So I thought it was a good conference.
[1:05] Well worthwhile.
[1:07] And I've seen this stuff come over the wires.
[1:08] I haven't seen any problem at all.
[1:10] Think we're in good shape on Vietnam now?
[1:12] Yeah, fairly good.
[1:13] I wish they hadn't asked the second question because the first one was, did you get that Q&A into him?
[1:19] Did we send over to you?
[1:20] No.
[1:21] Oh, you didn't?
[1:22] Well, he handled it right on the mark.
[1:24] I wish that had been more of the lead question.
[1:27] But it's all in the record, I think.
[1:29] Shoes should be in good shape, and there wasn't that much, and Roger certainly wasn't verbally undercut.
[1:37] No, that's right.
[1:38] Substantively, he held our position.
[1:39] Yeah, we had to.
[1:40] Yeah.
[1:41] So I thought, from what I've seen, it went very well.
[1:44] I'd like to look at the transcript, but... Yeah.
[1:46] How about bussing?
[1:47] Bussing was outstanding.
[1:49] Yeah.
[1:49] I like that.
[1:50] Yeah.
[1:51] One reason I like it is because they're about to do something on the damn hill.
[1:54] And if the hill goes ahead of him while he's in Peking or something, then we're just following him.
[2:01] That's the point of having the meeting Monday.
[2:03] Yeah.
[2:03] Yeah.
[2:04] So, yeah, he's in good shape on that.
[2:07] So that should help.
[2:09] Yeah.
[2:10] So I thought, who was your friend that asked the second time about you?
[2:13] I don't know.
[2:14] I just heard his voice from the...
[2:16] I thought it was McGovern that snuck in there for me.
[2:21] Pretty ridiculous.
[2:23] Oh well.
[2:24] Okay, good.
[2:25] Thanks Pat.