Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 020-105
Date: Monday, February 28, 1972 at 10:47 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); [Unknown person(s)]
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/020-105

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[0:00] Hello.
[0:01] Yes, sir.
[0:02] How'd you think it went out there?
[0:03] I think great.
[0:05] It was really, I thought, a wonderful crowd.
[0:07] Very inspiring kind of a thing to wrap it all up.
[0:10] Right.
[0:11] And the American the Beautiful was nice at the end.
[0:13] That worked out very well, I thought.
[0:16] Yeah.
[0:18] It must have been great television.
[0:21] I haven't talked to anybody who saw it on TV.
[0:25] I wonder if it wasn't good television.
[0:26] It must have been.
[0:26] Oh, it has to have been.
[0:27] Because it was that huge crowd and that great enthusiasm and that...
[0:29] a lot of color.
[0:31] That, in that hangar, works out very well.
[0:33] Right.
[0:34] Now, really, by going to that length, I've really made the report to the nature.
[0:40] Nobody can really complain about that, can they?
[0:43] Yep.
[0:44] That's right.
[0:44] That's right.
[0:47] Got that out of the way.
[0:47] That was perfect.
[0:47] All right.
[0:49] Well, I've got Henry busy.
[0:50] He's talking to Reagan on the phone now.
[0:56] Good.
[0:56] He's really charged up about it.
[0:57] He goes and battles for things.
[0:59] He's used to working all night.
[1:08] He's still got a while to go tonight.
[1:10] Well, that's good.
[1:10] He needs the more of that that he can do for the next day or so.
[1:12] Yeah.
[1:12] Until he winds down.
[1:14] That's right.
[1:16] I think what is, I just, when I got in, I saw the headline, the Washington Post, and I see why Colson and the rest of the word, the headline is really disgraceful.
[1:25] It says, Nixon's budgets pull out of Taiwan.
[1:28] Yeah.
[1:28] Well, for Christ's sakes, that's not true.
[1:31] It says pull out when there is peace.
[1:34] And a colonel tried to do us in.
[1:36] And I said, I had a hell of a time with Ziegler.
[1:38] He wants to have him for that thing.
[1:42] And I said, Ron, you can't.
[1:43] He said, well, it's a problem.
[1:44] But you've got to convince him of it.
[1:45] I just have a personal feeling about it.
[1:46] Yeah, I told him that.
[1:50] Of course, Ziegler, I know, has to play it that way.
[1:53] But that's one of the reasons.
[1:54] I'll take the heat.
[1:55] I think it isn't the heat from Carno that he's worried about, as I understand it.
[2:01] What his concern is that we screw our story because Carno will break it.
[2:06] He'll get it from somebody and then run it.
[2:11] What does he want to do?
[2:12] Have Carno?
[2:13] Have him screw us like we did have Buckley and Buchanan screw us?
[2:18] Not Buchanan, but Buckley and me.
[2:20] You see what I mean?
[2:20] Yeah.
[2:21] What the hell?
[2:27] He screwed us.
[2:27] What do you think?
[2:27] Don't you agree?
[2:28] Do you?
[2:29] I don't know.
[2:29] I do.
[2:30] I can see his point, which is a different point than we've been talking about.
[2:41] All right.
[2:41] Just take your risk.
[2:41] But maybe that doesn't make any difference either.
[2:42] So they do put it on.
[2:43] All right.
[2:44] Push it along, dude.
[2:44] But all in all, I do think we have really brought the thing off in a fine climax.
[2:49] I sure have.
[2:50] Good.
[2:50] I think the communication probably played better than thought.
[2:55] Well, I think it did.
[2:55] Incidentally, I guess the market held up all right.
[2:57] Well, honestly, it's 924.
[2:59] Yeah.
[2:59] That's not bad.
[3:00] It had some little up and down days, but I never gave you the market report.
[3:11] Oh, no.
[3:12] I don't hear it.
[3:13] It was digging back and forth, and it had one pretty big day when it was about 911.
[3:17] Wow.
[3:17] 924.
[3:18] That's just where it ought to be about now.
[3:18] Oh, that's good.
[3:19] Okay.
[3:19] Come in.
[3:21] Come in, come in, come in.
[3:23] Yeah.
[3:24] Okay.
[3:25] Well, fine.