Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 025-011
Date: Tuesday, June 6, 1972 at 10:26 AM
Participants: Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Ehrlichman, John D.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/025-011
National Archives Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417193645 (NAID 417193645)

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[0:03] On the line, sir.
[0:04] Hello.
[0:05] Hi.
[0:06] Hi.
[0:06] I'm in with the president.
[0:07] Anything new?
[0:08] Well, I talked to Ken a while ago.
[0:10] He thinks that Elliott will delay his meeting until after he gets back.
[0:15] Good.
[0:16] But he says he expects to talk to him again.
[0:18] But he does need one decision with Elliott on Elliott's making a drive for the passage of the higher education conference report.
[0:28] Now, that's the one with the busing amendments in it.
[0:31] And the thing we told Elliot the other day before I left was that it was more important for us to have a clear position on busing than it was for us to be for our higher education proposal.
[0:41] Right.
[0:42] He doesn't accept that.
[0:44] And so he sent a memo to the president.
[0:47] And I told Ken that I thought what we had to do here was simply to tell him he lost that one.
[0:52] Yep.
[0:52] Now, will you call Ken, if you all agree on that, you and the President?
[0:56] Yeah.
[0:57] Would you call Ken after we get through and advise him to call Elliott and tell him that?
[1:01] Yep.
[1:01] He's loaded to do so.
[1:02] Okay.
[1:04] And I'll just plan to return on Thursday, as I had planned to do.
[1:08] Right.
[1:09] Unless something turns up and somebody calls me.
[1:12] Right.
[1:13] Then, the only other thing was the Laird testimony on the supplemental, apparently, has given everybody a lot of trouble.
[1:22] Yeah.
[1:22] And you probably know about that.
[1:24] Yeah.
[1:25] I checked on Whitaker.
[1:26] Whitaker does not think that that move should be made before November under any circumstances.
[1:31] Okay.
[1:32] So that means everybody agrees on that except Planky.
[1:35] Okay.
[1:36] We'll hold on that.
[1:37] Okay.
[1:37] Good.
[1:38] That's all I got otherwise.
[1:39] All righty.
[1:41] And...
[1:43] You don't have anything, so that's that.
[1:45] I know.
[1:46] Flip me to the board, will you?
[1:47] OK.
[1:57] Copy that?
[1:59] Yes.