Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 028-018
Date: Monday, July 31, 1972 at 8:44 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ehrlichman, John D.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/028-018

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[0:01] Mr. Kirsten, I have Mr. Ehrlichman for you now.
[0:04] Yeah.
[0:04] Thank you.
[0:06] It's on the line.
[0:06] Thank you.
[0:07] Hello, John.
[0:08] Yes, sir.
[0:10] On this matter of the Jacobson thing.
[0:16] Yeah.
[0:16] I think it's important that his client, he's gone back to Pennsylvania.
[0:25] I talked to Connelly a little while ago.
[0:28] You talked to him, yeah.
[0:29] Right.
[0:29] And I sent him over a...
[0:37] didn't have.
[0:39] This fellow's partner is the one who wants state's evidence against him.
[0:44] And so they apparently have a very solid case.
[0:49] The problem is that they are so close to indictment and a great many people know about it.
[0:57] And so Kleine is perfectly willing to postpone it or do whatever he's asked to do but he's afraid that
[1:06] was Conley's reaction?
[1:07] Well, his reaction was, well, it just may be too late to do anything about it.
[1:12] So I said, well, you read over this transcript, and then if there's anything you'd like me to do, I'm ready, willing, and able to do it.
[1:17] That's the point, because our concern here is not Jacobson, but Conley.
[1:22] Sure.
[1:23] And Conley feels we can do anything why we should do it.
[1:27] Well, he couldn't see me.
[1:28] He had somebody apparently there.
[1:31] Yeah.
[1:31] So we said, if necessary, but...
[1:35] Uh, we, you know what I mean, is that, uh, we, uh...
[1:40] I'll follow up tomorrow.
[1:41] Yeah, but as I say, lean very, very hard on his side.
[1:44] In other words, take his guidance on it.
[1:47] Right.
[1:47] Right.
[1:49] Okay.
[1:50] All right, fine.
[1:51] And, uh, then I'll let you know how it comes out.
[1:54] Fine, John.
[1:55] Okay, fine.
[1:55] Thanks very much.