Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 032-078
Date: Saturday, October 28, 1972 at 9:24 AM
Participants: Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Ziegler, Ronald L.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/032-078

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[0:00] Hello.
[0:01] Mrs. Ziegler.
[0:02] Okay.
[0:04] There you are.
[0:05] Ron.
[0:05] It's Bob.
[0:07] Yeah.
[0:07] The President wanted to talk to you because he wants to move the defense speech to tomorrow and do the One America speech today.
[0:14] And you've already announced that today would be the defense speech, but the thought would be that he's had to do some extensive editing on the defense speech because of the importance of it and so on, and that it will therefore be postponed until tomorrow and he'll deliver a different address today, the one he was planning to do tomorrow.
[0:33] Okay, should we announce the title?
[0:35] Today?
[0:36] Yeah.
[0:36] I don't think so.
[0:38] We'll just say a different speech.
[0:40] Yeah, instead he'll substitute today the speech that he was planning to give.
[0:44] Tomorrow.
[0:44] And then what will he give tomorrow?
[0:46] Defense.
[0:46] All right.
[0:47] We should say that.
[0:48] Definitely.
[0:49] He'll give the defense speech tomorrow, but he's postponing it one day because of some extensive editing he's had to do on it and because of the importance of the speech.
[0:56] Right.
[0:57] He'd like to hypo the defense speech.
[1:00] Okay.
[1:00] And we want to get the best ride out of it we can, and plus he is doing some reworking on it.
[1:05] Yeah, I'll call Jerry right away.
[1:06] I just voted.
[1:08] That works okay, don't you think?
[1:09] Yeah, it works fine.
[1:11] Okay.
[1:11] I'm on my way in.
[1:12] Okay.
[1:13] Bye.