Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 035-149
Date: Thursday, January 11, 1973 at 6:07 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/035-149

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[0:00] no yes sir i was thinking it's a compromise uh why don't they go down tomorrow afternoon say around four o'clock or 4 30 or so you know it's the close of close of the day do you see any problem with that no i don't think so i mean it's no different really than going saturday at noon you know we uh yeah finish the day here okay i i uh
[0:27] Covered the thing with, actually, Hig was over, going over the stuff with Kennedy, so I covered the thing with both of them.
[0:33] They thought this was a very good idea to go down there and be met there, right?
[0:38] You see, if I'm there, you see, I'll be here all day Friday, and I'll drop by this Chinese reception Pat is having for a minute.
[0:46] And I just get on the helicopter, say I'm going to Florida to work on the inaugural and other speeches, and Ray Price goes along, see?
[0:53] Right.
[0:54] Nobody's going to give it a hell of a lot of thought.
[0:56] On that basis, then, you probably should not take Haig along.
[1:00] No, that's right.
[1:03] And then I'm going to do that.
[1:04] They know I've got to work on it.
[1:05] They know I just can't wait with bated breath until I hear from Henry.
[1:09] And they'll think nothing's happening in Paris as a result of that.
[1:12] And then the next day, Ron will announce that... At the right time.
[1:18] I really think that...
[1:21] Give me the night there and the day I start on the thing.
[1:24] Because you're going to have a full day, which is a day up because Sunday you're going to have to work.
[1:28] Right.
[1:29] So what I had in mind was around 4.30 or so.
[1:32] Okay.
[1:33] Good.
[1:35] If you think badly of it, it's all right, but I just think we ought to...
[1:38] I think that we have so often compromised everything I've done for four years in terms of what the hell somebody else is going to think.
[1:43] It wouldn't make sense.
[1:44] And what's how the staff's going to feel and what about the press and all the rest.
[1:48] Maybe you just ought to do it my way once.
[1:50] Going that way, I think, is no problem.
[1:52] Huh?
[1:53] Do you think so?
[1:54] Yep.
[1:54] Good.
[1:55] Okay.
[1:55] We'll set it up.
[1:55] All right, 430.
[1:57] Right on.
[1:58] Or we'll say 430 or, yeah.
[2:00] We'll say 430.
[2:01] 430.
[2:01] All right, fine.
[2:02] Okay.