Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 037-025
Date: Thursday, March 1, 1973 at 6:00 PM
Participants: Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Cole, Kenneth R., Jr.; Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/037-025

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[0:04] Cold, please.
[0:06] Cold, please.
[0:07] Thank you.
[0:09] Who is this?
[0:09] Haldeman.
[0:10] All right, thank you.
[0:21] What's that?
[0:25] I haven't had a Watergate question.
[0:28] That was great.
[0:31] Yeah, but he said that he killed the letter.
[0:34] Hello.
[0:35] Hello.
[0:35] Ken, what are you doing about the Indians?
[0:38] We are not involved with the Indians from the White House.
[0:42] What about the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
[0:43] What's happened to that?
[0:45] The Bureau of Indian Affairs is not in it.
[0:48] Whitaker is in it.
[0:49] John and I talked earlier today about it.
[0:51] Kleindienst has Erickson and a couple of other of his marshals out there on the scene.
[0:59] Our position right now is that the Indians are breaking the law, that we do not intend to go to negotiate with the Indians until they release the hostages.
[1:09] We are not prepared whatsoever to discuss the question of amnesty with them until such time as they have ceased breaking the law, which means release the hostages.
[1:22] being handled by Justice.
[1:23] It is being handled by Justice and Whitaker.
[1:25] The White House is not in it.
[1:27] We're not controlling anything.
[1:29] I signed off on Whitaker's policy today, and he and Kleindienst are in communication.
[1:34] What are you doing overall on the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
[1:36] Are we getting that untangled, or are we just leaving it?
[1:39] No, no, no.
[1:40] That is being untangled.
[1:43] Yeah, but I...
[1:45] Up-to-date status report on what the Bureau of Indian Affairs is doing right now.
[1:49] Let me get somebody to get you a quick check on that.
[1:52] Okay.
[1:53] Do you want me to call you back?
[1:55] No, no.
[1:56] Get ready in the morning.
[1:58] Okay.
[1:58] All right.
[1:59] Thank you.