Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 039-047
Date: Sunday, June 3, 1973 at 7:30 PM
Participants: White House operator; Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/039-047

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[0:00] Hello?
[0:01] Oh, hey.
[0:02] Hello.
[0:02] Well, I wonder if you'd heard from Laird yet.
[0:05] I had a talk with him tonight.
[0:07] He said he still hasn't...
[0:10] Resolved anything, huh?
[0:11] Resolved the problem.
[0:13] And I've got two people working on it tonight.
[0:20] It's for Rudy and Lazard.
[0:21] Right.
[0:23] He wasn't, you know, he was just sort of neutral.
[0:26] Neutral, huh?
[0:27] Yeah.
[0:28] Uh-huh.
[0:29] I kind of think we're going to get him, but it's going to take most of the night to do it.
[0:34] He's playing it cute.
[0:36] He always does, but is there anything I can do?
[0:41] No, I don't think so, sir.
[0:42] I think I'd wait the night out before we do this.
[0:45] Right.
[0:46] Then in the morning, he's promising.
[0:48] But you've played really every card, haven't you, Al, that—
[0:51] You know, he's, this is everything, you know, his political future is, you know, the leadership of God.
[0:57] This is the biggest thing that ever happened to this man.
[1:00] That's right.
[1:00] I have played every card that we have.
[1:04] And I even said that he's going to move fast.
[1:10] And you've held the Connolly threat out over him, yeah?
[1:12] That's right.
[1:14] Good.
[1:15] Of course, I've talked to Broody.
[1:16] He's very close to him personally.
[1:19] Yeah.
[1:20] And he said something to me over there.
[1:22] Right.
[1:23] To really work on.
[1:24] Well, we'll sweat it out.
[1:25] We'll sweat it out.
[1:26] I think he's playing his game as usual.
[1:30] He may make them come in the other way, but I... Well, if he says no, we'll find something else.
[1:37] That's right.
[1:37] But I let him believe that the both of us interpreted it in a way that he would work the problem out.
[1:43] Right.
[1:44] Right.
[1:45] Well, you've had a rather hard Sunday.
[1:50] I hope you had a little time with your wife now tonight.
[1:53] Yes, sir.
[1:53] Well, we're going to go over to the Israeli silver anniversary.
[1:59] Oh, good, good.
[2:01] Give him my best, Brian.
[2:07] I talked to Ronald earlier and I told him that I think that we now have a basis where
[2:14] by that I ought to see the, and I'll do it on the basis of all three or four, but I ought to really see the Dean Mimcons or whatever the hell they are.
[2:25] Don't you agree?
[2:26] Yes.
[2:27] We just can't.
[2:28] It's ridiculous for, hell, they're the president's files, and I should see them, huh?
[2:33] I think it's a good idea.
[2:35] I don't want anybody else seeing them.
[2:37] I don't want Mazzard or Lann or anybody else pawing Trump, but they can just, you know,
[2:42] Yeah, well, we'd have to get them out of there and take a look at them.
[2:48] How do I do that?
[2:50] Well, that's going to be a little tricky.
[2:53] Well, can they... No, they can't Xerox them in there, apparently, huh?
[3:00] I'm not so sure they can.
[3:04] And I'm not so sure there's a better way to do it than...
[3:08] Send for them, huh?
[3:10] Yeah.
[3:15] Right.
[3:16] But we should do it, you know.
[3:18] Because basically, I think they're going to help us out.
[3:21] That's what I think.
[3:22] Good God, I mean, I talked to Bob tonight, Bob Alderman, he was here.
[3:25] And he took these 35 meetings and cut them all down.
[3:30] There are perhaps three in which he never mentioned anything about cover-up.
[3:35] That's what I understand.
[3:37] The whole damn thing is a...
[3:39] That story is really, the more I think of it, when they said the president deliberately ordered him to cover up his bullshit.
[3:47] It's not true.
[3:48] Well, there's a question about that.
[3:50] The son of a bitch is firing everything he can in the smoke area.
[3:56] I think we're going to get Hugh Scott out tomorrow.
[4:03] Well, the point is, let's see what he's got.
[4:06] You know, in terms of his, the rest, we owe it to ourselves.
[4:11] And with God, we have a right, don't we?
[4:13] Well, we can't sit around like, just waiting.
[4:18] Yeah.
[4:19] He's got it, we've got it.
[4:21] That's right.
[4:21] Right.
[4:22] Well, have a good time at his embassy, okay?
[4:24] All right.
[4:26] Bye.