Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 040-017
Date: Monday, June 11, 1973 at 8:56 PM
Participants: White House operator; Nixon, Richard M. (President); Rebozo, Charles G. ("Bebe")
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/040-017

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[0:00] Hello?
[0:01] Mr. President?
[0:02] Yeah.
[0:02] I'm ready with Mr. Rebozo.
[0:04] Oh, fine.
[0:05] And Mr. Bazzard is en route to the residence.
[0:10] Fine, he can call.
[0:12] Fine.
[0:12] All right.
[0:14] Ready.
[0:15] Hello?
[0:15] Hello, Mr. President.
[0:16] You with our friend?
[0:17] Yes, sir.
[0:18] Where are you?
[0:19] I'm up at Tupper Lake.
[0:21] Oh, good.
[0:22] A place up here in northern New York.
[0:23] Good.
[0:24] But I want to tell you that...
[0:26] uh that fellow was great well i i was not where i could talk to you before yeah and i could see you weren't but uh i'm on a white house secure line and so forth and uh give me a little quick rundown he was a he was an assistant secretary of the treasury of eisenhower i see and he was also a chief counsel right and he had one case sometime back somewhere to it without any uh
[0:55] What does he advise?
[0:59] I have arranged, just got through a few minutes ago, to my friend out west to track him down in Ohio.
[1:07] And he's coming over tomorrow and meet with him.
[1:12] I gave him the phone numbers and everything else.
[1:15] And I will touch base again later on at night or in the morning and see if...
[1:24] with him and get all of that side of it.
[1:28] Right.
[1:29] But he, I want to tell you, I don't think we could have anybody better.
[1:34] He's a power of strength, and he's a bright fellow.
[1:37] He understands the whole damn thing.
[1:38] The whole damn thing, yeah, the whole thing.
[1:40] He thinks it can be handled?
[1:43] Actually, the advice he gave was identical to Bill's.
[1:49] Get it back.
[1:50] Yep, yep.
[1:55] But he also went a step farther in about...
[2:01] Suppose that Calhoun won't take it.
[2:04] Calhoun's got to.
[2:07] We've almost got to.
[2:09] Huh?
[2:09] I talked to Calhoun tonight, a little while ago.
[2:12] Right.
[2:12] I didn't tell him what I was going to do, but I got him to see this fellow tomorrow.
[2:18] I gave him his home phone number.
[2:20] He's going to be calling him tonight.
[2:23] Right.
[2:23] And he's up in Dayton.
[2:26] It's High Lauder's golf tour.
[2:29] Oh, yeah.
[2:30] So he's got to play tomorrow, and then he'll go on over tomorrow afternoon.
[2:34] And I'll know either tonight or the first thing in the morning whether I should meet them again or not.
[2:39] But I'm so pleased.
[2:40] I can't tell you how pleased I am that I came up.
[2:43] I'm impressed I am.
[2:45] Right.
[2:45] Suppose the guy won't take it, then what's the other?
[2:48] Oh, he will?
[2:48] Oh, yes.
[2:49] Oh, yes.
[2:50] There's no problem there.
[2:51] What we want to do is be sure that it's clearly identified in the appropriate fashion.
[2:56] He understood all that, yeah.
[2:57] Oh, I should say he didn't completely agree.
[3:00] Yes, sir.
[3:01] He doesn't think... Then what happens?
[3:03] Does he go down and see the IRS people?
[3:06] He's going to work it out without any fanfare.
[3:12] Right.
[3:12] Yes, sir.
[3:13] Good.
[3:14] Yes, sir.
[3:15] No, no, I tell you, this fella, you'd be very impressed with him.
[3:18] Right.
[3:19] He's got four children.
[3:20] He used to live near you when you were VP, and he has been places where his wife apparently resembles Pat a little bit.
[3:29] Oh, good.
[3:31] And he feels very close to her, very proud.
[3:33] We got a good man there.
[3:34] Yes, sir.
[3:35] Couldn't be better.
[3:36] No, I really, I wouldn't have missed that trip for anything.
[3:39] But I hope you'll forgive me for not coming back, but I wanted to come up here.
[3:43] No, no, no, but the main thing is he can handle the situation.
[3:46] Exactly, exactly.
[3:48] And I wanted to tie up a couple of loose ends with respect to her and so on and our other arrangement.
[3:52] That's why I wanted to come on up here.
[3:55] Good.
[3:55] Yes, sir.
[3:56] Okay.
[3:57] Good shape.
[3:57] Good.
[3:58] Give Bob my best.
[3:59] All right, sir.