Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 043-159
Date: Wednesday, February 21, 1973 at 6:47 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/043-159

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[0:00] Mr. Haldeman, sir.
[0:01] Hello.
[0:02] I was wondering if you had been able to get Finch yet.
[0:08] Well, then, maybe I had better call him.
[0:12] No, let me get him.
[0:13] But he's going from Riverside to San Diego or San Diego to Riverside.
[0:16] I don't know which.
[0:17] Well, you think maybe, though, if I called him, that might have more of an effect on him, just to say that this is the way it is and want him to cooperate on it.
[0:32] Well, this poses no problem to me.
[0:36] I can talk.
[0:37] Yeah, but I don't think you should get in... Well, there's no problem with doing it.
[0:41] I don't think you should get into it, though.
[0:44] Okay, well, then you follow through, and then I tell him that, look, we've got a very difficult problem here, and that she cannot be in an agency that we're going to, you know, cut down.
[0:57] Right.
[0:57] And that...
[0:59] On the other hand, this other thing is an enormous opportunity, particularly you can tell him that there's going to be a big announcement on China tomorrow and that I will arrange for her to go over there in the summer, which will be a hell of a big thing for her.
[1:16] Absolutely.
[1:17] And he just ought to hold it out to her and tell her she should take it, and that's what we want her to do.
[1:21] Yeah.
[1:21] Okay.
[1:22] Okay.
[1:22] We'll do it.