Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 043-176
Date: Thursday, February 22, 1973 at 3:17 PM
Participants: Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Timmons, William E.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/043-176

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[0:00] Mr. Timmons out there.
[0:08] Yes, hold on, please.
[0:36] Hello.
[0:37] Is this Fred Thompson, the young guy from Tennessee?
[0:39] Yep.
[0:40] He is.
[0:41] Yep.
[0:41] 30 years old or 31, former assistant DA.
[0:44] Yeah.
[0:45] Do you know him?
[0:46] Nope.
[0:49] Howard is very high on him, but I don't know him.
[0:52] I haven't bothered to check him out with anybody either.
[0:55] Stuck with him now, huh?
[0:56] Apparently so.
[0:58] See, Howard's been very reluctant to talk on the telephone, although I talked to him personally last night and also to his guy.
[1:04] that hold up, and I tried to push George Webster.
[1:07] And they came back with it.
[1:08] And they said, well, Howard's really big on this guy.
[1:10] He's a tiger.
[1:11] He'll do anything we want.
[1:11] Yak, yak, yak, yak.
[1:13] And I said, well, he's a lightweight.
[1:14] He's going to be mismatched.
[1:15] And they said, well, he's not going to ask any questions.
[1:17] Howard's going to do all the questions.
[1:18] Yak, yak, yak.
[1:20] He said what they'd do on George Webster is make him an associate.
[1:24] Well, will they still?
[1:25] Yeah, I think so.
[1:26] Well, that'd be good.
[1:27] Now, I haven't talked to him again, but that's what they were going to do last night.
[1:31] And I talked to Dean.
[1:32] He says, God, you can't have a guy as heavy as Webster as an associate.
[1:35] So I said, well, what about a consultant?
[1:36] You know, he could be a consultant to the Republicans.
[1:38] Same difference.
[1:38] And he would overshadow this kid, I think.
[1:44] Okay.
[1:44] Okay.
[1:44] Maybe they could make him co-counsel.
[1:48] Maybe.
[1:51] On the basis of knowing...
[1:52] the city city and the other guys out of town talk for them yeah mighty okay