Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 045-013
Date: Thursday, April 26, 1973 at 5:53 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kleindienst, Richard G.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/045-013

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[0:00] Attorney General, sir.
[0:03] Yeah.
[0:03] Yeah, Mr. President, I just, uh, I'm just going to call you.
[0:05] About the, uh, report from the Times?
[0:07] No.
[0:08] Yeah, go ahead, yeah.
[0:09] California situation.
[0:10] Yeah.
[0:11] The judge, and he's taking it under advisement, and they'll rule on it tomorrow.
[0:16] See, fine.
[0:17] Good.
[0:17] We'll have nothing tomorrow.
[0:18] The other thing, Dick, I was going to call you about is, you know, that, uh, you know, this situation, which I think I should talk to you about, because it involves Pat Gray involving, uh, the, the, uh,
[0:31] is being given that, the contents of, some of the contents of Hunt's safe.
[0:35] I learned of that the first time I come.
[0:37] And that's in the New York Times and so forth.
[0:41] And that Gray did, and Gray has destroyed it, you know.
[0:46] Okay.
[0:47] Don't you feel that under the circumstances that Gray, and I'm just, I don't think I'm overreacting, but under these circumstances, are we going to have to resign?
[0:59] What do you think?
[1:00] How do you handle this one?
[1:02] Do you want to think about it?
[1:03] Dr. Henry Peterson called me back.
[1:04] I'd like to think about it overnight.
[1:08] Well, we're not going to have you do it tonight.
[1:11] I guess you're right.
[1:13] But I mean, the story's going to remind me twice about it.
[1:16] What's Henry think we should do about it?
[1:18] Well, we both don't know.
[1:21] And I just hate to come up and make a decision, you know.
[1:24] Right.
[1:26] That's fast.
[1:26] All right.
[1:27] Well, can I ask you and Peterson to think a little about it?
[1:35] Yes, sir.
[1:38] I know this is one of those things, but I want the whole damn thing out, don't you?
[1:46] Tough as it is.
[1:47] It's going to come out anyway.
[1:48] Well, sure.
[1:50] Sure, it's going to come out.
[1:51] But Dick.
[1:51] Back to life right now.
[1:53] Dick.
[1:53] are crying out loud.
[1:55] God damn it, if these damn things happen, I as president have got to get them out.
[2:00] That's right.
[2:01] That's my responsibility.
[2:03] It's my responsibility, and I'm going to meet it.
[2:08] Yes, sir.
[2:10] All right.
[2:11] I'll talk to you tomorrow morning.
[2:12] Bye.