Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 045-072
Date: Monday, April 30, 1973 at 11:50 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/045-072

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[0:00] Hello?
[0:03] Mr. Holloman's on the line, sir.
[0:04] Yeah.
[0:04] Yes, sir.
[0:06] Well, I guess we've got all the reports, so they go to bed.
[0:09] So what have you?
[0:11] Well, that could come out very well.
[0:13] It's a good reaction on the radio from the congressional guys.
[0:18] Press, press pissing on it, but that's all right.
[0:21] No, they're not.
[0:22] They're making a big thing out of the... Rowan and all the rest pissing on it, but that's all right.
[0:27] I don't care.
[0:28] None that I've heard.
[0:31] Really?
[0:31] No.
[0:32] And the congressional guys you got good reaction on.
[0:38] Blackcomb.
[0:38] Both the good guys and the bad guys.
[0:40] Javits and Baker.
[0:41] I was at several of them.
[0:49] Good.
[0:49] The Democratic governors didn't like it, but they aren't going to like anything.
[0:53] I guess they weren't talking about the speech.
[0:54] They had them on reacting to the speech.
[0:58] They said that wasn't enough.
[1:02] Well, we knew that.
[1:03] Which is, of course, that's the next bounce now.
[1:05] I told you that.
[1:06] Yes, sure, we know that.
[1:08] Some more.
[1:09] But no, I think certainly what they're carrying on the news wrap-up now is good.
[1:18] It's very good.
[1:19] Henry's reaction is rather typical.
[1:21] He's sort of waiting.
[1:25] But we expect that, don't we?
[1:28] Yes, pro-Henry.
[1:33] This isn't an effort that's designed for the Henry types anyway.
[1:37] No, you're right.
[1:39] The main thing David was just saying is he didn't give a shit what all the press does.
[1:43] He says, you got to the folks.
[1:45] Well, that's the whole point.
[1:47] We may have gotten to the folks.
[1:48] I don't know.
[1:51] You got to the press afterwards.
[1:55] about your drop-by in the press room or whatever it was, where you made a comment about, you know— You can be hell when I'm wrong.
[2:03] Yeah, but something about you hope you merit their confidence or their trust or something.
[2:10] And they picked that up.
[2:15] CBS, particularly, for some reason, thought that was very impressive.
[2:21] I'll keep the pay though, boy.
[2:24] Right.
[2:25] Always.
[2:25] Don't give up.
[2:26] Never.
[2:27] Goodbye.
[2:28] Okay.