Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 045-108
Date: Tuesday, May 1, 1973 at 6:49 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Rogers, William P.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/045-108

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[0:00] Hello.
[0:01] Secretary Rogers.
[0:03] Bill.
[0:03] Yeah, Mr. President.
[0:04] I wondered how we, uh, how we have now left the Packard thing.
[0:08] I, uh, that, with all of our other things, I... Well, uh, the way we left it was that, uh, we didn't get in touch with him, but I think that if we're going to convince him to take it, you've got to make a call.
[0:21] Yes, yes, yes, I would do that, but I don't know what I can tell him about the stop thing, and so... Well, the only nice thing to do is tell him to come and see us.
[0:30] You have a feeling we can work it out, huh?
[0:34] Yes.
[0:35] Don't you think he's the best man?
[0:36] Oh, by far.
[0:37] All right.
[0:38] I will make a call to him then and come back and have a chat with me.
[0:43] He says he could come tomorrow.
[0:46] I guess you're going to leave, aren't you, Thursday noon or something like that?
[0:50] I thought I would, but I can stay.
[0:52] Well, he said he could come here Thursday.
[0:54] You see, I've talked to...
[0:57] I talked to Mike Mansfield and I talked to George Mahon.
[1:03] They all thought he was the best possible choice.
[1:10] We've got to convince him.
[1:12] He's a little bit reluctant.
[1:13] Yeah, yeah.
[1:15] I thought you should know, incidentally, I got Agnew in.
[1:17] I wasn't intending to crack him.
[1:19] I was just telling everybody to stay clear if they had any political ambitions, because he'd been, you know, the person of a gun has been out making statements both ways, and he's got to keep his damn mouth shut.
[1:30] So I said, now look here, you stay out of this, and so he was fine.
[1:34] Good.
[1:34] All right, Mr. President.
[1:35] Thank you.
[1:36] Good idea.
[1:37] Bye.