Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 046-033
Date: Monday, May 14, 1973 at 7:19 PM
Participants: Ziegler, Ronald L.; White House operator; Nixon, Richard M. (President); Garment, Leonard
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/046-033

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[0:00] Yes, please.
[0:03] Lend garment, please.
[0:08] Thank you.
[0:11] That's over, David.
[0:21] Hello?
[0:26] Yeah, Lenny?
[0:27] Yeah, what's wrong?
[0:29] Yeah, I tried to reach Senator Irvin.
[0:30] He's not available.
[0:31] He's just back from out of town a short while ago.
[0:35] I tried to reach Rufus Edmiston, his assistant.
[0:38] He's not available.
[0:38] How about Baker?
[0:40] Baker, that's the one guy I haven't tried.
[0:42] Yeah.
[0:44] Thompson...
[0:44] Moments and tears.
[0:46] Said he's trying to get this thing moving.
[0:49] He said the thing to do is to try to get Irving.
[0:52] You tell Thompson that we don't give a damn about tears.
[0:54] We want action.
[0:55] Right.
[0:56] I told him just that.
[0:58] How did you know?
[1:00] In any event, I shouted at him.
[1:02] Tell him that they put us in a position where I've had to deny on behalf of the president stealing $1 million in campaign funds, and God damn it, we don't like that.
[1:13] Right?
[1:14] That's right.
[1:14] And I think the more they delay on this, the better off we are.
[1:18] You follow me?
[1:19] They're doing themselves a disservice by, I think, tomorrow morning, you ought to say, or late tonight.
[1:24] The goddamn committee can't get itself together to deny what they know is false.
[1:28] They need a full meeting to do that.
[1:30] That's right.
[1:30] So you say that tonight or tomorrow morning.
[1:32] We're still waiting to hear from them.
[1:33] Yeah.
[1:34] In the meantime, you'll keep going off to dinner with Harry McPherson.
[1:39] Well, wait one on that.
[1:41] What?
[1:42] You'll keep trying to reach Baker, huh?
[1:44] Let me wait one on that.
[1:46] Okay, good.
[1:47] I didn't get that.
[1:49] Okay, fine.
[1:50] Thanks a lot, man.