Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 046-107
Date: Thursday, May 17, 1973 at 7:55 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/046-107

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[0:00] Hello, Mr. President?
[0:02] Hi, Al.
[0:02] Yes, sir.
[0:03] Anything late to report?
[0:05] No, nothing of any significance now since he left.
[0:13] Same stuff, though.
[0:15] Yes, sir.
[0:15] We're trying to pull our work together for tomorrow.
[0:22] We've had not a very happy day on television, of course.
[0:26] You mean with the... Yeah, with the first day, and we knew it would be a...
[0:31] with Odle and Curly and so forth.
[0:34] Is that what you meant?
[0:35] That's right, the earrings.
[0:37] That's right.
[0:38] And that's going to be unhappy for about a week.
[0:40] Sure.
[0:40] I mean, for a month.
[0:41] Sure, that's right.
[0:42] And then they're going to get tired of it, believe me.
[0:44] That's right.
[0:47] It shouldn't depress you too much, though, really.
[0:48] I mean, you never know what's going to be happy or unhappy, you know, with these people.
[0:52] They gave them a pretty rough time, huh?
[0:55] No, I don't think so.
[0:56] You know, I just think it's just the...
[0:59] the conveyor belt thing, here it is now, it's on television, and these guys are getting hit.
[1:04] They all did well.
[1:06] They all presented their positions well.
[1:09] And there wasn't anything stopping them.
[1:11] Did Bazaar Gooding do anything?
[1:13] Has he got any more affidavits, or is he still just digging away?
[1:17] No, we got everything in that package being as well on the way.
[1:24] So I think we're going to be in good shape, at least by Sunday noon.
[1:29] I talked to him earlier and he said he thought he might be ready Saturday.
[1:33] I said, well, I hope so.
[1:35] But that's all right.
[1:36] But Sunday noon is good.
[1:38] I mean, if we don't, because if they want to strike earlier, that's fine.
[1:42] We don't want to strike the moment thereafter.
[1:44] We could take a day.
[1:45] That's right.
[1:46] That's right.
[1:47] And in fact, we ought to keep making it better and better.
[1:50] But all right.
[1:51] Because on this issue.
[1:53] We want to hit one.
[1:54] We're in a pretty good position now.
[1:56] We're in a pretty good position.
[1:58] Well, it's an issue that I just hope that it turns on because we couldn't be in a better position.
[2:03] Right.
[2:05] How about Richardson?
[2:06] How's he doing?
[2:06] He's doing all right.
[2:08] I talked to him at about one o'clock and he seems to be more confident.
[2:13] Right.
[2:16] Good.
[2:16] He's not having any problems.
[2:18] He hasn't got his man yet, but
[2:21] I think you'll get through, don't you?
[2:23] Oh, I'm sure he's going to get through.
[2:25] Yeah, right.
[2:26] It'll be hard to figure any basis for nothing.
[2:28] Yeah, but tomorrow you think you just ought to make it a sort of, you know, ray-ray sort of type of session, everybody report?
[2:34] Yes, sir.
[2:35] I think what I'd do is to give them a chance to tell what they're doing that's of importance.
[2:42] That's right.
[2:44] All right.
[2:44] And then a rah-rah at the end of it.
[2:47] Right.
[2:48] Okay, boy.
[2:48] All right, sir.
[2:49] Bye.
[2:52] Bye.