Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 131-036
Date: Thursday, May 18, 1972 at 11:44 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")
Recording device: Camp David Study Table
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/131-036

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[0:01] Yeah.
[0:01] Yes, sir.
[0:02] Did Rose reach you?
[0:03] No.
[0:04] Yeah.
[0:05] What she called me about is the Mazo problem.
[0:09] And apparently Herb Klein is in the act, and he's called and talked to her and says he's dying to go and so forth.
[0:16] And I said, well, it's a pure case that nobody will finance it.
[0:21] You know, the Reader's Digest can't because you won't write anything.
[0:24] She says, well, no, the Woodrow Wilson Center for this and that and the other thing will pay its way.
[0:28] That's fine.
[0:29] That's what I told her, that if he could... No problem, if he gets his way, pay.
[0:32] Yeah.
[0:33] Well...
[0:33] I'll get it straightened out.
[0:34] If you can.
[0:35] Sure.
[0:35] I mean, I have no objection to his going, but I don't believe we can...
[0:39] I don't think we can justify, you know, giving him a cut rate.
[0:43] You can't.
[0:44] Can you?
[0:45] No.
[0:45] You've got a few other cut rates, but you know what I mean?
[0:48] Within reason, you can maybe trim a little bit.
[0:50] Oh, yeah, we can help, but we... We can help, but he's... We can't get the...
[0:53] It's a question of his getting it financed.
[0:56] Sure.
[0:56] Sure.
[0:57] Of course, Klein should have talked to Ziegler about it.
[0:59] I don't know what the hell.
[0:59] That's the way to do that.
[1:00] I'll find out about that.
[1:02] Yeah, okay, fine.