Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 169-024
Date: Wednesday, June 20, 1973 at 12:20 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.
Recording device: Camp David Study Table
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/169-024

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[0:00] Hello, Mr. President.
[0:02] Just wanted to know if we're still waiting.
[0:03] Yes, sir.
[0:03] Well, I think they're starting now.
[0:05] That's right.
[0:07] Sir, we're in no hurry.
[0:08] All right, sir.
[0:09] You get a hold of Seth, please?
[0:11] Yes, sir.
[0:11] I've got a call in to him now.
[0:13] He's in a meeting, sir, probably with Petelichick.
[0:16] Yes.
[0:17] I talked to Mel twice this morning.
[0:20] How's he doing?
[0:21] He's doing fine.
[0:23] And Conley had his press conference, which was rather interesting.
[0:29] It was...
[0:31] good on the economics, sort of ambivalent about the staff, about his utilization.
[0:41] He was a little ambivalent, but it's all right.
[0:45] It wasn't as strong as I'd like to see him be, but it wasn't hurtful either.
[0:52] Well, you mean it left his role for the year?
[0:57] Yeah, it left the feeling that he could have
[1:01] done more, could be doing more.
[1:04] That's right.
[1:07] And he said he hoped to be on his trip sometime late this summer.
[1:15] So it's all right.
[1:17] It generally did a damn good job on the economy, but
[1:22] Yeah, that's really what we wanted.
[1:23] That's what we wanted from the staff thing.
[1:25] That's all the in-house stuff.
[1:26] That's right.
[1:27] And just so he's around and he'll be around.
[1:31] He made that clear in that he was here.
[1:33] Did he say he was going to send Quim anybody a chance?
[1:37] No, he didn't say that.
[1:38] He said he sat in yesterday at some length on the economic meeting.
[1:44] He pointed out he had been advising you across a whole spectrum of things, organization, what have you.
[1:51] Yeah.
[1:53] Let's not worry about how that... No, no, no.
[1:55] It's all about more.
[1:57] Are you talking to him?
[1:58] Not yet.
[1:58] Are you going to do that personally?
[2:00] No, I'm going to do it this morning in the... Jonathan Moore?
[2:03] Yes, sir.
[2:03] I'll have him in a few minutes.
[2:05] I've been listening to the Conway thing.
[2:07] Oh, I see.
[2:09] We piped up here.
[2:10] It's very...
[2:11] It was good.
[2:12] All right.
[2:12] Yeah.