Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 186-008
Date: Friday, February 2, 1973 at 3:43 PM
Participants: Sisco, Frank A.; Camp David Operator; [Unknown person(s)]; Morlan, Farrell D.
Recording device: Camp David Study Desk
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/186-008

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[0:04] Okay, give me a second.
[0:10] Okay.
[0:11] White House signal.
[0:13] Could you ring Sergeant Moore in his quarters for me, please?
[0:20] Thank you.
[0:22] How many of them have been opened?
[0:26] All of these have been opened.
[0:29] They come in a bag.
[0:31] They come in a bag.
[0:35] That's what I mean.
[0:37] You've got to check.
[0:39] You've got to get the damn things on with me.
[0:43] We've got 90s, 120s, 60s, and 30s.
[0:47] Is that open?
[0:50] I don't know if that's open.
[0:52] I don't know.
[1:11] I don't have him to take me out, but it's something like 50-something.
[1:19] Yeah.
[1:21] Yeah.
[1:22] But if he did go to record something, he would erase it.
[1:25] He would erase that music.
[1:27] I know, but no way.
[1:28] Yeah, sir, morning?
[1:29] Yeah.
[1:30] Say, you know these damn recorders I just got?
[1:34] I got a bunch of tapes for me.
[1:36] The president just left, and I was checking to see if there was anything on the tape.
[1:40] And this one here's got music on it.
[1:42] Weren't these supposed to be blank tapes you sent me out?
[1:46] When?
[1:47] Uh, yesterday.
[1:47] I just got these Sony, uh, C90s.
[1:55] And, you know, I put out what I thought was two new tapes for them to use.
[1:59] They didn't give us the, uh, audio visual.
[2:03] Oh, they did?
[2:04] Yeah.
[2:06] Huh?
[2:06] Huh?
[2:07] Who is it?
[2:09] Mr. Cisco.
[2:09] Oh, I'm sorry.
[2:10] That's a Cam David.
[2:12] No, I didn't, uh, uh, let's see.
[2:16] I didn't get any C90s.
[2:18] I think you had your tapes up there.
[2:21] No, well, this is the, uh, I just picked up the two C90s yesterday.
[2:26] Down there.
[2:28] Uh-huh.
[2:28] And I come in to check after he left to see, you know, he has left, uh...
[2:32] He should have picked up 120s.
[2:34] Didn't he?
[2:35] Didn't you see that message up there?
[2:37] The only thing the person wants to use is 120s.
[2:40] No, I didn't see that.
[2:42] All he wants to use is 120.
[2:43] 120?
[2:46] Yeah.
[2:46] I got 160s.
[2:47] Oh, you mean just 60s?
[2:51] Well, this here says, uh, Scott ABC...
[2:54] One, uh, 60, 30 minutes side.
[2:57] Oh, no.
[2:58] That's what I've got.
[3:00] You could have all 120.
[3:01] I didn't put it in the package unless your boy asked for a certain one.
[3:06] Well, I don't know.
[3:08] Because when I caught some man up there like you had plenty of them, you know, I just swapped out the bearing.
[3:18] You hear that?
[3:19] That's, that's me, isn't it?
[3:21] Yeah, did you have any up there?
[3:23] No, I didn't have any.
[3:23] See, I didn't have any recordings until I got this.
[3:26] Is he coming up there?
[3:28] Well, he was up there, and he left, and he's coming back tomorrow.
[3:31] Uh-huh.
[3:32] And I just wondered how in the devil I got tapes with music on them.
[3:34] That's a good question, and it must have been A.V.
[3:37] It couldn't have gone from me.
[3:38] Okay, well, I picked... Well, you're surprised.
[3:41] You gave me two, three recorders yesterday.
[3:47] Right, 53 recorders.
[3:48] And I got the tapes from you yesterday.
[3:50] He may have asked for tape.
[3:52] I don't think Garner got him for much.
[3:54] Well, I asked him to get the tapes yesterday.
[3:57] He only got two?
[3:58] Well, I've got two down here with me.
[4:01] And one of them's got music on it.
[4:02] I just put two out for the box.
[4:04] Hold on a minute.
[4:10] Hey, uh, Sonny?
[4:10] Did Garner pick up the tape yet?
[4:14] Are these some that you had earlier?
[4:16] Well, I don't know who he picked up the tapes from yesterday, but he picked them up yesterday.
[4:31] Well, what I told him is to check down there and see what they needed.
[4:36] and to bring back some of all of what the president used.
[4:39] Now, I haven't saw a message on anything.
[4:41] Okay, the only thing, uh...
[4:43] But then Garner brought back 20s, 30s, 60s, and 90s yesterday.
[4:48] Grab, see, I'm going, a lot of people give you what you ask for, but you don't get the information out.
[4:54] You just like day to day, you didn't know what you were supposed to swap out that TC-40.
[4:57] No, I didn't even know I was supposed to get a TC-40 that Colonel Adams told me.
[5:02] Don't pass it on information.
[5:04] You have to buy three people and forget it.
[5:05] Yeah.
[5:06] Now, look, if you need tape, just go down to Stoddard there and buy yourself a dozen C-120s.
[5:13] C-120s?
[5:14] C-120s.
[5:15] That's 120 minutes.
[5:16] Okay.
[5:17] That's all the president wants.
[5:19] Okay.
[5:20] C-20s, huh?
[5:21] C-120s.
[5:22] C-120s.
[5:23] Well, I'll just pick up some from Stoddard tomorrow.
[5:25] Okay.
[5:25] And then all this mess I've got here, I'll send back to you because I don't want any of this being recorded on.
[5:31] Okay.
[5:32] Who do I send them to?
[5:34] Okay, I'll just keep them here for test tapes.
[5:41] Okay.
[5:42] Then I'll get to see 120s from starters tomorrow.
[5:45] Okay, thanks a lot, then.