Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 189-001
Date: Wednesday, May 17, 1972 at 9:14 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.
Recording device: Camp David Hard Wire
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/189-001

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[0:39] in the foreign policy direction?
[0:44] Sure.
[0:44] Oh, I heard it.
[0:59] It's true.
[1:28] Yeah.
[1:29] Well...
[1:39] I'd be surprised.
[1:40] Henry may not have...
[1:42] He may have been a little too rough on him.
[1:50] Henry Stark, though.
[1:59] Well, well, let it go, let it go.
[2:04] He'll get some heat.
[2:06] We were close to him.
[2:07] We talked to him.
[2:09] We can't talk to everybody, but, yeah, yeah.
[2:18] All right.
[2:18] Well, let him know we're not, we're not a bit put out about his vote.
[2:21] Let's not let him feel, develop his feet deeper.
[2:24] Yeah.
[2:31] Right, good, good.
[2:34] Well, at least the vote's taking place, that's that.
[2:42] I heard that, yeah.
[3:12] Yeah?
[3:12] Oh, he's great.
[3:55] Well, three is all right.
[3:55] We can take three.
[3:56] All right.
[3:56] Yeah.
[3:56] All right.
[3:56] Good.
[4:24] Hey, well, that's, uh, back to my books.
[4:26] All right.
[4:26] How are they doing?
[4:36] Fine.
[4:37] I've got to, of course, uh, from now on, I'll just do a version of this.
[4:59] However, it's moving along.
[5:00] We're still going to be ups and downs, but I think the general trend is going to be up.
[5:03] If we can just hold our feet together.
[5:04] Yeah.
[5:05] Yeah, well, they may have a piece of bang on 18 because it's touching its birthday.
[5:07] So they do.
[5:33] Yeah.
[5:33] Right.
[5:33] Right.
[6:11] Well, Mansfield, of course, is just playing the dog in the manger thing.
[6:13] The son of a bitch just wants everything and gives nothing in return.
[6:17] It's getting pretty tiresome.
[6:18] Figures that something's going on here.
[6:28] He's really worried that maybe, you know, all of his theories may explode on him.
[6:44] Just get them up.
[6:52] They aren't going to do a damn thing.
[7:04] We don't want them.
[7:12] All right.
[7:16] Well, we just do our best.
[7:20] They don't confirm the nominees.
[7:22] It's a turning out now.
[7:23] They just had a devil along with unconfirmed nominees.
[7:26] We could turn that on them as an issue now, the way I feel it.
[7:29] I just think they've gone too far now.
[7:36] Yeah.
[7:37] Don't let him go first.
[7:44] That's right.
[8:04] No, we can simply say they've got that.
[8:07] It's because we have an inactive Senate.
[8:08] Right.
[8:10] Right.
[8:12] Right.
[8:16] Okay, good luck.