On August 16, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David from 3:58 pm to 4:11 pm. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 202-022 of the White House Tapes.
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I want you to, just so that he'll know what the problem is, just ask Ron to get the transcript because apparently it's very vicious.
And Ron, I know he doesn't have any responsibility in this field, but he has some really, you know, where she's concerned.
She didn't remember I wrote to her, and she shouldn't have done these things because they bother her so much.
I mean, they don't mean that much, but she, I guess the woman was pretty rough.
She
went into the, she said, well, you're in all this plastic path, your husband's going to be big or something like that, and said that we understand that the relations between you and President Eisenhower were so cool, and we were never on the second floor during the whole eight years, which, of course, is just bullshit.
We were there perhaps 50 times, you know, for NPI, and of course, in Jesus' name, other pages, too, but just all of the left-wing
Horrible stuff.
My goddammit.
We don't have to take that kind of stuff.
Or do you agree?
I mean, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's right.
And for this reason, I'm going to be really tough now.
I want him to cancel right now.
He's not going to do that CBS thing with that son of a bitch.
That's what CBS should understand.
Not in spite of what we just did with NBC.
You know the one that that goddamn call wants to do.
He's got to cancel it in about 15 minutes.
All right, fine.
I just want him to know that I will not approve of his doing call.
We'll get somebody else to do it.
We'll offer it to an expert.
I'm not going to have call do it.
I mean, this kind of thing needs to get the transcript.
Because I think Bobby Booth got to play a pretty rough game.
He didn't have our, I hope,
Now, they wouldn't, at least this is an insulting kind of question, you know.
What about the checker speech?
Not one single question about her travels around the world and how she's received in China and Russia.
I mean, the big things.
Not one goddamn one.
Just a total sum of the bitching inquisition.
I want Ron to know that he is to be sure so that Cald is not planning it.
Just to let him know, I'm sorry, there's much more I just can't do.
Don't explain.
Just don't count that for future plans.
We're going to have you do something else.
Do you mind now?
I just think it makes me feel better to do it that way too.
Cald is out under all circumstances.
And Ron can look
I don't, I don't really, I don't really have to.
It's a question, really, of, uh, of, uh, you're checking the, uh, the Olympic thing might be a good thing, but, uh, I'll, uh, I'll check what you would say about tomorrow, uh, at the time of that.
Yeah, tell me, uh,
We just don't know yet.
We don't catch on yet as to when they would all be foregathered in one place.
They'll be in the big room.
Right.
So, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so,
I just cut the goddamn thing off.
And we can't get it from somebody else.
We can't get it, but we can.
There's nothing else we can do to our extent to answer the questions.
And some other things we are.
Okay.
Now, anything else that evolved since our last talk?
All right.
sure.
Well, they can usually find out in advance.
They all talk a lot about what they're planning to do with each other.
Yeah, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean,
Ron will follow through with it.
That's all I'd like for him to do.
Give me a report on what you think, sir.
We should do the same thing.
But I'm going to punish these CBS people now.
We've got that.
There are other networks.
And they have done things.
What I will do is I'm going to do something along with the other networks myself.
You know?
CBS is almost kind of shit.
They're not going to get away with it.