Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 203-022
Date: Thursday, August 17, 1972 at 3:06 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.
Recording device: Camp David Hard Wire
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/203-022

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[0:06] Good.
[0:30] Ira, how are you?
[0:31] Hi.
[0:31] Good.
[0:31] Sure.
[0:31] Right.
[0:31] Yeah.
[0:31] Yeah.
[0:31] Yeah.
[0:32] Yeah.
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[1:11] Got it.
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[2:09] I would think the press guys would, I don't know if there's any fairness in them at all, they would see that this is a bad thing for the country.
[2:34] I mean, maybe we're not...
[2:54] No, no, that's what you're doing.
[3:01] Not your dick on our White House staff.
[3:04] We have the hatchet in heaven.
[3:09] All right, I'm glad you did this thing.
[3:11] And if you'll pass it on to Julie.
[3:14] She's the chairman of Washington.
[3:14] And just, just, yeah.
[3:20] All right, let's just, I mean, we just know you should let them get ground.
[3:23] Wow.
[3:26] We can always change our mind later.
[3:30] I just don't believe we're walking into one.
[3:32] We may find somebody better.
[3:33] We may get a better offer.
[3:34] Who knows?
[3:35] We'll have an offer for him.
[3:36] Don't worry.
[3:36] Particularly after he makes another trip.
[3:43] That's it.
[3:44] Right.
[3:44] And all of his trips, of course.
[3:45] What the hell?
[3:47] One thing about this, though, was so interesting.
[3:51] Clark...
[3:52] We're setting them up to blame them when things don't come off.
[4:10] Do you agree?
[4:17] Do you think so?
[4:17] No.
[4:23] I don't know.
[4:25] Of course, the negative side is that people don't say, well, we shouldn't have a war to talk about and so forth.
[4:31] But I suppose that the other side of that, though, is that if they weren't talking about it in a confused way, they would be attacking us in other ways.
[4:41] I mean, the issue is there.
[4:43] They're going to make it.
[5:10] Well, you did the right thing.
[5:21] I think you did the right thing.
[5:28] You've done exactly what you should.
[5:33] Okay.
[5:33] Thanks.