Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 205-010
Date: Saturday, August 19, 1972 at 12:11 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")
Recording device: Camp David Hard Wire
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/205-010

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[0:00] Yeah.
[0:23] Yeah.
[0:23] Yeah.
[0:23] Yeah.
[0:23] Yeah.
[0:30] I just like to get a couple of new ideas.
[0:47] And I think, and I realize that he's not all on big speech and so forth, but he's also, he's offered to say something.
[0:51] The busing thing, it doesn't mean I don't have to go on and on and on and on about busing.
[0:54] It isn't going to be very good.
[0:55] What I want is something that's a nothingness.
[0:56] I'd like to talk to you about it.
[0:57] 1,000 words, 15 minutes, maybe 50 numbers.
[1:13] But my point is, I like about 500 words on busing, to say the most, and 1,000 words on education.
[1:17] So the national press knows that I'm just not very pandering to the busing crowd.
[1:20] The Michigan press becomes a busing crowd.
[1:21] Does that make sense to you?
[1:29] We now are at the point, basically, that I really can't assimilate much more.
[1:52] I'm going to look at prices, prices compared to something like that.
[1:57] I don't want people to waste their time.
[2:13] Also, I don't want to be diverted.
[2:14] That's my problem.
[2:23] But I don't want to say my brain is gone.
[2:24] But it's probably not an individual.
[2:31] Good, good, good.
[2:34] That's fine.