Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 205-020
Date: Saturday, August 19, 1972 at 4:22 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")
Recording device: Camp David Hard Wire
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/205-020

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[0:02] So, the hemorrhoid will be here at six now.
[0:09] That can't be it.
[0:19] Yeah, okay.
[0:24] Five.
[0:29] Five.
[0:29] No.
[0:29] Yes.
[0:31] Then on the Rogers thing, shouldn't it make it... Oh, you moved it up a half hour already.
[0:43] Fine.
[0:44] Yeah, Rogers at 7 is fine.
[0:45] Well, it's good that...
[0:48] I mean, just a little sooner than 7.30, that way this... We'll all be... Well, Henry's going to be tired.
[0:55] Get that kid done.
[0:55] It's good for me to get...
[0:57] I'm still waiting to get back to the...
[1:01] Sure, I'd like postponing the 1701.
[1:34] At least we've got a guy working on it like Barnes.
[1:46] I'm not going to give it a cursory examination.
[1:53] They're going through his, also, public relations law and the policy, right?
[2:09] Perfectly, perfectly good cover.
[2:24] The accused name was independent of any politics.
[2:36] I'm here to say that we're all for the election.
[2:37] That's all we have to do.
[2:38] He may figure he's clean, you know, and so forth.
[2:49] The guy, you know, he's clean.
[2:51] Well, also, he just doesn't know what...
[3:02] He may have something there that...
[3:03] He may think we know something we don't, too.
[3:04] He overlooks something.
[3:05] Yeah.
[3:05] How are you going to do your best to avoid taxes?
[3:06] This is your perfect right.
[3:15] And he comes out and says, no, this is a beautiful thing.
[3:27] And he starts to blurb about it.
[3:28] Oh, no, this is with regard to the investigation of Hughes.
[3:32] Who paid him?
[3:32] Who paid him?
[3:33] Who paid him?
[3:33] And it's because it paid him.
[3:34] It paid him $190,000.
[3:40] See, he busts that right over his head.
[3:41] Right?
[3:41] He's, you know, paid him.
[3:42] That paid his son so much for both.
[3:46] What do you think?
[3:49] Got you.