Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 226-006
Date: Friday, November 17, 1972 at 12:40 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")
Recording device: Camp David Hard Wire
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/226-006

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[0:00] Hello.
[0:04] Did you get the announcement for Ziegler?
[0:13] Yeah.
[0:20] What's that?
[0:21] Ziegler isn't here.
[0:27] Did he drop the bill?
[0:27] Yeah.
[0:27] Oh yeah, yeah.
[0:28] Well, he left, yeah.
[0:29] Yeah.
[0:29] What is the problem?
[0:33] Well, he's wrong about that.
[1:03] I'm going to hire each one of them myself.
[1:10] That's the point.
[1:12] And I don't mean it's that way.
[1:14] I'm sure that I did this.
[1:21] I hope he understands.
[1:22] He's not going to hire them.
[1:23] I'm going to call them all myself.
[1:26] Well, the point is, there's a little question.
[1:28] We've got to get the thing here.
[1:30] We're not going to change it on and on.
[1:32] Oh, that's right.
[1:54] I know you can't because
[2:05] Yeah, the point is.
[2:14] That's right, that's right, that's right, that's right.
[2:24] Yeah, okay, fine, fine, fine.
[2:25] Yeah, I know.
[2:25] Yeah, that's right, you get the announcement done and so forth.
[2:33] Exactly, exactly.
[2:33] As a matter of fact, I don't know if you have to do it, do it, do it.
[2:47] There must be a cut-off.
[2:48] I don't know if all of us are doing it wrong.
[2:51] Or you can just say, say, I understand that this is the first.
[2:55] But we will say nothing about that second.
[2:58] We'll have no appointment at the end of the week.
[2:59] There will be a re-organization of the plan.
[3:06] Okay, good.