Nixon, Cox & Sanchez on White House Tapes and Public Relations

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Our critics have always been right all along, that the fault was ours, it was one thing, the country itself.

I feel that it was, I think, Sensei's realization on his part, which he often shows.

Of course, in Canada, we like to take a little more time to let a little more open in the night, but in this instance, he might have felt that I was a bit rough on the critics.

uh, Ned Rogers involved in the cabinet meeting.

Of course, uh, I got to, uh, uh, get in and above the battle line.

But on the other hand, it is important that, uh, a certain amount of character shows from here.

As I told Sigrid, we couldn't be in a position of acting as if the press and our critics had, uh, always been right all along, and that the fault was ours.

It's one that I think the country has had a little bit of.

I'm just welcoming Prime Minister Sato here.

Let me see if this translates alright.

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I will go into Henry's office and tell him to just call out the papers that I should really read.

That I must, again, must go through the job of the chief assistant, the testing assistant, to go through and dissect the material and pick out the facts.

I, as it was, the material was very well prepared, although...

I also spent some time on one of the paramedics.

As I worked, I had a can of coke on me, but it was very heavy.

I just had to take it in.

I remember that.

I had spoken to all of them about the possibility of having five minutes of silence before the first inspection.

However, I had a hunch that it would be correct that somebody else might bring him down before I spoke to him.

Unfortunately, I didn't get noticed.

That night, woke up at 7 o'clock in the morning.

more than three or four hours during the evening.

And then, when I woke up for breakfast, at the breakfast, it was interesting to have people recording all of this watching mostly, not quite with any time.

I think that, uh, it's also just, you know, it's a glorious work of hope, you know, and, uh, allowing people to come here.

And, again, the purpose of the show is to show that, uh, all of it is correct in my view, and pretty much we have it correct.

Uh, we all know that these students, these honoraries, speak for the actions of all of the country.

And I think that's, uh, funny.

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respectful was probably not as great as one would expect.

The inaugural events, the right behind us, the boss aware of it, had to finish it.

So far, there's no intention of such an event to be found if necessary.

It was interesting to know that for the first time, one of these paraphernalia started.

When we turned to the White House, I had only about 30 minutes before he arrived, and I had 10 to 15 minutes of history.

But I think he needs it for his own ego and for his direction.

It's really our fault.

It's mine and anybody else's fault.

It's true that, you know...

And we must realize this, to be honest with you, son.

Bye.

This could be a high irony, particularly when anybody knows the facts in regards to the medical period and the negotiations in the Senate.

The city is involved in violence, restraining control, trying to relax.

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I remember talking to Ziegler after Jake and Ziegler was going out to sit on the right.

And I said it was kind of minus, but it wasn't much of a plus.

And he called me and asked some kind of questions to bring him down.

Part of the trip, I suppose, was basically a go-to, which everybody agreed.

Yeah, very well made.

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I don't know what to do.

Colson said he could fly by.

He was trying to come up to Chris.

Of course, Colson's kidding.

I was kidding.

I told Colson that he should talk to them about this by Saturday morning.

At this point, Henry said he was asleep.

I can't.

Henry said he was asleep.

I think the real problem here

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Well, no.

The answers were so-

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Come in.

It's, uh...

We just came up.

Yeah, I was here last night, and I went back.

We didn't spend the night, but I went back.

No, he didn't either.

He went back to London today.

No, I went.

We took him back last night.

I went back with him.

And we came up about 3 o'clock, 7 o'clock.

She came up 7 o'clock.

Yeah, yeah, we did.

It's really good.

Oh, everybody got a big kick out of it.

Just like a dog.

He didn't know we saw him outside.

He was going to be in this afternoon.

I know I was going to try to get him away from the dog.

I had been in the other room, but we saw him outside when he came in.

Yeah, I think so.

I don't know.

Okay, awesome.

I wouldn't think so, huh?

Yeah, okay.

Well, you're sure in the darkness.

Thanks, honey.

Well, anyway, you have a good time, and we'll see you, huh?

All right, honey.

Bye-bye.

trying, of course, to win his morale up under some force in New York, which he's running through, and I think now he's going to take in a hockey game.

He doesn't applaud it, so he won't receive it, I'm sure.

On the other hand, he's supposed to play

I don't believe I've ever heard all this talk about parole and so forth.

It's not going to go on.

As far as I can tell, most of the people don't agree.

It's separate from the rest of it.

It's advising people.

I mean, we'll minimize the sophistication, of course, of the story.

But everybody has his own historical records.

Henry has talked so greatly to so many people that he called them close.

He made it all up.

And he felt like he had to call them.

And then...

Uh, so forth.

The likes of Scott, Bill, and of course the others of the political types.

Annabelle is just as nice to me.

He has such a, honestly, powerful personality.

He comes out so strong that I can see him drive with Bill right at the end of the moment.

Uh, and there was a fight on the part of the police.

And it was just a bad thing to his personality.

So, uh, hotly, I told him, I told him, I told him, I told him, I told him, I told him, I told him, I told him, I told him, I told him,

He's a mild romantic, and he is persistent about what he gets done, but he's a

But Alex, of course, is a no-nonsense military type.

And then we...

Since we're... One man at that procedure in there, and we heard it's much better to have someone on a bull ring than that.

When he doesn't have... You know, that's what it's like.

I thought Greg played very well.

He's becoming increasingly easy to talk to, although he still is not as responsive as I might like.

But his car is pretty close to the basket.

However, I will always be grateful that he stuck his head out for us during the bombing.

I don't think he did that for his son.

Also, his statement on arrival that I disposed of spoke for very long.

I thought we had a very, very interesting talk in the car, and we had to come up by helicopter in Frederick when I drove, which was by the way, I'd seen the car, I'd seen the phone, and so forth, but I reminisced a bit about the various present

He died of a broken heart this week, and also of a broken heart, a mental and psychological statement.

And I found out that he was making some decisions from the subject, and it's constant.

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Uh, Palm Springs.

I brought you to the ranch, which he loved so much, and he had it for a break, made a big mistake, because he needed to see people as well, and even more than I did not, and certainly a lot more than I did not.

He didn't have people come to see him, that's why he wanted people to come to see him.

As I told you, the greatest blow to him was one that very in prior to the Democratic nomination,

They did.

They came to meet me.

Of course, I never came to see him later.

And then I called Pete Johnson.

He was the whole president.

He was the president.

And I ran a left-handed play.

I called Pete Johnson.

I called Mrs. Johnson today.

I told her that Mrs. Johnson was going to go on.

She said she'd written a letter.

Of course, I didn't see her.

And I...

I told her about the U.N. position.

She said she didn't want to say yes or no now.

I said, that's all right.

That's why I called her.

Because I know she would have a lot of things that she might defend.

And I thought she might want to consider doing something in the public service line later on.

He certainly was one who asked for his extra pound of flesh.

And with no reason for it at all.

I'm glad he's getting me on this enough, because I'm going to watch those closely, and I'm going to look for people on there who have come on the hard lines.

But it's all just stuck in my teeth, and I'm sure it's stuck in his as well.

He's just a mother in good shape, and I think she will be back.

I don't know.

Thank you.

My first year at MedCon, I was very thoughtful about how commentators and critics, particularly on television, seemed to be showing at least a gratification of the fact that MedCon was open.

The fact, as far as the rest is concerned, I don't know how much of an odd branch you can get in there.

You can make your way back.

The President has just let up that they will come with us.

I am inclined to think that this is not the case.

It's true.

And, uh, it's a personal situation that won't be common because a lot of people in the country are particularly regarding television.

I recently read that a lot of the recent discussion of, uh, what television companies are saying.

And that is all particularly easy to come on after the President spoke with me.

I don't know.

dance around on that scene.

I was pushing past it.

He's really up for the elections in October.

But I told him, unless he did it this year, we wouldn't get it done at all.

I have a feeling he doesn't want to get it done at all.

And he, of course, says, I said, well, we have to handle that while we have the means.

And he said, well, they were covered.

They didn't need us as much and so forth.

Of course, this is total nonsense because they just...

Absolutely, in terms of holding the ring against the Russians, and also in terms of their arms and bodies.

I think that the more consideration I give to this, that we are going to have to move Henry out of this area, unless he does, to begin to take over the country.

Egyptian is coming over.

What he works on, I don't know.

He's got to get me truly to move on from there, I think.

They say we can't move because we all have Egyptian or Arab positions, but there is some place in the country where we can.

The interim settlement is the first thing we can talk about.

The only thing the Israelis will ever go for, the Egyptians or the Indians, is that they have to take a settlement.

That's what the Arabs are with the insurances.

as far as the United States and European countries are concerned, credible as far as the Russian

I'm concerned we've been sent out because of weakness in the guard.

In college, as usual, I'm cold.

I'm very, very cold regarding this situation.

We need to listen to the trade bill, which gives us the opportunity to cut off huge loads of goods in this market right there and there.

But we also have to go all out in the country.

I incidentally noted that erotically that CBS had a series on hunters and had a series on the environment.

Now I have a series on energy.

And this is the same type of thing.

The energy problem is a real one, but I'm not going to be...

I can't think about else.

I can't think.

I watched him just as we talked, it was a walk.

Anyway, he put his coat on, and I heard him walk in the rain down to Laurel.

I went to the Secret Service, finally caught up with him.

It was not relevant, but I showed him around Laurel.

We rode back in the cart.

When we got back in, I told him, it's about a break over.

It was the first time that four of the guys had had a couple of...

Enjoy it.

The White House is ahead of me.

It's really a servile.

And, uh, it's true.

And, uh, I told the Prime Minister that, uh, we're going to have to keep it down.

But I just told him we have a different kind of deal.

So that is, uh, a deal that they're going to wrap around.

And, of course, in that case, it's important.

You know, it's impressive.

Impressive.

Thank you.

The conversation was light and extremely interesting.

I thought, of course, somebody else would talk to me, because I don't have the time to do that.

The British were very, very antagonistic toward the blacks.

They're having a hell of a time in the commonwealth.

Of course, the situation was, of course, increasingly embarrassing.

And with the blacks expelling the Asian,

the British labor market.

As a result of that, you know, black men were getting into the problem, getting angry.

And Ian Powell, of course, was getting into that, which was kind of a...

It was a temporizing force to the back.

He fired off, and as he and Alexander once agreed, he went back to the blacks and said, we're in this country to prove that we're a great asset.

They're very strong, and they'll allow us to take the challenge together.

The arts, they're the only area where I think, and also I might say that they're very talented when it comes to speaking.

The area where I would really not seem to have the abilities that others may have is in the art sciences.

Perhaps they need to go all the way through

I was delighted to have the opportunity to sit by the wife of the ambassador twice.

She is really a very nice person.

I actually adore the publisher.

And her conversation was great.

I found that she was a good, strong supporter, and very good at the so-called social side, and as far as her attitude toward Vietnam and our role in it was concerned.

I found that she was a good, strong supporter, and very good at the so-called social side, and very good at the so-called social side,

at the table at lunch, made the point that somebody had suggested we meet, and she asked about what subject to talk about, and there were many sections that I could, all the time, just laugh and talk about them.

The Brando, and the others, and everything else.

I was lost, but I was

i also had her call mrs senator

The whole story, you know, was good.

She had to develop something quite a lot, and I want you to buy it because it's so good.

I mentioned she drew her by Rose.

Rose does fine work.

It's, of course, all of her work.

I mean, Rose called me this morning.

They had more than anybody ever said.

It's special to have to sell somebody who makes the call when it comes to Rose.

It may be that he has no point there.

As he said, after the victory, there were those who wanted to accept it.

Yeah.

out there, unless, of course, this is something that I just don't want to discuss on television.

This, of course, wasn't a possibility in this case.

I mean, I've said this several times, but I've been in trouble with too many people in Washington.

And America, you see, is sick of America, et cetera.

So they have the responsibility of getting to look out the window and see America, see what it's like.

But instead, they look in the mirror, and they think they're looking out the window, and actually, but all they're seeing is themselves.

And I think this is why I think it's very strong to hear it at this time.

It's the right speech at some time.

And we talk to the industry, not to time.

It doesn't get any better for you at all.

So I bet you're wondering what to do.

In fact, I know the press at the time was humble.

But there's a history making a difference in that thing to humble.

On the other hand, in a certain

What is happening here is exactly what I predicted.

And, uh, without, uh, the patients are going to be terribly frustrated with the things about their age, uh, directions.

And, uh, all of the sense of history is sort of changing its mind a bit on the idea of turning on the liberals, uh,

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Interested in reading the transcript of Henry's conference that he left off.

And yet, with regard to the bar in Perth, I don't think he's going to come here.

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I like to take more responsibility than staff.

I still develop these positions because I'm afraid to be a judge.

War is supposed to be the center of this position.

War, that is, because it is all personally built in God.

Thank you.

to be going along pretty well.

The ceasefire kept loading the boat.

And when I saw us, the boat was moving really fast.

Everyone, I said, we're going to have to continue going.

The ceasefire was a factor.

Otherwise, we might not get to go.

You know how the press never misses an opportunity to say that there's a lack of interest or excitement or appreciation or exultation in the United States because of the end of the war.

And it's shocking to see that from right now.

You're not going to be welcome.

Of course, anybody else, anybody, that's totally normal.

This is what I had done with my big government office in the back, out of the hands of people, and out of the pocket.

Right.

I don't know if I should be self-explanatory about it, but I think this elevator is a pretty blended group now, and I don't think it's going to be far off unless we're going to have to, uh, have to, uh, just, of course, cover it.

I don't know if I should be self-explanatory about it,

Yes.

If I had a business tape, I would think that the exercise of making notes like this, although it takes, in this case, about an hour of my time, would be a matter of more than a mile.

Thank you for watching.

It's probably worthwhile to go to my thinking.

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