Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 247-005 Date: Tuesday, April 13, 1971 at 6:00 PM Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob") Recording device: Old Executive Office Building Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/247-005 This transcript was generated automatically by AI (WhisperX) and has not been reviewed for accuracy. Do not cite it as authoritative. [0:02] And, uh, you know, horses, you know, they come back from all this, and they're, you know, they're getting gas, and, uh, so it's really, really, you know, it's not selling. [0:15] It's not at all. [0:17] And, uh, you just have to take a lot of muscle to get it going. [0:23] You see it. [0:24] You see it. [0:25] When they made the war statement, he said, you can't tell the Congress to do that. [0:30] He said, by God. [0:31] He said, your cabinet should take them on. [0:33] They come to them. [0:35] He said, your cabinet should take them on. [0:37] They said, don't give anybody. [0:39] He told them to come on. [0:41] He said, kick them in the balls. [0:45] He said, and he also wrote a third one. [0:46] He said, come on. [0:49] He said, are you ready to go on? [0:50] They went forward, and I said, come on.