Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 249-013
Date: Thursday, April 15, 1971 at 3:45 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Rumsfeld, Donald H.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/249-013

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[0:00] Yeah.
[0:02] I wonder if you would call that fellow from Central Harlem, the big guy, the black guy, the big guy.
[0:14] a great big guy, a big good looking guy, Ted Husky, and telling that you are leaving tomorrow to bench for Durham, and that the president actually called him to tell him that I was giving him a simply sign up for everything he can, and that he should take a replacement because of a particular remark that I wanted to follow up, and if he has any information on anything going on,
[0:41] that people attend to that I'm going to give it to you.
[0:44] So you know what I'm telling them.
[0:46] I'm telling them this is just public.
[0:47] You're going home with your money.
[0:49] We're a public conference.
[0:49] So that I can ask you to circle over to me and say that we're a public conference, or whatever they are, or you have this problem, and I'm going to take a break on that.
[0:58] You're not going to Turkey because they were handling that in another way, which you don't understand.
[1:03] I'm going to take a break on that.
[1:10] But I go here, and the first one I found in the jewelry lab, he was working, my dad was working, and he was returning home.
[1:16] And any time that he's got a suggestion based on his own travels or his own information, he's likely to look into it a lot, and I appreciate him passing along.
[1:26] Fair enough.
[1:27] Okay.
[1:28] Hi.
[1:28] Oh, I heard he was.
[1:30] I heard.
[1:32] Yeah, he is, yeah.
[1:35] So he had his powder in his breath.
[1:40] Yeah, well, I remember his father and brother were there that day.
[1:45] They were a great team.