Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 254-016
Date: Monday, May 31, 1971 at 5:45 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/254-016

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[0:00] Uh, yeah.
[0:01] Yeah, okay, good to see you.
[0:02] I'm gonna have an early dinner, if you'll be certain.
[0:07] So, uh, I'll bring over about 6 or 15 cushions.
[0:10] Oh, uh, yeah.
[0:11] I didn't mean to bother you.
[0:16] I'm just checking on a couple of things here at the department.
[0:22] I'll sit with old friends, though.
[0:25] I know I used to go there.
[0:28] I went over to watch her, uh,
[0:31] I guess they teach well.
[0:35] I don't know.
[0:38] They get their kids into college.
[0:39] I don't know.
[0:41] Basically, they're conservative.
[0:46] They're conservative.
[0:48] They're not conservative.
[0:50] And all that sort of thing.
[0:52] They had this bowl of many good questions where they rated the issues which they were on.
[0:57] I know that one thing that
[1:00] And at least as far as any of you have here, I'm sure the organization didn't turn on me at all.
[1:07] Yeah, well, the environment did.
[1:10] I'm going to ask everybody to carry this on the next one.
[1:15] We'll ask everybody to support it at home.
[1:21] Yeah.
[1:21] I have a feeling that myself and the environment is not forever.
[1:28] They're an adequate group.
[1:37] It sets a hell of a lot of people.
[1:42] It's very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very,
[1:57] Whether it's Gallup coming out, whether it's, you know, a lot of effort from the other, because it's the last one that's going to be very, very well published.
[2:12] Let me come back to one other point on the schedule.
[2:15] It seemed to me that one thing, and I wonder if you were able to analyze this, and I guess maybe you can, is what, if any, in fact, we've all, you know, felt press conferences before this.
[2:27] Wow.
[2:27] Wow.
[2:50] What happens when you talk to me and what happens when you talk to me?
[2:54] When you first start crying, when you see me, when I try to get to your calibers, you might be thinking that you need to come back and do something with me.
[3:04] It might be that I have your chance again.
[3:06] I was wondering about this, whether we all stop breathing and try to put a question on the table.
[3:13] I don't know how he got here.
[3:15] I'm not very sure, but you know, we can't get too much into Washington, D.C.
[3:19] I don't know how he got here.
[3:20] I don't know how he got here.
[3:21] I don't know how he got here.
[3:36] Thank you.