Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 261-026
Date: Tuesday, June 29, 1971 at 2:28 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/261-026

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[1:02:12] Yeah.
[1:02:14] So, anything new on the air front today?
[1:02:25] Right.
[1:02:27] Yeah.
[1:02:36] Here it is.
[1:02:47] I told all of them today and I also told the captain and I told the official that we're going to fight all out of this thing.
[1:03:29] Well, the point is that if the Ellsberg case ever comes up, he's going to get all through his government among the intellectual types.
[1:03:36] The people that have the loyalty is the idea that they will be the ones who return what's good for this country.
[1:03:43] And on that, they weren't elected.
[1:03:44] They're not going to turn it that way.
[1:04:03] Now, I consider this a little problem.
[1:04:06] I'm going to make it a moderate one.
[1:04:07] I just want to prove it.
[1:04:12] You're not very too much of an insider.
[1:04:13] You have a problem, I tell you.
[1:04:18] Run your shop.
[1:04:19] Be honest.
[1:04:36] Pretty natural, right?
[1:04:41] Mm-hmm.
[1:04:41] Mm-hmm.
[1:04:42] If you can really tie it in with some, like communist groups, that would be good.
[1:05:05] It's my guess that the intent was subversive, you know.
[1:05:27] Sure.
[1:05:33] Right.
[1:05:34] Right.
[1:05:35] Yeah.
[1:05:35] Okay.
[1:05:38] Well, that was a big damn dickle in the hunch yesterday.
[1:05:42] The nickel, the pressure, the comic power, everybody else.
[1:05:47] Yeah.
[1:05:48] I got it.
[1:06:06] Okay, good.
[1:24:57] You're getting a bad look at me.
[1:24:59] That's what you get.