Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 269-015
Date: Tuesday, August 3, 1971 at 10:02 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ehrlichman, John D.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/269-015

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[1:46:39] Hi, John.
[1:46:41] What's the morning report on our...
[1:47:21] Great, great.
[1:47:25] And appeal, and appeal, and action.
[1:47:53] Yeah.
[1:47:53] He'll say it today.
[1:47:53] Yeah.
[1:48:23] Right, right.
[1:48:25] Well, how about making telephone calls, you know, prior to that time, and cool the damn thing off and say that we're trying it and we're proposing it.
[1:48:36] Well, that's good work.
[1:48:37] There must be a non-bussing way to do the damn thing.
[1:48:45] Yeah.
[1:48:50] Yeah.
[1:48:51] Yeah.
[1:48:51] Yeah.
[1:48:52] Mm-hmm.
[1:48:54] How the hell are we doing now?
[1:48:56] Busting carpools or something like that?
[1:49:08] Yeah.
[1:49:08] Well, why the hell hasn't the court done that?
[1:49:13] Well, why didn't they ATW those then?
[1:49:17] Where did we... ATW really tried to screw us, John.
[1:49:22] Well, have we done?
[1:49:27] He knows my disillusionment on that letter.
[1:49:33] So the regional office deliberately put in a lousy service.
[1:49:37] They did it because they believed in busing and they wanted to do less there.
[1:49:42] They did it.
[1:49:42] I see.
[1:49:48] Yeah.
[1:49:51] Yeah.
[1:49:52] All right.
[1:49:52] Well, now, I want them, I want Schultz, he should be directed to attack that regional office personally.
[1:49:58] Is that clear?
[1:49:59] No, no, no.
[1:50:00] I'm not, you don't, you've got to clear, you've got to allow him to clear.
[1:50:04] He is to say the president totally disapproves of the action of the regional office.
[1:50:09] And we are taking disciplinary, use the word, if you've got a pencil, disciplinary action is being taken to reprimand those or remove those who did this.
[1:50:18] Is that clear?
[1:50:18] Now do it, John.
[1:50:20] That's the way to talk to this thing.
[1:50:22] Great.
[1:50:23] All right.
[1:50:24] Fine, John.
[1:50:25] Fine.
[1:50:25] Say, John, what the hell is the matter with White?
[1:50:29] I notice he's whacking around about the economy and everything.
[1:50:36] Yeah, but he says a lot of other senators, I go, why don't they get him down and give him the, not the rest of the, the brief, what's the, what is his unemployment?
[1:50:53] Yeah.
[1:50:55] Yeah.
[1:50:56] Yeah.
[1:50:59] Well, can't somebody,
[1:51:09] All right, well, planning on somebody, we've got some very powerful friends, you know, that support him, and he's, he can't, can't attack us, that this way, he's not running or anything.
[1:51:22] He can talk about the problem, and if he wants to, he can light up and start doing it.
[1:51:31] Yeah.
[1:51:37] Sure does.
[1:51:39] Well, they can't.
[1:51:39] They won't do it before they turn this week.
[1:51:53] Can they?
[1:51:53] No?
[1:51:54] Yeah.
[1:51:56] Okay.
[1:51:57] All right.