Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 272-014
Date: Wednesday, August 11, 1971 at 3:45 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Shultz, George P.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/272-014

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[0:00] I wondered if you could delay and charge 15 minutes so that I could get maybe you and Ray can come over and I want to just talk to the two of you a little bit about these things.
[0:17] Yeah, maybe at 4.30 if you and Ray can come over first and then I'll see what I want to see.
[0:20] I don't know if it's regular or not, but if you want to break something in, I need some time on that.
[0:27] All right, I need to talk about Peterson.
[0:38] It's 5.30.
[0:39] What I think you ought to do is to get Kent planning and sort of go through the data.
[0:48] Please go on.
[0:48] Okay, well, tell Peter I want to, I'm just tired of this.
[0:50] I don't know what to do.
[0:52] There's a bunch of things to do.
[0:56] Okay.
[0:56] because I don't think it's that kind of money.
[1:14] Metro wants to use this national security for ROVs and stuff like that.
[1:16] The problem came with it, and Flannigan was strong in his hard line of fellowship.
[1:23] He started down that trail, and it was handled, it was solved, and I suppose 5,000, 18,000 other problems.
[1:25] So it was just a temptation to go on something.
[1:28] We shall see.