Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 275-026 Date: Tuesday, September 7, 1971 at 5:32 PM Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W. Recording device: Old Executive Office Building Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/275-026 This transcript was generated automatically by AI (WhisperX) and has not been reviewed for accuracy. Do not cite it as authoritative. [0:03] Seems to be a quiet day. [0:17] Yeah. [0:17] Yeah. [0:32] One thing we want to do, of course, we've got a big gun, sort of in the wing, in our department. [0:37] I know this is your memorandum of covering, and, boy, we really got to trot him out, and you said he was underweight, and actually he always does. [0:45] But until, you know, he's going to be paying attention to it, but about next week, he's going to have one hell of an event. [0:50] And then, Christine, if you need to come up and pick her up, send her out. [0:53] That's fine. [0:53] The staff are actually going to decide to send her to my car, so no one gets to put her away. [0:57] But if you're going to pick her up, it all comes down to the quality. [1:06] The Democrats are both a damn thing. [1:30] I tried. [1:31] I tried. [1:32] We realized that it was really hard. [1:34] It brought us this blind... [1:38] A narrow part of the ship, you know, you know, it's positive there, but it's going to have to be the guy to ski up. [1:41] He has pretty much condemned for him anyway for a variety of reasons, you know. [1:43] He must be just in a bad situation as well, but it's not that he is very effective in doing it. [1:46] But they've got to cover him. [2:09] Okay. [2:13] Okay.