Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 278-052
Date: Thursday, September 16, 1971 at 11:15 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/278-052

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[0:03] I've got a special deal that I'm not going to tell you about today.
[0:05] It's going to go wrong before I can talk to you.
[0:11] Don't ask me what it is.
[0:15] Okay.
[0:17] Now, I'm going to tell you how to do it.
[0:22] On October the 12th, I've got to go down to the arms service.
[0:25] Okay.
[0:27] That's how I'm going to go back to my home.
[0:32] Now, the other thing is that on the draft, my guess is that you're not going to have a vote before 4 o'clock.
[0:41] And I'm confident that I'm going to be in time to debate with them.
[0:51] And I'm going to be in time to debate with them.
[0:57] The Russian announcement has to be involved in any way possible.
[1:32] I said to her, look, I'll work it out.
[1:45] I'll work it out.
[1:46] Basically, what you simply say is that, well, they understand the problem, but they don't understand what you have to say.
[1:52] What you simply have to say is that you have to do it.
[1:59] Is anybody in there at all?
[2:16] I mean, the jargon started to go all out of the song here in our home.
[2:20] It was stuck here all over.
[2:24] And the second part was work, which isn't pretty candid.
[2:26] Oh, hell no.
[2:29] Hell no.
[2:29] Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
[2:33] Yeah, he did phone work tomorrow.
[2:35] Yeah, he did.
[2:37] No, no, no.
[2:39] And he didn't want to leave.
[2:46] Okay.
[2:48] Well, we have got to, well, yes, yes, that's fine.
[2:52] It requires us to have everyone with us now.
[3:04] Thank you.
[3:12] Oh, yeah. .
[3:39] Let's go.
[4:11] Oh, could I?
[4:12] Let's see.
[4:12] Oh, one thing.
[4:14] I made a quick note.
[4:15] Ronald told me, and this is probably plenty of chopper.
[4:17] Remember, I appointed Bob Tyson to be an ambassador on some sort of television or something.
[4:27] So, just help planning and handling.
[4:47] put it on the back of
[5:01] Thank you.
[5:02] Thank you.
[5:40] The key thing is, Bob, is that you can't be decided down here by Schultz, Gisbert, etc.
[5:54] It's great, but it's got to be decided by the three people who are ready to step in.
[6:08] I don't know if you do have a motion.
[6:19] What does the, uh, the moderator think, uh, is he, uh, is he, uh, is he, uh, is he, uh, is he, uh, is he, uh, is he,
[6:37] We've still got to go through with that trip.
[6:39] I'm glad you got out of it.
[6:41] I promise.
[6:41] And after that, I can be cool with something like making him feel good.
[6:49] He's like, we're going to up and down.
[6:51] We're going to up and down the trail.
[6:54] He does say good things to me.
[6:55] I don't know about his goddamn record.
[6:57] He's a very clever lady.
[6:59] I don't know about that.
[7:00] He says, oh, I'm going to travel abroad.
[7:02] He's going to take the risk.
[7:02] I don't know what he's talking about.
[7:16] Let's get it out on a massive basis.
[7:45] But at the highest, in other words, you get somebody, not just a number of people, but somebody who's that kind of gold runner or somebody who's cracking on, starting a point of college.
[8:04] It's very important to do what they're doing, all out there.
[8:11] That's what they're playing on.
[8:12] They're playing on .
[8:18] I always hope, I hope that you shake the greater up a little bit so that he realizes that we're, but we're, but we're out here.
[8:24] We've got to help these, we've got to help John.
[8:29] We've got to help him.
[8:32] We've got to help him.
[8:33] We've got to help him.
[8:33] We've got to help him.
[8:42] Well, probably not as hard as .
[8:49] But if we don't play the same way, it's not a player.
[8:56] It's something else.
[9:19] I mean, I don't know that you can cancel the last one.
[9:31] Yeah, but you can say it can be very difficult.
[9:48] Well, no, I can't have somebody .
[9:54] Better lately.
[10:01] Traveling again.
[10:14] So that they can question me, I want somebody to plant a question at the press conference on it.
[10:22] Maybe I don't put it quite clear.
[10:25] Exactly.
[10:26] I want somebody in there.
[10:28] You know, one of those guys, and this is one time we used to plant a question, and it has been reported.
[10:33] Now, can you do that?
[10:34] Steve McGregor, you've got to plant a question.
[10:36] Oh, come on.
[10:38] I have a question here.
[10:39] The fact that it's reported that you said that, how do you comment that you have to make a very big step that you cannot do?
[10:53] We have a series of problems that we've got to get credit for.
[10:56] Correct.
[10:56] Bye.