Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 281-006
Date: Thursday, October 21, 1971 at 8:30 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/281-006

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[30:11] Instead of a maximum, in terms of a tight thing, he used to take responsibility for his confidentiality of 125 orders on each thing.
[30:22] I think he put it back on tape and I don't want to see a wall issue.
[30:33] You see what I mean?
[30:37] Getting it out.
[30:38] Okay.
[30:40] It should not be allowed for the mid-time, correct?
[30:56] Otherwise it would tip off what we're going to do with the news time.
[31:00] You can sure see that.
[31:03] That was basically what I had to say.
[31:08] Okay.
[31:09] So don't let your voice talk you into doing something else on that.
[31:17] Good, good, good.
[31:20] All right, all right, good.
[31:22] Good, good, all right, fine.
[31:25] All right.
[31:26] Yeah, yeah, six to six for him.
[31:30] All right, fine.
[31:31] The main thing on the 11 to one is now get somebody to get out and say it was a stacked jury.
[31:40] Now, maybe you don't hear me.
[31:42] A stacked jury seat is 12.
[31:45] There were no men on the selection board.
[31:48] No men.
[31:48] A stacked jury.
[31:49] And somebody from the administration.
[31:53] Somebody we hit hard, hard, hard.
[31:58] Okay?
[32:01] Yeah.
[32:03] Yeah, and the idea that from the inside of the ADA it has been learned that they considered her the best qualified woman who might be available, but that she was not qualified.
[32:18] Have you heard that?
[32:21] Now, have you heard this?
[32:23] Well, God damn it, I told you a little earlier.
[32:26] Mitchell told me, the best qualified woman, they said this is the best qualified woman, and she's not qualified.
[32:35] Okay.
[32:36] Oh, I don't know.
[32:58] Well, the bio stuff, yeah, I thought I had it with them.
[33:01] By 11 o'clock, I mean, where were they in their law school class?
[33:04] How many years did they practice?
[33:06] What kind of practice was, you know, just the usual high-level, you know?
[33:10] You know what you get.
[33:11] But I need that by, man, I need it in an hour.
[33:15] One hour, they can get it.
[33:17] By 11 o'clock, at the latest, 11 o'clock, give it to 11 o'clock.
[33:21] I mean, that's our material.
[33:23] And don't run it by anybody in this office.
[33:28] Yeah.
[33:29] You can see that if I don't run it by anybody in this office, I don't want this to leak today, Bob.
[33:35] We've got the office, so don't run it by any of our shopper dean, shopper, anything like that.
[33:39] I'm going to go with these two.
[33:48] Great.
[33:48] Marvelous, marvelous.
[33:50] Both of them totally will approve when I'm done.
[33:52] So I don't know whether I would or not.
[33:56] I'll make the judgment.
[33:57] He can talk to you about what we put out, but I'll make the judgment of what I'm gonna say.
[34:16] That's my point.
[34:18] Is that what he's talking about?
[34:23] That sort of thing, I don't, yeah.
[34:25] No notification, you can get Colson.
[34:27] That's right, that's right.
[34:28] Yeah, you get a hold of Colson.
[34:34] You get a hold of Colson and say, all right, now that's just, these are, and don't tell them they're surprised.
[34:42] Say who they're gonna meet, this is gonna make the two, well, I don't know.
[34:45] Just say, about the, flat out, now, don't ever give any of them work.
[34:49] Ron doesn't know.
[34:51] He doesn't know what it is.
[34:52] I just said, Ron, just tell him you don't know.
[34:56] So with everybody, you say you don't know, don't say, don't indicate with him, surprise him, anything, hair off the other way.
[35:02] Is that clear?
[35:05] Don't breathe the fact that we may be thinking of anybody else in these two.
[35:09] You can say the president is gonna ignore the bomb.
[35:14] That's not bad.
[35:15] The president's gonna move without you proving the bomb.
[35:22] Yeah.
[35:23] No, not Sigler, no.
[35:24] That should be legal.
[35:25] Okay.
[35:28] Fine, because we're not going to submit these to the bar.
[35:34] They can just say the bar does not have a veto power.
[35:37] Sigler can say the bar does not have a veto power.
[35:39] He's asked that and that's what he should say.
[35:42] The bar doesn't have a veto power to be taken into consideration for things that they don't have a veto power.
[35:50] That's right.
[35:51] That's right.
[35:52] Put it this way, he can say, the Constitution provides for advice and consent of the Senate.
[36:00] It does not provide, require, it requires advice and consent of the Senate.
[36:06] It does not require consent of the boss.