On November 11, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and John D. Ehrlichman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:07 pm to 3:08 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 298-015 of the White House Tapes.
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John, with regard to this, uh, Senate Department Department of Agriculture, one thing that is very important that we haven't already covered, and we're sure that the National Council will be more covered, if somebody's thought of that or not.
You can see the problem.
Uh, if you're covering Hollywood, you better cover it with money.
Now, a lot of this is really handled as something that's said.
I mean, this man's negotiating on his own, so there's no chance of getting any government funding to work this one out.
It's basically, it's important.
You can't get it to Conway, of course, it's abroad.
You can't get it to Walters, if he doesn't agree about it, to say that this is it.
Right.
With regard to that particular point, do you think we should simply leave it to us to follow this idea, or do you think we have to harden it?
We have to.
All right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay, fine.
Thank you.