Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 313-025
Date: Monday, January 10, 1972 at 5:16 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Klein, Herbert G.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/313-025

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[0:00] You know, I didn't get to see their program, but from a news summary, I thought you did a fine job on.
[0:12] They really put you on the spot on that thing.
[0:19] But the only thing we could do is to really just face my worries and improve, because it's really a question of pretty much some eggs.
[0:26] And that's what we're doing.
[0:27] Nobody's saying anything else.
[0:28] But on that, on Henry, yeah, with regard to India, you said,
[0:58] Yeah, they have, but that's to say that their emotions have run both ways.
[1:19] You know, a lot of people don't care that much.
[1:20] They get up in that sense, you know, and they're fighting for anything they can get.
[1:22] You know, a lot of them, I think, kind of run for their own.
[1:23] Well, they basically play their own games and so forth.
[1:24] And then I think they're back to just lose their lives.
[1:26] Yeah.
[1:41] Yeah.
[1:41] Well, I frankly, it's good that you did it.
[1:55] The entire industry is scared when he sees everything in such personal terms.
[2:12] He thinks his credibility is destroyed.
[2:15] His credibility is not destroyed.
[2:18] It's what he would think.
[2:18] I mean, you're an expert on that.
[2:22] I think what you might do is spend a couple of hours
[2:24] They'd come here on the, uh, the McClellan Telephone and say if you'd like to stay here, you know, or not to stay here.
[2:48] They'd come through the press corps and totally, uh, totally be against the orders.
[2:49] I think that's true.
[2:50] Most of them.
[2:50] I don't know if you agree or not.
[2:51] Yeah, that basically, when they'd stay here, they'd talk about, you know, what they were doing.
[2:52] You know, they're, they're trying to get us to stay here.
[2:54] Thank God it's on the issue of India, not on the issue of something else.
[3:13] There aren't that many people in the country, and I thought in the West, I didn't find a hell of a lot of people when I was out there, you know.
[3:16] And here in Washington, you get to do it, and that's what it was all about.
[3:18] Yeah.
[3:20] But you should come and give him a call.
[3:33] Don't let it appear too obvious.
[3:41] Just say that you're on top.
[3:42] Tell him that you've got a lot of reactions and you've talked to the president and the rest of them.
[3:44] And he just doesn't have a headline.
[3:44] There's just a lot of press comments.
[3:45] They tell him that you're just a lawyer and I'm a senator.
[3:46] And he just doesn't believe it.
[3:50] Good, good.
[3:57] Great.
[3:57] All right.