Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 319-014
Date: Monday, February 7, 1972 at 4:44 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/319-014

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[0:00] Hello.
[0:03] Uh, hi, Rob.
[0:11] Not a very afternoon briefing, you know.
[0:14] Oh, he's waiting.
[0:15] Oh, Henry's, uh... Oh, Henry's... Oh, he was... Oh, I see.
[0:24] Oh, I see.
[0:29] Oh, yeah.
[0:33] Well, that's good.
[0:34] That's good.
[0:35] All right.
[0:53] All right.
[0:53] How does your morning stuff look?
[0:54] Pretty much puts it down.
[0:55] But it's all right.
[0:55] I think it's all right.
[0:55] Don't you think so?
[1:00] You just expressed this point of view.
[1:19] Some of your stuff about the facts and so forth.
[1:21] Right.
[1:21] Right.
[1:22] Okay.
[1:22] I just don't know.
[1:22] No, no, I would say that I just don't get it.
[1:23] I put it this way, I'm just not going to comment on it.
[1:24] on the various statements of the presidential candidates.
[1:46] I want you to say that.
[1:46] I'm just not going to comment on the various statements of the presidential candidates.
[1:49] And that'll sort of get you off the must-be witness.
[1:50] So unless there is a statement back, this is the point of view.
[1:51] And you're not going to comment on the point of view of the president.
[1:53] And the statement back, you'll keep the record clear, and that's all.
[1:55] Fine, fine, fine.
[2:07] Sure thing.
[2:14] Where she got her rights all my life?
[2:17] Absolutely, absolutely nobody ever called me.
[2:21] No, no, no, no.
[2:22] I was the first person going.
[2:26] No.
[2:27] I don't know who the hell it is.
[2:31] As a matter of fact, as I told you, what concerns me is that I've got a few friends.
[2:36] A few of my friends are cold.
[2:37] It's true.
[2:39] I didn't pick Joe Crash, Carno, and all those people.
[2:48] No.
[2:49] No.
[2:50] They're at the Christchurch.
[2:50] Yeah.
[2:50] That's right.
[2:50] Yeah.
[2:51] Yeah, I'd say it publicly.
[3:22] Oh, yeah, absolutely.
[3:24] And I, well, I didn't tell him.
[3:26] Good God, I didn't tell anybody.
[3:29] We weren't doing that.
[3:30] As a matter of fact, I knew you couldn't tell anybody anyway.
[3:37] Okay.