Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 320-016
Date: Tuesday, February 8, 1972 at 2:31 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/320-016

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[0:00] Anything else, Mello?
[0:10] I guess I'll try to get Finchie over to Madison.
[0:17] I'm talking on the phone.
[0:17] Unless you hear me, I'm off game.
[0:18] All right.
[0:18] All right.
[0:26] All right.
[0:27] We haven't decided any of those things yet.
[0:38] We've been invited to go to Japan.
[0:43] We've been invited to go, but we haven't decided anything yet.
[0:47] We'll go over some of those in planning if we would first.
[0:48] I'll be caught unawares.
[0:49] I may have promised them somebody in planning, but I'll be glad to talk to them about it.
[0:59] It's perfectly all right.
[1:11] You might find out, though, that actually I'm taking comment to Mayor May, because I know he's sufficient.
[1:25] No problem.
[1:25] You can go.
[1:25] I understand.
[1:25] Well, it's perfectly all right for him to go.
[1:26] And I would simply say, well, you can go and put him on that.
[1:28] We're going to go in such and such a time.
[1:28] So...
[1:30] Yeah, that I'm going to leave at such and such a time, that I can go.
[1:46] I'm thinking, I've got this, I've got this mess that I've got to work on, and I'd like to take him over to the mayor's meeting and say, I'm going to leave, but I didn't, I want to let people go, Jim, and I've got to work on it, and I'm fussing.
[1:53] That's fine, Tom, it's just a good idea to go.
[1:58] No, no, no, that's perfectly right.
[2:03] It's perfectly right for him to go.
[2:10] I see no problem at all.
[2:11] No, this has got to be, there's not room.
[2:13] There's only room for four people in that house.
[2:20] No, no, I'm confident this is a different deal.
[2:21] How about doing a number there?
[2:24] No, no, hang on, Jesus.
[2:27] We're not going to be there all the time.
[2:34] You're going to be there.
[2:39] But then you come over and say, let's talk about it.
[2:43] It'll be a more relaxed situation.
[2:44] I'll have a chance to go see him.
[2:45] But sure, we can do it there.
[2:49] Probably, yeah.
[2:51] Yeah.
[2:54] Tell him if he could go on the plane, if he could do it on the way down.
[3:05] That Sunday night, if he wants to do it then.
[3:15] But, uh, I think on the way down, that's probably the best thing to do.
[3:16] And I haven't thought about it.
[3:17] I thought about it the following morning.
[3:18] But tell him I can do it.
[3:18] I'm not here for him to go.
[3:19] And Adele can go, too, Tom.
[3:19] You can invite him to the boat to the right of the plane.
[3:20] I can do it.
[3:21] I can do it.
[3:21] I can do it.
[3:22] But you should also point out that he's been invited to go to Japan and Europe and so forth.
[3:44] And as a matter of fact, I've been invited to go to Russia, where we haven't, but there we haven't made any final decisions on it.
[4:04] But on the other hand, in that context, if you were to build something, build it in a place that's fine, you know, but take a look at it.
[4:11] You know, the thing is that if he just steps up and hits a dude, you'll be surprised at how people react.
[4:28] And change, change that dude.
[4:29] That's great, that's great.
[4:29] Wow.
[4:29] Yeah.
[4:29] Good picture.
[4:31] I told Steve that yesterday.
[4:37] I handle this just like I did the budget.
[4:43] I like to handle the economic message.
[4:45] It'll be an Olly Atkins thing.
[4:45] And the picture, if it ain't, will be of me doing the radio address.
[4:49] You're talking about?
[4:53] Telling me that I'll just thank the staff with an Olly Atkins picture.
[4:55] I haven't told him that yet.
[4:55] It's not a good picture.
[4:56] You know, everybody will be leaning over, and they'll play it out of context, Bob.
[5:17] So, Steve, it's very ringing.
[5:18] Tell him that that's what we're planning on doing.
[5:19] I don't want to take them.
[5:22] Well, I'll do it tomorrow for them.
[5:37] I'll do it tomorrow when I'm over at home.
[5:39] No, no, no, no, no.
[5:42] I don't want to take them on when I'm feeling lousy on Thursday afternoon, you see.
[5:44] I know that.
[5:45] The trouble is, some of them last a couple of days.
[5:48] I don't want to feel lousy the day I do the press thing.
[5:50] So why not do it?
[5:50] I don't care about that.
[5:52] Well, you ask him.
[6:07] You ask him, and we don't.
[6:09] If I'll take him any time, though, you can take him tonight if you want.
[6:14] I don't want to feel lousy.
[6:15] I'm lining all this up.
[6:15] I have a bill.
[6:16] Let's see him on the plane.
[6:16] Fair enough.
[6:17] And if not, I'll see him down there.
[6:17] I always see him on the plane.
[6:23] But we won't have checks and faffs over things with Pete.
[6:40] He's a crippled frog.
[6:40] We'll talk about that.
[6:44] But just say, I'd like to see what his plans are, because they've got a lot going on.
[6:46] Get them all in together.
[6:47] Fair enough.
[6:47] That's an interesting thing, though, Bob.
[6:48] Bill just loves to get in there and get some time.
[6:50] He prays, doesn't he?
[6:51] And, but, uh, I'm feeling pretty good right now.
[7:07] Still in the day.
[7:08] Fine.
[7:08] Okay.