Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 320-019
Date: Tuesday, February 8, 1972 at 2:49 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Scott, Hugh
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/320-019

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[0:01] No!
[0:05] Oh, I didn't have anything to bother you with, but I talked to Ziegler, and he said that the statement you made after the leadership has given a good play on the wire.
[0:24] And I just, I thought you should know again, though, that I talk with a three-eyed person.
[0:26] And, you know, you like to hear good things from that guy, but some of the fellows told me they had never heard anything better.
[0:30] You really got wound up.
[0:31] And I said, well, you know, I said, Scott Greer was a mean bastard.
[0:33] I said, you just don't realize it.
[0:35] Because I, you know, they forget you were a Russell Farley chairman, huh?
[0:59] You remember?
[1:00] Yeah.
[1:00] But you're on the right side of it, buddy.
[1:01] You're on the right side, and I don't know if you think so.
[1:02] There's the, uh, yeah.
[1:02] You're a member of that group, too?
[1:04] those people that are offering the enemy better terms than the president has offered them are, in effect, torpedoing the chances to get a settlement before the election.
[1:18] I think the idea that they're saying they, in effect, are destroying the chance to have peace before America.
[1:27] Isn't that a good thing?
[1:32] Well, good luck.
[1:37] Bye.