Conversation 320-031

TapeTape 320StartThursday, February 10, 1972 at 4:55 PMEndThursday, February 10, 1972 at 6:30 PMTape start time02:48:29Tape end time04:11:19ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Woods, Rose Mary;  Kissinger, Henry A.;  Sanchez, Manolo;  Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob");  [Unknown person(s)];  Ziegler, Ronald L.;  Butterfield, Alexander P.Recording deviceOld Executive Office Building

On February 10, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, Henry A. Kissinger, Manolo Sanchez, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, unknown person(s), Ronald L. Ziegler, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:55 pm to 6:30 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 320-031 of the White House Tapes.

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See also Conversation No. 20-56]

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Oh, Rose.
Hi.
Take a picture of these things.
Before you go away, take a picture.
No.
See?
Look at this one.
That's all right.
I'll cut it again.
Is your energy fine here, Mark?
No, I'm all right here.
All right.
Okay, now.
The shoes for the wall.
Let's see why your goggles have to replace them when you don't fit.
I know you have other things to do, but...
Why?
Because you would slide all over the wall at the bottom.
Everybody has said that.
Well, he's not your grandmother.
Well, he's got, you know what I mean.
Yeah, but he had to give you 11 1⁄2 feet to have it, you know, made up.
Okay, great.
Now this thing, it's stuck.
Not to the wall.
It's a boot, yeah.
He sent you.
Well, it's like a boot, too.
You know, did it?
I haven't.
I haven't seen it.
I'm sort of awkward and I don't want to see it.
You have it or you don't have it?
Oh, you want the other one, then.
What do you think?
You got brown and black?
Okay, good.
These, you might say, they're like walking up at Camp David or something.
I think they're not bad.
Do you want to take those to town at all?
Probably not.
No.
He just thought they'd be warmer.
And he said, he's there anyway because he wanted to...
So then, one other thing, and I want to wrap this up if you want to see it.
You know how our old friends used to do stuff with electric and water?
Well, they wanted to get a DC and an S. He makes the paper and it makes sense out of it.
He made one for S-Morph and for DC.
I can't do that.
I've got to do one, just DC, since Charles is a little bit of a PG.
The other one says Robert, and I thought it would all wrap up nicely.
I'm glad I tried the hat because I didn't realize what happened.
It doesn't cover the air enough for everybody.
Okay, yeah, not because I'm going to try to catch up to stuff.
I've got a lot going on.
I think this will do.
Well, I've said so many times before.
Well, no, no, I admit speeches on the news, on the radio, you know, I've said so many times before.
In our trade advantage, one of the great assets we have is what we do.
Well, everything was good.
I mean, Vietnam was good.
I mean, that was just so much better than the suggestions we made.
Well, the Indian thing that we're doing is the Indian thing.
You know, I agree, of course, with your idea.
Your ordinance should, uh, help the national director and, uh, help him indeed.
Uh, you know, hey, hey.
That was good.
That was good.
I mean, the idea of how the idea at the end there, that you have to think this way, this way, this way, this way, this way, this way, this way, this way, this way,
They really, they hate it up, and they loathe the Indians.
That's how they think the Indians are sort of, and the government, if they think they will be poor Indians, they will start to be poor Indians.
And if they think we are not going to act as a help, then it's part of it.
And if they don't want to break things further, then they can't come from it.
The major thing is that we don't have to worry about it.
I could have told you that.
No, no, no, that's all right.
I'll leave it to you.
It's not that I didn't have to leave it to you.
Of course, the world was quite much too far on that, so we were pretty finished.
The last third.
The Wilkerson was right up to the end.
Of course, it's hard to move it in because of the space they offered.
So I think that we can have the day of us to talk to them.
I think it's also, I think it's that we're going to, we're going to, I don't know why, but we're going to talk to them.
I think it's that we're going to talk to them.
I don't know why, but we're going to talk to them.
I don't know why, but we're going to
for Joe to get two opening statements out.
One for the planet, and the other for the land.
Because you've got a lot of supernumeraries, and another one for your opening statements, which I was meeting with Joe.
And I could begin with a commonality between the two situations.
The Soviets, and the Soviets who have been in China, are interested in China.
And why?
I understand.
And then when we talk about it here, we can ask them what do they think we would like if people put gold there to contract it out.
Right.
That's what I was really trying to get at.
But not so much.
But we have to get a message to the Chinese anyway.
That's what I'm saying.
Not just that we want to make a way out of it.
But understand it happens directly.
Right.
Right.
That was true.
That was true.
I think that's a good idea.
You might say that you're directing them in that way in order to counteract Russian influence.
We want to consult with them to help with that, too.
I kept them off the phone all night.
I thought it was outstanding that you were bringing up these kinds of things.
Why didn't you have one of those?
I thought you had one of those, too.
I don't think that these guys are going to have a policeman on the day.
Well, I didn't know.
And I didn't know.
And I found out I was wrong about that.
But I didn't want to put it out, too.
I didn't want to have Steve to ask a question.
But as a matter of fact, my reason is that they were considering a front for us to get in front of.
We have.
Secondly, they would never agree to not get it.
But it was good to be able to say that was good.
Unless we decided to be there, and we're very likely to be there in the course of the day, we're not going to have to do it.
Because we understand what we did, but we're not going to have to do it.
But we're great at the primary sector.
We're not going to have to do it.
We're not going to do a thing unless they want to do it.
Unless they want to do it.
My view is that there's no reason for all the press to vote against the president.
But I think that it's a positive thing.
But you better do it.
I can see that you chose too much in here.
I didn't think you did.
But it was from a domestic point of view.
We were anti-Indian war.
And that was perfect.
Some say it wouldn't be.
But even that, it matters if it was diametric, it matters if it's not full, whether it was or not.
But just, you know what, I don't see the difference.
It's true.
If I was black man here, I would be
Oh, but that was, I think, perfect.
I mean, you didn't want to hit your head in the back.
And, uh, well, he was in a colony, and the moon was covered, and he didn't try to say anything.
It was unconscious.
Damn, damn.
Oh, uh, and I think it was the Chinese people who said, what do you want us to do?
That's what I was going to say.
Absolutely.
That's what I was going to say.
Uh-huh.
I think that's kind of what they thought.
They thought it was pretty hard to do that.
Well...
They had a right to do that.
They wanted to do so.
So I felt that was a privilege.
And I also pointed out, I said, this is a public question, so we're going to go back to you and see if there's any serious things going on in your country.
So I pointed out, well, you made an offer.
And you made an important offer.
So I made an offer.
I think it was, I think it was one of the very, very, very, I think again in Vietnam,
He did not, I think, be sure he did.
He didn't have to work that major business putting down the drugs.
I think he was talking about the point of authority, but we were thinking about you, and I think the government itself, you know.
I think so, too.
If that was you right away, I mean, I don't feel we needed that.
I think that was a good idea.
and also the fact that you went beyond, you made a cut on that.
I know.
I wanted to.
I can't tell you the other way.
You have lots to do.
One thing, Phil on this plane is trying to give you a table that he wants to send you to eat and get you exhausted for all these activities.
I wonder if there's a discussion you want to do study over the weekend.
I haven't seen it yet.
And you let them know on Monday.
Oh, sure, of course.
Because, like this guy here, I'm just worried if they start this, they can't race while they're inside.
And I need to see them.
And I'd like to.
You must.
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I don't want to waste my time.
I tell you what I'd love for you to think of a plenary session of your people and your experts and of
And whoever said he'd want to come.
But I think it would be good if you, let's just sort of get things in the right context, you might call the Rockford and say, who would you like to have there?
And then they say what they want.
And I'll just listen.
No, he's also going to get you above the briefing book, too.
And so that was one thing I did not put in, which I was never interested in, is that I had read the 500 pages, because you know why they put it in?
Do you want to see it?
He put it in and asked me.
500 pages?
He called it out for the transfer.
I told him, you've got to put it in because it doesn't play anymore.
I think if he did that, I'm trying to sanitize the view of this place.
What are you sanitizing?
Well, the view of this place.
The situation is so sick now that every time we let something over, it's one of the radicums within us.
We wait, we wait, we wait.
But I think I have three meetings that are bad times that I can put into it.
It's another one, but I think it's something like the fact that we don't have to say anything.
Henry, you ought to be able to, on promotion, just put it in a very crisp way.
That he's got.
Oh, he's got that.
He's got my summaries, but he wants to be our crew member.
All the summaries, he's got almost the same thing.
You have those, I just sanitize the doors.
It made another thing when he was meeting with Katrina, he suggested to Katrina that we decide to do a vaccine and if we're allowed to do it, we'll draw a motion to say to the heiress that we've got a meeting and that when we do it, he will receive your headlines.
So to me, the feeling is that I think
to be going on and you have a hell of an issue .
But I thought that that conflict, again, was amazing .
The China thing can happen, but we've got to get a message to them anyway.
And I'll put it on the ground.
But I don't think that we are that strong.
We are the president.
public posture, a little bit more of a public posture to re-examine our programs and so forth.
But we are not going to make any decision on it, as they will know one thing or the other, until we talk to them.
And we're doing this for public consumption.
And after conservation, the family might be putting on their youth.
They may well want to go into it.
Well, I'll put it in your talking points in a way to say we have a problem.
On the one hand, we wanted it to be so good as good.
On the other hand, we don't want to do it by magic.
Magic is so bad in India that it becomes a bad thing to start with.
And therefore, we'll do it anyway.
We're going to play tag, to be honest with you.
That's what it was all about.
I don't have weight, but I don't ever believe in putting down a member of the family.
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These people, you know, it's an interesting thing.
Our old press girls, goddammit, once we make a concession in the States, won't you be flexible enough for more?
You're right that if you don't pay, you must have the power to go.
I was tough on them.
They're not going to be standing there.
Their neck holds up for now.
Should it be the position from the beginning?
I mean, you've taken it from the beginning.
I think we should have taken that from the time of the January Congress of Walker.
Stand on it.
We should have said, gentlemen, we have made a tremendous move.
Sure.
It's not up to us to decide.
Which is, in fact, what you said.
That's what you said today.
But I think it is.
But you haven't.
You haven't.
Of course, I cut them off.
It's a nice little thing if you can.
Oh, they're tidying up.
They're also tidying up.
It's static.
The flexibility of the schedule, which the Chinese have been very concerned about.
Our guys here, they're very in touch with us.
The fact that you said the schedule has to be flexible because of our talk, you know, we're having to spend a lot of time together.
And that's beautiful to them because they don't want it to be a pre- and it doesn't make them want it to be off.
I hate weapons, I like that.
I think it is not supposed to go to this.
Your point on criticizing the president.
had to be done.
I pointed out, you know, I anticipated the question.
I thought it was well to go in.
It's true, I made some damn hard speeches about him.
I did it because I thought about how the harambees, the partition of Robinsville, the North Indian Trail, see, I went in the wrong direction on that, about the Congress.
Well, then I said, I said, I said, I criticized the conduct of a war and what got us into a war, but as a candidate, I refused to criticize the conservative people.
I thought it was a good thing.
I thought it was a good thing.
I thought it was a good thing.
I thought it was a good thing.
He said if he hadn't had the foreign policy before, he might not have had much.
On the foreign policy, if he had covered it.
That's all they asked about him.
And get the money, he's saying.
I got it.
I got it.
I got it.
I got it.
I'm not going to talk about that.
I'm not going to get into that.
And you're absolutely right.
Nobody is better than I.
You could do nothing but lose it by getting into it.
Well, I don't think these are the best companies that have a lot of advantage, and that you can do that if you give a lot more time to the answer.
You may want to do better this time, but I think that...
We're going to have to see.
We're going to do it on our own time.
I stuck it to him hard.
I said, I'd rather for an hour, you know.
Now they're on the band.
Going on television, if you do it on the band, it's not as good as it is on the group, but you can do a few things there.
The easiest forum except for the television center.
Two minutes after, if they can't follow up.
I want to get into a conversation with Roger on the way down here.
I'm going to get into some trouble.
I'm undertaking.
Oh, I don't even have them.
I saw them.
I'm not going to look at you.
I told him.
There's no need to.
I mean, he's been told that you're planning to work with John on a plane.
He said, you've got to get in time.
I told him, you're going right over to the walkers, you know, with John Connery for this Christmas thing over the weekend.
And he understands that this is a ride down.
It's not, you know, it's not part of it.
Yeah, he says he doesn't need to pay a little more for this.
You may have it, but that's what they know about you.
I think the purpose of moving that building today, including the construction, is kind of to do with demanding all of us.
Well, he's not giving us a second city, which I know.
Before or after.
I think you meant to yell at him.
Not at all.
I never did.
I called him right afterwards.
Just, you know, so there wouldn't be any fuss about it.
His people wouldn't come running in and say, you specifically mentioned the Secretary, what Secretary Rogers...
You're going to detect a little bit of that all along.
I covered that hard.
Thank you.
I think what we did is we were lucky that it was pretty creative, unintentional.
No, no, I gave him the whole answer.
I said that if you made the point that we would never make a movie.
Every move we had made, every offer we had made was a joint offer with their government to hire us.
We would consider making any move without, you know, without a consultation.
And as a matter of fact, the two offers were not an idea.
We just adopted it.
We're not going to make another offer without selling them.
We're not going to make any offer now.
Now that's...
I think that I also said to you in the beginning of the second question,
Well, because Hugh is more interested.
He becomes a lighthouse.
All the people there are almost outlawed.
Yeah.
When you cover Hugh, I mean, Hugh is a good man.
He can ask for no more.
Yeah.
And he's a guy who has a lot of experience.
But he was very good man.
He was very good man.
He was a good man.
I love it.
I love it.
But he was good because he was so pompously, so brought up, you know, shaky.
He was the one that said, well, we haven't had him a great long time.
We haven't had a question.
And he was one of them.
He said, you know, I said, there you are.
That's the one I had.
And I think he was one of the last to go to college, you know.
And press for it.
See, that's violating all, even those snakes that rule.
That's violation.
They don't want that.
A guy asked me before to go on.
That makes no sense.
They're all against the deadline.
They haven't understood it.
And, you know, if you cut it, then everybody wins one gallon.
So when other snakes are going like that, it's violating the rules.
find their room.
I think it was a nice bug that was supposed to go to their room and it cleared up.
It doesn't help them.
It doesn't help the presence.
They're the only ones that didn't kill them.
You got your point on that.
President, we can all talk about it, but we're building a base, and we've got to keep building it.
Thank you, and I hope that somebody will come back to this idea, and Brian, and I should consult with the candidates about it.
In Christ's name, this is Johnson.
Consult with me before I leave.
He didn't consult her about the bombing home?
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Somebody hit that back right away on the base, but they didn't make sure it was going to be overlapped or anything.
That's probably Pete Geiser, you know, who took on his job.
But I don't think he's going to do anything.
I see Ashbrook, who's running in California.
That's probably Pete Geiser, you know, who took on his job.
But I don't think he's going to do anything.
Let's have a little right-wing thrust out there.
See what he does, particularly after he gets farther than he actually is.
He can't get farther than he actually is.
He'll get farther than he actually is.
He may get something as far as he's still in our eyes.
He may have the chance to pull, but I still think he's got it.
Once he gets going, he'll be able to move.
All right.
I don't know why, but there's two colors in that for the whole thing.
I'm loving the cheap product line.
The first one I love is the cheap one.
It's on a sister that's in Maryland.
It'll be fine.
It's going to work.
It's going to be an awful nice reward to your whole line.
We all do that.
We love it.
It's great.
It's rich.
They're a great family.
They're not international.
They're good Indian types of children.
The liver doesn't try to get this thing to work.
But I think sometimes it's more effective there.
I think on my part, I think on the foreign policy issues, Mr. President, you've been better on every question that there is.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
No, I think what you said, what I said, what I recommended to you on Vietnam was clever, but not political.
And it was an all right answer for me to give, but not for the President.
You put it in a, on a more standardized level and in a, in a poor operation.
I also got excited to get the surrender thing done.
What I did in turn is that we were pushing a settlement, but not a surrender.
Not a surrender to the United States.
Not a surrender of 50 million people.
And it's also important for the North, because if they think we've got another card, at least they're going to be positive and they'll still believe what that other card is, because they're never going to hear from the North.
If we get the other side now, coming out black and black, we can all refuse to negotiate.
I think we have now set the stage for our people to go on the attack and blame the Democrats.
See, they're not an angry witness.
That last action was a hell of a shot across the mouth.
That's why the Democrats, I believe, have been talking about it.
That's okay.
I hope that it could have been.
I was not happy with what he had said, but I've come to the conclusion that it wasn't that much.
If people who agree with it, we'll address them.
I'm sick of it.
I was sick of it.
Well, people were excused to be married.
That's right.
And it was a warning to them, and giving him a place in the RP.
And it's just the truth.
It happens to be the truth.
Yes, but... That, if I were a national channel, I'd be safe.
We haven't been there for enough lives.
I don't know.
I don't know, sir.
Any others?
I want to watch out for how dangerous life is.
We get past the God's end convention, or even before I start dating these guys on, and I'll say the ones that God sends the Lord, sacrificing their efforts to get us out before I've got a few months that can curl their hair, and I will.
And the guys who had 350 casualties when we came in, not attacking the ones who put down the two of them.
Oh, boy.
Is that it?
The positioning on the flaming net, if you're sinking it.
It's soft, you know.
But I think it may be heaven.
I agree.
I think that that red nose was so soft.
And so, I just don't think it's going to work.
You know, one of the things that's good, too, is the fact that those chariots move and everything.
That's going to give them a little pause.
You know, it's a factor move, right?
And there's no other public figure who has done it more than any other person.
We're doing it there.
We're having them in that area.
You're listening to me.
We're on to the airport.
I haven't done it yet.
I haven't done it yet.
Well, it's not a big deal.
And it's not a big deal every time.
Maybe it is a bit of a dry season now, but it's not.
Well, it's still open.
Oh, yeah.
But I don't think we should do it now.
No, it's open for Thursday.
But it's open for Thursday.
In fact, in the big airport, they have never yet been able to get on the deck as we did.
In the north, they're ready to go again.
In the south, I don't know.
For one day, it's going to be bright.
One day.
Oh, yeah, the next week, it's going to be...
The dry season, there's a catch-all.
That's how I did it, and I've flown over home, which is plenty of times.
There's something wrong with the airport.
See, Israel is not making money.
I wouldn't say that.
If there's a war in Europe, what the hell are we going to do?
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He is totally wrong.
He could have been killed.
Well, that question is shit.
I know that.
He could have died.
Well, he could have been killed.
But I handled that.
That was fine.
Well, none of us had a reason for this kind of thing.
I have one question.
What did I ask?
What did I ask?
Well, he's not here.
But Manolo called it his jackal.
He's going over there now.
No, they're following him.
They get to work all the time.
They seem to be in a rather contentious mood.
Well, they predict him to be.
But I don't always think at all that he can be in a contentious mood in an artist's day.
I'm sorry.
I took care of him a little bit.
No, you handled him good.
Just perfect.
You guys were talking about me, too.
Oh, yeah.
That's pretty funny.
Catching hell every half hour.
Every half hour.
You used to go around so much.
Huh?
You said you just used to go around.
Huh?
I said it.
Great luck.
Well, there's a general view of this.
There's a lot of stuff.
There's a lot of information on China.
And even though we don't, most of their outstanding questions, they don't believe, of course, that we're in China and that we're going to be strong.
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Well, but it's working.
In my setting, it should be.
Did I crack the fountain?
Did I create something that damn right I did?
And then for the right reasons.
For the murder of the answer.
For the opening of the ocean and the trail for the combat of the war.
But it's never, never.
I mean, the whole record could have said it's the combat of a war in a search for peace.
And that's the line you ought to follow.
We have a certain .
We don't get one .
What in the hell?
They're the ones that fetched him off again on television, aren't they?
Huh?
Yeah, they did.
When I said, when I said, how did you read the first one on the ground?
And I said, I don't have any questions for now.
I said, what in the hell did he think that was?
I don't know.
I was stuck in the daily room.
I think he said he preferred that.
I don't know.
Which is true.
He did.
Today was a good day to do it.
It's your view on a better, broader basis than you could do in a whole speech.
And it also leads to a kind of escalation, because if things get unstuck inside an anointed cupboard, an anointed cupboard is meant to get exhausted even more.
It was like September when you swelled.
It wasn't a demonstration.
What did Rodney say?
He wanted to say that, well, yes, we are flexible on the day of the election.
He said, well, I told Rodney that I couldn't back that up.
No, all he wanted to do was not give them a vote.
He said, we'd say next week you need to vote.
But he did.
I know.
In fact, when he mentioned Rodney, he said it wasn't, you know, he should.
I didn't mention that before, but...
And he sat there.
He said, let's have a talk.
I told him what he said.
I told him what he said.
I told him what he said.
I told him what he said.
I told him what he said.
I told him what he said.
I told him what he said.
I told him what he said.
I told him what he said.
I had to turn that call early.
Yeah.
I don't want, I prefer not to have that.
As far as the case is in mind, I won't listen to you on that.
I don't want to have it in my possession.
Do you want to have it in my possession?
If you want to see it immediately.
I'm not going to read it.
No, I'm going to read it.
That's five pages.
I'm going to read it at a later time.
If you read it, read it, and cook.
That's right.
If you want to read it later this week, I can take it then.
I don't want to do it.
No, I won't.
Okay.
If you read it, read it, and cook in the memorandum, those two books, Recommended and Proficient Transmissions,
and the memoranda that some of you should be reading.
I will give you today the first thing we can tell you.
I'll give you a book for that.
That's all we have.
Don't say the president's arrested.
Then you put the president in a position to go out and say, let me handle it.
You aren't using me.
You're going after walkers.
Why don't you take the rest?
See?
Well, let me read it out.
I'm playing it one more time.
If I don't want to have to tell him, I'm going to tell him I love him.
All right.
You're not going to work on that stuff this weekend.
I told him you're coming down to work with Conley.
No, no, but that's the best solution to say, because I told him I don't have it, and I gave it to you.
Yeah.
We left it here.
You left it here.
We left it here because he sent it this weekend just to give you the message.
And he's not related to us.
He's not related to us.
I don't know what's going on.
But I thought he was crazy.
He drank damn hard.
He was terrible to my body.
He was a great witness.
Oh, you had to.
You would have been.
Particularly when they didn't break when I said that's it.
You said that's it.
But had it broken off, at that point, did you know that they were?
But at the end, they'd all...
They were trained.
Oh, they had the questions, so I was going to try to get at them.
I can't remember if that was the same time.
It would have been a repeat question in the trunk.
I'm going to call them.
I'm going to try to call them.
I'm going to try to call them.
I won't take any more of them.
I think that's all right.
That's all right.
That's all right.
That's all right.
That's all right.
That's all right.
So they all headed over there.
What's that?
Well, you know, there was a parent, a mother, who said, you know, it's rather strange.
Or had at least suggested that you could have a prisoner who would go into one place that's still open.
Among the knowledge of the movement, I find it must be to give it credit.
I don't know what it is.
I'm funded to make the proposal out of the bank.
He was out on the bank yesterday.
I read it.
He was a big fan back then.
I don't know if he's ever gone to the bank.
I don't know if he's ever gone to the bank.
I don't know if he's ever gone to the bank.
I don't know if he's ever gone to the bank.
I don't know if he's ever gone to the bank.
You remember this fellow Frank Stiles, the foreign editor of the London Times, the lawyer who wrote an article about you, and he had written out all of your accountants, and he had seen some of them, and he went and she had them, and she had them, and she had them, and had them, and had them, and had them, and had them, and had them,
If we don't do that then, um, people react.
What did you do wrong?
And that's why, that's why, that's why, that's why, that's why, that's why, that's why, that's why, that's why, that's why, that's why, that's why, that's why, that's why, that's why, that's why,
They accuse them of aiding and abetting the enemy, but they don't know who the enemy is.
Do you think something is going to happen on this specific day?
This day, there's not going to be that day.
It's going to break one way or the other.
Well, if I were to put in a hammer, I wouldn't do that.
I mean, it's obvious to me why.
then, but not right.
That's all of me.
And they're finished.
Can't be so long in this here.
We're getting a grunt while moving up in the country that I'm maybe, I don't know how big it is, but it could be a certain need for, a desire for a day of prayer of some kind.
If you want your information to shine.
And, uh...
There was a thought of having a prayer ceremony in the National Cathedral that turned down, but I think the worst thing is for you to run out.
I won't pray, but it seems to me it's quite a good thing.
And Congressman Buchanan, for his job, wants to get things going.
You know, for a national prayer, I would put a kind of track.
And I'd better pray.
So, as many of you, if God just wanted to pass a resolution on the day of prayer, He's done it.
There's nothing to try about doing it on February 20th, that Sunday, you know.
You're gone.
That's ideal, to me.
You've arrived.
It's a beautiful thing, because it's a day that doesn't exist in your life.
Because you lose it on the date line, so you can't go to church that Sunday.
So there's no question of, did you go to church on the day of prayer?
But they can have a day of prayer.
You won't have any Sundays.
The only slight concern I would have is that you contested us.
No, I'm not contesting.
No, I'm not contesting.
No, I'm not contesting.
No, I'm not contesting.
No, I'm not contesting.
No, I'm not contesting.
No, I'm not contesting.
No, I'm not contesting.
No, I'm not contesting.
No, I'm not contesting.
I think it's a natural event that it's a thing that people want to do.
And I'm going around.
So, anyway, let's do it.
Don't you find the newsmen who are going at it out of their minds almost every once in a while?
Because I know that I don't have to do it.
But I make stories like that.
It's the only way to keep a picture somehow.
They picked up an intense picture of that satellite.
Who really can take that picture?
You can pick up your phone right there and send a speech to Ron Walker.
And it's better than if you go over and read in a blank form.
I don't think they could.
What?
That's the problem with CIA.
That's the problem with CIA.
That's the problem with CIA.
That's the problem with CIA.
I don't know what that is.
I don't know.
I don't know
do this week because there's a lot of questions.
We're not going to get a shout-out for a couple weeks now at all.
We could be gone in a day or two.
So we're keeping it.
That's frustrating.
That's frustrating.
They will do it some other time.
I know.
That's where they did it.
Well, they do it when they want to.
I don't think they do it when they want to.
I don't think they do it when they want to.
I don't think they do it when they want to.
Oh, I understand.
Well, I feel entirely personal.
I mean, I know it.
I just think all of a sudden I realize that we've got a group of people who are basically most of those guys are making a huge investment.
Sure.
Sure.
So I think, you know, I think there's a lot of respect for you.
Well, I guess you're right.
You have to take it.
You have to take it.
But that doesn't bother me.
You get to know them.
Well, there are those who you think are smart who aren't smart.
Now, a lot of these guys want to try to help them to drive themselves up to the tariff.
But the smart ones, they don't have any chance at all because of their in-brain ideology.
Really, they're antagonistic.
It's uncontrollable to the left.
No, no, don't, don't go there.
Be careful with that.
Be careful with that.
That was at least in the old school.
Real schmuck.
Why is that?
Is he gone?
No, sir.
If he was, he would have been a problem.
Well, I'll tell you this day's story.
I think that's great.
Why?
I don't know.
Well, it's all about one of those people I saw for quite a long time.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I do that.
I can't.
I'm following.
I can't.
Well, I feel bad about Clark, and about our little friend from Nashville, and about the Texas guy, I don't know.
And, uh, I feel bad about, uh, my 10-ish, Jesus Christ, and I just don't have any of my friends on.
Who the hell's going with his friends on?
I mean, I may.
It's a little bit, not personal, but do it for what they want.
You know what I mean?
He buffers the industry.
So who he got?
No.
He turned around.
He turned around and said,
He's reasonable.
Dave Wilson, he's reasonable.
Bob Conklin, he's reasonable.
Who else?
Television people, anybody?
No.
Cronkite, all those are bad people.
Excuse me.
They're all, yeah, they're all.
Stay well.
I gave him a question.
Well, I have enough news.
I didn't put a bunch of, well, I didn't, I, I, he doesn't mind, he's trying to, he's trying to, he's trying to, he's trying to, he's trying to, he's trying to, he's trying to,
I didn't count them.
Gary, bring you a story.
Gary brings a story.
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They can't find it.
They can't find it.
Oh, I went through the whole campaign.
You know, I was terrible.
It was quite the privilege to do it because I knew Johnson.
She was my close mom.
I told her not to do it.
But I had told her that it was all a privilege to do it because I was right behind her.
And I thought every time I did it, I didn't think there was much chance.
But it wasn't.
And I was moved by it.
Particularly at the last round, the responsibility.
There is only one responsibility in the air.
And I think that's true.
And I know it.
I said it.
I said it.
I said it.
I did it.
No question about it.
Yeah, no question about it.
Well, they've lost it.
I think they've lost it.
They've lost it.
They've lost it.
They've lost it.
They've lost it.
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Here's a case where a middle-aged man was caught in a police car.
He was a very ambitious young man.
He was in a bus with a young man.
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
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As a matter of fact, I don't like these numbers.
I don't.
Very little.
So it's the front page.
And they don't read much of that.
There's a headline.
There's a headline.
There's a headline.
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I'll sit down.
Well, I bet you that book sells now.
Right, it sure will.
Really, so it's written.
It's almost unintelligible.
How do you think you came up with that?
I don't know.
That's the question.
That's why I told my .
Okay, good.
Very good.
Very good.
Very good.
Very good.
Very good.
Very good.
Very good.
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I was a generator when I was here today, and when I brought it in, it was dragging hard on me.
Just for the purposes of the system, you don't have these problems.
You don't have these problems.
I'm willing to have it if it serves a purpose, but I don't want to have it for the purpose of having a system.
You know what I mean?
I'm free when it gets done.
and out of the way.
So you guys have a job on Monday.
That's not Tuesday, Wednesday.
So I'm losing the energy.
I think she told me before that I really don't want to stay.
I just want to get a chance to leave.
Yeah.
I just wanted to see if I had knowledge of what you were doing.
I'm sure it's an ocean-ish conversation.
I think that's how I heard it.
I'm just not going to do that.
And then for a minute,
I don't want him to carve out something for me that he hasn't set it out for himself.
And so, her setup complicates the show.
Secondary to show you.
Oh, yeah, that is.
I don't see it.
Let's go around the front.
If it's necessary, we can.
John, John E. should come together for that kind of thing.
Bill was concerned about those who tried to kill him.
You know, it's himself, like, he was so goddamned pleased when he got the publicity bill through, and that's fine.
You know, he did use it for that reason.
Yeah.
You might find it bad.
That's your rule.
Of course, Henry's the same person.
He was a professor.
But I don't know that at all.
It's so easy for anybody to come in and say,
It looks like it had a fresh conference floor.
The talks that you had with the state and so forth were pretty sacred.
This was wrong, this was wrong, this was wrong.
And we should have never let it down this morning.
I'm trying to understand why you said that.
Why did you say that?
It's a state increase.
And also, in this score, where it'll might go so far as to let some of us leave out a couple of people.
I really am in that kind of a mood.
Am I wrong or right?
I think you're right.
That's what we're doing.
This is for all of you to see.
We're not just publicly hurting the community.
We're trying to get somebody to see.
Tell somebody to listen properly.
Space doesn't come out accidentally.
Oh, God damn it.
Some of it, I guess, for the ability to build, let's come out.
Not every time we do.
Just as tough in defense, whatever that sounds like.
Things are not all accidental.
Let's do all of it.
They don't have to do the same thing.
They have the most sovereign guys in the world.
They do it.
They use their... My personal opinion is that there's nothing.
Nothing.
Nothing.
Nothing.
Nothing.
Nothing.
I'm trying to get sort of, I spend most of the day where I don't want to get to work more than I see fit.
I don't want to stay gone for much longer.
So I spend much of the day where I don't start reading much of the day.
That's all.
50.
And that's for the biggest part of the TB, I think.
You've got to probably bring them on because you've got to work out some phrases and some precise speech.
You've got to spend more time on wording.
Shortening.
Shortening is everything they have.
They have a lot of words.
The therapist doesn't know how to do it perfectly.
The telephone is now gone, and it's a good thing to call.
Obviously, in any case, my opinion is that there is some slight down, lessening of the effect on the problem.
I've heard it for some 10 or so weeks, but I think it's probably unavoidable, which is that
The nature of the situation requires that you stay trained right and straight up to him.
If you were talking, your eyes would look down, and when I talk to the ceiling or something like that, or here, you have to stay with it because that thing's rolling and you can't let it go.
Now, there's a lot of people who will see things like that all the time.
The other point is, I watched the whole thing.
If you got down to the 45 minutes, I mean 45 seconds length, then my point is much less bound.
The shorter the piece you're doing, the less the point that I'm talking about makes any difference.
Conversely, if you get more than a couple minutes on it, I think you do have a problem, because I think it is unnatural, as Muskie's was when he did his announcement thing, for 10 minutes.
So I'll let this get to you slowly.
I appreciate your time.
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If you were to see if you could just read it for me either way.
This one was a topic because it was billed as an outtake from your radio plan.
You could have read it and it would have been that you had a microphone in front of you and it would have been in that particular thing.
But the point, you are making a personal point, and I think making a personal point, it's better to make it right into the example.
You weren't stating policy.
And I think you were stating a personal... Well, what you're doing is problematic.
I think you're just like... You're just like... You're just like... You're just like... You're just like... You're just like... You're just like...
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That's exactly what I feel wrong.
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Hello.
Hello.
As soon as you arrive here, we'll go down to the airport.
Come on.