Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 322-026
Date: Tuesday, March 7, 1972 at 2:26 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/322-026

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[0:01] So, hello, Al, is Henry back at, uh, Conner?
[0:12] Yeah.
[0:12] Uh, fine.
[0:13] When he gets back, uh, you have him, if it's before, before, I don't know exactly where he'll be.
[0:27] Have him drop open, he'll be, yeah.
[0:28] Oh, okay, Al.
[0:29] Oh, fine, well.
[0:29] Nobody's very smart.
[0:50] Yeah.
[0:50] Well, here.
[0:50] How did they, uh, well, how did, uh, how did, uh, Rogers and, uh, really conquer?
[0:52] Yeah.
[0:53] That's good, that's good.
[1:07] I did hope we could get him to turn around.
[1:10] He's very sensitive on this, and I'm going to have to see him today about it.
[1:13] The main thing I have to be concerned about is the seat.
[1:14] We just can't get him into the...
[1:14] I mean, I think if the Russians had engaged him, because Brezhnev, I'm sure, will have, you know, more of a plenary session coming, and Brezhnev is the man in charge there, whereas Joe is the man in charge in China, right?
[1:20] And, uh, so that'll work out.
[1:36] But the other thing is, uh, is, uh, is this, uh, this whole system that, uh, because we have this NSC man sitting on his team, and there should be a state man sitting on my team.
[1:40] That's just unpredictable.
[1:41] I'm not going to have a state man sitting on my team.
[1:42] I'm going to have a state man sitting on my team.
[1:43] Do you agree?
[1:43] What is it, Mr. O'Reilly, that you've been telling me to do?
[1:49] We're going back to the government after all.
[1:49] I never got to know anybody else.
[1:50] I don't know what's going on here.
[1:51] I don't know what's going on here.