Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 322-038
Date: Thursday, March 9, 1972 at 2:39 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Irwin, John N., II
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/322-038

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[0:00] Hello?
[0:08] Hello?
[0:09] Hi, how are you?
[0:09] Fine.
[0:09] I just wanted you to know that, uh, I thought you'd handled, uh, a, uh, a statement, uh, that, uh, that you gave to the one that shot at the star.
[0:20] It was, uh, when I had you shot at the state department.
[0:21] I thought you handled it pretty well.
[0:22] What you said, it's a piece of, you know, this is part of the old game, and what it did was tell us, and now we do it now, and the whole idea of trying to devise it is quite out of the state department.
[0:42] The way he took it off in a very permanent way is the way he did it, and I think it's kind of a great skill.
[0:45] Yeah.
[0:45] It's okay.
[0:45] That's all I know.
[0:47] But they can always find, you know, a few grouses.
[0:55] Few grouses, and then they'll take, and also they make some of the, you know, they'll take one guy, and they'll take, and that's elaborated, and they gossip, and they go down to the bar, you know, I don't know.
[1:02] But I understand, but I really appreciate what you have.
[1:07] Okay.