On March 13, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 6:29 pm to 6:34 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 323-014 of the White House Tapes.
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Call some, please.
I think you ought to get a hold of Slick Hempstone.
You were pushing it very disturbingly.
You don't have to do this, but I was shocked at the longer story.
Oh my God.
You might be bold, but for now, the company, the planning firm, is supposed to work together with you.
You know what I'm talking about?
Yeah, now, yeah, but my point is, Grinnell was the best, you know the point?
They say this, but I don't even remember.
It was Grinnell.
Grinnell.
Zipper's got all this stuff.
But the point is, the star, the star, really ought to editorialize it.
They were sorry we did this.
Now, goddamn, they are lending themselves to this fellow Walters, a vicious bastard, all the truth.
And, well, we must not let them get away with this.
You see, the firm that Dylan Reed represented, Grinnell, Grinnell was one of the outfits that were divested by IG&T.
So if they were divested, they lost.
But why in the good health didn't he point it out in the first paragraph, rather than going through reams and reams for the effect of planting in years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and
And where he says independent, puts in quotes.
Well, now, it's a terrible thing, because you've got to read down.
Grinnell was divested.
They lost the case.
Now, goddammit, heaven.
I mean, is there anybody you can call?
Call him and say, now, this is a hell of a thing.
What's the matter with the star?
Now, I gave Crosby noisily.
But now, discredit him right away.
You get cross with yourself.
But tonight, say that we're shocked by it, we couldn't understand it.
Did they know that Grinnell had been arrested?
And have Clawson call this son of a bitch and say, what the hell is the matter with you?
They lost the case.
That's right.
Well, I know.
You're doing all right.
Just keep at it.
Did you get them?
Did you get them?
Have you got the typewriter experts and they're working on it, or are they struck out?
They probably haven't thought about it.
But it may be, it may be that this is one of those things where it can't be done.
But if it's any kind of a typewriter, other than one with a new kind of wheel in it, there's no way that you can avoid it.
No way.
And I'll bet they didn't have one of those little ones in their office, you know.
That's right.
But that I know you can pretend.
I know you can pretend.
That'll really blow them right out of the water.
We've just got the country somewhere yet.
God damn it.
They should write an editorial apologizing for that damn thing that they've done.
Yeah.
Okay.