On April 3, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Charles W. Colson, and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:19 pm to 3:33 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 328-035 of the White House Tapes.
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I don't think it's going to hurt in the primary.
The point that I made is that
These guys are now, you know, they're swinging wild as hell.
And on this one, I don't know, he, of course, his staffers, interlocked with Kennedy, pretty much to his criteria to make such a hell of a move.
That's great.
But to say that a corporation, even a small corporation, that would pay taxes on the karate scene,
It's just unbelievable, you know.
They know you couldn't have done it like that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They're taking him on, aren't they?
Oh, yeah, the Boeing thing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, of course, the thing is, the media are just making all the, you know, the senators and so forth and things.
Of course, I got a little amused, but he appears to have heard you look something like that.
He is his private air force.
Good.
Airline, airline.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And the way things go, they never all run the same way.
And also, the point is, of course, that they've gotten into some concrete evidence now.
But they're still damn short on it.
Damn short on it.
The efforts to turn around were essential, because for two weeks it was there, and then we had to get some other time.
The efforts to fight the vaccine, they were in charge.
What you did was to create some doubt.
Without your efforts, there would have been no doubt.
And it would have just been the charge.
And I think all of that has had some effect on you as well.
I can just rule out a person, whether you're on the way or not,
That's good, that's good.
We're good, yeah.
I think there's always a great mission to be able to be a doctor and a police now.
That's what I'm seeing.
I think that's a great role to be able to get the needs right now.
I think that's what I'm hearing.
It's up in the air, and I think most people will find it's not going to be a long, long time.
They've all got it in them.
I hope you had a good weekend, all right?
All of the people that got into the school, but any other, any other, any other, any other, any other, any other, any other,
Really?
Well, that's good.
If Montgomery's first, I'm pretty certain he's going to be third.
What we want them to do is to all stay so reasonably well
In fact, it would be good to have a must-see for that third or fourth.
He's canceled his filming going on statewide.
That's my kind of audience, though.
He's only on one station.
The most statement I've had is, you see, unless, you know, it's a statewide effort to realize, that only gets about an eight.
You know, because...
If you have the NBC or the CBS network, they can do some other program.
I get on as president, as vice president, and also as a candidate, you know.
They just can't draw.
Two networks.
Two networks.
Oh, it ain't marked.
Oh, yeah.
Build it.
All right.
Well, that would be interesting.
I don't know if he's doing so well with exposure.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, well, that's when he's really going to have trouble.
Get, for example, with people like that.
Get, for example, Gilligan, which would be, oh boy, you know,
Stay there.
I love you, son.
I love you, son.
I love you, son.
I love you, son.
I love you, son.
I love you, son.
I love you, son.
I mean, I know you're just saying how to get out.
Of course, Romney did it.
I must say, he did it in a beautiful way.
He's a real man.
That's just very close to where I came from.
There's our car.
We've got an ambivalence here.
We'll do it again later, too.
Okay, well, anyway, you don't have to worry about it.
I'm trying.
I think the intervention will have a real effect, don't you think?
Well, okay.
Don't.
There's no question about it.
I'm just saying that we need to figure out what's okay.
All right.