Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 329-044
Date: Saturday, April 15, 1972 at 2:04 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/329-044

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[0:07] Well, any developments that you're working on?
[0:19] As we're going to talk, 36 hours, 48 hours.
[0:32] You're able to get Colson and Frank up.
[0:34] I talked to him, and he wanted to do that.
[0:35] We're just going to create a conversation and work it out.
[0:36] We'll see what we can do.
[0:37] We're working on it.
[1:05] We're working on it.
[1:05] We're working on it.
[1:06] We're working on it.
[1:06] We're working on it.
[1:07] We're working on it.
[1:08] But one day out of that battle, you just got to show some strength at this point.
[1:30] I told Henry, you've got to do it.
[1:30] You've got to do it well with public support.
[1:31] I don't know how much support there is, but you've got to do it.
[1:34] I don't mean that the other things aren't important, but you see what I mean?
[1:59] Right now, this is the seventh day until, uh, that's when we were at, uh,
[2:07] It means very much to them, but it doesn't mean very much to us.
[2:31] It did no harm.
[2:31] It probably had people thinking that.
[2:38] Well, that's the point.
[2:59] Well, of course, here we've been in this three weeks, Bob.
[3:05] And at least Larry stepped up and said a couple of things.
[3:07] His bill has been like a mouse.
[3:08] He hasn't said anything to a congressman or a senator or anybody else, you know, that he's carrying the thing.
[3:27] And God damn it, that's the reason I've not seen it.
[3:28] I'm just not going to see it at all.
[3:29] He said he wants to go down and say, well, this is what she's going to do.
[3:30] And also, I don't believe the American people will appreciate that.
[3:32] Do you agree or not?
[3:32] Whether they do or not is my call to action.
[3:38] The sound is that we're ready to negotiate, give anything away, and all that sort of thing.
[3:55] Well, we'll negotiate the real thing.
[3:57] Just watch.
[3:58] Just watch.
[3:59] Take somebody on.
[4:00] Our problem there is we just have a foe.
[4:00] I mean, it's not his fault.
[4:01] He just loves to get along with people.
[4:04] He does the right job for them.
[4:05] Don't you agree?
[4:08] my own view is once you start i don't think it makes a whole lot of difference where you go do you have you
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[4:59] and they stopped killing Americans.
[5:20] Is anything at all underway yet?
[5:20] I mean, as I mentioned to you, they, you know, they've got the telephone, the hand-on information, the ads, everything.
[5:23] I think we've really got to crank it up and have it in mind.
[5:24] In other words, let's anticipate the attack of the opposition and have some strong right-wing stuff come in here.
[5:27] and get all the speakers on and get the low-waters and towers and the boards and the rest of it to crack out a bit, you know.
[5:40] That's what it is.
[5:41] I'll get the breaker in.