On April 18, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 8:25 pm to 8:45 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 332-008 of the White House Tapes.
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Well, how did it come out today down there at the Senate?
I met on the ITT.
I had Vietnam on about two of them.
The one?
Yeah.
Well, what is the situation tomorrow with the system?
I don't see the system.
Good.
Then the other should break up the hearings at that time.
Good.
Let's let it run for a while.
That's a good line.
Well, the hell with the papers.
The TP won't do it.
All right.
All right.
The weather did well today.
Nevertheless, that's all right.
Right.
Oh, getting riders out is more important than that.
Plus, the Hofstra public is tomorrow morning.
Well, it's good for them to vote it down.
That's right.
Let's go with the editor.
That's all right.
That's all right.
It's a mixed blessing anyway.
You know, just let him sit there a while.
Well, I don't think he will.
I don't think he wants to put them all in that much of a spot.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, but more important than that, which is a political statement, is that people are going to come out and say, we've got a job.
I don't want my party to be, you know, for treason.
How about our friend Fitz?
Yeah.
Say something.
He's a big man, and he should say something.
You know, representative of labor.
That'll make force, meaning of it, too.
I believe the same way.
That's great.
All right.
We're out there.
All those are good.
I'll see you in a moment.
Three o'clock.
Roger did it well, and I will get through it.
That will flatten it back, too.
Yeah.
That changes their attitude very quickly, doesn't it?
Good, good.
Yeah, I saw that about the AGM evening.
What is the situation on the CPI?
It can't be as bad as last month.
At least it will be a little better, and that's an improvement.
That won't come the next month, though, will it?
The CPI falls a wholesale price about a month, I think.
I'm afraid.
But anyway, it may, but it isn't going to be six percent.
Six-tenths of a percent, I mean.
On that council, like Whitman and Solomon and Stein, all three are good.
We can compare the situation before we have McCracken, Stein, and who knows the other one.
I think it was impossible.
He was a nice fellow, but he never helped.
Now we've got, we had one good one and two bad ones.
Now we've got three good ones.
Come on, that's the way it is.
People have got to feel better about it.
Right.
Right.
We'll have that tomorrow for the showdown on ITT, isn't it, sir?
Good.
Well, we'll just see how the handling's all tomorrow.
Maybe our people can have a sense of the filibuster good about Brian and me and the other fellow.
Start nailing them with the idea of supporting the enemy.
I hope people are saying that, that you're supporting the enemy, huh?
Yeah.
Right.
That's the issue.
Handle it well.
The town is weak, too.
That's why.
Good.
Hammer them a bit.
That's good.
Right.
It'll sort of be the cleanup area.
Good.
Good.
Good.
Okay, well that's good.
Just keep their heels to the fire, okay?