Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 338-006
Date: Tuesday, May 9, 1972 at 11:07 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Rebozo, Charles G. ("Bebe")
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/338-006

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[25:16] I thought I might come down this weekend, but that was the political weather.
[25:22] I don't want to come there.
[25:24] I don't want too many radicals.
[25:44] The question is now whether it works.
[25:47] It will work over a period of time, because I intend to squeeze these batteries if it takes a year.
[25:56] No, no, no, no, no.
[25:57] Oh, hell no.
[25:59] Oh, no.
[26:00] Boy, if they start bringing it in, if you see them, the ships are stopped.
[26:04] So nobody's going to go in.
[26:07] Twenty ships are lined up to get out right now.
[26:09] They're clogged with channeling.
[26:10] No way they can get in.
[26:12] Hell no.
[26:14] And we're gonna bomb the railroad yards tonight.
[26:18] Well, it'll give the course probably, as they've already said, most people think it'll sink the Russian summit, but I don't.
[26:30] But if it does, what the hell?
[26:43] It crawled all the way up.
[26:48] Probably got it off of the wall or some toilet.
[26:58] Let me ask you to say to the little people in your band, the little secondaries in the room, do they understand you?
[27:16] Ray McGovern jumped on it right away, and the Democrats have refused to endorse it.
[27:22] So I think that's playing a very vicious part in politics.
[27:25] I endorse that goddamn Kennedy's Cuban thing.
[27:27] But that's all right.
[27:29] Let him play part in politics.
[27:31] He'll be.
[27:38] Well, we've got strength.
[27:40] We will work on that.
[27:42] Well, okay, well, I may come down around Thursday, but I can't get away.
[27:45] I agree.
[27:46] Well, you know, I worked my hell this weekend.
[27:50] I worked on that, I was working on the money and all that.
[27:55] So I did mostly write and speak myself.
[27:59] Protected the part of Russia I didn't know about.
[28:10] Don't do anything I don't say.
[28:13] Except I'm a lover.
[28:14] Okay.
[28:17] Okay.
[29:02] I think that's a little dry.
[29:05] Oh, it's under operation now.
[29:09] Yes, sir.
[29:10] Sir, there's Larry, please.