Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 338-017
Date: Tuesday, May 9, 1972 at 11:35 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Mitchell, John N.; Butterfield, Alexander P.; Buchanan, Patrick J.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/338-017

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[39:53] Hello?
[39:54] Hello?
[39:56] Well, there's an old Haiti man, and I told you that, please, if I may, did something.
[40:05] You know, I wrote the damn thing over the weekend.
[40:07] I didn't get the final one.
[40:09] I don't know what you heard.
[40:20] Of course the Democrats
[40:36] Politicians, you know, just what we expect.
[40:38] They're laying on the bushes.
[40:40] They're supporting the president.
[40:42] They ought to be in for that.
[40:55] We're done.
[40:56] as and when it's canceled, which you can very well make even.
[41:00] We're just going to say, well, we expect that to happen at a later time, but we're not going to have the American president go to some Russian tanker running through the streets of the way.
[41:14] That's the main effect, you know, of this kind of operation.
[41:18] Nothing's not technically evolving.
[41:20] It only has an effect for a period of time that I can tell you
[41:27] It's an offer, but how the hell can anybody say we should do more?
[41:43] Did you agree with it?
[41:59] I have a suggestion.
[42:01] Wouldn't this be a good time for you and Buckley to get Ashbrook in and say, look, John, if the car stays dead behind, we're going to get out of the race.
[42:14] Ray in the call, I'm asking him to call.
[42:15] Would you do that?
[42:19] I'm going to call some of his troops.
[42:21] Would you do that?
[42:22] No, I wouldn't do that.
[42:23] I approve the trip of Ray to Europe.
[42:24] I'm going to send him a message.
[42:25] I'm going to send him a message.
[42:28] You ought to be happy.
[42:31] They just want to go to Europe.
[42:34] I don't know.
[42:35] It's all good.
[42:36] It's all right.
[42:37] It's all right.
[42:42] We, uh, all go and, uh...
[43:26] I would like to have comments made by you.
[43:45] I've got three of them right now.
[43:54] Charlie Ryan, Ken Rush, and the dean, Fred Day.
[43:58] And then I said Powell.
[44:00] Well, if you can't get your hawks going now, we can.
[44:07] Oh, sure, it's going to take months, but it might not.
[44:20] The main thing is it'll do it.
[44:24] Maybe Bill Rogers, if you recall, I invited him.
[44:30] He accepted.
[44:30] Good.
[44:30] All right.
[44:31] I can't say a word.
[44:32] Powell, too?
[44:32] Huh?
[44:32] Powell, as well?
[44:34] Powell?
[44:34] Powell.
[44:34] He's a justice, but he's free of court.
[44:37] That's fine.
[44:38] That's all.
[44:40] We're going to hold here for two minutes.
[44:43] Two minutes.
[44:43] Two minutes.
[44:43] Just say Bill Rogers is a couple.
[44:50] He's representing.
[44:54] tell him I'm Patrick Rush, because he was a professor, an associate professor at Duke.
[45:02] So he'll speak.
[45:04] And Paul, tell him who else is talking.
[45:05] I appreciate it.
[45:06] Yeah, I was glad that you said it.
[45:07] We weren't sure what we were talking about.
[45:10] That was very funny, isn't it?
[45:13] Behind a disaster.
[45:23] Yeah, that'd be fine.
[45:27] Do you think we should take the F Rogers?
[45:34] Well, we're already taking a little bit away from the end, but I think for a good reason.
[45:51] Now, with that picture, I know the place to take this outside.
[45:57] Step out the steps, let the press in.
[46:01] Just the classroom.
[46:01] No spouses.
[46:02] No spouses.
[46:03] No class.
[46:56] I'll drop that.