Nixon, Colson & Delaney on Watergate and Bebe Rebozo

59:55I got over that.
59:56Thank you.
1:06:15No, no.
1:06:15He went out of his way to do what he had to do.
1:06:17That's correct.
1:06:17Sure.
1:06:17I don't believe that.
1:06:19He didn't do anything wrong.
1:06:21He did do some stuff that he did.
1:06:24But not for us.
1:06:24No, he didn't do anything for us.
1:06:25But I believe he did do it for us.
1:06:28He would ask a question.
1:06:29He would ask a question.
1:06:51I don't know what's wrong with sending someone like this, but I don't know.
1:06:53I don't understand why.
1:06:54I think that we could go from the terrorists to the CIA.
1:06:55I don't know.
1:06:56You know what?
1:06:56You know what?
1:06:57It's time for these people to leave.
1:06:58They work for them.
1:06:58But we need to get lost.
1:07:21I'll tell you, I would think that this would have one plus.
1:08:16They don't know him, and he said, I quote, Radio Hanoi and the government, and he said, I'm sorry, there are a few people I'd like to say this to, but Radio Hanoi said no.
1:08:25And he said, I just want to tell you that as far as the veterans community is concerned, it's powerful, and big, and the LW is almost two million.
1:08:35He said, we've got a campaign organization that will really go to town.
1:08:39The second thing he said was, I hope you're not paying any attention to the budget, because
1:08:44He said, every place I go in small groups, I say, you're right about it.
1:08:47And he said, in very small groups, I don't care.
1:08:49And he said, the reaction of those who had it is, well, the Republicans wouldn't do that, because they're in power.
1:08:59And they could do it a hell of a lot more skillfully than that, if they would do it.
1:09:05He said, you're right about it.
1:09:06Nobody believes that you're wrong about it.
1:09:15You know, surprised and shocked.
1:09:17I believe it makes a horrible revolution just now.
1:09:19When people learn all about how you develop.
1:09:22Wiretaping.
1:09:23Let's just look at wiretaping.
1:09:27The country's foreign to you.
1:09:30We're actually trying to control the country.
1:09:33There's a wiretaping on this thing like this.
1:09:36So now we're going to break in the wiretaping.
1:09:40I don't think...
1:09:44No, I said...
1:09:45I said...
1:14:02I've also been intrigued with another thing is the, I don't know what about it, but it is that we did a personalized letter to every local labor leader in the country, every American agent, post commander, BFW post commander, DAB post commander.
1:14:14We sent out 45,000 letters.
1:14:15They were vaccinal.
1:14:16It really was.
1:14:30He came out as not very much of a person, but we should thank him for this support.
1:15:06We did this not only to support the people who could get it, but also to get the mainstream campaign.
1:15:14Anybody who writes back, better have a letter to know what you used.
1:15:21Clearly, there clearly is not too much.
1:34:39Congressman Jim DeLay of New York City.
1:37:15Hello?
1:37:17Yeah.
1:37:19Hello?
1:37:21Hi Jim, how are you?
1:37:22I just wanted to call to tell you that just one pulse that you just found.
1:37:26I'm sure glad to see you come through yesterday.
1:37:32I hope that you can support him in some of these tough problems in Southeast Asia.
1:37:40It didn't hurt you too much.
1:38:26Well, I'll tell you, I hope you take a good night out.
1:38:29You get out Friday and take off a couple of weeks.
1:38:30Yeah, right.
1:38:31I know what you do, right in the sand, right?
1:38:52Right, right, fine.
1:38:53Sometime I'll get down there while I drop into the bank and see my old friend Ramonzo.
1:38:56Yeah, you do, yeah.
1:38:57Alright, good, good, good.
1:38:57And if the water is better on your side, go over and sit on the beach on my side.
1:39:01It's pretty good.
1:39:01Okay.
1:39:23Yeah.
1:39:25Yeah, you know, I was a good man.
1:39:28Nice people.
1:39:29Okay.
1:39:30Wasn't he curtain?
1:39:35Yeah.
1:39:37He was marvelous.
1:39:39Yeah.
1:39:44Well, it still is, you know.
1:39:46They've kept up that one thing.
1:39:46A lot of places were taught that there is a date.
1:39:48And so that way, according to both of them, he tells me the pub has deteriorated.
1:39:50It's very good.
1:39:50Isn't that a shame?
1:39:51Remember, they used to have the best hamburgers there that I've ever had.
1:40:10Well, that's the building, yeah.
1:40:11Is that good?
1:40:11Yeah.
1:40:21I couldn't agree, I looked.
1:40:21Well, you just take care, and I'll see you down there maybe sometime.
1:40:26Fine, okay.
1:40:26Tell me about Bozo, about Jeff Delaney.
1:40:28He probably doesn't remember.
1:40:29The Congress, his double bank is his bank.
1:40:32He has an apartment in the Sands.
1:40:34He's coming over there, I don't know if he mentioned it.
1:40:35Do we get it?
1:40:36Yes, and we don't mention it.
1:40:38You said that...
1:40:49Whatever you want, you know what I mean?
1:40:50I mean, he's got a tool for it.
1:40:50A few of our friends.
1:48:56It said three cheaters ran away, carrying a pig.
1:48:57It was a speech, a speech by the book.
1:48:58I noticed it wrong.
1:48:59It said that wasn't her own fault.
1:49:00That affected the suspense over the summer.
1:49:01It affected the game a lot.
1:49:02It affected that according to Harris, nobody expected to accomplish anything.
1:56:39My feeling was kind of true.
1:56:39The question really is what do you want me to do?
1:56:41I signed the half-assed business.
1:57:18We don't know.
1:57:50What I'm concerned about is what was the last storm.
1:57:57And if you move down, the prices go up.
1:58:00And if you move, the weeks that are going up, the weeks before they go up.
1:58:20I was in favor of your going away.
1:58:23The reason that I was in favor was that I thought the prices were going to go up this week.
1:58:34They didn't.
1:58:34And therefore, my goal was to have it ready again.
1:58:39And by executive order, the president, the very next day,
1:59:49I don't think that's so long period of time, because it will be heard in the end.
1:59:55It will be very much like the kind of war that was just during that psychology.
2:00:04Of course, there was also the price to die on.
2:00:07You don't know how long it will last.
2:00:23And you feel it.
2:00:24The cattle growers understand this is not a decisive deal.
2:01:04What would you say then?
2:01:06He froze and died.
2:01:35I need a reason, Mr. President, for him.
2:01:36He wanted to do what he did.
2:01:37Do the political thing.
2:01:38Roll it back.
2:01:39If it crept up until I noticed, on September 1st, I don't agree.
2:01:42He's going to roll that to 30 levels.
2:01:43I think we have it for now.
2:02:43I've talked to this president.
2:02:44I talked to Clark when we were standing at the recommendation meeting before.
2:02:46And I've made two other deals with him over the last three weeks.
2:02:47I've put him in the president's meeting and said, if you tell me this is the balance of this year at all, I'm going to support you.
2:02:50They won't put this with any president.
2:02:51It's going to be a quiet response.
2:03:42I didn't appreciate this president before.
2:03:43He wanted to do what he did, do the political thing, roll it back in the Senate.
2:03:44If it crept up in July, I don't know, September 1st, you know, it's not only free, it's going to roll back to 30,000.
2:03:47I think we haven't provided for it.
2:04:44It is a terrible sense of issue, because people build it up in their own minds, and they get mad, and they've got nobody else to sort of take it out.
2:04:47And they make it worse than it is, and even when prices go up, people can't pay up.
2:04:50And so there's the present before you issue a very strong order that people interpret it.
2:05:43And that's the only issue that the owner had to see.
2:05:44The only thing that we have is the issue with the sport.
2:05:46There are issues with Japanese.
2:05:47It would be a bad thing if it just stayed the way it is.
2:05:49If it just stayed the way it is today.
2:05:50But the one issue, it'll be better.
2:06:13It's all our committee, it's all of us.
2:06:15It's all of us.
2:06:15And there's more police and reptile than there is folk or anything else.
2:06:18That's my governance.
2:06:18That's supposedly what I'm trying to do.
2:06:19More people to live with your hand than you have today.
2:06:21And Harrison did admit it.
2:06:22What is that?
2:06:42Handling the war in Vietnam is up in May of 2759.
2:06:43Very much, most of the press are going to be there.
2:06:45The government is going to be very excellent, very, very important for Israel.
2:06:49Wanting to have the war in Vietnam, the handling of the war in Vietnam in 3759, what is now going to be done, which is a significant thing, but I mean, my agency,
2:07:14Very, very similar.
2:07:1464, 25, approval, disapproval.
2:07:15My governor vote is 39, 51.
2:07:15My Nixon vote is 80, 50, 10.
2:07:16My Wallace vote is 76, 14.
2:07:16Next question, the impact of the mining on the water.
2:07:17Length of the water, 18%.
2:07:18I said yes.
2:07:18Shortfall of the water, 43%.
2:07:18So the church really is
2:07:46That issue is struggling.
2:07:49That issue today is impossible.
2:07:54Take these figures.
2:07:57And so, 82 will die.
2:07:58I think 86% of the people will be able to still be involved in the event.
2:08:05So it'd be quite significant, the event, that we had this huge fire here.
2:13:27Oh yeah, I'll send that down.
2:13:30What does it say?
2:13:31President Nixon's favorite Cuban figure of all time has been associated through a family real estate firm with a Cuban bugging crew that allegedly attempted to install listening devices inside an Albright party headquarters.
2:13:47The suspected leader of the bugging group, Bernard Parker, is a joint investor in the real estate development of another company in Cuba, as well as Suarez.
2:13:57We let sources say that D.P.
2:13:58Rozo has been involved in some of the appeals.
2:14:00Now I've been unable to reach for Rozo or Swearer as for Conner.
2:14:05However, I was able to arrange an exclusive interview with some of the suspects in the D.C. jail.
2:14:10They denied that D.P.
2:14:11Rozo had anything to do with the bugging attempt.
2:14:15However, they took their instructions, and Bernard Barker never told them who was putting up the cash, their hotel accommodations, and the fashion we're working in, before the legging was attempted.
2:14:25And now all the legal expenses have been provided by a mysterious man like Mr. Jones.
2:14:34Son of a bitch.
2:14:35Yes.
2:14:35Well, it's horrible, isn't it?
2:14:36I don't know if anybody heard of that, but I think Roboto did.
2:14:38Absolutely.
2:14:38My 18-year-old son and I were watching him, and he said, that sounds like Roboto.
2:14:42Isn't that awful?
2:14:46Yeah, it's terrible.
2:14:49Of course, he was mad.
2:14:49He was mad.
2:14:57I call him.
2:14:58I just call him.
2:14:58I'll call him.
2:14:59Call him, greet him, and send him down.
2:15:05Okay.
2:15:05Yes, sir.
2:15:05I held it by delay.
2:15:06Yes, I will.

Nixon, Colson & Delaney on Watergate and Bebe Rebozo

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