Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 354-010
Date: Monday, October 2, 1972 at 2:40 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/354-010

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[0:00] I don't know where it's going to be at before I go up to secret meeting.
[0:23] Well, not a great day when this person's things continue to go very well.
[0:25] We have a pretty wild candidate on the other side.
[0:26] This is breaking out very, very strange.
[0:27] My God.
[0:27] The speech at the UPI yesterday was just...
[0:29] Are you there?
[0:45] No, I didn't tell you.
[0:49] I had a report.
[0:51] One officer said it could have been a lie.
[0:52] A lie?
[0:52] Uh, no, the judge was fine.
[0:53] He sent one over here.
[0:54] He kind of called us up and said it was really pretty rough stuff.
[0:55] I've opened, moving on the wire, it's very, you know, just the most corrupt administration in the nation's history.
[0:57] It's a corrupted American.
[0:58] Immoral war, immoral acts.
[1:00] official corruption, intimidation of the press, deliberate campaigning, discrediting statements, broke in.
[1:21] The hell do you mean?
[1:22] Yeah.
[1:22] The first time I asked you, you seemed to have got an attempt to prevent them to punish the publication of critical data files.
[1:25] All right.
[1:25] What did we do there?
[1:25] What did we do?
[1:26] Well, the Vice President is speaking here, and the government wants you to refer him to a doctor.
[1:27] How did he?
[1:28] How did he?
[1:28] I don't think he was the chair.
[1:29] Oh, the chair.
[1:29] Oh, of course, of course, of course.
[1:51] Well, thank God we did that.
[1:52] That's right.
[1:52] But this, I don't know how to listen to it.
[1:53] Of course, I'm television.
[1:53] I, I, this screen, you see, is just an instrument.
[1:55] And I, this one here.
[1:55] Well, you've got the right kind of disability.
[1:56] I'm seeing it right now.
[1:57] The salt agreement is good.
[2:18] The Saturday agreement is good.
[2:19] The salt agreement will be another good one.
[2:20] The American agreement will be another good one.
[2:21] The people will be able to do whatever they want to do.
[2:22] We're going to go to the ships and we're going to meet.
[2:23] When it was too long, we were going to have to go to the ship.
[2:24] Congress is going to give us a couple of hours.
[2:25] The water bill, I'm not worried about.
[2:29] I don't know how we can get it out of here, but that is the most unbelievable and irresponsible thing I ever saw.
[2:49] I think I was in front of it, and I still believe quite the word.
[2:50] I mean, I believe on almost anything about that.
[2:51] Detailing it, because you want to hold the line against the text, is, you know, I don't think it was, I really don't mean it on social security.
[2:54] And I can work people to scream, but this was, you know, nothing to do with it.
[2:57] We've already given 20% of the entities, for Christ's sakes.
[3:05] Why lower those?
[3:06] At age 55, they're all happy to do it.
[3:07] Go ahead and secure it.