Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 385-010 Date: Monday, December 11, 1972 at 4:59 PM Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L. Recording device: Old Executive Office Building Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/385-010 This transcript was generated automatically by AI (WhisperX) and has not been reviewed for accuracy. Do not cite it as authoritative. [0:00] You got anything new in your briefs today? [0:13] Yeah. [0:13] The Michelle thing. [1:29] I'm not gonna tell you. [2:41] Okay, I'm gonna stop. [2:53] Yeah. [2:53] Just say I got it. [3:16] Don't put that out because we don't know how it's going to work out. [3:39] Right. [3:40] Yeah, that's that. [3:40] Yeah, we don't know what's going to happen. [3:41] I could look back off as well and say that I don't know whether it really worked out or not. [3:43] Yeah. [3:43] You get somebody to open the cover, cover that it locks properly or not. [3:50] I told you now that I want you to get to the top, so that it's never erased. [4:04] I don't want you to know about it. [4:05] Nobody from the Washington Post is ever going to be in that house when I get to the center. [4:07] I just work out the rules, the rules, and the rules, and the rules, and the rules, and the rules, and the rules. [4:47] Thank you.