Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 395-008
Date: Wednesday, January 10, 1973 at 3:41 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/395-008

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[0:06] We will probably get that report.
[0:14] All right.
[0:24] All right.
[0:25] All right.
[0:25] All right.
[0:26] What about the schedule?
[0:47] Thank you.
[1:39] But like, either that or I'm sorry, the whole process.
[1:56] Well, let me say that in view of that fact, perhaps you could anticipate that it went on.
[2:01] I do keep, as told to Kennedy, we've got the damn reporters, and there's a great period here now, and we've got three hundred and one.
[2:09] So I'm much more than happy.
[2:20] You checked with, uh, with the, uh, MSL as the people you used?
[2:37] Yeah.
[2:37] Yeah, so, so that's here.
[2:40] So you can get a hold of Dave from your name on the line office here.
[2:42] So, because I want to discuss that procedure with you.
[2:43] Now, I'm concerned about how you work it out, but the more I think about it, the, uh, I don't know what the word is, but, uh,
[2:48] I have not seen Bob Howell.
[2:57] I told you this.
[3:01] I couldn't see him, but I have not seen Howell.
[3:06] He goes quite often.
[3:08] There, in the show, he drinks.
[3:08] Then, coming back here, I had to get past that fellow.
[3:11] Then I had to go somewhere where he had to come back with nothing.
[3:13] To take my point, I mean, what the hell am I announcing?
[3:15] The word of the author there, Greg, I agree.
[3:16] But the question is, what purpose?
[3:18] Well, that was to say that we're sublimely agreeable here in the order of the American people.
[3:40] Absolutely.
[3:41] I think we have to be in a position to speak first.
[3:43] This is very important.
[3:43] But are you sure not concerned?
[3:44] I went over this.
[3:45] Did you ever go over this?
[3:45] This may not be a workable thesis, I don't know.
[3:47] I don't really think it would go on for a long time.
[4:04] You know what I mean?
[4:05] You never get that.
[4:05] If it stuck, that would be me for a reason.
[4:09] It would be the leaders.
[4:10] But, to the question of the way that all these people, the other people who want to say what they're doing, I don't know.
[4:13] I don't know.
[4:14] I don't know.
[4:14] I don't know.
[4:14] I don't know.
[4:15] I don't know.
[4:17] That needs to be done sometimes.
[4:25] It is initially a few grams.
[4:31] It basically is a few grams.
[4:35] And I think that's what he intends.
[4:39] That's the whole purpose of it.
[4:42] Because they want to go there and so on.
[4:47] Okay.
[5:09] Okay.
[5:15] Okay.
[5:15] Okay.
[5:15] Okay.
[5:16] It's a real problem, right?
[5:41] It's a real problem.
[5:41] There are older lawyers who work for a government.
[5:42] They don't do it for law firms.
[5:43] And it's a very deep, bloody matter.
[5:44] And it's not a good matter.
[5:45] A young guy is kind of a rancid guy.
[6:02] It's very hard to put an older man, a younger guy, in a position like that.
[6:04] But I appreciate it.
[6:05] It's great all the time.
[6:05] Thank you.