Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 395-026
Date: Friday, January 12, 1973 at 10:00 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Ziegler, Ronald L.; Woods, Rose Mary; Acker, Marjorie P.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/395-026

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[0:00] Make every day count.
[0:07] Do anything.
[0:13] That's what I like to do.
[0:18] Every day to the full.
[0:24] To the good.
[0:29] You should work every day.
[0:40] And it could be the last day.
[0:53] Make every day count.
[0:54] That's the time.
[0:56] That's the time.
[0:56] Don't let it play too long.
[0:58] I would ask for greater than that.
[1:27] Oh, yes.
[1:27] Where does the light come from?
[1:30] I don't want to steal those papers.
[1:35] What I want to steal them is somebody leaving the prison and saying, I don't want to let those people stop me.
[1:48] I don't want to do it.
[1:50] Okay, we can go ahead and just make that quick.
[1:51] We'll be good.
[1:52] One last question.
[1:53] Thank you.
[1:53] Thank you.
[1:54] The D.C.A.
[2:00] is typically an Undersecretary's Assistant Secretary, so it should be another $500,000.
[2:09] Sure.
[2:09] There are 33 expenses to bring in this expensive process, but I think it's roughly the amount that basically we've raised to come to us, and I think it's all absolutely $25,000.
[2:18] And I've actually given it to a large major crisis, but I feel very fortunate to be able to do that.
[2:22] Thank you.
[2:22] Thank you very much.
[2:23] Thank you.
[2:24] Yes.
[2:34] And we can ask the measures that you give to some of the, I don't want to circle the race, but if there's something, you can just make it, well, that one, you got one of these for that vehicle.
[2:46] That's right.
[2:46] That's right.
[2:46] It's a wonderful momentum for people to follow.
[2:47] Another thought, your recommendation was to put people in turn January 20, 1973, and then January 20, 1977.
[2:49] I don't know if any of you know this, but...
[2:51] Thank you.
[3:17] Yes, sir.
[3:23] Sir, the, uh, came from a very quiet, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
[3:47] I have really been discouraged to read the most sickening ways of making a hero out of a goddamn sniper.
[4:16] I read the paper this morning.
[4:17] He was a sexy, uh, you know, uh, lad, uh, who got what would be just a wonderful mother's boy, and he went to the Navy, and the Navy collected him, and as a result, he's understood his people.
[4:38] I'll make a statement, and of course, there's quite an articulate and impressive Bible in it, and, uh, that's the one that's really fabulous to acknowledge the death of Jesus.
[4:42] I said, you know, check it out, guys.
[4:52] And just probably because the kids apparently wasn't a really nice kid in the solar panel.
[4:58] Because I've only watched them having problems.
[4:59] A lot of us don't even know solar panels.
[5:00] A lot of us are nice kids.
[5:01] But when you get out in the real world, and then people start to stop.
[5:02] And then people with parents who survive, people with adults start to do something.
[5:09] And this guy didn't have it.
[5:10] But apparently the little place where he grew up didn't have it.
[5:12] um um
[5:40] I said, I said, I said, I said, I said, I said, I said, I said, I said, I said, I said,
[6:10] I don't want to be here.
[6:21] We cannot, we cannot help the blacks at the expense of the education of the whites.
[6:35] That's wrong.
[6:37] That should never have gotten through.
[6:40] .
[6:40] .
[6:40] .
[6:40] .
[6:44] .
[7:10] But they did not get the college, or the college they wanted.
[7:20] Our kids went to Forest Man, which was practically where I went.
[7:24] But the district schools were so lousy, we had to pay the money to South Carolina, because they wanted to go to college.
[7:32] The kids went to Forest Man, and they went to college.
[7:34] You know, I thought, you know, my high school said, they've got the other daughters, some of them are here, some of them are there, you know.
[7:40] I know.
[7:45] It's really easy.
[7:50] It's really easy.
[7:52] That's all I want.
[8:00] That's all I want.
[8:03] That's all I want.
[8:07] What about what's the situation on that?
[8:34] Well, because you're turning around.
[8:36] What's that?
[8:37] .
[8:38] The problem is, does Mickey have a mic on his or does he just have a machine like that?
[8:51] Well, this is not a microphone.
[8:51] This is not a microphone.
[8:52] No, that's just the starting stop.
[9:00] There's a prop right in there.
[9:04] No, this is the remote control.
[9:08] No, let me explain to you.
[9:12] The mic is here.
[9:13] The prop right in the back.
[9:14] You do not have to hook up a bunch of wires with this thing.
[9:17] It's not on the other end.
[9:18] I use this one when I'm traveling.
[9:19] I have the other one I'm using.
[9:20] The only basis for getting this is...
[9:21] I don't need the other one I was consuming because these look perfectly bad and in fact better for things that I dictate to the car that I don't dictate to the operator.
[9:36] One straight button.
[9:36] But for charges that my memorandums were filed, I had to put an hour on them and then turn it over they got another hour on them.
[9:41] Therefore, I don't have to horse you around pulling out the keys.
[9:43] Are you taking that off?
[9:44] That's what I don't see.
[9:45] I will not use that button.
[9:46] That's the start and stop button you have to use.
[9:49] To record you have to push the red button and move that over.
[9:51] All right, here's the thing now.
[10:06] There's no, that's the microphone.
[10:08] And if you don't have to, you can put it over here.
[10:12] Track five, okay, five.
[10:13] How do you start?
[10:15] To start, you switch it like that.
[10:16] That's it, stage five.
[10:18] Yes.
[10:18] One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, five.
[10:20] Now, I want to see what is on.
[10:22] How do you find out?
[10:23] I'm going to move this back.
[10:25] Push this to rewind.
[10:30] Now, I'll push this to play.
[10:36] Rewind.
[10:50] I never rewind except to see that the goddamn thing is working.