Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 404-026
Date: Tuesday, January 23, 1973 at 1:59 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.; Sanchez, Manolo
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/404-026

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[0:00] I wonder if he's going to be publicized anyway.
[0:16] I don't know.
[0:17] Oh, he's scared along.
[0:20] The lawyers pulled it off.
[0:23] None of that was .
[0:31] He's a cop.
[0:36] He's a cop.
[0:41] He's got a mental illness.
[0:55] He's got a mental illness.
[1:07] The Bible says,
[1:35] If we think we're going to get all of the poison and keep it alive, saying there's smeariness and this and the rest, I think you can put a good case suit, believe me.
[1:48] I follow it all the way.
[1:50] I agree.
[1:51] And I don't want none of us going to get hit, but you're going to do other things.
[1:56] You've got to believe me.
[1:58] We're going to need the lower-ranking plan, and we're going to fight through that.
[2:02] I don't want to do it.
[2:02] I won't do it.
[2:03] Well, I don't think so.
[2:09] I think it was .
[2:12] He said, .
[2:13] He said, .
[2:15] He said, .
[2:18] And he said, .
[2:20] Oh, everybody thought as a result that he really did .
[2:25] In other words, once you bring them up, you carry them over the way, it moves.
[2:33] Okay.
[3:07] I'm going to know that you're here at a very interesting day.
[3:20] When I was 10 o'clock, I was announced that we have reached the break of dawn for the last time in the world.
[3:28] And every time that it was all over demand, and I said, Lord, please, we're going to have this in the world.
[3:34] The ceasefire is throughout the world.
[3:37] and the laws, and their right to themselves to be engaged in their own future without any outside intervention.
[4:02] We've got Perry in the lead after all.
[4:03] Now, what it means, of course, to be dealt with is that there must be a savage attack.
[4:05] I don't know if anybody else is going to agree with what I've said, but there must be an attack.
[4:13] The.
[4:42] I also want every labor you can call to come to us and say the present.
[5:11] Thank you.
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[6:24] That's what we ought to do.
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[6:54] I don't want to keep going for a month.
[7:01] Frankly, the attack, we may not be able to destroy it because we don't have a press release.
[7:12] Blackboard, Herbert Hoover was attacked by that son of a bitch.
[7:17] Smart guy to work for us, don't remember.
[7:19] Those were the members.
[7:22] You remember the job they incurred when they made him the sandwich on the bench and everything else.
[7:29] It's irrelevant.
[7:30] Why is it?
[7:31] We had never done anything to our enemies.
[7:37] Never.
[7:37] It was effective.
[7:37] But this is going to react.
[7:39] You must tear their guts out.
[7:42] Look, they would settle for a peace that would get peace for America and continue war with 30 million people in the Southeast Asia.
[7:51] We have peace.
[7:52] We're going to be the hell out.
[7:58] All the rest of the military is going to be a shit.
[8:26] I agree completely.
[8:33] I think maybe this is the time to cool Travis off.
[8:39] What do you think?
[8:39] Chase?
[8:42] Chase?
[8:44] Well, Chase is going to run for the line.
[8:45] That's right.
[8:45] That's right.
[8:48] That's right.
[8:49] That's right.
[8:49] That's right.
[8:50] That's right.
[8:53] That's right.
[8:54] That's right.
[8:54] He will be delighted to know he's done everything
[9:25] Yeah.
[9:53] But you get down and say, we can do everything we want.
[9:56] But what they've got to say, Chuck, is the president's policy has been vindicated.
[10:01] It has worked.
[10:02] And all these factors that are based upon the government, what the hell has it been all about?
[10:07] Is it working or not?
[10:09] And they must not get away with this line to the effect that they would have, of course, essentially.
[10:39] The only way we can embrace it, we have to destroy it.
[10:50] We have to use this belief as the first way to get rid of it.
[11:00] Because I agree, they, I even got Christ out later than that, so it's not quite the same.
[11:04] I don't know what that means, but I guess if you take the world, the credibility of it, anybody can see it.
[11:11] I believe it.
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[12:12] Then after that,
[12:44] Thank you.
[13:14] There's quite a scally thing.
[13:20] If you talk to him, he's kind of like this.
[13:25] He's ready to fight.
[13:26] He's got skills.
[13:28] He's got ability.
[13:29] The press is there.
[13:30] The journalists come along with him.
[13:36] He's an awesome man.
[13:36] He's awesome.
[13:39] I'm just going to question the narrative of that.
[13:40] Why?
[13:40] If you trust him completely.
[13:49] Thank you.
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[15:18] Why doesn't anybody stand for him?
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[16:23] But you've got to be strong.
[16:29] I think the real problem is that all of us have been so desperate for the question.
[16:42] That's right.
[16:43] Yeah.
[16:44] Yeah.
[16:45] I've been beaten down and destroyed.
[16:49] You can do it.
[16:50] You can do it.
[16:51] You can do it.
[16:52] You can do it.
[16:52] You can do it.
[16:53] I'd like to be the lawyer for the Washington Post.
[17:02] So we want to congratulate you.
[17:05] And CBS.
[17:06] CBS.
[17:07] And the Washington Post.
[17:10] They're too quiet.
[17:12] They're too quiet.
[17:13] They're too quiet.
[17:16] They're too quiet.
[17:17] They're too quiet.
[17:17] They're too quiet.
[17:19] They're too quiet.
[17:20] They're too quiet.
[17:20] They're too quiet.
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[18:00] what you're fighting for.
[18:03] It's a long story.
[18:08] We didn't make this for you.
[18:13] It's a part of the inauguration.
[18:15] It's a part of the inauguration.
[18:18] It's a long story.
[18:19] We've got a long story.
[18:21] We're asking what's wrong.
[18:22] Where's the current?
[18:23] I remember two years ago, I think we were asking to see a reporter from the county.
[18:28] Maybe a year and a half ago.
[18:30] You're not as good at talking as I'd be at the center of the church.
[18:35] As good at talking as I'd be at the center of the church.
[19:23] Fairness.
[19:24] Fairness.
[19:25] Fairness.
[19:29] I've got to say, I think John, I think it's great.
[19:33] I think John really, I don't find John quite as bad as John.
[19:45] He's smarter than John.
[19:47] What do you think?
[19:48] I don't think it's the first one.
[19:50] It's the first one.
[19:52] What do you think?
[19:55] He was a laborer.
[20:39] Yeah.
[20:59] Yeah.
[21:09] Great.
[21:14] Well, that's fine.
[21:21] But you would be right to remind that if you're getting five cents, it's good to do the five cents.
[21:34] I've never heard the motion to do it.
[21:35] No, we won't do it.
[21:36] Well, I just .
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[21:40] Thank you.
[22:13] In other words,
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[23:21] I believe that there's a project now that we can't do any of it.
[23:47] There really is more of a challenge.
[23:48] There's just pure pressure.
[23:48] Mainly, of course, because of this.
[23:49] The way I'm doing this is very, I guess, skillfully suggested.
[23:53] What happened to the...
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[24:55] Thank you.
[25:17] Don't worry about the support of the mob.
[25:21] You know, I mean, you don't have to worry about the fact that you're going to be able to work.
[26:00] Thank you.
[26:30] Thank you.
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[27:50] Thank you.
[28:21] We'll tell them.
[28:35] We'll tell them.
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[29:30] I don't know.
[29:32] I don't know.
[29:42] I don't know.
[30:00] Thank you.
[30:39] Yeah.
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[31:51] Yep, and we'll get a lot of people saved in that particular situation.
[32:03] It's a great time.
[32:07] It's a great time to do it.
[32:11] We'll do it.
[32:13] We'll do it.
[32:14] Thank you.