Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 406-004
Date: Tuesday, January 30, 1973 at 12:25 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/406-004

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[0:09] Do you have some changes?
[0:22] No, I'd rather not look at it.
[0:29] I don't know what it is.
[0:30] I don't know what it is.
[0:43] So we have
[1:16] Or if you're in a sterile room, so you have to use the brush or the piece that is next to the other side of the room.
[1:43] Individuals swearing very trying to signal that's consistent with what I'm trying to say.
[2:04] So we have to have the pressure there.
[2:05] I don't think it's important.
[2:06] So we have two individuals.
[2:19] Swear them all in, and I'll just say that I'm going to swear them in, and they will all be, because of the great numbers, we will not have statements to teach us to swear them in.
[2:31] There will be no statements by anyone to get them up there, swear them in, and off they go, pretending in the end.
[2:34] Everybody, then I can swear all of them in individually.
[2:59] Do you want to cut this off at the undersecretaries and not go to the assistant secretaries and the agency heads?
[3:19] No, I should have secretaries.
[3:22] You can't go to assistant secretaries.
[3:22] Undersecretaries don't mind.
[3:23] Agency heads, I don't mind having agency heads.
[3:24] Agency heads, I would not mind.
[3:25] For example, CIA people, I've got it.
[3:25] They're important agency heads, but no assistant secretaries.
[3:27] No assistant secretaries, whatever.
[4:03] No, they won't.
[4:05] They won't use it tomorrow.
[4:07] I'll do the private thing with them.
[4:46] This auto is what time?
[4:47] 4 o'clock, 3 plus.
[4:50] I thought it was 3, it's now 3 and a half hours.