Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 406-006
Date: Tuesday, January 30, 1973 at 12:35 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); [Unknown person(s)]
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/406-006

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[0:01] I'll leave it down there.
[0:17] Don't take any blame on me.
[1:33] Oh
[2:52] I'm waiting for you to read the book.
[3:15] Let me ask you, suggest one other thing.
[3:21] You should not overwork.
[3:22] How about having them?
[4:13] Let some others fight it separately.
[4:31] Herman Kahn.
[4:31] Herman Kahn should fight it.
[4:33] That you can't, right?
[4:36] Or you both can't.
[4:36] You're pissing him straight.
[4:37] That's right.
[4:37] Now, with Hank, maybe he has some thought on it.
[4:38] One thing I want to be very sure of is the client thing.
[4:56] You know, not a small pool.
[5:20] Nothing.
[5:20] We cannot have you running around the world with a person.
[5:21] Right.
[5:21] Right.
[5:22] Right.
[5:22] Right.
[5:22] Right.
[5:22] Right.
[5:22] Right.
[6:00] But, you know what I mean, that, uh, and, uh, refusing to admit that maybe they had been in there, refusing even to concede, maybe, maybe, present, you know, some character occurred, you know what I'm saying.
[6:19] Uh, maybe Bill Hurst will write it, maybe Buchanan can write it for us.
[6:25] Must not come out of the White House staff.
[6:38] You know, I didn't want to knock it.
[6:38] But it is something that one of our staffers could write.
[6:40] You kind of have that special ability, I think, to get somebody else to pick it up and then pick it up.
[7:11] What if you just have, you can't even check the seed or the martell or the telegraph?
[7:32] What if any of the telegraphs had action?
[7:32] If they didn't, they'd send out those two.
[7:33] The first two are very good, because they deal with inauguration.
[7:35] And that should be done very fast, Bob, because you have that kind of thing on those two bits of your own store again.
[7:37] The first two, I've read them both.
[7:38] They're excellent.
[7:38] And if they go to Thursday,
[7:47] I think another thing is that, you know, I've been trying to make the point, and I will, in the election, that all other people don't act like winners, so it's very important, which is why I had this point again, in campaigns going around, you know, the not-that-church, or maybe the kind of loose-balling that was said by Dolly Parton in this campaign.
[8:14] And I keep...
[8:15] all the grating he had to do on people, I think that's very important, very important.
[8:33] Because in other words, rather than it should be not a bitter anger, but a joyous anger, that's not what it's going to be.
[8:48] That's the point I would say.
[8:58] Let's have a little fun with it now.
[8:58] What do you think about the idea of an article about it?
[9:34] Take care out in the park tonight.
[9:36] I still want you.
[10:50] That's what's .
[11:15] So what I'm getting here to is the idea that .
[11:26] I think he underestimates the weakness of their philosophical difference and also their basic personality.
[11:48] Coming to the point, though, it gets to the crit iron, it gets to the target, it gets to all the rest.
[11:50] Whether our decision there probably isn't right.
[11:57] All the ground is dead.
[12:16] If you wrap around with the structure and all the rest of it, there's no particular fallout.
[12:18] What do you feel?
[12:19] It's not insidious like it is.
[12:33] I don't make a big thing out of it.
[12:55] This year I just can't make a big deal out of it.
[13:34] I don't think they can find it.
[13:40] And they could argue that they have, you know, they know one's own.
[14:21] The average democratic party.
[14:51] Yeah.
[15:20] Yeah.
[15:28] And he's off room.
[16:02] Talk about the other day.
[16:30] He never does a thing about it.
[16:51] He's done a lot.
[16:51] And I think we should play it that way.
[16:52] I am not going to press him.
[16:53] I think Colson should.
[16:53] Colson's going to be on the outside.
[16:54] We're not going to close him down.
[16:55] We're not going to do anything.
[16:55] One of us is going to go.
[16:56] We're not going to do a show.
[16:56] He's going to host a meeting.
[16:57] And I'm not going to raise him.
[16:58] I'm not going to raise him for this thing.
[16:58] I don't mean you can't raise him.
[16:59] It's a little discouraging.
[17:00] If it is...
[17:35] but I'm pretty high in this room at all.