On February 22, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Howard H. Baker, Jr., and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 4:04 pm and 4:54 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 411-019 of the White House Tapes.
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What a great place.
I have all the cars.
I used to do it.
I learned to do it when I was vice president.
See if the senator would like the coffee tea or ice tea.
Okay.
It's a little time to do it.
Yeah.
Well, tell me about your, basically, your hearing.
I have a very interesting hearing.
The three, all are lawyers, is that right?
Nobody else on the hearing said no to us.
That's a good idea.
That's a good problem for us.
The same response to a professor saying that I would not want to talk to you guys.
That's important to me.
What I would hope, though, is that some of them would be there to pull them together.
So,
There may be, there may be a man here, a woman there, and this is for them to say, well, now, totally.
I have, let me say, as far as anybody, let me tell you what I have in mind.
I think your idea of getting to
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I would hope that you would pretty well go ahead and do other things.
There are lots of things I would like to do.
And I think it depends upon us letting the Watergate not say we're coming.
Say you're one, too.
That's another way to do it.
That's right.
That's right.
That's right.
That's right.
If he can get the...
Well, if we can work out something that will satisfy him in terms of the... Like I said, let me just see if... We're getting a very bad rap, but you know that Kennedy... You understand, I believe, that it would be a case for... Yeah, well... Today...
young 30-year-old.
Who is that, sir?
Who is Dagg?
Dagg is one of the big findings, uh, classmates of hers.
Uh, yeah, great.
Yes, sir.
We don't want to have the beginning, sir, but if Dagg gets all three parts, then we've got to go in there and just tell the members all
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We'll be right back.
I had already...
That's my idea.
That's why I...
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Let me ask you.
There's the other thing.
In the meantime, I know you do a good job.
You're exactly right.
The main thing is to have no bad comment.
That's the worst thing.
more of the substance of this is the apparent answer.
So no cover-up.
But also, if it does get rough, then I think you may have to, at a certain time, turn and say, now let's get away from it.
You're going to get to this certain thing.
We have to keep that out of shape, right?
All right, well, we'll stop.
I think that's a great job.
Thank you.