Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 411-019
Date: Thursday, February 22, 1973 at 4:04 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Baker, Howard H., Jr.; [Unknown person(s)]
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/411-019

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[0:08] What a great place.
[0:15] I have all the cars.
[1:03] I used to do it.
[1:08] I learned to do it when I was vice president.
[1:17] See if the senator would like the coffee tea or ice tea.
[1:22] Okay.
[1:25] It's a little time to do it.
[1:33] Yeah.
[1:33] Well, tell me about your, basically, your hearing.
[1:43] I have a very interesting hearing.
[1:46] The three, all are lawyers, is that right?
[1:48] Nobody else on the hearing said no to us.
[1:49] That's a good idea.
[1:50] That's a good problem for us.
[1:51] The same response to a professor saying that I would not want to talk to you guys.
[1:52] That's important to me.
[1:53] What I would hope, though, is that some of them would be there to pull them together.
[1:55] So,
[2:01] There may be, there may be a man here, a woman there, and this is for them to say, well, now, totally.
[2:20] I have, let me say, as far as anybody, let me tell you what I have in mind.
[2:22] I think your idea of getting to
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[2:59] I would hope that you would pretty well go ahead and do other things.
[3:11] There are lots of things I would like to do.
[3:13] And I think it depends upon us letting the Watergate not say we're coming.
[3:16] Say you're one, too.
[3:16] That's another way to do it.
[3:17] That's right.
[3:17] That's right.
[3:17] That's right.
[3:18] That's right.
[3:28] If he can get the...
[3:58] 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...
[4:26] young 30-year-old.
[4:31] Who is that, sir?
[4:33] Who is Dagg?
[4:33] Dagg is one of the big findings, uh, classmates of hers.
[4:38] Uh, yeah, great.
[4:41] Yes, sir.
[4:42] 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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[5:24] We'll be right back.
[5:54] I had already...
[6:30] That's my idea.
[6:51] That's why I...
[6:55] I don't know.
[6:55] I don't know.
[6:55] I don't know.
[6:56] Let me ask you.
[7:13] There's the other thing.
[7:31] In the meantime, I know you do a good job.
[7:41] You're exactly right.
[7:47] The main thing is to have no bad comment.
[7:56] That's the worst thing.
[8:00] more of the substance of this is the apparent answer.
[8:12] So no cover-up.
[8:13] 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.
[8:17] You're going to get to this certain thing.
[8:20] We have to keep that out of shape, right?
[8:21] All right, well, we'll stop.
[8:21] I think that's a great job.
[8:39] Thank you.