Nixon & Haldeman on Public Relations and Vietnam War

Talk to everybody.
They're wasting.
They had a.
She and her husband had been about lunch with the mission people yesterday, and they're very concerned that this is turning out as a bug piece, and they don't want to go with the bug piece.
Tanaka, I think we were trying the last time in July, and I'm talking about today.
Okay.
This was a server approach, and I don't think that
I want you to mark off the 4th of July period, the Labor Day period, the last four or ten days in general.
What's the July?
Well, I think, I mean, it's naturally a holiday that I see a reason for us to be here.
Well, the only thing is,
one possibility that we're working on.
I don't know whether it's going to look good or not, but I'm trying to put together an overall thing on the war that finishes it, tied into the patriotic holiday cycle.
It doesn't have to be, and it doesn't have to be tied to the cycle anyway, and I'm not sure if we want to do it.
I'm not sure if we want to meet the order that, oh, it looks like a good idea, but it
And he was to hit the cycle of the POWs and withdrawal, those who lost their lives in Vietnam, and those who served in Vietnam and came home.
The POWs, MIAs, served in a union body or something.
I, of course, was thinking the same.
The press conference, I think the more I think about the press conference, the more I think about it.
Right on the day of the last
So that I just go on and on.
I don't know what she would be, but I think it's, I think it's useful to say, I'm impressed by your way of thinking.
One problem, we had talked about coming back to D.C. and I said, you've got to drop that fuel and still be here.
Well, I was thinking of having to take it back.
Well, oh, I should mention, I think we should give it a day.
and respond to businesses you shouldn't be in.
Being here will change a little thing, all right?
I'm really saying I'm going to have to be up there, and we can probably respond.
All right.
Yeah, we're going to do it.
You know, we have a little problem.
If you do it, you're still going to come out into Washington that night.
It's just going to be the same thing.
I guess that overrides.
It is a little awkward, but you're going out there and see what's in there, and then you come back and have it in there.
It overrides.
I agree.
I like it.
It's all that.
It really is all that.
Well, it's a doubtful call anyway.
We doubt that he did the job.
Okay.
Well, that gives us the time to come and play.
Okay.
Okay.
Daniel, you're stuck here.
I say you can see the weather's good, but you really can't.
No, I would say you're over there.
At least the weather would be good for Palm Springs now.
You're not going to have bad weather in Palm Springs.
No, that's right.
No, it'll be, uh, Palm Springs will eventually be sensational.
Well, that's what April felt.
It was beyond.
I'm just trying to figure Palm Springs, because I might like to go over there.
I don't think
You haven't yet been able to analyze.
I wouldn't have a seance with Ronald Reagan or anything else.
I mean, just sitting here.
You said, I don't think we have to see where you're coming from.
I'm trying to swear at something, but I mean, you just don't have to do any of that.
We just take off.
You can stand over crop strength, but I mean, you can come out on Wednesday and go on over there Thursday morning or something.
I was thinking if you wanted to do something, this idea of the country, I don't know if that's a good idea, but it's a good chance to do something.
I don't like that stutter.
Uh, we did have, so, they look, that's good.
I, I can use some time.
We've got about three weeks to go.
So, you and I were talking, you were going over there.
We really haven't had the, since the election.
We'll catch a little bit of California touch.
Actually, it's on the 480s.
We can catch a little bit of Florida over at the exterior.
I'll watch that while we're at it.
Make a note of death.
Warwick, South Carolina governor.
West Bartlett County.
We were checking to see whether he would be interested in running for governor.
And so, as you can see, he would be.
I think we're better candidates than any of the electors.
They were very strong.
I don't know if he will be back out in the capital, but he won't be all gussied up and republished.
I don't know if that's going to be a great opportunity for him.
I don't know if that's going to be a great opportunity for him.
Yeah, what has happened here is, I noticed a thing or two.
I don't know if it's been, I guess I think it's happened here.
Anybody in that area, I don't know if it's been far.
The, uh, the man who wrote the terrible white person,
than people that just have whatever their lives may be, they're the same.
And it's new.
It's pretty revolutionary to be a person.
But you may have here, you may have people that are so, so strong by the person that they could be
potential leaders of this country in the future.
There may be a certain impact based on whether it's a kind of a guy that's next to you, whether it's a Republican, whether it's a leader.
I don't know.
God knows.
That's the need today.
My analysis of the Congress, and frankly, of most of the governments like that, is that they're very high-spirited.
They're real politicians.
on one side and on the other.
Basically, they're a goddamn chunk of terrible pollution.
Yeah, they are.
A lot of them just have, they don't have steel.
About the number of people we have even in the demonstration on the steel.
It's a damn few.
You know, when I did the work with them, there was a number of them with real steel and a record of it.
With steel.
Very, very sharp.
I've been thinking of a way to get the letter out.
I thought that this might be a very good one.
Rather than just putting it out.
It'll get bigger and bigger and bigger.
It's so obvious when you go down the track.
I was thinking that it would be better if I was compared to what I was doing in the past.
I was trying to do what I was doing.
Thank you.
And I was so impressed by that that I would like to share what I would do.
Now, just a brief cover like that, if you send it to me, I'm sure you can make up the list.
I would send it, for example, to my neighbor, a Christian, and I would send it.
You can't start on the leader role, on the doctor's role, because there, you've got to pull together the two of them.
You've got to pull together the two of them.
that I'm sending around the country a mix of microchannels that will be limited to more advanced language and I'm sure that you can hear what I'm saying which includes, say, original which includes a micro-american language which I'm sure goes a long way
the letter is so powerful that it will start people thinking of whether or not we ought to improve anybody
Publish a better version of this article.
Thank you.
Howard Smith, first of all, is a great person.
He did a lot of work with Howard Smith.
He's a great writer.
He's a great person.
He wrote good comics.
But the first list is also getting people thinking about getting the list that I would like to use for the future.
And we are evolving those users, I suppose.
It always has to be looking at the list to be prepared.
You have your basics, but you have to kind of put them together based on what you're saying.
This would go with what we want to use in the future.
I'll put some fertilizer down that, okay?
And let's get that over the next three days.
And this is part of the water.
Right.
Captain Singleton and Captain Jeffrey are going to take a White House tour tomorrow.
It was set up by .
They were going to be in town, so he called the tour office and asked if they'd tour, and they set it up without me.
We just found out.
They have not asked for the president.
It seems unexpected.
But if you get an in here, it seems they're going to whip the two of them when they're wise.
In fact, I know you ought to have them on an unannounced, unscheduled thing, just because you heard they were touring.
I know it's true.
We don't want to, we don't want to, we don't want to, we don't want to, we don't want to, we don't want to, we don't want to, we don't want to, we don't want to,
I'll be sure they are.
We've got to get on top of this stuff.
We've got to get on top of it.
We're getting this kind of stuff.
You see, if we get that every time a group comes in, I can't see what we're trying to see.
If that's all you need to announce, you're in favor right away.
Once that's announced, I don't want you to see any more.
I would make that .
They're all .
see whether if they have dress you don't want to have to buy a dress you got a little check it out i think they want to they've done this project by sure
I was going to ask you about the, what about the idea about John's feeling about the Spanish.
I didn't see that on the screen.
I mean, except for Kelsey, who's kind of like, used to be a physical week.
A lot of practice for the kids, you know, if you were part of a school.
I mean, that's the, that's the thing I wanted to put a question on.
What's that?
I wonder if it should be.
I don't know.
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But you can't get away.
I don't know what happened.
You get up there in those guys.
They have real sense of time, because they don't have anything to do with it.
Well, you know, it's a really tough decision, and I was lucky on that other side.
I know you're going to help with the fight.
Yep.
Oh, thank you, sir.
Great.
And then after all we did for them on those certain crimes, the parties, we're through.
I don't know what the rest of the fight was like.
They don't get to see the present.
Did you notice that?
Yeah.
What's the answer?
There's no answer that makes sense.
I can't say that.
You don't think I can see them?
No.
It's just worth it.
They reply.
It's got to be done by staff people.
Cole.
Cole was much better than Hank he was before.
He does handle a lot of people.
the coal handles of all of their officials.
Well, there's been some that say they don't want to just talk to the staff, and they want to talk to the president.
But the ones who are in the know, the ones who care, are not grandstanding.
They're trying to get something done.
I've apparently been delighted with the coal setup, as contrasted with the vice president, because they know that coal is the guy running the policy stuff.
the vice president being a lip service and thinking that he wasn't involved in the machinery.
Well, then he whined about us.
How about getting a, you wouldn't quite, would you tell, just two or three or five or ten people?
The vice president would be willing to do that.
I feel that maybe what you ought to do is that, you remember I talked about VR.
kind of an operation where you sit down and talk to the team.
You've got two things.
You've got to follow the plan.
There's a meeting with the congressional body.
I don't know what the hell we're going to do with the Congress and the CMO.
We haven't had that meeting.
That's tomorrow.
Right away.
Now, you've got to meet with the, uh, you're going to have a partner of mine.
Yeah.
And the other one, not with the leaders, but without our leaders.
Yeah.
The other one, there's a meeting.
It seems to me, well, I think you have a lot ahead of you.
Maybe early.
I don't know.
Who else should bet?
I don't know.
I'm trying to think of this whole business of how the hell we should better, how we should protect our, the other way through Canamaran, out of blue.
I know the Harris Bowl is a bad, good thing.
The trigger system.
We don't know what the hell is back.
Now, it is the type of place that not enough speeches is.
I mean, radio speeches is all, everything we've done has been a domestic point of view.
All the radio speeches are true.
Now, all of them have got to go to play.
And yeah, they can't say, if you want to go and give a speech to the, you know, the president.
Right, because if you want to go out and make a delivery, make your speech.
Well, most of the radio speeches get better coverage than anything.
They do.
They want to give.
Now, radio speeches get better coverage, for example, than the speeches we're going to hear on South Long Beach.
We've got, we've got, uh,
I think in terms of finding a forum, the radio speech is better than any forum in America.
Agreed?
Yes.
Unless you have no TV.
Now I think, for example, if you've got a speech that's worth it, as you know, you can
You know, and another thing you can do, of course, if you want, as I said, do an outtake.
You know, another thing you can do is, you know, maybe you want to do an outtake on this crime scene.
You know, I was just thinking about that.
We could get something.
Like, one minute could be quite a few minutes.
Give it two minutes.
Give it two minutes.
Give it an hour and a half.
Yeah.
It's just hard for anybody to write something that's worth saying.
We could get something.
I think the use of that TV outtake is virtually mandatory.
I don't think it ever loses anything.
I can't be sure you're going to get on this unless I've been on a break for a while.
This week there was no reason for it because I had a bus stop.
It would be a good idea, this week, let's probably try that.
And I'm trying to confirm if my tailwater is processing.
I hope it is processing.
Oh.
Oh.
I'm good.
You have that at 830, you can clear that.
All right.
The other thing they're raising is whether you should use the layers.
No.
All right, I'll leave you with the layers and so forth and so on.
But they're suggesting that no way are we going to have any insulators meeting going on to insult.
If you just come in and say hi there, then you get back to the city.
They apparently have a meeting planned with them at 2.30 or 1 o'clock or whatever.
I think that's right.
A group like this, with some of these groups, I don't think you do have to spend as much time as some guys do.
I think you can just come in and say, I'm glad you're here.
You know, it's been good work.
These guys have that.
That's pretty hard to do.
And they're using a blue option, pink blue bear, plus a fantastic collier.
Probably going to choose plus one of the other three.
That should do them, but you probably, at some point, you've got to do the mayor's assistant the best way you can.
Others are tying there to spend a half hour.
I don't know what you're planning on the city department.
I won't be back until, what, do you know what they're like?
That's what they had in mind.
One of the things that's happening with John, he is so busy having meetings that he probably has very little chance to reach John about his whole business and be on top of it and maybe be important.
That's my problem too.
He's running a little cycle of meetings like he's doing with any other table, right?
If he had a table three or four days where he doesn't have any.
And then he sits down and he's more important than anything, more important than anything.
We'll say, now, what the hell are we going to do about this?
We're going to go back to another meeting.
Very.
Dividing is being set up.
So he has meetings for the first part, then just the second.
So he's not getting along.
You know, there's a bunch of things.
But he gets himself carried out.
He gets it.
Why don't you tell them about this car?
I do not want them to raise problems with me so that I can answer.
Either way, just so I know.
I wonder if we're not, I don't know, I do know that our whole theory that we want to keep control of events and things like that, we'll go right out the window and
I'll do this one.
I'll do this one.
I'll do this one.
I'll do this one.
I'll do this one.
public appearances.
I think that's why our whole schedule, let's do it on a scheduled basis.
Beyond that, I just want everybody to be able to agree.
But when these things come up in the future, we've got to just focus on how this is going to go.
We're watching that this week for an hour a year.
We've been tracking the last week.
That is which is very important to us.
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And then at a separate level, we get therapy out here.
And we're going to have all of that.
See, what's happening here is that I go back to the eyes of my mother.
I can't have two meetings.
I do it every week.
So you have to ask who wants to do it.
We had broken it down so that what we're doing, the fact that we get through the hydro part, the fact that we get through the council, the upstate, the United States, the SBA, the National Council of the State, the National Council of the State, and the campus of the state, the fact that we get through, the government can't do it all.
The domestic council, I don't think they can do it.
That was your idea though.
You know, watch the interview because it gets to do with the cabinet and the rest of the cabinet, which is a severe attack on people.
The purpose of this one, of course, is to do some compliance.
I want to do this.
I had a black belt.
That big job, shut off some of this stuff.
You should not undertake any more, you know, US groups kind of things.
You should not do any more editorial work.
It's a waste of time.
You agree?
Yeah.
Editorial work.
You've got to agree with the whole bunch.
I just couldn't convince you to do what it is you should do.
He is speaking for the president.
Right.
Well said.
It's hard for a guy to force himself upward.
Well, it's like, frankly, the situation I had for a year or so.
Everybody's in the light.
Why don't I do it now?
John Walker is just a puppy.
He's a very, very puppy.
Now, I'm very busy.
And cold.
You've got to look for the cold.
Plus, you've got to have some people like John.
Very fun.
And he's very good.
Ash, I think, is a pretty good manager himself.
How does he like all his little clichés?
How does he like them?
That's very important.
Very important point to note.
A person's got to make it something new.
It's a new challenge.
Changing records from HW to defense, as I tell them, is a good thing.
Changing lines is a good thing.
It's a good challenge.
By the way, they have people around.
I read the news.
That is true.
Yes, that's true.
Thank you.
So we have to do two things.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And here's the way to see the chemists.
Chemists can't act in terms of the cell.
So that's just a great part of that.
Yeah, but you're facing here, there's your breath.
And his whole crowd is supposed to let him get the bite.
And this guy goes, I got it.
And they're not bothering him.
So Bryce says, I got you in to see the president.
And Bill says, oh, yeah, I got you in to see the president.
He tries hard.
I'm very excited about that and I would have done that if we didn't have the partnership with them.
And that's, that'll be the sad side of the partnership accomplishment.
But, an outstanding partnership.
Either side of that bar, I don't have a piece of evidence to speak to.
I've never seen a conference in such a bad way.
That would mean, well, if they're just .
But I'm sure what would come up
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
The way I look at it,
I can hear it.
I can hear it.
I can hear it.
I can hear it.
And now we know what lines we've got to go on in the streets and the rest of us.
And, you know, we can't do it.
We've got to do it.
We've got to do it now.
What I had agreed to end up doing was to end up
The other reason is because I've got four hours a day.
I can read, write, and do other things.
I don't expect that many people have those, but it's always good to have anyone who's got to do that.
Or, you know, if you have
I don't know.
I don't know.
It was a lot less than I thought it would be after that, but it was a great experience.
It was a great experience.
It was a great experience
I think we've got to start getting
California.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, there's 18 years to go, and the first thing you've got to do is switch assets.
At your agency, you've got to run a load of this plate off every now and then.
But Dan's rare.
Definitely.
But this year, you have all here.
Right.
Make sure that if you don't know where to put it, you don't know where to put it.
I mean, you know a lot now.
What if the drafts are going to be up?
The drafts are going to be up.
I'll get that.
But I'll lose a couple of them every now and then.
Yeah, it is.
That's true.
That's true.
You're actually right.
I shouldn't have invited that.
You're right.
You're right.
You're right.
You're right.
You're right.
You're right.
You're right.
You're right.
You're right.
And so then you break down the problem, and you just start.
What would you do then?
Alright, Saturday night, so that means we've got a couple of weeks to take the day off, right?
Monday's a good day, Monday's a good day, Monday's a good day, Monday's a good day, Monday's a good day, Monday's a good day, Monday's a good day, Monday's a good day,
I don't know if you want to touch on this, but it is very hard to be a speaker later on.
I had this pattern in school, and I worked on it.
But maybe I have to do it.
Maybe I have to.
If I really get through to this, maybe I'll fill it out.
But I have to get done.
I don't have any time.
I've never called before.
So it's been a pleasure to be here.
I'm very, very proud of it.
But there are some stuff that I'm very proud of.
And I think it's always better to do it now.
I can't.
I live out in California.
I'm leaving now.
I'm reading a French book.
I'm leaving on Thursday.
I'm trying to figure out what's going on.
Let's say it's the 7th of July.
What should I do?
Should I go out there and work every morning?
Yeah.
I think so.
As a general pattern, what would the understanding you don't want to be someone, you know?
Okay.
And we shouldn't have to set up an active schedule for work every day.
Instead of your pattern, you know, working
Yeah, we've got it.
We've got it.
We've got it.
We've got it.
We've got it.
We've got it.
We've got it.
Alright, how about, how about trotting people out there, you know?
I wonder if that is a good thing.
I think I would like her, uh, you know, to trot her out and all that sort of thing.
I wonder if that is a good thing.
I think if she went back to that evidence, if she hadn't gone back to that evidence, that would have been a problem.
But should we trot people out?
I mean, I just don't think we should.
It's a general rule of thumb.
It's, it's, it's, it's not a good idea.
Frankly, it's not a good idea.
It's a little, uh, outdated.
It's a little more practical.
At the beginning, he had to establish that he was going to go off on a tangent.
That's right.
He's not going to do anything like that.
Okay, take it back.
What did you do this time?
I was just a little bit on the ball.
I mean, you thought about it.
That's right.
I said, I said, I'm purposely going back.
I mean, I was trying to get back.
Yeah, I think, as is his plan, to receive, to get the ball in hand,
I'm going to take a look at his desk and see if there will be work.
And I'm going to talk to him very quickly.
I'm going to get him back.
And I say the same thing every day.
The reason he does this is because he's concerned about the reaction that he's going to get if someone's going to write to the government to take the day off.
I know.
I thought I'd write to the government to take the day off, and I said, put the two all off.
True.
Sure.
Goddamn conference is taking the week off.
Everybody else takes the time off, but I think the hard work and credit in the new conference makes you worried about everything.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's so charming that you're not working at the other places, but a lot of you have to go to the other place and say, well, you know, people do it better.
It's better to get a job.
So I'm saying, well, it's better to get a job.
Yeah, that's really good.
People get more good at it.
But what about in that 10-day period of getting a job?
Yeah.
But I wouldn't take part.
At some point, we're going to have that go-get-ready thing.
If you want to go through it, you want to go get ready for that, right?
If you want to do it before you're absolutely ready, then I'm sure you're going to be ready.
Right.
And we're going to go get through it.
Right.
I don't think we'll be ready by the end of the year, so I don't know.
We don't need to read them because I don't want them to see what's new with it.
July 15th.
July 15th.
July 15th.
July 15th.
July 15th.
July 15th.
July 15th.
July 15th.
I think there's a problem with having a luncheon or a dinner or a reception or something.
Well, he does some of those things.
You know, there's a very, very small idea of what he's doing.
The problem with doing it from there, it's not just to hear, it's to receive as a particular small person and therefore create more of a problem as he is there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So there's a lot of different things that you can do with it.
It's hard to do, but there's definitely a good deal of good things in that country.
A lot of people go out there, a lot of people go out there, and just go out, go out, and go out, and go out, and go out, and go out, and go out, and go out, and go out, and go out, and go out, and go out, and go out.
It's very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very,
I don't do any of that.
I don't know.
Backyard.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We had some Washington County, and the same circle of patterns in a very different way.
So, one of the bigger problems that I encountered is, one is good luck, and the other is bad luck.
So, that's something that you don't have to worry about.
There's very few times where you go off from whatever you're supposed to do.
We had a war.
We had a war.
We had a war.
We had a war.
We had a war.
You know, we may have, we don't have the effections, you know, that we have, that we should have, that we should have, you know, concrete and battle all the time.
There is a critical effect to that, you know, that we're trying to do.
Yeah, but it is very, very likely, it is very, very likely.
And all I ever want to say to my colleagues is that sometimes when people are really all out, they're really just white people, and they're all mixed, and all of a sudden, it's just too much.
And so we would like to be able to say goodbye and say thank you to these people.
People like Texas, and I don't know, I don't know if I would ever want to say goodbye to Texas.
Getting back to what I was talking about with the wool water, and, um, what you can and you don't have to do is, uh, use, uh, one of the lots of wool water, right?
Okay.
I think that was the biggest comment I've seen in my life.
There's all the other kids who are going to be doing it, and every older guy likes it, and that's the most important thing.
And then, the other guys are going to be doing it, and they're going to be doing it, and they're going to be doing it, and that's the most important thing.
I'd like to ask you, what do you think about this?
I think installation is one of the things you really want.
uh, practice, it doesn't satisfy you that I've given up all that much.
But let's say, in terms of our satisfying for life, you can't, there's all these other things, and so, that we don't want to have a loss for life.
What kind of life would you give to life?
But they were kind of the same at all.
And when it came to a bunch of people, like, uh, even the Jim Foxxers and all the guys that I like, one of them, the Foxxers, and that, and the other guy, and all that, and that church, and my wife, my kids, and as far as, like, the white church, I was sure that she was going to know, and she was going to follow and support me.
So, you know, I'm going to be a part of every issue.
I think the right of us is never satisfied.
It's just a lot more than they're ever satisfied with.
It's just a lot of stuff.
Sure you did all this, but, you know, what are we going to do about it?
Okay.
You know, all that litter, all the, you know, all the, it's basically, they're haters.
They're all, they are, they're better than they can be.
That's why we can't buy as you can at this point in time.
And what you have to buy is a lot of not-to-mow, a lot of adaptive quality.
There's a bunch of stuff like that.
You no longer have a bunch of things out there to make, right?
So you probably have to do that.
I think the problem is, I don't know how a lot of people make it, but we're having a problem with that.
Are you okay with that?
I don't want you to fight back.
It's hard for you to fight back.
It's there.
It takes you to the good side.
It's there.
It's there.
It's there.
It's there.
It's there.
You have to be consistent sometimes.
When the ref is out, that's going to give you life credits.
And I tell you sometimes, you don't have to get dramatic people.
That's what I'm calling it.
That's what's up, is that it's people that I'm calling.
They're actually wrong.
I'm gonna do it again.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
You never know what it was going to happen to us.
Right.
So therefore, you're saying he was killed by a cannon.
By a cannon.
He was just down.
Right.
But he was also killed by a cannon.
Right.
Right.
Right.
Right.
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.
.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't think you want to hurry up.
Hurry up.
Well, we can't have that.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I think he's right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.

Nixon & Haldeman on Public Relations and Vietnam War

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