Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 419-015
Date: Wednesday, March 14, 1973 at 8:55 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Dean, John W., III
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/419-015

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[0:00] Hello.
[0:20] Yeah.
[0:20] Yeah.
[0:20] Hello.
[0:20] Uh, I thought that before you, uh, before, uh, slavery went out.
[0:22] Yeah.
[0:22] so that he can make use of that line.
[0:28] We've had a chance to go to 50 from the top of his last line, but we haven't had a chance to go over it.
[0:50] A lot of stats, and it's about, uh, a lot of, you know, just, uh, disincentivization, uh, which, uh, did all Republicans, uh, you know, join this as a matter of tactics or whatever the situation was, or did they, uh, refuse to, you know?
[1:20] Yeah.
[1:20] Yeah.
[1:20] Yeah.
[1:20] Well, if you've got anybody who would say, look, let's find a procedure where you could go ahead and step up to that.
[1:42] Sure.
[1:42] Oh, hell, you aren't going to look.
[1:43] You aren't going.
[2:20] rather than rather than staff will provide such information in ways that
[2:49] Thank you.
[3:24] Yeah, I mean, it probably won't work, but nevertheless, and that's where I do believe a couple of the other folks.
[3:44] They might come back and say, well, you just want to have a response, or you just want to make a strong response.
[3:47] I wouldn't want to even touch you back.
[3:47] You're with us up there.
[3:48] Okay, after you have a chance to clarify to the others and so forth.
[3:49] I don't want to talk to you about it.
[3:50] The difficulty here is that I don't want to get involved in any of that because they're both parties and actors.
[4:14] You're not.
[4:14] Well, it's quite true.
[4:15] And I think the best thing is for you to figure it out.
[4:16] I should agree.
[4:16] And you've got the views of the others.
[4:17] You've got all their views as to what they are.
[4:23] Thank you.