Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 425-047
Date: Monday, April 9, 1973 at 7:55 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ehrlichman, John D.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/425-047

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[0:00] Yeah.
[0:24] Yeah.
[0:25] Hello.
[0:25] Hello.
[0:25] Hi, Tom.
[0:26] Oh, yeah.
[0:27] Yeah.
[0:27] Very well.
[0:27] Oh, yeah.
[0:27] That is a good job.
[0:32] No.
[0:54] Wait a minute.
[1:00] All right.
[1:00] You can tell us.
[1:16] We can only make that as an allegation.
[1:29] So back off.
[1:47] Put my hope and heart on first, and then just breathe it out and call it a day.
[2:50] Whatever you want to do, just be careful.
[3:20] Thank you.
[3:50] But on Dean, uh, he held tight with the fact that he just couldn't deal with it.
[3:57] Baker helped him, I heard.
[5:12] But that's one I didn't have time to do that with.
[5:22] It's hard now.
[5:53] Why the hell is that even part of the version?
[6:25] Yeah, let me say what they want, whether it comes to the books or not, every one of them.
[6:32] If you've got a bad headline that scares somebody, you can't have trouble.
[6:33] That's a line that's got to come through.
[7:28] I didn't realize I had gotten that close to the end too.
[8:16] I don't know.
[8:38] I don't know.
[8:39] Maybe we'll see.
[8:39] Well, anyway, you're going to meet Wentz, and he's going to resolve it, aren't you?
[8:41] Is that what you got?
[8:41] Yeah, we're going to resolve it when we get there.
[8:42] But then, we're never here.
[8:43] What about you?
[8:43] I don't know.
[8:43] I don't know what I'm going to do.
[8:44] The more I think about this, I just forgot to tell you what I'm going to do.
[8:45] Do you have any idea what you're going to do?
[8:47] it's not it's not the kind of
[9:25] I, uh, what the hell does it matter what asshole the person is?
[9:35] Why do you have to do the job?
[9:37] He has to follow me.
[9:37] I mean, what the hell is that?
[9:39] I mean, that's why I'm saying he has to follow me.
[9:41] He has to be behind me.
[9:41] What the crap is that?
[9:52] And I told her, you realize that that's his craft, the nomination.
[10:17] I went, so what can we do then?
[10:17] I said, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
[10:27] Thank you.