On April 25, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and John D. Ehrlichman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 7:25 pm to 7:39 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 430-035 of the White House Tapes.
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I wanted you to know that I just talked to Mike.
I told him that I'm not going to be a project leader.
I'm going to be working on that stuff.
I don't know if he's ready or not, but I know Peter's going to say it.
I'm not going to be a project leader.
I'm going to be a project leader.
Okay, we are not going to have you act.
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I said, we're only fencing here.
I said, I don't want to be on the fencing line.
See, that's a positive action, too, John.
And I said to the other guy, what are you going to do?
And they just called, pulled on the other guy's phone.
They didn't call.
They didn't call.
He was trying to put me in before they were going to put me in.
But it was coming out just for them.
And he said, prosecution.
That's where he gets down to, like here, where he's trying to, like, kill everybody.
Why was he here?
Did he die?
Did he die?
Uh, actually, you know, that's kind of biased here, too.
That's all right, too, but the point is, we'll leave that on 7-6-9.
That's mostly what it's about.
Better change would be better.
You've got to go.
You've got to go.
You've got to stop.
You've got to go.
I love you both.
I love you both.
And being together, you're in a hell of a lot more trouble than I'm here for a second.
And I know your situation.
I'm here.
Stop.
There's more getting on.
um that was pure
I could have said, think that special security won't pass along, but if I did, there could be another hammer in her hand.
I can tell you don't disagree with it, because my idea is that, like I said, I told them, oh, I'm going to come to you, if you agree.
There we go.
Let's go this.
I'm just going to do that again.
There's no bar count.
If you call me and go out there and testify, they'll probably say, well, what you're doing is, you've got to see this freaking girl in her own direction, in her own right.
And you'll say, how the hell do you know about this?
Because here's the thing.
I'm going to get back to you on this one.
I'm going to say, that kind of job, you cannot do it.
But if they did, what would you say?
We all know why it was difficult.
You were conducting a investigation of this addict, and you tried to go over the chapter with the doctor who was the addict, and you did not know, and you discovered it later.
There's nothing to blame you on.
Now, right now, we've got a very good, well, not really a pretty good, hey, go ahead and finish the thing.
Right.
Okay.
Yeah.
Cool.