Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 432-028
Date: Wednesday, May 9, 1973 at 12:03 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/432-028

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[0:00] I have.
[0:02] Anything else you want to tell me, please?
[0:12] Good.
[0:13] Good.
[0:13] How about Lynn?
[0:13] Do you have anything important you want to do?
[0:20] No.
[0:21] Good.
[0:21] Good.
[0:21] Good.
[0:21] How about DeSantorello?
[0:22] What did he say about him?
[0:26] All right.
[0:26] Good.
[0:27] Good.
[0:27] All right.
[0:28] Good.
[0:28] Good.
[0:28] Well, uh, we've got a good team right there.
[0:32] Glenn gets along well with the Bizarre, I'm sure.
[0:40] Good.
[0:40] Good.
[0:44] Right.
[0:46] Good.
[0:46] Good.
[0:46] Great.
[0:47] Fine.
[0:47] All right.
[0:48] Uh, is all the cabinet office set tomorrow?
[0:51] Is it, uh, is, uh, is Conley going to be able to get there?
[0:53] Do we know or not?
[1:07] Special counsel for this matter.
[1:26] Yeah.
[1:26] Well, where does that lead?
[1:33] What are we talking about?
[1:34] Yeah.
[1:34] That's right.
[1:34] Yeah.
[1:34] Good.
[1:34] Good.
[1:34] Good.
[1:35] Right.
[1:35] Right.
[1:35] Yeah.
[1:35] Yeah, it's great.
[1:41] It would be excellent if you could get it.
[1:54] Excellent.
[1:55] Excellent.
[2:00] Suburbed constitutional lawyer.
[2:01] Suburbed constitutional lawyer.
[2:02] I don't know whether he'd do it or not, but let's try.
[2:03] He's telling me he's a judge now.
[2:04] Fine.
[2:04] All right.
[2:04] Have Bryce check him out for us.
[2:06] And tell Bryce to see whether he wants to come to the rescue of his party.
[2:09] If he doesn't, it's fine.
[2:11] Alright, alright.
[2:32] Oh, we've got to start at the beach.
[2:33] We've got to start at the beach.
[2:33] We've got to start at the beach.
[2:34] We've got to start at the beach.
[2:35] We've got to start at the beach.
[2:35] We've got to start at the beach.
[2:36] We've got to start at the beach.
[2:37] We've got to start at the beach.
[2:38] We've got to start at the beach.
[2:38] We've got to start at the beach.
[2:39] We've got to start at the beach.
[2:41] It's going to be, it's just well to know it, but it's just going to be a collection of, uh, I.D.
[2:52] men, Tom, and so forth, and so on, and so on, and so on.
[2:54] As you say, the credibility of a piece of paper is no greater than the credibility of a man's voice.
[3:02] I understand, incidentally, they're going to have a hell of a tough vote in the House tomorrow.
[3:31] What do you think?
[3:40] I don't know.
[3:41] I talked to Kevin a little about it.
[3:45] He's a leader, as you mentioned.
[3:47] Very confident, though.
[3:48] Huh?
[3:48] Yeah.
[3:48] Well, if we don't have what I told Kevin to do, then, God damn it, we just go ahead and keep doing what we're doing.
[3:53] And Dale and I are squinting that we are not doing it with constitutional authority, but we still have authority.
[4:01] Did he?
[4:09] All right.
[4:11] We'll take anything out of the world, all right?
[4:28] And you can say this as long as you can, both of you.
[4:30] So that's a good sign.
[4:32] And that's the way it's going to be.
[4:33] We're going to work with the country on that issue, too.
[4:35] They want to carry the bushes to the farm, the bushes to the farm.
[4:38] It'll be a close phone.
[4:58] Our guys are going to get a good one.
[5:02] Well, can't hear you.
[5:03] Can't hear you.
[5:03] Okay, I'll be ready to meet up with you.
[5:08] I underlined it about five lines up.
[5:36] I don't mean I expect people to do what he did, but most people who I have told me.
[5:50] I know.
[5:51] I know.
[5:51] You've got to keep her tight.
[5:58] Okay.
[5:58] Okay.
[5:58] Okay.
[5:59] How's your morale?
[5:59] Well, I'll tell you that it's got to be...
[6:00] I mean, that's the thing that, that's one weakness of the type of job, you know.
[6:30] I don't mind it, but I want you to know that I know it's hard for the staff on the rest of the day.
[6:56] Well, the point is that you think of those people
[6:59] I'm not sure what's going on.
[7:16] This is a war, and we're fighting a war against a whole bunch of bastards.
[7:20] Now, I don't mean, I mean, but that's what's going on.
[7:22] I'm not sure what's going on.
[7:23] I'm trying to put it on the whole policy of this government, leading the president, and everything that's good that we've done.
[7:26] Our people have got to get off their ass and start fighting.
[7:27] And with what you've written, you have to, at that time, you have to, I don't know, somebody had to say something.
[7:34] I say that as a cap.
[7:56] I'm going to make that a very good show.
[7:57] I'm sure it's a good show.
[7:57] And, uh, I don't know.
[7:58] I don't know.
[7:58] I don't know.
[7:58] I don't know.
[7:59] I don't know.
[7:59] I don't know.
[8:05] But we figure we pretty much do know the answer.
[8:19] In other words, it's going to be bad, right?
[8:21] So therefore, let's be prepared.
[8:26] But everything is just a given.
[8:27] I'm sure as hell.
[8:27] I don't know.
[8:27] I have it as flat as I can.
[8:28] I don't know.
[8:28] I don't know.
[8:29] Whatever it is, we've got to remember it's going to be destroyed.
[8:33] And we deserve it.
[8:35] Thank you.