Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 433-009
Date: Tuesday, May 1, 1973 at 1:04 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/433-009

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[0:00] Yeah.
[0:03] After the cabinet meeting, I think Roger's going to look at this goddamn thing and we'll see what it is.
[0:14] But I'd like you to tell Carmen that this is much too broad.
[0:19] I cannot, I'm not going to have my personal files held there so that you just, you know, these men are not defendants.
[0:28] I'm getting them the hell out of there.
[0:33] What'd he say?
[0:57] He gulped.
[1:04] Did you mention the fact that, no, that I could not have anything, and that anything that's personal between me and them is mine.
[1:14] It doesn't belong to them.
[1:16] Goddamn, his ass, he knows that.
[1:18] And anything in the national security area is mine.
[1:21] It doesn't belong to them.
[1:22] And anything else, and that gets out of there.
[1:24] I'm not going to have that locked up in the FBI.
[1:27] And if goddamn him, you tell him to write something else, I'd better tell him off to his ass faster.
[1:32] He's out of his counsel at 2.30.
[1:34] We've got a map.
[1:36] Just an old word.