Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 433-011
Date: Tuesday, May 1, 1973 at 1:07 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/433-011

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[0:00] The point is to be held that all files, any correspondence or anything that has to do with between me and any member of my staff, belongs to the president, not to them.
[0:14] It's not their files, goddammit, they're mine.
[0:18] Do you get that point?
[0:20] Yep.
[0:21] And tell what Dan and I are about that.
[0:23] And anything in the national security area is an area that is mine.
[0:28] It's not theirs.
[0:29] in the national security area.
[0:31] That is mine.
[0:32] Not theirs.
[0:33] Anything on Watergate, anything shut, they can do anything they want.
[0:36] I don't give a goddamn about that.
[0:38] Okay?
[0:41] Time to rewrite the memorandum along those lines so that Rodney can look at it after he's captured it.