Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 433-044
Date: Tuesday, May 1, 1973 at 6:45 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator; Finch, Robert H.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/433-044

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[0:00] Thank you.
[0:01] I'll hang up.
[0:05] Hello?
[0:09] I hear you're between speeches, Robert.
[0:12] Well, I hope your morale's all right.
[0:19] I take two men that are so selfless and so dedicated and, you know, to have to say, all right, Paulson, you know they're innocent.
[0:26] You have to leave, but we had to do it, Bob.
[0:31] And, uh, that was a hard Sunday, and I had to get up for a speech, and Carter said, did it come over all right in television?
[0:36] Were you out there?
[0:40] Yeah.
[0:40] How did it, what kind of affected that?
[0:41] What do you get down on the day if you talk to around people?
[0:47] He didn't say he was positing that.
[0:52] He is a special prosecutor.
[0:57] Yeah, and Percy, he cooked his boost with me when he came out and said, well, we've got to have one to distrust Elliot.
[1:03] My God.
[1:04] That son of a bitch.
[1:09] If you're going to find him around when you're people, I'd always just say, we just have confidence in the integrity of the president.
[1:19] This is one of those rare presidents who has the guts to investigate.
[1:23] I mean, to conduct an investigation of his own team.
[1:26] You know, it's true.
[1:30] And they're going to realize that this whole goddamn Watergate thing was all about a crappy little thing that everybody shouldn't have gotten that excited about.
[1:39] It'll pass.
[1:40] It'll pass.
[1:42] And it's going to be hard, but it'll pass.
[1:49] Well, keep your overall up, boy.
[1:53] I know you've called three or four times, and I deeply appreciate it, Bob.
[1:59] I don't want him to leave for a month now.
[2:06] I mean, he's got this beautiful job.
[2:10] I don't want him to leave, maybe because it'll look like he's leaving because of this.
[2:16] Okay.