Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 435-010
Date: Thursday, May 10, 1973 at 3:02 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Rogers, William P.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/435-010

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[0:00] Well, I felt, did you try that way out thing on Warren?
[0:10] It is rather way out, but you know, we know what that is, but the point is that the last garage is a great thing for him, and a great thing for the country.
[0:21] And he'll have a complete free hand, you know, the whole business.
[0:25] If he doesn't do it, I'm not going to fight for him anyway.
[0:36] I'm going to go on and do a speech sometime on Monday morning in his favor.
[0:42] Well, I can contribute a lot to it, too.
[0:45] I think they finally got the spirit that we're trying to get across now.
[0:48] Do you think so?
[0:48] They needed to get it off.
[0:49] They don't want to be putting it down on the ground all the time.
[0:50] This thing is just a little pass.
[0:52] It's not going to pass soon, but it will pass.
[1:07] run the country well.
[1:09] That's one of the reasons, you know, I gave a lot of thought to what we needed to do in Kyrgyzstan.
[1:15] I really thought if we had canceled it, it would have been a mistake.
[1:19] You know, you know, it looked like the whole government had come to a standstill.
[1:23] And I said, all right, I'll go.
[1:24] How long has that issue been going on?
[1:27] Oh, that's not bad.
[1:31] Yeah.
[1:33] Well, we'll meet tomorrow, you know, at 11, for, you know, symbolic purposes.
[1:41] I don't do a damn about the time, but whatever time you need, but my point is that we'll do it.
[1:46] Now, Kissinger gets back from Russia at 9 o'clock tonight, and so I think what I want to do is that we should meet long enough for you to have a goddamn good run-down with him, too, and we're going to be able to talk about any more of this crap, you know, that we're not going to be able to do that.
[2:04] Well, it is just helpful.
[2:08] Wait, I know that.
[2:09] But the point is that I want you to know, though, that this crash is going to stop.
[2:14] I have a long talk with her.
[2:23] Hey, this is her calling me.
[2:24] We're not going to let you think you and me can do it perfectly.
[2:28] I didn't want to announce it.
[2:29] I didn't want the army to stir it up.
[2:30] He's the best man for the job.
[2:31] He's willing to do it.
[2:31] He's willing to give us a full career to do this, but she doesn't have a hell of a place to do it.
[2:34] That's just between you and me.
[2:54] That's me.
[2:56] Now, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's,
[3:02] He was not in it at all.
[3:09] But anyway, Colby's son was one of the grooms for Trish's wedding.
[3:23] Putting a career guy in, they'll have someone too.
[3:30] He said, no, we'll go forward on it.
[3:33] Thank you.