Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 441-002
Date: Monday, June 4, 1973 at 8:53 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; Bull, Stephen B.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/441-002

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[0:00] Come in now.
[0:01] I'm reading the economic paper.
[0:04] You're right.
[0:06] God, it gets on and on and on and on.
[0:08] It's just a... Stein's paper's the best paper.
[0:12] Yeah.
[0:14] Yeah.
[0:15] We've got... We had a little problem I bet it solved.
[0:20] A combination of their health and these states, but I've got them all coming in.
[0:25] and bazaar is going to do this job now being on saturday asked bazaar to go through this file and get his personal divorce papers and i can't get out right so we're pushing now i think the best thing that we could do most productive
[0:51] In the first place, I want you to know that we're over the hump on this stuff here.
[0:56] We're going to kill people.
[0:57] We can do it.
[0:59] And we have no reason... Well, he can kill us.
[1:02] Well, three weeks ago, he could.
[1:04] He can't do it today.
[1:05] People are over this.
[1:07] And that's true on the Hill.
[1:09] I don't give a damn what he charges.
[1:12] Well, some of them think it's true, you see.
[1:14] I don't know what they are.
[1:16] I'll report it myself.
[1:18] I don't want...
[1:18] Here's what I recommend.
[1:19] All right.
[1:20] I think you should get these tapes replayed for you alone.
[1:27] And take notes of your discussions with me.
[1:33] And they're replayed just for you alone.
[1:35] And each of them, take notes so you know what advantage is.
[1:39] No, that, you mean my, my personal views?
[1:43] Take your personal discussions with me.
[1:45] Just you and no one else.
[1:47] Then we have a problem with that.
[1:50] I want to know what he has.
[1:53] Well, the trouble is, we'll try to find out.
[1:58] I don't think the son of a bitch can.
[2:01] But you've got to know what he's specifically going to charge.
[2:05] And then you can sit down with Bazaar, with your notes, and give Bazaar whatever you want, so that we can strategize wiping the son of a bitch out, and structure the kind of a
[2:17] That way I think you're
[2:23] The uncertainty is at least a background, which is bound to be, you know, I guess we all have a moment of, you don't know what the hell, you know, what you say to give a moment of, you know, what an impressive business.
[2:35] Well, it's not just that.
[2:36] It's the fact that somebody rushes in, and I say this, and I go this.
[2:41] I don't, I think it's all right.
[2:43] I don't say, I get it over there, but it doesn't make a damn.
[2:46] I know my mother's right.
[2:47] That's right.
[2:48] It doesn't make a damn whether it is a business, but she knows specifically.
[2:52] What the key points are.
[2:54] And this should be totally in your... Yeah, where are the tapes?
[3:01] How can I do that?
[3:02] Uh, I don't know.
[3:02] I can set it up.
[3:03] I don't know what Bob has either.
[3:07] Oh!
[3:07] They're here in the, uh, secret service room.
[3:09] I think they're going to do this instead of me, so it's strictly you.
[3:12] All right, let me get at it right away, can I?
[3:14] Yes, sir.
[3:16] Okay.
[3:18] Yes.
[3:20] Yes, uh...
[3:22] Okay.
[3:24] He's there on the phone.
[3:26] And there's a place where Bob is for one.
[3:30] Get the... See the...
[3:36] Thank you.
[3:59] If Bob were in a place where he was listening, it may have been in their office or it may have been in their office office there or something like that.
[4:16] well you can do a good job right back
[4:37] But Dean has, as soon as he gets, you see on the trailer right now, they say, we're getting, we're getting the combination, we're standing in line, all this crowd is breathing.
[4:54] Right.
[4:54] We know they're ready to start.
[4:55] Yeah.
[4:55] I told you, you know what I mean?
[4:57] I didn't, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't,
[5:05] i know three weeks ago i think they saved
[5:36] both probably sucked into that probably um
[6:09] Yeah.
[6:26] I don't know.