Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 442-021
Date: Monday, June 4, 1973 at 1:29 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/442-021

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[0:00] So, you're surviving today?
[0:26] Yeah.
[0:26] You did great, man.
[0:26] Yeah.
[0:26] Good.
[0:27] Good.
[0:27] But then my office said that the men were pissed about it.
[0:28] Yeah.
[0:28] Yeah.
[0:32] Don't you have the list of the times that I saw you and so forth, how you did it?
[0:55] Well, could you, would you mind taking a minute to state these, uh, these dates of change?
[0:57] What happened in this quarter?
[0:57] Uh, you know, the times that I saw this clock, I mean, are you sure you did it, Steve?
[1:01] so that he doesn't have to go, I just don't see that we have to call out all of them, because I know he's got the job, he's got the risk, he's got the goddamn income, which is pretty much it.
[1:26] I've been just reconstructing my own O2 for like, maybe two or three years.
[1:28] And, uh, I can tell that there is absolutely no use in getting more electrolute.
[1:29] The first one was actually my own sucker, and now it's my baby.
[1:32] There was one in the 27th century, one in the 27th, one in the 28th, and two in the first.
[1:44] Absolutely nothing on federal, absolutely nothing.
[1:47] I mean, I don't know what the hell he's talking about.
[1:59] Maybe I haven't gotten into the March.
[2:00] You get the March 31st, that's the first time that he's seen me.
[2:02] I don't know about that, but he may have something in there.
[2:04] It was about Executive President Pat Gray.
[2:05] You know what I mean?
[2:05] I think that was mine.
[2:05] trying to get some information on the buggy in my plane and checking the FBI leaks, which felt leaking, and he was doing that.
[2:29] I had a long conversation about judges and so forth and so on.
[2:30] But you know, a lot of stuff got done.
[2:31] So we're in the march.
[2:32] There's absolutely nothing we can't worry about in February.
[2:53] Nothing until March.
[2:53] If it's in March, I think we're pretty much on three-foot division.
[2:56] You know, he may have raised, for example, he may have raised the possibility that he might have talked about pulling 350 before the 21st.
[3:02] Yeah.
[3:02] Well, I don't know.
[3:25] I don't think he could.
[3:25] But he didn't say, but he didn't indicate that it was a great decision.
[3:27] But let me say, it was in the month of March.
[3:28] I don't know what that means.
[3:28] It's an entire statement.
[3:29] It's like a verse that says, we're right.
[3:30] It's the first time he ever said that.
[3:32] But I don't know what the hell they're always talking about.
[4:04] You should go.
[4:07] I have a good report.
[4:12] It's a very good idea.
[4:12] Good change of pace.
[4:13] Why don't we get you back?
[4:14] You stay there while he's there.
[4:23] I think we have a pretty certain portfolio of teams out of that.
[4:48] That's a tough story.
[4:49] But, you know, we, you know, the president of that service is doing it.
[4:50] So, you know, that is my, the rest is my position.
[4:53] Okay, share that list with them.