Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 442-043
Date: Monday, June 4, 1973 at 5:00 PM
Participants: Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; Nixon, Richard M. (President)
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/442-043

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[0:05] Yeah?
[0:28] Well, okay, we can go.
[0:29] All right, good.
[0:29] What was that?
[0:29] Oh, oh, oh, that, that.
[0:30] No, I'm going to help you, you're not going to be slow.
[0:31] Am I equal to tomorrow?
[0:31] Right, right.
[0:41] I wonder if they're putting us on there.
[1:02] I wonder if they've just carried it all out and can't temp us ourselves.
[1:08] Very little doubt, dude.
[1:34] What's right there?
[1:35] Why?
[1:35] They're blocking.
[1:35] Yeah.
[1:35] Yeah.
[1:35] Yeah.
[1:36] Yeah.
[1:36] Yeah.
[1:38] Yeah, well, that's not, overlook this now, you know what I mean?
[1:59] Well, yeah, great.
[2:00] I know, that's not overlook it.
[2:00] Okay, what I am going to do, this is hard work I've been doing all my life.
[2:02] I've been having seven hours now, so I'm going to do it directly, you know what I mean?
[2:03] I guess we're going to set it up then.
[2:04] All right.
[2:08] you know in that space from what I've seen so far that uh now brought the whole thing but uh
[2:25] I know that's what he told me.
[2:49] Nevertheless, we can't do this.
[2:50] But at least there's your satisfaction.
[2:55] The other thing now, there's only one plunderer here.
[3:15] You know, in retrospect, it doesn't appear to be a plunderer.
[3:16] I was trying to run it down.
[3:19] I said, do you want to help me read?
[3:19] He said, any opportunity.
[3:20] I'll go down to him.
[3:20] He was talking about how he said, uh,
[3:21] And he told Strahd about the 13th crime.
[3:44] Now, he didn't understand much of it, and I kept coming back to Strahd.
[3:46] But, well, apparently, he was referring to, at the end of the year, that Strahd had justified his crime.
[3:48] Actually, it wasn't that, it was my fault.
[3:49] I was not under therapy.
[3:49] But, well, you see,
[3:51] What he was apparently saying was that God had to give him some information.
[4:09] At the time, it made no impression on him.
[4:10] He didn't even ring the bell in order to get him.
[4:11] And looking back, there's supposed to be a good idea.
[4:12] I think that that's the word he tried.
[4:13] I don't know if it was wrong or not.
[4:15] He did, you know.
[4:23] Well, anyway, I'll go ahead and do this work if you think it's my best use of my time.
[4:34] Yeah.
[4:34] Well, I'm glad that Craig told us how much I appreciate it.
[4:35] I know if he thinks that was hard, he should be trying to do this.
[4:41] But I think there's a lot of work on this goddamn thing, you know what I mean?
[4:44] We've had over a million cover-ups.
[4:49] If you re-listen to it now, you can see what some of them were up to.
[4:55] I can't even see if he was involved, but you know.
[5:00] He had some, but you see, I didn't think of it at the time.
[5:03] It never occurred to me.