Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 447-005
Date: Monday, June 18, 1973 at 4:27 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/447-005

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[0:00] Yeah.
[0:05] Yeah.
[0:06] Yeah.
[0:08] I just wanted to be sure that, uh, that, uh, there's, of course, uh, uh, nobody that PR sent me.
[0:17] I understand.
[0:18] But you can't let Mansfield and the Canadian all get away with this, you know.
[0:20] The bankers are going to go about this, you know.
[0:22] I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't,
[0:48] Come on, the post is done or somebody else.
[1:06] Put a tariff on it and get parents up and waiting for the baby long enough.
[1:07] Or the parents.
[1:07] And be damn sure to check this kind of thing out thoroughly.
[1:09] Because you know, Wilson is the smarter the devil.
[1:10] And he probably believes that the parents are going to leave him for the post.
[1:11] Now, he may be wrong.
[1:12] He may be wrong.
[1:12] I don't believe so, because I know I'm supposed to push him bigger than him.
[1:14] You know what I mean?
[1:14] I just think we've got to check everything out, like you and Sean.
[1:29] Well, maybe that's what we have in mind on this thing.
[1:30] We ought to make something out of this.
[1:30] See, the thing that I'm concerned about is if they're going to let this goddamn thing hang over us and build it up for a week in order to play it in the summer.
[1:34] That's what they're trying to do.
[1:39] Back down.
[1:42] Try to get over the boys together.
[1:48] Okay.