Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 450-001
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 1971 at 7:56 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/450-001

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[0:51] Oh, it's working now.
[1:07] Oh, I hear it.
[1:12] It's not working.
[1:14] It's not working now.
[1:15] Uh, something's pissed off.
[1:18] It's working.
[1:19] It's not working.
[1:23] Oh, my God.
[1:42] See, the purpose of this is to get some hand-off and then the file changes, or eventually...
[1:54] Right, but if it were way back in the day, we can't remember so much that kept going on in there all the time.
[1:56] We'd be using up a lot of stuff, and we'd be using it for a bunch of other jobs, where we'd have to turn it off and make it look like, I can't tell if it's my mom or if it's only my mom's.
[2:00] There's no way to tell you what's going on.
[2:09] But it is what I want you to say.
[2:10] You know, it was what you were trying to say.
[2:11] All right.
[2:11] You know, you did it.
[2:12] It seems like I was doing the same thing.
[2:12] All right.
[2:13] Fine.
[2:31] Uh, I'm at work, uh, Alex is at work.
[2:49] Are you here?
[2:49] Uh, no, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm,
[3:00] Yeah.
[3:17] Yeah.
[3:17] Yeah.