Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 450-017
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 1971 at 12:13 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/450-017

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[1:49:30] You know, I feel, you remember we had a crisis of months.
[1:49:31] At first, you were working on a different issue, but then later we started to get a crisis of months.
[1:49:39] On Mike, on Ben Kennedy, National Security.
[1:49:42] My God, Dave Kennedy and our departments always coming in.
[1:49:46] And we were rightfully so remote about this and that.
[1:49:48] And the other thing, what are we going to do next?
[1:49:51] We're going to do the military and about it.
[1:49:52] And besides, we're going to turn the government down one time, and the British government down another time.
[1:49:56] All those strides, and of course, foreign policy.
[1:50:00] And I haven't thought that maybe we needed a new international monetary scheme of some sort, you know.
[1:50:09] Harder, you know, is to raise the price of gold at one point.
[1:50:13] But let's get out of here, guys.
[1:50:16] I don't know.
[1:50:19] Getting back to the people there, there is also some advantage.
[1:50:33] economic conditions he can't allow for you.
[1:50:38] If, for example, he was nowhere, I think it would damage to us to have him stay in an economic place.