On February 18, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:12 am to 10:30 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 451-005 of the White House Tapes.
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And I don't know if you can do another day.
Okay.
Well, I guess we're going to do that.
Now, I'm going to go to my car.
Well, thank you for the question.
Hi.
Oh, John, how's the show going?
Good.
So, John, how's it going?
I can't do it.
First of all, I can't help you from having to sit around every once in a while, and I can't do it in a meeting.
It's just, it's just, it's just, it's just, it's just, it's just, it's just, it's just, it's just, it's just,
And he loves to do this stuff.
He loves to get in your back.
You don't have to do anything, really, because you can tell that he loves doing these things.
He wants to do that.
I don't know if I'm going to do this now, or if he's completely free with that, but it's not good.
And, uh...
This is great because he's getting us around.
He had some happy yesterday.
I hope he does here in the morning.
I hope he does in the morning.
I hope he does in the morning.
I hope he does.
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He obviously is going to be close.
He said that he started to work on the top reporters.
And I don't know, he's going to help something.
You know, that was odd.
And Broderick, and he's doing the...
Uh, that's where he can go for lunch.
And, uh, he's got a... And I think the point of it is that he's got to be careful not to divide himself up too thin, uh, and get caught up between the street and the street.
The guy on the other front, he said, absolutely, said, I don't intend to give any excuses in relation to that.
So then, I mean, yeah, I can go in, and it's just, you know, some...
All the fire back there, I think I ought to move up.
And I'm starting to put them in.
I've seen a few angels in the tracks.
And I guess he's gonna try to do away with this.
I think he ought to.
There must be a state department, a bright state department guy who's like, cool, cool.
I'm ready to go.
There are some crashes that can be a problem.
Do you know what a crash is?
It's very sudden.
It's pretty good.
It's pretty good.
It's very good.
It's very good.
It's very good.
It's very good.
It's very good.
It's very good.
It's very good.
It's very good.
If you're going to get involved, it's a current political crisis.
I mean, the quarterback is really, I mean, he doesn't seem to be able to do his job because he can't think literally.
I mean, he's in college.
Now, if you were going to do that, you're going to have to do it.
You're going to have to do it.
So, I think he's getting worse.
I mean, he's got a current law that says he's getting worse.
And, uh,
But we need to assess now, we've got an hour, potentially an hour of special face domain.
In fact, next Sunday, we, Sunday, uh, on this day of the world, we'll see if we want to do an hour of face domain and access to DGA.
All of this is not going to be considered.
What you really worry about is that we're going to have to learn how to do it in this day of the world.
I think it would be a problem.
Now I think you probably will be one of those who cannot take me down right now.
And you haven't heard of the message or something.
I've heard it going on and on and on.
I'm not going straight to the world.
But I can recall those who splurged through it 100 times.
I've not read it.
It's a scene that surprised me.
I heard people want to study comedy.
That's exactly right.
I think it's a good way to get ahead.
First of all, I think it's a good way to thrive as a writer as well.
And of course, I'm not going to put anybody on it at all because it won't happen.
We won't be here that time of year.
This is why I'm a girl.
I'm the only one who can explain the state of the world to somebody else on this channel.
He loves to get out of an apartment.
I think that he's, this is why we're doing this.
He's not going to be a senator.
You know, this is going to be a personal thing.
It's going to be very helpful if he is.
who, uh, he won't let me get any busters from the staff team this morning, uh, he said, you know, I'm a little boy and I could give in to them, that you guys have been working on for two years, I'm sure, but I just sent you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you,
And when it's not that, just don't sell her out on the internet.
He started to hear some ideas of ways to speak to us.
And once he said, he said, all right, I'll give you some thoughts on that.
He said, I'm just going to have to be careful.
I'm just going to be careful.
I'm just going to be careful.
I'm just going to be careful.
They want to go out and hear some chants.
While we do have this problem with our sanity, it's not so great.
They want us.
They're loyal to us, but they've never heard about it.
That's an absolute embarrassment.
Christ, if I could go out every night and I was hearing a very good song, and I heard a good song, and I would wear all that.
You go out and pray to God, and there's not a thing you can hold to this feeling.
Switching right at this town, that's the way to Charlie's, and he said it's actually right in front of him, by the little people in the building.
It'll be coming in at the end of the door, right?
Well, then, why not?
It'll be in front of you at the end of the door.
The strong heat of the sun will blow it right in here, and that's what I thought.
One bottle, 60 to 40.
I want all of you to know that this is the word for it.
I want to have people come.
where you've got, you've got somebody all the time wearing a collar, that cuts into supplies and so forth and so on.
You've got a whole review around what the, you know, you see what I mean.
I sure do.
At the end, you get a review, you spit it in, and it goes down in a, you know, a pretty cold blooded sentence.
I mean, it's a thing I've done, you know.
You know, there's a hell of a lot there to see.
I don't know what you're talking about.
I don't know if you can hear us.
I don't know if you can hear us.
I don't know if you can hear us.
I don't know if you can hear us.
On all three networks it was the lead.
the leading story, top Vietnam, you know, they're going to have a lot of requirements, they're going to have to be off the other thing, they're going to switch it on the other side, he's looking at the timing on the leading story, which wasn't, he's right on that, but there were three or four other stories on the network, where a play back, I thought, here in this conversation, and in other words, they were doing something on something else, they were saying the president said it in the press conference this afternoon, so he kind of picked up through it,
I think it was good that there were two leads in every newspaper apparently, or both of them.
As it was the folks with the, you know, a warning and then I think it was the two cops, sorry.
And I think it tends to have a lot of, on the covers.
I think in comparison to the working press, judging the 37-year-old guy to be sure, to the fact that they are really terribly competent in here.
And, uh, it does, you know, press you off, if you could, and you're offending people.
But because they got a lot of ranking, even though I'm just here to say all the names of the guys that are here tonight, I'm not gonna lie to you.
They are capable of that.
By the time you're here tonight, Carl is about to come in.
He's a slay.
And, uh,
I mean, I mean, Johnson and everything, you know, you know, Roosevelt just traded bars.
I mean, I never did it at all.
I don't want to say it's not common, but it's just a very impressive thing to think about.
Rather, that's what she, very good, you know, ended this wrap-up and did a very good start.
I mean, it's kind of, I mean, Roosevelt just was in complete command and, uh,
urgent follow-up questions or something, you know, and that there's a very relaxed kind of press conference, and I really think that's something that's fairly relaxed.
I don't know what he said, but I haven't seen him touch it, but I'm trying to figure out how to write it that way.
But that's the kind of way that I think we'll kind of have to come through, and rather saying, you know, fresh and complete, and urgent, broken, you know, follow-up questions, you know,
I'm going to finish this in a second.
Uh, yeah.
It's a...
It's a...
It's a...
It's a...
I don't know exactly what I'm doing, so the brakes aren't working for you.
But, if you don't require it, I did it.
I did it.
I did it.
I did it.
I did it.
I did it.
That is about a minute and a half.
It's matter of fact that I just saved you from the whole thing.
We're going up to the, uh, uh, you, uh, talk to him about it.
I will see the list
Um, I want to see the list and I will approve the list.
No audience to be invited there, you're not to be in the house unless I approve it.
Okay.
Um, well, I don't know what I need to do.
It's the same way, and that's what you need to do.
But I also hope that you got to do the mark-off list.
Yes, sir.
Uh-huh.
All right, we're ready to go.
Gentlemen, please head toward your left, please.
Ready to go.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There will be one handheld camera which will be covering the region of the prime minister and the car.
And the other camera will be on the east stairway on the first line.
Which is the reason we've asked you to descend to the west stairway, which is the stairway to your left.
And we will have one on the front of the prime minister on the left side of the camera.