On February 18, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander P. Butterfield, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House from 6:40 pm to 7:27 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 451-024 of the White House Tapes.
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Because the alternative to you in 1960 was not a liberal Democrat, but a Wallace or a Reagan.
And I think if this country is that alive, it will not be from the left.
The left will start it, but the right will take it over.
What I think we can do, what I would recommend to the president in our gang plan is
If we get through, then it is a development much of protection than about September.
I'm close to the election.
I am for a meeting that we don't go.
Then happy October 15th, and look, we're willing to give you a fixed deadline.
Of course, we're strong next year for the release of all Christmas and disease files.
What we can then talk about is a year without war to build up.
You should be able to get a hell of a chance.
You know, I think that may take some time.
It's too early, because as I said, we're planning to start in the mid, but after a few events, I think you might be able to do it.
I'm sorry.
See, we didn't understand it, but, uh, some of the questions are coming up.
Uh, I don't know if you can hear me or not, but I think that this is going to be a big deal.
I'm not worried about all of that.
I don't know if you can see this, but I certainly think that this is going to be a big deal.
One, two, three, four, five, six,
He's going to be in there for all this.
I don't want to bring people out.
I just want him to be able to bring people up.
Thank you for listening on the show.
Residual to residual.
Maybe residual if you can.
And we saw the bird.
I can see those on the screen.
And this is going to be a very heavy booby.
Operating around the scion like that.
Defeated the tank down there.
That's the thing.
You might want to see.
No, this, I'm just talking about the energy energy.
You can eat dinner and you can hang out.
But you just sat in a chair.
And I thought all of you all had to, have to, have all of you all had to sign down for the next meeting.
And, you know, here's, uh, here's, uh, here's, uh, here's, uh, here's, uh, here's, uh, here's, uh, here's, uh,
I don't know what he is doing here.
I don't know what he is doing here.
I don't know what he is doing here.
I don't know what he is doing here.
He's got a little problem.
He needs to get out of that absolutely incredible weather.
He's a rebel.
He's got a little problem.
I'm going to get him.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You said it's the best thing you've ever made, to do it again.
You know, it's the kind of thing that would grab a guy who had a 12-13.
That's right.
You're pointing at it in a totally different kind of way in a sense than you've done it before.
If your attendance was the best part of it, it would go ten minutes.
You've got to remember, that firecrackers might not be able to help you.
Of course, this is a very important part of the mission.
You've got to be a little quiet there.
Don't stare.
Tighten it.
Tighten it down briefly.
Yeah.
But you've got to think, this is good.
It's a great feeling.
You've got to walk along.
You've got to be careful.
You've got to walk along.
It's better than hanging on to something.
You've got to sleep tight.
You've got to be nice and even.
But if they can just get to, you know, recurring something, first they'll do a better job.
I mean, you saw the first time I was around here, you know, I had about five or ten of those things.
The hostess said, well, it's like, it's great gold, you know.
You've got to have one single thing that happens to my men in the registry.
The other thing, the one thing they did is keep it on.
Keep it on.
And that's all.
They're never going to remember about it.
They will never remember when it comes.
The other thing would have just ruined it somehow.
You've got a lot more clothes.
I mean, that's what, I guess that's, you know, what the writers, they don't want to prove they're smart.
They just want to do the best they can.
But I agree that that is very effective talk.
And if you had any kind of affair with the press, they didn't put the whole damn thing on television.
They really would.
They would take that, just say this is a very moving moment, and we'll start it alone.
I know I read about how you try to sell everything, but you can't sell everything.
And you guys, I'm like a little prayer right this thing, or something like this.
And you go around, I'll get you ready tomorrow, and we'll see you around.
I don't know.
Maybe we did.
Maybe we didn't.
Maybe it doesn't mean it's true.
I don't think we're sick of it, too.
I'll give it a shot at this one.
To see if we can share some reaction that would get it on TV if it didn't get it on TV.
How can you get off on a bus?
I didn't tell you.
They can go back and say they've been running lots of debates, you know, or, you know, one of these evenings, wrap up, you know, do something like that.
Not as a dissent, but as, you know, sort of a high-competitive kind of thing, speaking to the liberals and the Institute.
We've got all the non-partisanness in everything here, so it's not, you know, nobody can get into the political thing or equal time or anything like that on it.
It's a, it's a little sort of a genotype.
Making the point that...
I think the records are good.
More on the scientific work, so let me get out of the fire.
I don't know if he's loving it or something.
I don't know.
Keep getting out of it.
You can do it better than a Sapphire than any
There's your mark.
Ray didn't do anything like that.
He made himself do it.
He won't disappoint us.
He really doesn't.
You see, he's not very disciplined in something that he did.
He just said, if I ever wanted to do something, he'd cut it right down to what I said.
And Ray does not do that.
He'll still come back to me.
Thanks a lot.
Thanks a lot.
Very well, that means that you're going to Q&A and see if they're really sure that you're going to open it.
I didn't find that.
I told you to.
And we were saying how they could answer what was offered.
If you want to ask those questions, there's a lot of them here.
Start off federally.
If I ever do an interview, I'm going to say, oh, they don't know how to do it.
They don't know how to do it.
He's really honest.
He's part of the insider group and everything.
Let him be.
Just give it a go out.
Your guys will be right.
You've got to have an outsider.
The insiders can't do it.
It's embarrassing to them.
There's nothing wrong with that stuff.
We've got to be able to do it.
Other insiders do it.
But that's...
I think you can figure it out.
That's our...
It's got yellow sails on it.
He waves his arms and pours it on me.
And he says, I'm not going to be hurt or something.
I got it.
I'm not going to be in pain.
I'm not going to be hurt.
I'm not going to be in pain.
I just don't like it.
I'm not going to be hurt.
I'm not going to be hurt.
I'm not going to be hurt.
He doesn't have good people.
He doesn't have a good people.
He doesn't have a good people.
He doesn't have a good people.
I think he does have a lot of drive.
I don't think he's got it.
I don't think he'll be fine.
You're right.
I don't want to hurt too hard.
I want to see what's going to happen.
You're right.
He doesn't...
Well, I guess it's part of our problem.
I also wrote it in the G line.
He had to clean up the screen.
He had to switch up.
He had to switch up.
Clothes are fine.
You know, once I'm eating, I eat everything.
And therefore, all we have is no one other.
We all love each other.
And that's why we wrote it.
You know, it's a lot of very frantic stuff in there.
And then I had to keep on.
I said, if we truly love each other, we can have everything without eating each other.
That is, if you do that, if you do that set up, you currently know that you're going to have to stop eating cabbage or something, and that's what the work is.
You're already eating it.
Yes, I'm in a press conference, and I agree to my race.
I don't think that's a problem.
I think that's a good thing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I've got to tell you about it.
The whole business here.
Most people would agree that most protective preservers in the United States are very impressive.
So I can't really do the press conference better than anybody has done it.
I don't want to get us all russified.
I'm just going to throw me around on the mean square for a second.
And I do the wrong.
and his narcissistic ease.
The pros, no, no, we're satisfied.
It's just, it is the competition that we've got to use.
It's a good record.
It's a good record for it.
It's not just a gross number, it's just a few of them that you remember.
It goes to tell a lot of us that we're, that we're not easy.
Even as a six-year-old, you know how long we waited without a band-aid on.
It's not, they were good jobs.
The ability to handle questions and stuff.
It is just a question of how am I handling them?
How am I going to work on this stuff?
You know what I mean?
The bill didn't handle it as big as it is, being able to be hard-hitting or defecting, and so forth and so on.
I guess we just ought to use it a little more.
I don't know if they can accept it apart from other people.
I've been asked a lot.
You've got to emphasize your advantages.
Advantage is for other people who go on and on and on.
See, and then people will start comparing, and then they will do a few more.
That's good.
The more you do it, the more forces that you should do.
That's what I was going to say.
I'll do it as well.
Yeah, you're right.
I'm coming.
Peace and light.
And it makes a difference.
And it makes a difference.
And those things he knew that I could evolve in my life.
Like last time, he was thinking a little talk.
He was loving it.
He was like, I didn't do the talk next time.
I don't want to hurt guys.
I can use it.
I'm going to use it for the whole thing.
I think some of the things prepared for you today is a little, a little story about three, three cars about to get on the fire.
You're not sure.
Just your head's been tired.
Yeah, man.
It's in your head.
You're not sure.
You're not sure.
You're not sure.
You're not sure.
You're not sure.
You're not sure.
You're not sure.
You're not sure.
I said, you know, it's not a lot of trouble, but it's not going to be easy.
So I'm getting more thought out.
He was just having a base speech in L.A.
The link is there.
And Ward said to him, let me make a suggestion to you.
Make the whole speech hand-in-toe.
Just tell a few stories about the president and let it go at that.
And John said, I can't do that.
This is a very serious move and all this, you know.
And besides last year and running, he bombed out.
And I said, as a political speaker, I've got to do it right.
And I was there last year.
I know, right?
He bombed out.
I know why.
And I'm also telling you, you'll do better if you just help up the story, whatever I can do.
I'll try to do it.
But I received what John took as advice and did it.
And we'll just have to think back on the things about the president.
and uh, got a tremendous amount of money, apparently, and uh, somebody up to over the head of CSUN Business School Association in April, the head of that, came up and said, after that I heard you said, we could give you exactly the same kind of speech.
There's so much more to it than giving you the same kind of speech and stuff.
Yeah, I told the other people, I just need all of them to be that way.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
It was last night.
Hello?
You know, I said I had a story about my mother and my father, I think.
And I said, we'll forget virtually everything.
I said, you have to tell us.
We need to remember that story.
Your mother moved to us.
But I know that you were her mother.
And how long after that?
Because you're covering it, so it's my mother's loss.
I've said it, it's been in books, everything else, you know.
When they prepared them, then it turned out that they were reading all these men and angels and so forth.
They'll find wives and find wives and miracles and put them out there.
And these things all go back to the story.
It tells a lot of other things about human beings.
See, I'm illicit.
I've been sick for years of age.
People are interested in spending their time in my home.
They're talking about brothers and sisters.
I'm talking about all of them.
He was crying.
He had to leave.
He said, all that happened.
I don't like concrete.
It's not going to hold us around.
Everything is all done with a little bit of something.
He said afterwards, this is the best we've ever used.
And I'm very impressed.
Richard is just a big, big, pretty cool guy.
He said,
Yeah, I think a lot of people may be in here.
The hiking is good, yeah, and it's good.
It's a different one.
So you hear, you see those things over in Grand Pagos every place.
This is a different one.
It's not good.
It's good.
This is the best.
I think it's good.
Did you conquer one of this?
I guess so.
The, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the,
That's what happened.
Looks like a President Spears robot.
There's not a senator in the United States.
So...
I mean, we, uh... Like, this, uh... You ain't been here for a long time, right?
Y'all, they did it.
I mean, they had to blow it up.
They didn't have to go into the field last weekend.
They're gonna do it this weekend.
She's a pregnant toad.
I expect her to party with us, too.
Now hold on to the line.
I think they pulled them off because they used... You know, they run their commercial poles in between these two things.
They bring the pole and it will lift up.
I miss her.
But they do go to her house most of the time.
I'll tell you about her.
She was, uh, great.
She's a congressman.
Her job is to visit the public.
I don't know how to call her a congressman.
Carhartt's testing has been a brilliant job.
He's going to win.
We're having a little break on this for Christ's sake.
We've got a little bit of a, you know, a bunch of fingers like the nose.
It's just not that sharp.
It's in the body.
It's a little, you know, I just think we've got to, like I said, let's bring them out.
You know, if they don't, if they don't let you go, you've got to put it, you've got to put it down.
I'll try.
We're all, we're all, we're all, we're all, we're all, we're all, we're all, we're all,
And, uh, if you hit us like this, we're not gonna hit you.
Our, we, our press history has been, has been, has been, has been, has been, has been, has been, has been, has been, has been, has been, has been, has been, has been, has been, has been,
Oh, I love that song.
I think it's right.
All right.
All right.
than she is.
She worked in the acting, you know, so I thought we'd get her in the off day here.
And he seems like he's smart as hell in the cranky.
And I mean, I don't have him running, he's literal, but he is not as good as, as far as everybody, you know, has direct predictions, I don't know, I just don't like to get involved in any kind of fighting.
All right guys, I tend to think of things in terms of politics,
That's true.
The thing about this game is that you're not actually going to think that you're always fighting that fighter.
But on the top of our heads here, I hope that, well, we've got to be nice here, brother.
I've worked with your doctors over a hundred years.
Yeah.
He's, you know, he's, he's, uh, he's a little overwhelmed, you know, because he's trying to get himself, you know, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh.
And I miss him.
I miss Peter.
But that's not a reaction.
That's a state of mind.
That's great.
That's great.
That's great.
I know.
I know.
I know.
I know.
I know.
They all said that you, they thought you were exchanging personal feelings of knowledge and I was the slowest.
But I just, they kind of said, well, there's nothing to do with my mother.
I'm trying to get out of here.
And they said, man, and it's not very interesting.
They said, they said that it was a great necessity of the president.
So there was not a line in there that the president gave that would even engulf any political connotations.
to just express what they feel, sort of, your feelings about.
And the reaction to the rain down there from all of it, is kind of a condense effect into the rest of it.
The rain appears in the distance, and you don't have just a case of rain.
So, is there any way that we could, obviously, that we could get to see, yes or no, there's not a demand thing,
Well, if you get a couple over, you'll have a little bit of trouble.
If you get a little bit of trouble, you'll have a little bit of trouble.
If you get a little bit of trouble, you'll have a little bit of trouble.
If you get a little bit of trouble, you'll have a little bit of trouble.
If you get a little bit of trouble, you'll have a little bit of trouble.
If you get a little bit of trouble, you'll have a little bit of trouble.
Mr. President, introducing the President.
We are here to listen, and are going to report on our call to the election, and then of course, going on to talk about his father, and talk about my mother, which is good, and then what the Wilson's legacy really is, and here are these students.
Although you are not suggesting what Sarah put in.
No, not Sarah.
The fourth president has dismissed his dad and I've been here all along.
Do you notice?
Lincoln, Rutherford, Higley, Calvin, Coney, Haysfield, I can just say that I, I mean, I heard, uh, well, uh, I don't know if you, uh, if you, uh, if you, uh, if you, uh, if you, uh, if you, uh, if you, uh, if you, uh, if you, uh, if you, uh, if you, uh,
This is the best signing of my father's, grandfather's, dream, ideal, if you've ever heard.
I'm going to start the night setting in the 3D copy of Edison.