Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 466-017
Date: Thursday, March 11, 1971 at 6:20 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/466-017

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[0:05] I don't want to release the transcript of this.
[0:25] I talked very informally, so I'm just not going to release the transcript.
[0:27] They made the notes.
[0:27] What we're going to do is play the tape, but it sounds wrong.
[0:29] I don't want to.
[0:29] I'm not going to release the transcript.
[0:30] this sort of thing.
[0:45] So don't play the tape.
[0:46] We just put it out.
[0:46] Sir, we proceed on the basis of playing the tape.
[0:48] There are about 20 of us now in the lobby now for a piece on this.
[0:49] If we say we won't play the tape, it's going to be a
[0:50] Well, if you do it, you're not going to erase the transcript.
[1:05] Yes, I listen to the tape.
[1:05] It sounds good on tape.
[1:08] And I listen to it like that.
[1:10] And you understand that you're not taking it out verbatim.
[1:13] Yes, I understand that.
[1:15] I don't even know what he's saying, but it's on one of the transcripts.
[1:20] It's kind of an informal conversation put out on a paper.
[1:23] It's on his hands.
[1:25] How are you going to avoid that?
[1:29] What am I just playing the tape?
[1:29] In other words, as we play the tape, the people who take the notes in the lobby will...
[1:35] have the same deficit as the people who had it here in the interview.
[1:57] But we will not release the written word as it doesn't play on paper.
[1:58] We did not put it for that purpose.
[1:59] Now, would people want to come in and check the court?
[2:00] Take that way of taking this stuff.
[2:01] But don't give them a transcript.
[2:01] There's no transcript.
[2:02] We didn't make a transcript.
[2:03] But you can place the tape back in the arm.
[2:03] Thank you very much.