Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 483-009
Date: Tuesday, April 20, 1971 at 12:37 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Bull, Stephen B.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/483-009

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[0:01] There's still Jack Marsh in the back.
[0:16] But all of a sudden, our stuff together, they're working on it.
[0:25] They want to do some work out there, so this kind of huge is delighted with it.
[0:27] It's exactly the right thing you've got to say to these people, is lift their sights up.
[0:30] They tend to get bogged down in everything.
[0:32] You see, Bob, if it finds a way out, all of these people clap, and they get bogged down.
[0:42] It's a whole drill.
[0:43] If I get bogged down in just talking about a brand new share in a $16 billion program for this without long getting depressed, it's a dull goddamn subject.
[0:51] Let's face it.
[0:53] And you've got to lift them up.
[0:54] You've got to say, this is a hell of a country.
[0:56] That's what they need to hear.
[0:57] You know, and they're whole.
[1:01] Don't you think so?
[1:02] Yeah, very much so.
[1:03] These guys, young guys, need to be to make that show.
[1:07] Also, it's a good way to sing them on that SSG again.
[1:09] Yeah.
[1:10] Just a subtle way.
[1:13] But they all get that way.
[1:15] There's too much intensity.
[1:16] Hold on.
[1:20] There it is.
[1:21] Well, that's the one.
[1:28] You know, I think that's it.
[1:31] I think that, too, is the way to handle it.
[1:33] That was not something that should have been on TV.
[1:36] It should have been covered.
[1:37] You're going for the ripple effect there, not for the other track.
[1:41] I can't play it just exactly that way.
[1:47] Let it ripple.
[1:47] That's it.
[1:48] Let's see if we can have the OCS present.