Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 490-009
Date: Tuesday, May 4, 1971 at 7:55 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/490-009

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[0:09] It was about as good as this has recovered last night.
[0:14] Nothing happening this morning.
[0:18] Nobody out except policemen and troops.
[0:21] No action.
[0:22] It's going to be hard for them.
[0:27] They're going to try to get a mark on it.
[0:32] They've got one judge now apparently who has issued a short cause on the arrests.
[0:39] Checked it.
[0:40] Checked it.
[0:42] Yeah.
[0:43] That's the rest of that.
[0:45] I'll have the third.
[0:48] That's what I was going to have.
[0:51] Yeah.
[0:52] Grabbed by him.
[0:54] He's the left-hander.
[0:58] One of the other, I noticed in Charlie's house, he's making a $250 bail.
[1:02] And he would.
[1:02] I don't know why I don't know that.
[1:06] I don't know.
[1:08] They did arrest Spock.
[1:12] Well, they didn't see, they picked up Rennie Davis on a specific arrest, he had to be out and out and gone, and Spock just got bought from the General Suite.
[1:24] They have him over in the, they may be out and out, they have him.
[1:30] He probably works by the building.
[1:38] coverage on the damage and disruption.
[1:41] There's nobody, hardly anybody, there's only one, one or two that have come out for him.
[1:48] Virtually everybody else is coming against him.
[1:50] I saw him in Muskegon and, well, Muskegon coming up very strongly against him.
[1:55] No, he just, he went off.
[1:57] He said it was very, this, this person, I heard the cause.
[2:00] That's a hell of a bad point.
[2:04] I had a little meeting yesterday, yeah.
[2:09] Brother, there's not, what, three young brats?
[2:11] No.
[2:11] No reason.
[2:13] It's just that he's way up there.
[2:18] For so long, the Bears have got to take care of the profits.
[2:24] To get some big profit-taking, you get somewhere they've got to start getting people back in the market, which apparently they don't have yet.
[2:33] But they have a lot of them.
[2:39] Anything like what there is available, individual funds, make a good little profit.
[2:50] It's a good buy.
[2:52] It's too high.
[2:54] It's a very good buy.
[2:56] Well, they think it's, they don't want to buy it, but they think it's a hot stuff.
[3:03] I made a note of that meeting this morning.
[3:13] I'm sure it's not going to take too long, so it's all right.
[3:16] But this morning, I wanted you to know that they've got a new procedure to provide instead of having to send it off to the courts.
[3:23] Clark, you have the idea that they have an argument.
[3:28] So he's going to take out each bill and have Scott report it to the board.
[3:34] And on that road, I used to go through that.
[3:36] Yeah, I had a hard day, you know.
[3:38] You never get through a breach.
[3:40] I'm sorry.
[3:46] Do you watch?
[3:56] too many things, Bob.
[3:56] It's better to have a Senate report than a House report, rather than about anything.
[4:00] A lot of meetings are a waste of time and more.
[4:03] They're pure therapy.
[4:04] So the thing to do is to have a little bullshit, you know, about something like McConnell in the beginning.
[4:09] Something you have to get together on one issue.
[4:11] Then for the whole group that would sit there and be bored to death about, God, they've got Frank Boe coming in and all the rest.
[4:18] See, that would be like the cabinet show-and-tell meetings, you know.
[4:21] Have Roy Santos about his trip to Guadalajara with
[4:26] The purpose of it is really not that.
[4:29] It's if the members don't want to hear all that bullshit.
[4:32] And it's a horrible war for me.
[4:33] Maybe a rigger thought it was that I didn't enjoy it, but I didn't want to hear it.
[4:36] See, we want to get the meetings over as quickly as we can.
[4:42] This idea was just in front of us.
[4:43] It was locked in there.
[4:44] The city got it.
[4:45] It was to run through the negotiations.
[4:47] The meetings don't even hold.
[4:48] The whole time we're talking bullshit.
[4:55] listening about .
[4:59] But just so they, the fellows know that all these things that we have on this list, they'll remember that they are there again.
[5:24] Countless people sinned against me, and the people, you know, and deceived me, and created a great crisis.
[5:32] Well, it showed a lot of action.
[5:33] But what do you think about that?
[5:35] I'm just going to be honest with you.
[5:40] I'm just going to be honest with you.
[5:41] There were a lot of bad people here that were well-managed.
[5:45] They didn't love to tear the men apart.
[5:46] Right.