Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 505-017
Date: Friday, May 28, 1971 at 9:08 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Rogers, William P.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/505-017

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[0:07] Hello.
[0:10] Well, I was wondering, have you talked to the chief syndicate and, uh, just about to coordinate again?
[0:19] Just, uh, sort of anticipated, I suppose, or, uh...
[0:28] It's all right.
[0:32] It's all right.
[0:32] I'm good.
[0:33] I'm good.
[0:34] Well, that's what I have to say.
[0:39] I'm going to have a press conference Tuesday, and I'm going to play at this little key.
[0:53] Yeah.
[0:53] It's all right.
[0:54] Well, it was interesting that Michael's comments, which, of course, I thought were totally predictable that time, picked up everybody's indicating that he was
[1:02] and getting at the differences about their attitude toward Israel and ours.
[1:09] But, you know, actually, anything less would be totally, first, totally not candid, and all but beyond that, it's also true that he was...
[1:27] He's on position at home.
[1:30] Poor guy can't come over here.
[1:37] He favors the Jews.
[1:37] I've never read the news, sorry.
[1:43] I guess you still need somebody very close to you.
[1:51] They knew you were over here, and they probably figured that you were talking.
[1:54] No one has, I figured, even though it's probably some lower person who had no idea what was going on.
[2:05] I was just trying to put things together.
[2:11] Well, I think you could have just applied it.
[2:14] Yeah.
[2:14] Well, I didn't see it in the other papers.
[2:15] Yeah.
[2:16] I think the thing to do is to simply, I think if you didn't handle it, if you would have your philosophy called sick or tell me not to handle it, would you do that?
[2:24] Yeah, I think if you could just tell, in May, and your call just to start a low key, okay.