Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 507-005
Date: Saturday, May 29, 1971 at 10:32 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ehrlichman, John D.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/507-005

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[1:27:51] I did not do that.
[1:27:52] Yes.
[1:27:53] Yes.
[1:27:53] Yes.
[1:28:02] I was just talking to Rockefeller to commiserate with him about his problems with Lindsey on the rent thing at Donovan's Farm.
[1:28:09] And he was just saying he was happy to cut the budget in New York by $400 million in New York City, and that what Lindsey was probably going to do was to cut them in in blue, you know, in order to screw Rockefeller.
[1:28:22] He made an intriguing suggestion that probably nothing could be done, or maybe a tokenism can handle, but
[1:28:29] And I thought, I told him, I had you call him about it.
[1:28:31] And so all these lines, he said, I wondered if there's anything that you might do on an emergency basis because of the recent problems, you know, all the riots and all that sort of crap, and the shooting of policemen, to give us some assistance directly on the police side.
[1:28:48] Now, I don't know, I don't know.
[1:28:50] And I think he's referring only to New York, and he hasn't thought through and all that sort of thing.
[1:28:55] But, uh, and I know we have it further down the road, this is Revenue Insurance Center.
[1:29:00] But, uh, would you, would you give us some thought and call him up on it?
[1:29:04] I, uh, he, he, we've got some funds we could do.
[1:29:06] We could say that, in other words, have Rockefeller and me and, uh, have it, have it announced that way.
[1:29:13] When Lindsey does screw them, say we're giving a hundred million bucks to the state of New York specifically for the purpose of this.
[1:29:19] Now, of course, it puts us in a problem with our city and so forth, but I don't know.
[1:29:23] Okay.
[1:29:25] All right, thank you.