Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 507-007
Date: Saturday, May 29, 1971 at 10:32 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/507-007

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[1:34:57] It should be a pretty good operation.
[1:34:58] It's simple.
[1:34:59] That's good, good.
[1:34:59] That's good.
[1:35:00] That's good.
[1:35:25] How does he see that defense?
[1:35:26] Is that his investment?
[1:35:27] Is that what you needed?
[1:35:27] Or if you've been doing it all week, you're going to handle it.
[1:35:29] I think he's going to do that.
[1:35:30] He receives it because he's, here's his problem.
[1:35:32] He needs like hell to draw that line.
[1:35:33] This is a crazy thing.
[1:35:34] You're not going to lose on it.
[1:35:36] You're going to put it on the line.
[1:35:37] Here's his problem.
[1:35:37] He's thinking of a story, a record.
[1:35:39] You have to recognize it.
[1:35:40] There's no chance of it.
[1:35:56] You've already ended it.
[1:35:56] Now this is one where you're trying to get something done, waiting for something done to be done.
[1:35:58] Something's done, sure.
[1:35:59] But not, just don't worry about directing it high.
[1:36:00] The odds of making it work and there only one in a thousand or a hundred or something anyway, you've got to go the hardest time you can.
[1:36:42] I don't know, it really has to be a little different.
[1:36:43] It had sex on it, I guess.
[1:36:43] But this kind of thing really did not go longer than the first thing.
[1:36:45] It was a good day out there.
[1:37:18] They're on six West Point residents.
[1:37:19] Six residents are guests on six.
[1:37:20] Well, there's plenty of room.
[1:37:20] There's a lot of room.
[1:37:21] If they want, they don't have to be right.
[1:37:22] They're all staff people.
[1:37:22] That's all they need to know right now.
[1:37:23] They have to use it as far as they ought to use it.
[1:37:24] I'm not going to be there.
[1:37:25] I also get them.
[1:37:25] I'm getting them truly.
[1:37:56] Listen, be quiet.
[1:37:57] Where?
[1:37:57] It does not hurt if you got a thing.
[1:37:58] Well, I think it could be at least something there.
[1:37:59] It tends to be over across from somewhere.
[1:38:00] It's got to be other than that, too.
[1:38:00] Well, you better not say that.
[1:38:01] The lawyer's viewpoint.
[1:38:01] You better not say that because I have to do that.
[1:38:02] You must do this.
[1:38:03] It doesn't matter.
[1:38:03] It's not your service.
[1:38:04] You're not supposed to put it out.
[1:38:04] You got to do it.
[1:38:36] All right.
[1:38:36] I'll get our side of it.
[1:38:37] I didn't know all these things would bother me.
[1:38:39] They're very bad.
[1:38:58] I know you don't buy a columnist one by one, but the columnists are starting to write that kind of thing, and that's sort of been kind of starting to develop, that, well, there's an election, and I'd like to get this, et cetera.
[1:39:03] But a lot of that's going down, and we've got panels and so forth doing that.
[1:39:04] And I said, you see, you may be lying to an extent, but he's probably finding what he believes in there.
[1:40:58] I wrote a bunch of notes on what was going on.
[1:41:26] And that's really been something for him all along, and I'm proud of him.