Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 597-002
Date: Wednesday, October 20, 1971 at 9:17 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Malek, Frederic V.; Mitchell, John N.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/597-002

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[6:32] Is, for example, James Mann?
[6:35] No, James is not.
[6:36] Some of them were, but one of them wasn't.
[6:42] Check it out.
[6:42] We can check it out.
[6:44] I said we can check it out.
[6:46] We can check it out.
[6:46] We can check it out and see if that ain't a lawyer and how many years to practice.
[6:58] And you might also get to see if you have to check down all those things.
[7:15] I would not have it.
[7:17] What I'd like to do is see if they can then check to see if there's any others of that type.
[7:25] Yeah, that are outstanding in a country that are on lists that you're looking into.
[7:30] I don't need judges.
[7:31] Just because we're looking at all those, but you know, the women think about who the hell do you care about.
[7:38] I'm just thinking, I've occurred to me that a lot of those women, you know,
[7:44] Yeah?
[7:45] She's younger.
[7:46] What?
[7:47] She's younger than that when she's in her late 20s or early 30s.
[7:50] Oh, well, I don't mean that.
[7:52] She's got 40 years old.
[7:54] Hello.
[7:54] Yeah.
[7:56] Hello, Connie.
[7:59] Yeah.
[8:07] Yeah.
[8:11] Oh, I see.
[8:11] Yeah.
[8:12] Why don't we leave?
[8:15] It's a question of money.
[8:36] Well, God, we can arrange
[8:46] Well, you know, loans are hard things, but hell, that shouldn't be any problem.
[8:52] Anybody that's going to have a job and pay $60,000 for the rest of his life, even these days, John, ain't bad, huh?
[9:02] He'll still get his, pick up his senatorial pension.
[9:07] It won't be a hell of a lot.
[9:09] It'll be $10,000 a year.
[9:12] Yeah.
[9:17] Yeah.
[9:18] Could I ask you one other thing?
[9:19] Are we...
[9:21] I wonder if we should just do the back thing.
[9:25] Did you tell them not to look into bacon or salty bacon or how we leave that?
[9:32] Are they not checking her?
[9:37] They said they were told they're not qualified.
[9:40] Inevitable.
[9:43] I'm just trying to think of the answers that we have when people say, well, why don't you check a woman out?
[10:08] Yes, sir, all day.
[10:17] When I say what we want, I mean, I don't want them just taking a call.
[10:22] They're going to hear about ramblings.
[10:24] I mean, I don't want to say just no patient, but I don't want to say not all of them.
[10:30] That's what they're going to do.
[10:32] We're going to have to put it on them.
[10:39] Yeah, right.
[10:41] Right.
[10:48] But the bar is just being brought over, so they're gonna be, they're a stacked jury, they're gonna take, you know, let them take the wrath of the law.
[11:01] Is there any way that we have any place that we could push a woman up to the circuit court at the same time we do this?
[11:18] I must say, but I suppose we went in the way of the New York, you know, I mean, build a mile and toss a woman in there.
[11:32] The idea that we're sort of preparing one for, you see what I'm getting at, John?
[11:37] I don't, I think the idea that all this whole movement about women having been raised, we've got to indicate that we sure have that under consideration.
[11:46] It's not never.
[11:52] How about here in Washington you could donate your country?
[11:57] Do we have a hold on this turkey?
[12:00] Well, we could put some debate in there, couldn't we?
[12:06] One of those bastards is going to retire and die, isn't he?
[12:22] I think that they still appeal to me very much.
[12:24] I mean, not now, I see the point.
[12:27] But how about, I'm just having their eye on her, keeping her, I mean, I don't know, look, keep your nose clean and be conservative as hell, you know, and she can go out where God is.
[12:40] Will you do that?
[12:41] Now, Mike, what is it?
[12:42] Well, we're not talking about that anymore here, but I mean, what course, you know, on the street, did a trial, or...
[12:54] Why don't you put her on the Federal District Court?
[12:56] Can you do that?
[12:59] Here.
[12:59] I mean, I can put her up there pretty fast.
[13:03] I mean, I don't have any other money, John.
[13:06] That's the point.
[13:07] You know, there are certain women that are on courts that I don't accept military.
[13:21] When will that, when will that come?
[13:29] We can shut her up.
[13:30] Okay, you're leaving to go to Philadelphia.
[13:33] You'll be gone.
[13:37] But I'll be here early.
[13:39] And first, let's see if you have a license at the moment.
[13:42] Do you think Baker is considering it?
[13:43] Yeah.
[13:43] Yeah.
[13:47] Yeah.
[13:49] Yeah.
[13:51] Now I'm going to move on.
[13:54] I'm not going to...
[13:55] not under any circumstances going to submit it to the law.
[13:58] I mean, I'm just, he's just going to go, okay.
[14:02] And it's not going to pop, right?
[14:04] And we just can't be bothered.
[14:06] Okay, John.
[14:07] Yeah.
[14:12] Yeah.
[14:15] Yeah, well, we can simply say it because of him being a senator and all that kind of thing.
[14:19] We didn't think that Powell, the former president of the ABA, you know, he was a fighter, isn't he?
[14:30] Cut you out, please.
[14:35] Yeah.
[14:35] Yeah, we cannot have that.
[14:39] Okay.
[15:38] Well, that's easy to say, asshole.
[15:45] Well, the point is, I suppose that one of our policemen or something was a guy.
[15:54] No, we've had some incidents where the policemen have been handled things badly.
[16:04] This one, the guy...
[16:06] Daisy's ink wasn't on the typewriter unless it was written on the back side of it.
[16:11] The guy didn't see it.
[16:12] He said, just a second, Mr. Thompson, I'll check this for you.
[16:17] And that's all Daisy needed.
[16:19] He said, what do you do?
[16:22] Unless he took advantage of it, he's made a monumental, monumental job.