Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 619-023
Date: Tuesday, November 16, 1971 at 12:22 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Hogue, John H.; Timmons, William E.; MacGregor, Clark; White House photographer
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/619-023

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[0:00] Mr. President, your poll gives me the chance to go to the Treasury for a half.
[0:08] It's a good fact.
[0:28] He's going to have a lot of congressional relations, so we're glad that he's working.
[0:30] He's worked closely with Emma McGregor.
[0:30] He's going to love her.
[0:31] He jumped right into the middle of it.
[0:32] Very tizzy.
[0:32] We, of course, have an advocacy.
[0:33] We've got to get what we're trying to do is to get the departments to do more of this damn work.
[0:35] They have it all done now.
[0:35] You do the work.
[0:35] You do the work.
[0:36] You do the work.
[0:36] You do the work.
[0:36] Well, we're afraid there's no need for that much.
[0:56] And don't require it.
[0:57] It's not worth it.
[0:57] But I ask that we while we're here, one moment.
[0:58] What is the journey at all?
[0:58] Oh, yeah.
[0:59] That's right.
[0:59] Bill, come here.
[0:59] What is the situation on this stand?
[1:00] Do you think we ought to talk about this at all?
[1:01] Now, there it is.
[1:01] The actual fire issue.
[1:05] I don't know if those guys were seeing each other or not.
[1:25] They might be from a political standpoint, but the bus can't get them to me.
[1:27] But I think you ought to put him down or something.
[1:28] I think he will, sir.
[1:28] Well, it went pretty well, Jack Miller, unfortunately.
[1:29] I had to turn the bus into a hat for his own reelection.
[1:31] John Waver and Tom Corlew were there, and they took on the part of Miller's team.
[1:32] I know.
[1:43] He certainly did the right thing.
[1:43] Well, he just, he's a bunch of, he's smart.
[1:44] God, does he, does he only realize how he bothers people?
[1:45] Well, he's got it.
[1:46] Well, he's got it.
[1:46] You're here to bother him, aren't you?
[1:47] He's a slob.
[1:47] Well, that's good.
[2:06] Well, we're going to have a real battle with the bus.
[2:07] Yeah.
[2:07] The perpetrators are hard to get to.
[2:08] Wouldn't they have any money?
[2:08] Oh, yes.
[2:09] Would you agree?
[2:09] Sure.
[2:09] Do you all agree that at least one of you should be coming in?
[2:10] Dr. Hawkins, you know who to take.
[2:11] That's a little president.
[2:11] Good job.
[2:13] Well, with the bus, so if they turn it down, it goes to somebody else.
[2:14] What are your feelings about the
[2:25] It doesn't matter.
[2:43] I have to take a hard line because we've got things going on at the present time.
[2:45] That's even the one that was read to me is basically just like that to the president.
[2:46] I can't do it.
[2:47] I don't even call it this.
[2:47] I'm out of here.
[2:48] But if we go that way, we're going to lose it.
[2:49] No, we're not.
[2:49] And I don't think they have a straight line.
[3:07] I don't think they have a straight line.
[3:08] I don't know that we can control somehow, that some Democrat we can control, rather than offering a substitute.
[3:10] You know, we've got a hell of a good case to settle.
[3:11] We've got a hell of a good case.
[3:12] We're going to go out and war.
[3:13] We're going to go out and soon as they all know.
[3:14] But we have to have time to do what we can for them.
[3:15] And if they can, I can figure any man out.
[3:16] What is the responsibility, verbatim, on the prisoner side, or anything else, on them?
[3:28] I don't think you got that across very well.
[3:29] I mean, Jeremy, if you repeat that to the press conference, after the meeting this morning, they show the press that, Jim.
[3:32] Right.
[3:32] All right.
[3:32] Thank you.
[3:32] Oh, you fellas are doing a great job.
[3:33] Aren't you a great club?
[3:34] That's a great club.
[3:34] It's a great one.
[3:34] Okay.