Nixon & Haldeman on Dan Rather interview and Media relations

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you want to see this with the immediate effect that you can get a shot all around you.

You want to see this with the immediate effect that you can get a shot all around you.

Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Thank you.

I don't know why he's doing that.

You're going to be having issues with the camera, but we can't be out.

The government is still monitoring, right?

It's got nothing to do with that.

We're not proud of that.

We're not going to get that.

All right.

The president re-elected in 72, and I'm sure you can see that this is how he really put it right again.

I agree with you.

I think he would have done better if I knew what he did.

I know we always say that.

We say that.

Sometimes people like to see you give them an alibi.

Well, I don't know.

Here are all the questions that you have for Tom.

Read them all.

Cards.

Under a portal to the internet, you can use a doctor and you can send them things.

You can write a question for a very funny, funny man.

You can write a question for a very funny man.

You talk to Bill.

I'm kind of sorry to hear you in that comment.

As to whether this is a good attempt to go on, and you thought that was really good, and you said that we have to go on, I thought that's a good point.

There is reason, I think, for what we want most of the time is a singular way of doing it, which is our time.

If you get it on a graph, you can put it out.

You're going to go on a press conference.

The first place you're going to get is some questions like, yeah, what's the difference between the black and white?

Yeah, I don't know.

um

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

It's because of what you say.

Well, I'm at the point where I'm interested in asking good questions that were something that, you know, I mean, he asked, he said what he was doing, and he tried to evolve, but I don't know, I mean, I think he had information, he just lost it in the background.

But rather, he was trying to track me, and he was trying to get me, and he was going to do that, and he was trying to prove a point, and he was here, you know, and we're totally motivated to do it.

and I began to say, we never had that few words of peace.

And I was so impressed.

For a period of time, if you were going to do this, you would want more of it.

I've got an offer that's a long-ranging thing, and for both of you, what kind of chicken can you eat?

Well, I'm going to tell you what I just did out there.

operation out of the church.

It's not very well balanced.

You didn't complete and serve as smart as I've done.

And I don't think people would have liked it.

I think part of the situation is that it's so convenient to have your hand in it.

And it is.

That is what I'm saying.

That is forever the matter.

I think, I think he would have, I think he would have, he would not have ordered the Apostle to, to, uh, get down.

I think he was sitting there a while, in the room with the Apostle, and, uh, he could have killed one of those at a first-time achievement.

He could have whacked him down.

That is most happy, most happy, most happy, most happy, most happy, most happy, most happy, most happy, most happy, most happy, most happy,

um

Yeah.

and do more and more and get ourselves on to talk about it.

Yeah.

He also, his only disadvantage is he comes, he can sometimes tell you what to do.

He can tell you what to say.

He can tell you what to do.

The person can, on this subject, if there is a man at all in that place, it's ridiculous.

You don't ask people things like that.

But I thought it was a beautiful thing.

I said, well, that's what they call it.

or record is not the way it is.

One, two, three.

So I just want you to know that we can judge everything that I do.

This is going to be known for calling us a fool.

And God knows if it is, and I spend a lot of time doing it, and I work my butt off doing it.

It's hard, but whether it's to do press conferences and everything else, it's going to be good.

We don't have to read a lot of the time, but in fact, there's a lot of pressure on us.

And for others, we can also give the task for equal time when it occurs to them.

They're not going to do it alone.

The other man has said that he's got a hell of a problem attending that.

In the first place, there's a real question whether they're going to have equal time.

I believe that if money doesn't draw them, how are they going to deal with it?

And that's it.

Now, while we get some indicators too, as I was just thinking of the content this year, the indicators were basically left to the driver and the questioner.

Yes, sir.

Oh, they've got money to do it.

And they brush up for other people.

And they're working on their tolls.

And that's the way to see it.

That's the way to see it.

They don't.

And if you want the channel to go ahead and release the demo, you will in the next year or two.

You've got to get that out of the way.

We're ready.

When I went with that old version, it was good.

I mean, I don't know if it's actually a good version.

It's not.

Well, you've got to start exactly right now, because you've all had to post for...

So then what you said is, the keys are gone.

Yeah.

I don't know.

And if you want to have it, go ahead, but it definitely moves in that direction.

Now, get that out of the way.

Well, you've got it set up exactly right now, because you've all the items and folks

And then what you said is...

We've got to crush it.

Lockheed, the point is the president has a four year term.

He's given four years to his co-conferencing.

He uses that four years on the basis of building to the point of doing the most he can on something important.

I saw on the second film a lot of bombing laws.

Yeah.

As many of you thought, the president sat down.

uh... uh...

There's a story that we have to be concerned about, and there are about two or three stories.

Thank you.

And thank you, Steve.

I don't have to go through.

We have to realize that we can't acknowledge you have a package.

Or, you know, they've got to get something on you to serve you.

I'm not going to hear it.

You can tell me if it's bad.

Well, that's great, but I think all the rest of you should see the track.

I just wonder, for a time, it wouldn't be best in my mind, even now, I read the front page of the Times, of course, but I can just come in and say that they started the television last night, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth,

uh, here, that we can redo.

That we can redo.

I don't know.

At least it's better.

I mean, let's look this way.

That way, they could consecrate and judge.

They do that maybe too, but that's not a question.

Yeah, but you see the seat on top now doesn't do that.

Basically, the seat on top is the late news, the late breaking edition, because they did most of the stuff the night before.

But I'll tell you, so that they don't lose their strength.

We want something entirely different.

We want a genuine call.

The big news today is this.

Here are a couple other things.

News that might require action or thought.

Did you do that?

Yep.

And then?

And then we did a review.

Yep.

Which is going to come on Tuesday.

Or is it Monday?

Uh, or Tuesday.

No.

Well, Monday or Tuesday, there's a question there whether you want to get a look at the Mac's house before you do it.

You can do that.

Well, very nice.

Thank you.

All right.

Oh, I'm sorry.

This is not, uh, on this one, I'm kidding.

Yeah, well, this is a full series.

It's a team of seven people.

It's a team of 20 people, 25 that comes out of it.

That's the president.

And that's the council people, the congressional people, the writers.

There's a whole bunch of people coming in.

at 8 o'clock, 12 o'clock, and then get out there on the beach.

Then at 8, that's where it was.

Oh, yeah.

Then we get to the beach, and we're ready to come.

And then we're going to go over to the beach, and then we're going to get to the beach.

And then we're going to get to the beach.

I don't know who's there today.

Sierra was out of town.

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