On January 3, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:46 pm and 2:07 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 642-028 of the White House Tapes.
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He's just dumb.
He was trying every time.
The worst, the most horrible suggestion was that I had delayed the end of the war so that I could have landed much better.
That was a terrible thing to say.
Well, he implied that everything we were doing was...
I should have had it then.
Why didn't I put it off until after?
But I put it in there.
I said, this is too important for... You did.
You said the very right things and that was...
about the number of Americans who had been dying and this and that.
Oh, it was, it was just, you handled it so beautifully.
And he was so, really, then it's when, I thought he was a pig, but he was terrible.
Oh, he was just, I didn't think he'd show himself.
I think now he's not half as bright as he actually is, because when he did that, that was showing himself up pretty badly, I think.
The thing we have out here is a little head of John Foster Dulles.
And sometimes, you know, I look at it and see if he wandered over anywhere and he'll be here.
Nothing matters for television, though.
It's got them.
People scream.
and spend all their time reading newspapers and magazines and the rest.
Nobody reads newspapers or magazines anymore.
They read them.
I'm the only one who reads newspapers.
Well, I think they do.
I wish they would sell them more than they read newspapers.
They sell them now.
They sell them now.
They sell them now.
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They sell them now.
Mr. Warren, please.
Yeah.
With regard to the announcement of the State of Union, I was wondering if that had been done, or...
Well, it's going to be the 20th at noon.
I've definitely decided it.
Yeah, all right, all right.
I'll give you a gift and go over to him and ask him, please.
All right.
Did anybody pick up, did Alex pick up anything in your outbox yesterday?
No, I didn't put it in the outbox.
No, but I mean, it's got me.
No, he hasn't been in it.
He hasn't been in it.
Thank you.
That isn't in a free ticket.
No, there's no, not in a free ticket.
Okay.
We had it with you yesterday when the road got run this morning?
Well, I don't know.
I'm just walking around.
I figured I might have dropped it.
After a while, if you have a chance, I'll show you that bus and see if you want to pass the storage or O.T.
It'll be pretty good.
Get a hold of him, I say.
Where is he?
He just got out.
Yeah, he's going to pick us up.
That's all you get of it?
I want you to go over there right now.
I have a piece of paper like this.
Just like that, uh-huh.
And I consciously remember keeping it out of my pocket.
I'll be right back.
Well, check to see if the gun's there in the outbox or some goddamn thing.
See, I, uh... No, I'm kidding.
He doesn't have it, because he hasn't been in here, so...
This is very important.
Those notes are someplace around here, too.
They do go over to the residence.
Take note of them.