Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 646-007
Date: Wednesday, January 12, 1972 at 6:23 PM
Participants: United States Secret Service agents
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/646-007

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[2:21:54] I said, now, there are going to be problems.
[2:21:56] You must not be in a position where you come and talk to me.
[2:21:59] Larry, of course, must do that.
[2:22:02] But I said, fortunately, you have a man who is in the NFC, who is a close associate, a friend of yours, to whom you can talk, and you can bear with him, and you must do it.
[2:22:14] I even counted to Henry, and I said, you know, I said, and also I told him I had problems, and he doesn't want to have the hilariousness, he can't, you know, the hilariousness, he can always have them talk on a very confidential basis.
[2:22:35] Well, he ought to talk to me.
[2:22:39] For Christ's sake, there's no way that Henry would trust me.
[2:22:43] But you see, then I realized the guy's sick.
[2:22:46] He is sick.
[2:22:47] You know that Henry absolutely takes a position that nothing can come into this White House.
[2:22:55] And either from a secretary or anybody else on national events or foreign affairs that doesn't appear to him,
[2:23:04] It's wrong.
[2:23:05] Absolutely, it's wrong.
[2:23:06] I need to see some things sometimes that are other parts of you.
[2:23:12] I can't have it all filtered out.
[2:23:14] And I've got to be able to also take a position that I can't, shouldn't talk to anybody.
[2:23:18] I've got to talk to whatever it is.
[2:23:20] I've got to talk to the watchers.
[2:23:21] They're not going to answer that.
[2:23:23] I just don't understand where he gets this grandiose concept of his function here.
[2:23:28] Now, it doesn't mean that I don't have a part of everything.
[2:23:32] I have the occasions when I don't.
[2:23:35] On matters of policy, they've had to be carried out.
[2:23:39] This is the footage.
[2:23:40] I'll point out that Rogers stated that it's absolutely true that Henry is getting into the execution of a lot of this stuff, which