Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 672-003
Date: Tuesday, February 15, 1972 at 12:47 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ehrlichman, John D.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/672-003

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[3:40:42] The last part is the soil conservation .
[3:40:53] Well, you don't have to do it, I'm not so sure, but maybe it is worth it.
[3:41:14] If so, what do they do?
[3:41:15] They go home.
[3:41:17] Say, well, they were in my house there at the White House.
[3:41:19] I have some good loyalists.
[3:41:23] I can shoot them.
[3:41:24] They'll get mad at me in my house.
[3:41:25] That's why they're here.
[3:41:27] They're running meters in some group.
[3:41:41] You don't get any credit for that, and it's no good as far as the little black kids are concerned.
[3:41:46] They don't know anybody else.
[3:41:48] They've done a lot.
[3:41:49] They've done a lot for people who come through there.
[3:41:53] The district stuff is bullshit, I believe.
[3:41:57] It just should not that often agree.
[3:41:59] And it doesn't mean anything we've done in the district.
[3:42:48] Uh, John, did you have anything you wanted to, uh, go over before... Yeah, I understand now.
[3:43:06] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[3:43:11] How'd you get along?
[3:43:14] Did you have a good talk with Colin?
[3:43:17] Yeah.
[3:43:19] You reassured him.
[3:43:20] You told him about the conversations.
[3:43:22] He rather surprised him, so it was, it was really, not really, it was, it was, he had no reason to come and talk to me.
[3:43:29] But what did John say about it, though?
[3:43:36] Before he did, you know, and then, yeah.
[3:43:54] Yeah, yeah.
[3:43:57] Good.
[3:43:59] Good.
[3:43:59] But he didn't see that Arthur was just coming in.
[3:44:01] I think Arthur was coming in for her father.
[3:44:06] That's what I didn't hear.
[3:44:16] Yeah.
[3:44:17] Well, he used it for the purpose of getting them to keep loose.
[3:44:20] That's good.
[3:44:32] I get it.
[3:44:33] I think it was, I never saw so much crap.
[3:44:38] Yeah, yeah.
[3:44:39] What about the run spells?
[3:44:41] Is that nothing to do with that?
[3:44:59] Now the thing to do is George should have a responsibility so that he realizes he's not doing it.
[3:45:03] He's in charge there, so now that you've worked out the deal with Conner, he can do it.
[3:45:27] I think the real thing is to just get a hell of a good statement.
[3:45:43] That's the only approach we have.
[3:45:49] Yeah.
[3:46:04] All right, so they look big now.
[3:46:20] Yeah, yeah.
[3:46:22] He's smart, too.
[3:46:23] Yeah.
[3:46:24] Yeah.
[3:46:24] What is their answer?
[3:46:28] Just leave them as they are.