Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 707-008
Date: Wednesday, April 12, 1972 at 11:22 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/707-008

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[35:26] The Justice Department has filed a suit against the state of Texas on fishing rights to get into that tide line spot again.
[35:37] We're claiming apparently that the three mile limit applies to fishing rights, even though the courts and the Congress have established that Texas has ten mile rights.
[35:46] I'm not sure.
[35:47] He called us a whole lot.
[35:48] Price Daniels, who is now Justice of the Supreme Court in Texas, is in town, wrote to you and wanted to see you about this, and then he called the county saying, saying, so we've got to, I think, go in and try to find out where the hell it is or who brought it and what it was.
[36:03] But the county's point is the suit should have never been brought.
[36:07] The title, in spite of the settle long ago, it should be left that way.