Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 717-015
Date: Tuesday, May 2, 1972 at 11:51 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Bull, Stephen B.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/717-015

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[0:07] I'm going to dig more over there.
[0:12] They have moved Pat Gray over to the Bureau, just so we got a presence in the bureaucracy over there until we figure out who to put on top of it.
[0:26] Tolson, just by rank, is acting in absence of any affirmative action otherwise.
[0:34] So he's there, but Gray
[0:38] The exercise we call making thereafter is to just make sure we don't get somebody to decide to start moving the files on.
[0:44] There have been enough revolutionary activities in the Bureau over the last year that, I mean, our files are files on what?
[0:53] All the files are files on public people, files on our people, files on our enemies.
[1:00] I'm sure there's files there that we don't want.
[1:04] We don't want to destroy it, as well as files that we don't want to publicize.
[1:09] Poor, poor man.
[1:11] He should have thought of all this, you know.
[1:13] I don't know, and we tried.
[1:14] He'd never face up to death.
[1:16] God damn it.
[1:21] Well, Colson was your second praise, and sort of a... Morris' idea was kind of interesting, which made it work, which was to simply
[1:32] say that during this interim period, the acting director, that the directorship of the Bureau will be supervised by the Deputy Attorney General.
[1:44] And just let Gray ride it from there.
[1:47] So it clearly makes it a part of their office for the time being.
[1:52] That seems good to see, if you like it that way.
[1:55] It's a spy.
[1:59] Council member, he's the president of the organization.
[2:02] We'll introduce him to you.
[2:02] We'll put him right over here.
[2:04] Let him do his very fast presentation in the press and take a program out.
[2:07] That's it.
[2:09] They had a tour of the White House this morning.
[2:10] Sorry.
[2:11] How many?
[2:11] It's a total of 10.
[2:13] All right.
[2:14] We don't have hours for anything else.
[2:17] Yeah.
[2:18] Well, that'll work.
[2:19] I don't want for anything to go to rock.
[2:21] Clinton's inclination is to move.
[2:23] There's a guy named John Moore, who's the number three guy.
[2:25] He was sent into the Senate.
[2:29] No, no, no, no, no.
[2:33] This is a 63-year-old man.
[2:34] He's an internal administrator type.
[2:37] And Clinging's things are trustworthy.
[2:42] And his thought would be just make him acting director.
[2:45] He is capable of running the bureau.
[2:47] Yes, but we'll close them except that.
[2:48] Probably.
[2:51] They're talking to us now.
[2:53] His recommendation will have great weight with me.
[2:58] He is not a friend.
[2:59] Tulsa is not.
[3:04] We might have to go.
[3:05] Tell them they're concerned about that.