Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 729-005
Date: Saturday, June 10, 1972 at 1:20 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/729-005

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[0:01] Yes, I saw it, sir, and I think Henry had a good talk with Secretary Laird the day he left.
[0:16] He's held a couple more for doing this.
[0:24] Mellon was always there.
[0:28] The point is, we all know there's a problem there, but the big thing that he doesn't have in mind is that he knows damn well it's going to go on for the rest of his life.
[0:35] It's just not going to.
[0:35] That was John.
[0:37] Huh?
[0:37] That was John.
[0:37] He should have said, assuming it goes on, like, you know, we have high hopes and that.
[0:42] We've got to have a way to get off of that hook.
[0:45] What I'm getting at is, what do you think can be done now?
[0:49] Well, Henry told him to back off of it.
[0:53] And he said that he would work off of it as a,
[0:57] as a worst case thing, decided a worst case.
[1:00] And I think what he's going to do, basically, though, is work with the individual guys up there to get this thing quieted down.
[1:09] Why don't you do this?
[1:10] Would you mind seeing our fellows and say, and that's the big point.
[1:16] As you say, it's decent and quiet on the worst case, but look at that big hit in there.
[1:25] That's right.
[1:26] That's another reason why we need to continue a little bit with the good report that we're getting.
[1:30] Yeah.
[1:30] Because we can get back away from that.
[1:34] Yeah.
[1:34] All right.
[1:38] Great.
[1:38] Thank you.