Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 767-018
Date: Friday, August 11, 1972 at 11:09 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ehrlichman, John D.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/767-018

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[0:15] for this meeting.
[0:18] And he'll make the point that he's been trying to get a meeting with you for three weeks to talk about his future plans.
[0:27] So the meeting will have two segments.
[0:31] You'll have this meeting about Agnes with George Lincoln and everybody present.
[0:34] And he'll ask to talk to you.
[0:36] He may ask to talk to you privately.
[0:39] He may want to try and finesse, you know.
[0:41] All right.
[0:42] All right.
[0:45] I think he's just playing a little game and he may be stirring this all up with the idea that we're going to cave on the additional employees or something.
[1:12] terrible pressure, and if I can't have additional employees, I'll have to leave.
[1:16] Ziegler confronted him directly just now and said, are you going to resign or not?
[1:20] And he said, well, I've been living with that rumor for two years.
[1:24] So why don't you just do this so I don't have to come around?