On September 14, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, William E. Timmons, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:39 am to 11:47 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 776-012 of the White House Tapes.
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I think the way it should be done is by phone.
That would be just borrow.
Okay.
And once you just call them and say,
Thank you for watching.
I was embarrassed at one of your receptions.
You showed up kind of hand-flockered and embarrassed.
Um, I think he's gonna have a serious doubt that there's a dictatorship next year, and if they still have control of the house.
They may have it now.
They may have it now.
Uh, this is, uh, I thought you'd understand what it was called, but it was the Korean girl who was actually driving the car.
Is that true?
Oh, I don't, I don't heard that, but I'm not surprised that he was driving the car, and that's why he drove away from the scene of the accident and got around the car and drove back.
Ha!
He, uh, now I don't know if he's coming up as a free intern when we have to tell him, because if he was the other secretary, it would be sort of eligible to not know his staff.
But apparently, I mean, he was in public, you know.
His staff here come privately from that one thing, but I don't think he's doing that publicly.
He does it all the time.
One of our guests went to a party out someplace a long time ago, six months ago.
And, uh, here's a colleague of one that turns around to play around with a white shirt and a hat and a drop player.
And some of these are colleagues.
So, he has something he can't get rid of.
Which is, uh, which is a bad sign.
Yeah.
Uh, yeah.
He's one of the, uh, apparently, people he can trust.
I'm very pleased to hit the ball.
I think it was a beauty to reach the people out there shouting behind the speaker in the house.
I got to hear Ray's push-ups and that's awesome.
That's unbelievable.
Uh, he's got a hell of a problem with his wheels.
I know.
I've tried with that in mind.
I believe in that.
That's not what they can't arrest, but, uh...
But a lot of his colleagues really kind of grumble over who they are, and for whatever effect he had, that is gone, I think.
They talk about it in derogatory terms, and it's kind of like they talk about taking a log, you know, kind of a sexy joke, you know, when he couldn't be quit.
Totally.
Well, as far as I know, we're going to play this on him, and I've been in his presence so much, and he's had to enter it or something, so...
I guess that's the only thing a guy should do with his cousin.
If a guy doesn't give you some strength, you've got to do one of these things.
You've either got to limit the strength to a full, solely private party, or you've got to quit.
Now basically, the other thing, with a public figure, you shouldn't have a grand public.
And I bet that they just are damn fools.
But Albert, apparently, was getting something's happened, something's coming to harm him.
That's what I'm trying to tell you.
The pressure's tough.
He wasn't this bad before.
No, he wasn't.
I just wonder if maybe now he's kind of over his career, and he's all kind of behind him, and he can still do nothing.
There's still enough to let him someplace he wanted to go, and maybe he just kind of said, the hell with it.
I don't know.
Maybe before he was his age, he realized he's not old enough.
and I've heard he's kept his flack on the conservative liberals on this party up there.
They're all working on it all the time.
Um, but I thought he'd measure up better, frankly.
I wrote it here that, you know, you have to appreciate old McCormick, and I think, uh, McCormick had a, uh,
I wish I knew somebody that's close enough to help with personnel that they could approach him on that obviously knows that he's got a problem, but he's going to read these stories when he's got a whole problem.
I don't know if that's the one on the delegation that's the closest to the neighbor.
I don't think it's this one.
Maybe he's a lot higher up.
Yeah, all these guys keep on trying to step up a little bit.
I don't think they're really that close.
But his body is kind of, it's just right in there.
And he might have a little heart to heart.
It's protecting his condition, it's not how it hurts him.
Do you find that, do you want me to do that?
No, I'm ready to let you do it.
Thank you.