Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 779-001
Date: Friday, September 15, 1972 at 3:15 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/779-001

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[0:22] Rose gets a lot of pressure from the things
[0:30] He knows about this sort of thing.
[0:34] There's no earthly reason for people like us not to back the party.
[0:40] I mean, he's been at everything.
[0:46] He took it to Russia.
[0:47] Oh, yeah.
[0:47] He has had, for what he's delivered, for what sacrifices he's made, he's had more rewards than anybody in this whole place, really.
[0:57] It's a nice job.
[0:58] Oh.
[0:58] It's a good job.
[0:59] Yeah.
[1:00] If you lied to me, I wouldn't understand anything.
[1:02] I didn't, I like to do things like that sometimes, but I don't think this is quite, I don't think this is Senator's line.
[1:17] I think former Secretary of the Treasury is, because there are people that will be supporting this, and they're standing for it now.
[1:31] Yeah, that's a different kind of thing totally.
[1:36] And this thing would be much of the state department crowd.
[1:54] very hard for you to drop in and off that anyway that's what we try to keep saying you know drop in like you can't you can't just drop in you know they don't
[2:05] There's no way to say, look everybody, look like what you dropped in.
[2:07] They want you to drop in and the thing is, look, they want you to drop in and be like you used to be.
[2:15] Yeah.
[2:15] It never, and we just kind of have to prove to people that it never can be like it used to be.
[2:21] There is no way.
[2:21] You can't do it.
[2:22] It just isn't like it used to be.
[2:23] I walk in and, you know, I just can't be quite like what it used to be.
[2:54] Is Dean here today?
[2:55] Mm-hmm.
[2:57] Are we happy to cut down on him?