Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 803-022
Date: Wednesday, October 18, 1972 at 3:21 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Ziegler, Ronald L.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/803-022

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[0:00] We don't want trees.
[0:01] God damn it.
[0:03] Ten of a lot of people agree with this.
[0:06] The Americans agree with this.
[0:09] They agree with the bond amount.
[0:11] They agree with the bond amount.
[0:14] That's what they are saying.
[0:16] They are there to set a man free.
[0:17] They are there to set a deal with us.
[0:19] That's what they are saying.
[0:22] I don't have any time here.
[0:50] Well, I don't think so.
[1:01] My thing would be a little different.
[1:07] Okay.
[1:07] All right.
[1:14] I'll try to explain, explain this by the box.
[1:18] I'll have it moved.
[1:21] But if it's 4 o'clock or 4.30, I'll have it here.
[1:26] This is the last one.
[1:28] This is about this internet.
[1:33] This commercial is on hell.
[1:37] If we were to, if we were to, I'm saying, Bob is an American.
[1:41] I think that's everybody's favorite brand name.
[1:43] I'm thinking that we'll move that, if we have a composer,
[2:13] Well, we have a bird that falls in our arms here.
[2:41] Oh, yeah, that's what I've been wanting to do.
[2:46] You know, he was a Michigan operator, but he buys the Louisville, Kentucky thing.
[2:56] And I said, if we just did that, that's it.
[2:59] Go out Wednesday night for a night rally, night meeting.
[3:02] And I invite you to watch the game, folks.
[3:07] I think we're going to do a good thing.
[3:12] Would that be the problem that you raised?
[3:17] He said, well, it would mean it at least halfway.
[3:23] But it would at least 50% be the problem that I raised.
[3:28] And I'm not at all sure it should be that way, 50%.
[3:35] Well, he says he's a reasonable man.
[3:39] Colson is frank.
[3:44] He said he was probably going to lose his way on vacation out of town.
[3:52] He couldn't concur.
[3:53] Chuck said he couldn't concur more strongly with the Colson Hull position.
[3:59] He put up a winning game.
[4:01] He did nothing to upset the campaign.
[4:07] The last he heard was the one shot in Michigan.
[4:13] I have a good hockey kind of game.
[4:17] It's so low-key, and now, that it's because he has them, and frankly, every game he's had, there's a lot of them.
[4:26] There is, maybe, never seen this, and Chuck's got a little bit of a problem with that.
[4:33] But on this, I might be able to do all that.
[4:42] These are all scheduled ideas, and we have to make the decision to help solve them.
[4:45] Now, these incidents, the ideas on scheduled meetings are not good because they have no judgements.
[4:51] But right now, it's very important that you make sure that you can have a judgement meeting.
[4:56] You can have a judgement meeting, but you have to be on time.
[4:58] You can't have a judgement meeting just because he doesn't know what to say or not.
[5:05] You have to be on time.
[5:11] Roger, you're behind me on this.
[5:12] This is...
[5:12] This is...
[5:13] This is...
[5:13] This is...
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[5:43] I don't think they are.
[5:46] I'm sorry.
[5:47] Well, they have children.
[5:49] They can't go.