Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 808-008
Date: Friday, October 27, 1972 at 12:59 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Roberts, Gilroy; Conger, Clement C.; [Unknown person(s)]; White House operator; Butterfield, Alexander P.; Butz, Earl L.; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Ehrlichman, John D.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/808-008

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[0:10] How are you?
[0:10] How are you?
[0:11] Nice to see you.
[0:12] Nice to see you.
[0:16] All right.
[0:17] I appreciate your taking the time.
[0:20] You've got a picture?
[0:21] This is really wonderful.
[0:22] That's all right.
[0:23] I was going to ask for a road map.
[0:32] There is a box.
[3:42] Oh, I see.
[3:44] That's where you work.
[3:47] I'll just leave it to you.
[4:17] I don't want to give people lessons.
[4:20] They'll build up, they'll build up, they'll build up.
[4:46] Well, if you could take the taper and ship it around, I guess they will do that at all their local stations.
[4:51] They can have reruns and so forth, because that's what we did it for, you see.
[4:59] And then, again, be sure you hit the condition of all those stations.
[5:22] Thank you.
[6:22] I know what they've got now.
[10:37] Okay, let's go.
[11:06] Thank you.
[11:11] Yes.
[11:42] Mr. President, are you aware that Senator Dole will be coming in for five minutes and three.
[11:49] He'll be appearing on Face the Nation this Sunday, a special next Tuesday, and then again on television, I don't know, Meet the Press and Fox.
[12:00] Chuck's just been running in for a minute before your meeting.
[12:03] He's been pumping it.
[12:03] He's got all of it.
[12:04] Dole just said that you're going to have to see the president in five minutes.
[12:07] Yes, you can.
[12:08] Just before the surrogate.
[12:09] He wants to do it all over again.
[12:22] He has a chapter that says, no, it's just been a great curve.
[12:25] He's really gotten into gear since last week.
[13:04] One thing we probably need to do, right, is find a way to get notified of leaders.
[13:10] And if we get any picks, then we've got to be damn sure to let that in on something ahead of time, or else there's nothing to notify us.
[13:29] Well, that's it.
[13:30] We would respond to another issue, which is the point that they've made.
[13:38] Well, you know, there's nothing we need to do.
[13:42] We need to have somebody just call them and say if we simply responded to what was already out.
[13:48] That's it.
[13:48] We've got to at least examine the table.
[13:52] We need to find a point.
[13:53] But it's one that, well, of course, whatever it is, it's a classic number.
[13:59] Did you finish your reading?
[14:24] I did, went alright, then off.
[14:29] Nine vetoes.
[14:31] I'd like to change the decision on these two older American stills now.
[14:39] OK. Deto them.
[14:40] Yeah.
[14:40] All right.
[14:41] Is that all right with you?
[14:43] Yeah.
[14:43] OK. Well, then, that dictates going with a partial list tomorrow and a partial list Monday, because I think we ought to go with them on the same day we go with HRY.
[14:50] Sure.
[14:51] So it doesn't flop around loose.
[14:53] Oh, I'm fine.
[14:54] I didn't take too bad of those.
[14:57] That's right.
[14:57] That's right.
[14:58] Good.
[14:59] So we'll pick up some money back here.
[15:05] OK, great.
[15:09] Well then, we'll hold up a call.
[15:21] We'll really keep this story going three days in because we'll do some of these three in the morning before we leave.
[15:27] All right.
[15:28] And then the other remaining segment.
[15:30] We had to announce that we signed some of these this morning because the time had passed.
[15:38] So I just read off the list that you signed.
[15:44] There were monuments, the expropriations.
[15:48] But I think it'll be all right.
[15:53] I told him that you were up all hours of the day, and I supported you.
[16:00] What time is the, you've got a, you've got a drop in the state of Ohio.
[16:06] We have two that will drop there.
[16:10] Now, I just heard you say Michigan.
[16:13] How about, what's something out there?
[16:16] Well, I had a bus coming out there.
[16:17] I think that's just been done.
[16:20] We could do a,
[16:21] We could do parochial aid up there.
[16:25] We've got to check the body and see what it is.
[16:27] Why don't you ask Bobby here?
[16:29] Yeah, well, I'll check.
[16:30] But if Michigan's on, why would we want to get on there?
[16:33] You ask him.
[16:34] I don't think we can get home.
[16:35] We'll be there late, so it won't be local.
[16:37] It won't get any national.
[16:39] So really, Rob, this is what we want to do.
[16:45] You can reiterate, actually.
[16:46] He wants to reiterate the blessings.
[16:50] Well, I'm not going to make it in my remarks, but you should reiterate the blessing, and parochialate it with a little grand thing, you know.
[16:58] Might as well, but never mind that.
[17:03] It never hurts to, if a father says what you're going to say to him, that's that.
[17:07] The way it was stated is, if you drop it, the president will not say it.
[17:13] Fair enough.
[17:14] I'll do it tomorrow, Bob.
[17:15] Get it done by me.
[17:20] And we'll have two statements for Ohio.
[17:21] You don't think that going there stirs up the animals in Michigan?
[17:24] Three days earlier.
[17:25] Well, what in the hell is this if they're gonna stir up the animals in Michigan?
[17:34] The last week of it was one of the best in the operation.
[17:43] Just do it.
[17:44] Go out and make it to the base station.
[17:46] You think that's it?
[17:47] Mm-hm.
[17:48] Chance to do it?
[17:50] Fine.
[18:04] I'm going to run this weekend, Sean, this weekend, just partly to get a reading on the war thing, so we know where we're going with Gallup and Harris.
[18:17] And you wanted to get that answer on the settlement thing, so you've got to get a couple of Vietnam questions.
[18:28] And the last reading, you might as well get it.
[18:32] yeah you might get that just to see whether how much whether we have to improve the president's actions or disapprove so but don't we don't go into this a convoluted but it's like a teeter-totter you don't need to do that i just want to get a feel of what the public votes is on the you know right after the administration
[19:05] I don't want him to see it.
[19:07] Oh, no.
[19:08] That's just a cover that he writes.
[19:47] Okay.