Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 833-014
Date: Thursday, January 4, 1973 at 11:48 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/833-014

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[0:00] I had no problems this morning.
[0:01] You didn't breathe?
[0:03] No, I had more breathing this morning.
[0:05] Oh, yeah.
[0:06] He was hard-nosed, and he had no problems.
[0:09] He just said we had nothing, no sense of time, nothing more to say, and announced the meeting he had this morning, and the rest of the schedule.
[0:24] No problems.
[0:27] Well, we'll get to all this.
[0:33] The point is that Washington is an unreal town.
[0:35] Congressmen and senators come back and say, well, we've got to make them.
[0:41] They're worried and all that.
[0:44] But Washington's not the country.
[0:45] That's exactly right.
[0:47] The country isn't all that stirred up.
[0:48] Or do you agree?
[0:49] I absolutely agree.
[0:50] I agree.
[0:51] Of course, you've been to Palm Springs, places like that.
[0:54] They won't be so stirred up.
[0:55] But I don't see it that way.
[0:56] I just don't sense the great, you know, the people of the country and so forth.
[1:01] They say, what the hell?
[1:03] So that's the other thing.
[1:07] People say, well, I haven't been bombed and all that.
[1:10] Of course, you've covered that about 18 times, haven't you?
[1:13] But it's just in this case, and others, those who question do so because they're against it.
[1:19] They're against it, and that's why they're giving it a big television ride last night.
[1:25] We're in good shape for today.
[1:26] Let's see what's going on.
[1:27] We're going to shift over to the reorganization.
[1:29] Well, I should see it like this.
[1:32] It will.
[1:33] It will.
[1:36] Okay.