Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 850-007
Date: Tuesday, February 6, 1973 at 11:17 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.; Ziegler, Ronald L.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/850-007

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[0:00] Can you see me now?
[0:01] Can you see me now?
[0:07] Yeah?
[0:07] Can you see me now?
[0:11] Sure, we'll have to do a two-seater on David.
[0:14] That's all right.
[0:18] That's all right.
[0:18] That's all right.
[0:19] That's all right.
[0:20] Because this story came out exactly opposite of what you had in mind.
[0:24] The purpose of that was to point out that we were withholding less than was the tender average before.
[0:32] And I know the point was made, but apparently it was made too far down the briefing for them to get it.
[0:39] Well, it was made at the top of the briefing, and it threw out the point it was made.
[0:45] We face the problem, and they don't want to understand it.
[0:47] They don't want to understand it.
[0:49] And I talked to Scott Ford the other day, and we'll just keep it.
[0:54] But it's hard to drive it through the media block to get them to pick that up and to get them to write it, because they don't understand it.
[1:04] The fact is, it's a very simple statement, just to say that this is one half of the, uh, of the Coley-Johnson period, or something like that.
[1:19] Sir, we've done it.
[1:21] We'll do it again.
[1:22] These are the, these, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they,