Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 860-010
Date: Wednesday, February 21, 1973 at 3:26 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/860-010

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[0:05] Well, Bob, I'm going to check the schedule.
[0:06] I don't know.
[0:08] I don't think he may run away, but he came in and asked if I'm going down to reception for Thurman for Curtis's stories.
[0:19] Curtis is the wife of my family captain tomorrow.
[0:23] And I told him I'd go to some state because I'm getting a reception here for the congressman.
[0:32] And that would just be wielding the will to go rushing down to Congress because of that.
[0:37] Is that something that they submitted to you or they didn't?
[0:41] But don't let those are the kinds that you should talk to me about because then it wouldn't get too easy because you would know the course of that, sir.
[0:51] You see, if I did, the point is I would be delighted to go to my work during the reception just for the rules of the future.
[0:58] Well, maybe.
[0:59] I think it is highly questionable.
[1:01] But anyway, I wouldn't mind if you'd be considering it.
[1:05] But look at it in terms of here.
[1:06] You've got a little talk about .
[1:09] Look at it in terms of our congressional relations in the press.
[1:12] What the hell does it look like if I have 225 congressmen here and then jump in the car and rush down to the Congress?
[1:19] Now, that's going to be a negative story without a question, isn't it?
[1:21] Huh?
[1:24] Yeah.
[1:25] Yeah.
[1:26] OK.