Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 912-004
Date: Tuesday, May 8, 1973 at 10:16 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/912-004

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[0:00] with regard to that program.
[0:04] I wonder if
[0:32] He has to put in something else about our race.
[0:36] Who's talking to him?
[0:38] What I had to do was talk to him about the presence of men in the concentration center, et cetera, et cetera.
[0:44] I really explained to him that it was a short book, but I didn't have to do the book.
[0:50] Now, the idea of answering is what you know, right?
[0:57] The point is, John Conlon is going to be here Thursday for a meeting that they're going to have at 9 o'clock.
[1:01] And it occurred to me, as was supposed, that George might want to call him.
[1:08] And George does it on his own.
[1:16] And invited him to come to the meeting for him to introduce the president.
[1:27] Who else did they have in mind?
[1:31] The Vice President just yesterday requested to introduce you.
[1:34] The Vice President, it wasn't even Senator Brown.
[1:36] The Vice President requested it, not the Vice President wanted to introduce you.
[1:42] Okay.
[1:44] Well, I think we've got an awkward situation.
[1:49] All right.
[1:49] Maybe we've got to not have fun.
[1:51] Keep them out of it.
[1:59] I know, but I can't wait to see where we sit in terms of the possibility that he told me yesterday about the bipartisan and the cabinet building.
[2:07] No, there's no bipartisan.
[2:08] It's all bipartisan.
[2:09] We just decided against that, so.
[2:10] All right, sir.
[2:12] You can forget the bipartisan this week.
[2:14] The cabinet will be 9 o'clock Thursday morning.
[2:16] Definitely.
[2:18] And we've got to have the GOP leadership tomorrow.
[2:20] The GOP leadership is tomorrow morning.
[2:23] We just don't want that to happen, sir.
[2:27] She said Wednesday or Thursday.
[2:31] Or we can scrub that all together.
[2:33] Scrub that.
[2:34] Scrub the leaders this time.
[2:39] All right.
[2:40] There is a recommendation.
[2:41] I may want to go with that Friday morning, but we'll see.
[2:46] But just scrub the leaders.
[2:47] I'm not ready for anything right now.
[2:50] Recommendation.
[2:55] All right.
[2:55] Tomorrow, you receive an emissary from Daniel Adesh.
[3:01] No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
[3:01] I will not do that.
[3:05] Very much so.
[3:05] That is how I got...
[3:06] I've been to see secondary people from any of these countries before.
[3:08] You have no desire to see how we're assembling here this weekend.
[3:18] This is something you can do in the back.
[3:22] No, no, no, no, no, no.
[3:24] Don't do any of the things.
[3:26] There's no reason to do that at all.