Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 926-005
Date: Wednesday, May 23, 1973 at 10:55 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/926-005

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[1:29] Ok. Ok.
[2:05] I think I want to receive it.
[2:07] I don't know.
[2:39] He came to see me about...
[3:18] I think he's smart enough to know that investigators might ask him
[3:47] Did the president know of your fundraising activities?
[3:52] I heard that he had fundraising activities in that period of time, but I didn't know.
[4:00] They were not illegal, understanding.
[4:01] They wouldn't be illegal.
[4:02] It happens if I didn't tell them we're doing it.
[4:05] Unless his purpose, if he were to come up, unless his purpose was to keep them, if they had a right to raise them, you know.
[4:20] I think it's dangerous to talk on that kind of line.
[4:33] I was thinking that you were down.
[5:06] No discussion of water use.
[5:07] That's his recollection.
[5:08] Based on that, it was very important that we were asking.
[5:13] That is your recollection.
[5:14] I'm not trying to give a quick example.
[5:18] It happens to be the same thing he wanted.
[5:23] I don't know why.
[5:24] This isn't true.
[5:24] But, on the other hand, when I thanked him for this, they haven't been thinking about this one.
[5:31] They haven't been trying to do this.
[5:37] So they worked over there on and on and on.
[5:39] Right.
[5:39] You stated that there was no discussion of the water treatment.
[5:43] I think it's very important that we have that.
[5:55] That's my recommendation.
[6:02] Well, this is my recommendation.
[6:05] I don't know if I can find out where he is or what he's doing.
[6:07] No, no, he doesn't.
[6:08] But I can call his boss.
[6:10] He has an office in Boston.
[6:10] I can find out where he is.
[6:13] So Dean was aware of his fundraising activities, and of course Dean was aware of what he was doing.
[6:59] The secret service man is in charge up there at the moment.
[7:06] They didn't need contact, you know, the way they had used her for the day doing that.
[7:12] Oh, sure, sure.
[7:17] Well, to solve the buddy, is that the person on time?
[7:23] No, it is not.
[7:24] You've been at your paper, haven't you?
[7:26] Yeah.
[7:26] I'm glad I said that.
[7:29] Yes, he is.
[7:33] Well?
[7:36] The Secret Service is asking if you need, you know, any contact, can Tom speak for you about that?
[7:42] I think you should talk to Raposo.
[7:45] Have you met Raposo yet?
[8:35] I hope it will be a very good day, and this is such an exciting thing for those people.
[8:42] I hope it will be very good.
[8:58] Well, we have it.
[10:39] People, and I think about four double agents myself.
[10:43] I'm sure McCoy is one, but I think there's probably all of them.
[10:46] I have had people, complete strangers, who have only seen this McCoy on television call, but they think he's a double agent.
[10:56] And people call and say, what were those police doing there so close, a minute and a half away, two hours over time.
[11:03] You know, they don't do two hours over time.
[11:06] When they're on shift at midnight, they don't...
[11:09] We wish we had a stand-up gun that committed would ask some of those questions.
[11:15] They could run on the word of damn.
[11:17] They should be asking the top questions.
[11:19] They should all be asking the top questions.
[11:21] I don't know if you can hear me, but what did he do previously?
[11:26] He's out.
[11:26] He's out.
[12:48] Eventually we got a sympathy reaction.
[12:49] And when we went to Norfolk, good God, we had 18,000 down there.
[12:53] They said there were 20, whatever it was, maybe 50.
[13:02] But it was an unbelievably enthusiastic crowd.
[13:05] My God, you wouldn't find that 100 miles from Washington.
[13:07] You know what I mean?
[13:12] People are worried about him.
[13:13] They're worried about him.
[13:14] He's a pastor.
[13:15] They make the president appear to be devious to
[13:55] This is unbelievable.
[13:59] Okay, you can sit here.
[14:06] Okay.
[14:07] Oh!
[14:07] I want to ask you one thing before we get related to all this.
[14:17] Did you know, and this is going to be our lot of money,
[14:30] I didn't have a long run with that one.
[14:34] I said, now look, it's not how old.
[14:37] I mean, I don't mean by that to try to answer it, but we had gotten a person that we just got to stick our chests out and fight.
[14:47] It seemed like fighting.
[14:50] Nothing ever stops in this town.
[14:53] Yeah, well this is a very bad town for us.
[14:57] Yeah.
[14:57] They're rambling on, and it's because they don't make the most of town for the last 25, 30 years.
[15:03] Don't worry, everybody I know anyway, I know all my friends, all my friends and family and everybody.
[15:17] You know, there's lots and very many nations who are with you.