Bob Woodward reads from Nixon’s White House tapes — Transcript

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1. 0:00i read my thing from
2. 0:02you know he loves it when i get paper
3. 0:04out to read
4. 0:06but this but this is so relevant
5. 0:09this is from nixon's tapes
6. 0:12after
7. 0:14six weeks after he's won that reelection
8. 0:16and you know he stuck it to the
9. 0:19everyone to the democrats to the
10. 0:21washington post to the press
11. 0:24and so he's in the oval office with his
12. 0:26aides remember we're going to be around
13. 0:29and outlive our enemies nixon said and
14. 0:32also never forget the press is the enemy
15. 0:36the press is the enemy the press is the
16. 0:40enemy the establishment is the enemy the
17. 0:44professors are the enemy the professors
18. 0:47are the enemy
19. 0:49write that on a blackboard a hundred
20. 0:52times and never
21. 0:54forget it
22. 0:56that's somebody who can't let go of his
23. 1:00grievances who can't who has i mean here
24. 1:04you know the press
25. 1:06we were on
26. 1:07the cold bear show and i was tempted to
27. 1:10read that and then ask
28. 1:13stephen colbert
29. 1:15you know you weren't there at the time
30. 1:17in 73 but are the late night television
31. 1:20hosts
32. 1:22upset that they didn't make the cut
33. 1:28the people who were enemies but you know
34. 1:31this
35. 1:32well well the enemies list yeah nixon
36. 1:35maintained the white house had an
37. 1:38enemy's list of people as are on the
38. 1:40tapes the word to be screwed
39. 1:43to have their tax returns audited etc
40. 1:46etc so