"Cancer on the Presidency": Richard Nixon and John Dean discuss blackmail, March 21, 1973 — Transcript

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1. 0:00the Nixon Presidential Library and
2. 0:02Museum presents a selection from the
3. 0:04White House tapes conversation 886 d8
4. 0:08which took place on March 21st
5. 0:121973 now where where are the soft spots
6. 0:15on this well first of all there's
7. 0:18there's the problem of the continued
8. 0:20blackmail which will not only go on now
9. 0:23it'll go on when these people are in
10. 0:24prison and it will compound the
11. 0:27obstruction of justice situation it will
12. 0:29cost money it's dangerous nobody people
13. 0:32around here are not pros of this sort
14. 0:33there sort of thing Mafia people can do
15. 0:36washing Money Getting clean money and
16. 0:38things like that uh we just don't know
17. 0:41about those things we're not used you
18. 0:42know we're not criminals and not used to
19. 0:44dealing in that business it's a it's a
20. 0:46it's a tough thing to know how to do we
21. 0:48do that that's right it's a real problem
22. 0:50as to whether we could even do it plus
23. 0:51there's a real problem in raising money
24. 0:53uh Mitchell has been working on raising
25. 0:55some money uh feeling he's got you know
26. 0:58he's got one he's one of the ones the
27. 0:59most to lose
28. 1:01uh but there's no denying the fact that
29. 1:03the White House and Erman Hall and Dean
30. 1:05are involved in some of the early money
31. 1:08Deion
32. 1:10how I would say these people are going
33. 1:12to cost uh a million dollars over the
34. 1:15next
35. 1:16uh few
36. 1:23years you on the money if you need the
37. 1:26money I mean uh you get the money
38. 1:30well I think that we what is you can you
39. 1:32can get $ and you can get it in cash I
40. 1:36know where it can be got m not easy but
41. 1:39it be
42. 1:42done for more information please visit
43. 1:45www.nixonlibrary.gov