Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words Page #2

Frank McGee:
Tricia Nixon and Edward

Cox will be married tomorrow.

Nixon:
The women of my life

have all been remarkable.

I have always

sort of prided myself

on self-control.

And I am emotional,

but I don't believe

you should share emotions.

I am a great believer

in privacy.

Nixon:
Hello.

Operator:
Secretary Rogers.

Nixon:
Hi, Bill.

Rogers:
Hey, that wedding was just great.

Nixon:
It was the...

you've got to give Pat and Tricia the credit.

They really worked. And that White

House staff, weren't they great?

Rogers:

It was absolutely superb.

Operator:
General Haig, sir.

Ready.

Nixon:
Hello?

Haig:
Yes sir.

Nixon:

Nothing else of interest in the world today?

Haig:
Yes sir.

This goddamn "New York Times"...

expose of the most highly-classified

documents of the war.

This is a devastating

security breach

of the greatest magnitude.

Nixon:

I was very surprised and shocked,

and of course Henry Kissinger

was just as surprised.

Operator:
Mr. President,

I have Dr. Kissinger calling you.

Nixon:

Thousands of pages of documents

secret documents

from the Pentagon

were published

in "The New York Times,"

the so-called

Pentagon Papers.

As a result of their

publications,

I know that it

encouraged the enemy.

Walter Cronkite:
Publication

of parts of the 47-volumed,

top secret history of American

involvement in Vietnam

has triggered a major

Constitutional legal battle

over government secrecy

and freedom of the press.

The Justice Department went

to court in New York today

and got a temporary order

restraining "The Times"

from publishing the next

and last two installments.

In all probability,

it will go all the way

to the Supreme Court

by midweek or sooner.

Mitchell:

We've got some information we've developed

as to where these copies are

and who they're likely

to have leaked them.

And the prime suspect

is a gentleman

by the name of Ellsberg.

Nixon:
Yeah.

Mitchell:
Who's a left-winger

that's now at the RAND Corporation.

I felt that as

an American citizen,

as a responsible citizen,

I could no longer

cooperate in concealing

this information

from the American public.

The Supreme Court said no to the

government and yes to the newspapers,

voting six to three to let

"The New York Times"

and "The Washington Post"

print the rest

of the Pentagon Papers.

Nixon:

We've got to go gung-ho now on this Ellsberg.

You make a martyr out of him,

we're going to give an incentive

to every little son of a b*tch

in this government

to run out of the place

and rat on us.

Operator:

Hoover, sir.

Nixon:
Domestically,

the most important achievement

without question were the

appointments to the Supreme Court.

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