- June 17, 1971
-
- Nixon, Haldeman, and Ronald Ziegler, 2:42-3:33 P.M.
- Oval Office Conversation #524-7; cassette #775
-
- Nixon: I hope to God - he's not Jewish is he?
-
- Ziegler: [Laughing] I'm sure he is - Ellsberg?
-
- Nixon: I hope not, I hope not.
-
- Haldeman: [unclear] is Jewish. Why the hell wouldn't
he be?
-
- Nixon: Oh yeah, I know, I know, I know, but it's, it's,
it's, it's a bad
- thing for us. It's a bad thing for us. It's a bad thing.
Maybe we'll be
- lucky for once. Many Jews in the Communist conspiracy.
. . . Chambers and
- Hiss were the only non-Jews. . . . Many thought that
Hiss was. He could
- have been a half. . . . Every other one was a Jew - and
it raised hell for
- us. But in this case, I hope to God he's not a Jew.
-
- Haldeman: [Laughing] Well, I suspect he is.
-
- Nixon: You can't tell by the name.
-
- Haldeman: Or Halperin. . . . Gelb is -
-
- Nixon: Gelb's a Jew.
-
-
- July 2, 1971
-
- Nixon, Haldeman, and Rose Mary Woods, 12:25 P.M.
- Oval Office Conversation #535-23; cassette #867
-
- Nixon: Halperin was a genius. And so is this son-of-a-bitch
who stole the
- documents - a genius. Everybody says that Ellsberg. .
. very bright.
-
- Woods: That might be, but I mean, I think, part of it
- Hitler was a genius.
-
- Nixon: Undoubtedly.
-
- Haldeman: Sure was.
-
- Nixon: So was Judas.
-
- Woods: Sure.
-
- Nixon: That's right.
-
- Woods: But that doesn't make what they do right. . .
.
-
-
- July 3, 1971
-
- Nixon and Haldeman, 10:41 A.M.
- Oval Office Conversation #536-16; cassette #871
-
- Nixon: Colson, he's a clever bastard. He had his office
call the Bureau of
- Labor Statistics. . . . Goldstein. . . . I said, "Were
they all Jews?" He
- said, "Yes. Every one of them was a Jew." Malek's
not Jewish is he?
-
- Haldeman: No.
-
- Nixon: I want to look at any sensitive areas around,
where Jews are
- involved, Bob. See, the Jews are all through the government.
And we have
- got to get in those areas, we've got to get the man in
charge, who is not
-
- Jewish, to patrol the Jewish -
-
- Haldeman: [unclear]
-
- Nixon: . . . full of Jews. Second, most Jews are [unclear].
You know what I
- mean? You have Garment and Kissinger.
-
- Haldeman: And thankfully Safire.
-
- Nixon: But by God, they're exceptions. But Bob, generally
speaking, you
- can't trust the bastards. They turn on us.
-
- Haldeman: And their whole orientation is against this
administration
- anyway. . . . And they're smart. They have the ability
to do what they want
- to do. Which is, to hurt us. . . .
-
- Nixon: Henry doesn't have many Jews. Got this one. .
. .
-
- . . . .
- Haldeman: He's got quite a few. . . . He had Halperin.
-
- Nixon: Yeah, I know. But, you know. . . he's got Haig,
his secretary is not
- Jewish.
- . . . .
-
- Haldeman: None of his aides have ever been Jewish, even
Tony Lake who
- turned on us. . . .
-
- Nixon: That's right.
-
- Haldeman: But his. . . the young guys, that he's always
had. . . .
-
- Nixon: Well Tony Lake always seemed Jewish.
-
- Haldeman: I don't think so. I wondered about that.
-
- Nixon: He looked it.
-
- Haldeman: I know.
-
-
-
- July 5, 1971
-
- Nixon, Haldeman, and Ziegler, 4:03 P.M.
- Oval Office Conversation #537-4; cassette #876
-
- Nixon: Jewish families are close, but there's this strange
malignancy that
- seems to creep among them - radicalism. I can imagine
how the fact that
- Ellsberg is in this must really tear a fella like Henry
to pieces - or
- Garment. Just like the Rosenbergs and all that. It just
has to kill them. I
- feel horrible about it.
-
- Ziegler: Could make up an English name.
-
- Haldeman: . . . Rosenstein could change his name. . .
.
- [general laughter]
-
- Ziegler: It is right. It's always an Ellsberg.
-
- Nixon: Every one's a Jew. Ellsberg's a Jew. Halperin's
a Jew.
-
- Haldeman: Gelb's a Jew.
-
- Nixon: But there are [unclear] - Hiss was not a Jew.
Very interesting
- thing. So few of those who engage in espionage - are
Negroes. . . . In
- fact, very few of them become Communists. If they do,
they like, they get
- into Angela Davis - they're more the capitalist type.
And they throw bombs
- and this and that. But the Negroes. - have you ever noticed?
. . . . Any
- Negro spies?
-
- Haldeman: Not intellectual enough, not smart enough.
. . not smart enough
- to be spies.
-
- Nixon: The Jews - the Jews are, are born spies. You notice
how many of them
- are just in up to their necks?
-
- Haldeman: A basic deviousness.
-
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-
- Nixon: You can never put, John, any person who is a Jew
on a civil rights
- kind of case, or freedom of the press kind of case, and
get even a ten
- percent chance. . . . Basically, who the hell are these
people that stole
- the papers?
-
- It's too bad. I'm sorry. I was hoping one of them would
be a gentile.
- [laughter] [unclear] The three Jews - Gelb - the three
suspects. . . .
- All Jews."
-
- Mitchell: [laughing] Well, at least the Supreme Court
yesterday ruled that
- the Jews couldn't get into a golf club.
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