Now, the other thing that I want understood, have you covered with him the business of the [Edward] Kennedy coverage?

Yes.

Yes.

What man have you--have you assigned a man to him?

Yes. It's all taken care of, sir. [Unclear.]

That they all--and they all know that [unclear].

And I'll talk to [Robert] Newbrand and give him--I just want to get him one [unclear].

But he's not [unclear], as I understand.

[Unclear.]

[Secret Service Director James J.] Rowley is not to make the assignment. Does he understand? Rowley [unclear].

He's to assign Newbrand.

Does he understand that he's to do that?

He's effectively already done it. And we have a full force assigned, 40 men.

I told them to put a big detail on him [unclear].

A big detail is correct. One that can cover him around the clock, every place he goes.

Right. No, that's really true. He has got to have the same coverage that we give the others, because we're concerned about security and we will not assume the responsibility unless we're with him all the time.

And Amanda Burden can't be trusted. [Unclear.] You never know what she might do. [Unclear.]

OK. Fine. Incidentally, I want it to be damn clear that he requested it.

[Unclear.]

He requested it. [Unclear] because of threats. In other words, of course, that builds the son of a bitch up. And I wanted to be sure that we didn't [unclear].

I just wondered how you handled the--how you told Rowley you wanted Newbrand.

I told Alex [Butterfield] to tell Rowley that Newbrand was to be put in charge of the detail. That I'm having Alex do.

Yeah.

So that it's a routine--he handles, deals with the Secret Service.

And Rowley doesn't [unclear] Rowley doesn't bitch, now. [Unclear.]

He won't bitch.

And you'll talk to Newbrand?

And I'll talk to Newbrand and tell him how to approach it, because Newbrand will do anything that I tell him to.

He will go on [unclear].

[with Nixon acknowledging] He really will. And he has come to me twice and absolutely, sincerely said, "With what you've done for me and what the President's done for me, I just want you to know, if you want someone killed, if you want anything else done, any way, any direction--"

The thing that I [unclear] is this: we just might get lucky and catch this son-of-a-bitch and ruin him for '76.

That's right.

He doesn't know what he's really getting into. We're going to cover him, and we are not going to take "no" for an answer. He can't say "no." The Kennedys are arrogant as hell with these Secret Service. He says, "Fine," and he should pick the detail, too.

Then you go on the basis of, what? Kennedy may throw it out. But if he does, that's fine.

That's OK.

It doesn't matter.

That's going to be fun.

Newbrand will just love it.

Sure. Also, I want you to tell Newbrand if you will that [unclear] because he's a Catholic, sort of play it, he was for Jack Kennedy all the time. Play up to Kennedy, that "I'm a great admirer of Jack Kennedy." He's a member of the Holy Name Society. He wears a St. Christopher [unclear].