NIXON: I’ve been doing the meditation. You know I started…Ehrlichman got me onto it, which is, well, that’s a whole other- we won’t go into Ehrlichman. But I’ve been doing it. Forty minutes every morning. In the residence.
HALDEMAN: I was aware of that, sir.
NIXON: And something has, something has happened, Bob. Something that I think we need to assess very carefully from a, from a strategic standpoint. Henry, I want your…I want the geopolitical brain here. I want you fully engaged.
KISSINGER: I am engaged, Mr. President.
NIXON: I can levitate.
[EIGHT SECONDS OF SILENCE]
HALDEMAN: Sir?
NIXON: Four feet. Sustained. I did eleven minutes on Tuesday. Pat came in and, well, Pat is…Pat has been very composed about the whole thing, which is- she’s a remarkable woman. Remarkable. Didn’t spill a drop of her coffee.