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NIXON: Bob, come in, come in. Henry, sit down. Now look, I want to talk about something, uh, something delicate. HALDEMAN: Mr. President? NIXON: Pat went in last week. You know, the, the routine thing. The doctors did a whole panel. The bacterial situation down there, the, uh, the flora, whatever the hell they call it. And Bob, the results came back…they came back perfect. Perfect, goddammit. HALDEMAN: Perfect, sir? NIXON: Top of the chart. The doctor told her, he said, Mrs. Nixon, in twenty-two years of practice, twenty-two years … he’s never seen numbers like it. The whole, the whole ecosystem down there, it’s pristine. Pristine, Bob. KISSINGER: Mr. President, this is, ah, this is a remarkable finding, but I must counsel- NIXON: Henry, hold on. Hold on a minute. I’m thinking, Bob, I’m thinking about the political dimension here. The Democrats, they’ve got nothing. They’ve got McGovern, who looks like a [EXPLETIVE] undertaker, and his wife, well, you’ve seen her. You’ve seen her. Now Pat, Pat has this, uh, this objective scientific finding. A finding, Bob. From a doctor. [11 SECONDS OF SILENCE] HALDEMAN: It is unusual, sir. NIXON: It’s unprecedented.