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Conversation 191-013

TapeTape 191StartThursday, May 18, 1972 at 11:38 AMEndThursday, May 18, 1972 at 11:42 AMTape start time00:38:13Tape end time00:41:31ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Woods, Rose MaryRecording deviceCamp David Hard Wire
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On May 18, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David from 11:38 am to 11:42 am. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 191-013 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 191-13

Date: May 18, 1972
Time: 11:38-11:42 am
Location: Camp David Hard Wire

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

[See Conversation No. 131-34]

[End of telephone conversation]
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Hello.
Were you back?
Yeah.
Well, it's too bad to have to go on such a journey, but these things are necessary.
Sure, sure.
How are you getting... Oh, I'm pretty busy.
I'm busy trying to do two weeks' work in two days.
It's a little hard, but it's coming along, coming along.
Are you getting all your stuff packed and so forth?
Yeah, there isn't much to do.
We have one Wi-Fi, I guess.
Oh, yes.
By the way, this is all short dresses.
Incidentally, you don't have to, I think, say anything to say to China, because it's the weather.
Well, it's warmer than China.
It's still darn cool.
No, but I mean it's in the 40s to the 50s rather than the 80s and 90s like it was when we were there before.
I checked the weather.
In the south, yeah, but around Moscow it's doggone.
You don't even worry about the warm weather.
The spring comes very late there in the summer.
Very, very late.
Well, anyway.
Sort of a mix.
We just can't get anybody to finance it.
Now that we've been around the track, we're taking several, but we have to just scrape the bottom receipt.
The Reader's Digest doesn't finance it anymore, and they've got two or three, and I...
You know, we've tried to do everything we could for our elders, but you just can't do it.
We just can't do it out of the government funds.
They can do it, so there's no problem getting an extra person.
I just talked about it a moment ago.
Raise it with him.
Because I know it's been raised, because I went over a whole list of people, and we scrounged around and getting people on, and normally couldn't go.
I mean, some of them, the rates are a little bit less than the others, not much, but, you know, getting them to do writing for various people.
But in Earl's case, see, the trouble is, we just can't get anybody to write because he won't get it done.
You know what I mean?
That's the problem that I adjusted, because we'd love to, but we just can't justify it.
if he's financed, if he's financed, that's fine.
Well, talk about if he's financed, sorry.
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