Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 002-010
Date: Tuesday, April 20, 1971 at 3:54 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Hughes, James D. ("Don")
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/002-010

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[0:00] General Hughes, sir.
[0:01] Yes, sir, Mr. President.
[0:03] Could you lay on a bigger plane for this trip to Texas?
[0:05] I may have to add two or three people to it.
[0:07] Have you got one available?
[0:09] bigger than uh bigger than a jet star oh yes sir uh what we plan to do is to was to take your backup plane yeah uh you know 970 which is just yeah roughly the same size as yours going to carry more people you're going to take 970 i thought we'd back up because of the i figured there'd be a pretty big uh well going my point is then they will go in 970 that was our plan when i talked to uh oh fine to ken i think that that way they're both presidentially painted and you know it's
[0:34] Well, have 970, which will look like Air Force One.
[0:38] Yes, sir.
[0:38] That's correct.
[0:38] All right.
[0:39] Take them at 970, and then I'll tell the secretary to add anybody he wants.
[0:42] Yes, sir.
[0:43] We're up to about 60 people.
[0:44] Great.
[0:45] Fine.
[0:45] Fine.