Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 004-036
Date: Friday, June 4, 1971 at 5:14 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ferguson, Homer
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/004-036

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[0:00] Hello.
[0:01] Judge Ferguson for you, sir.
[0:03] Hello.
[0:04] Richard?
[0:04] Yes, how are you?
[0:05] Homer Ferguson.
[0:06] Yes, sir.
[0:06] Homer, how are you?
[0:07] Bother you.
[0:08] That's all right.
[0:09] It's all right.
[0:09] One thing, I put the call in after you'd made that talk the other night to tell you how excellent it was.
[0:16] Oh, well, thank you very much.
[0:17] Thank you, yes.
[0:18] And all these to the press, I think, have been great.
[0:21] Well, thank you.
[0:22] Thank you.
[0:23] Now, I wanted to, again, call your attention to Cobb's...
[0:30] As a judge.
[0:32] Oh, yes, the man you left your... Virginia.
[0:35] Yes.
[0:35] He's an excellent lawyer, as I explained to you.
[0:38] Right, right.
[0:38] If you want any further news, I'd be very glad to do it.
[0:41] Right, I've got it, and in fact, I've talked to Mitchell about it, too.
[0:45] Yeah, now I've... And I know that Byrd has endorsed him, and Holcomb has endorsed him.
[0:52] Now, another thing is...
[0:54] I'm serving as a senior judge.
[0:57] You know, the law provides for that.
[0:59] Yes, sir.
[1:00] And I wanted you to know that, and it's perfectly all right.
[1:03] I'll continue until your new man goes on.
[1:08] Oh, great.
[1:08] Good.
[1:11] Have you talked to Mitchell yourself about the other fellow?
[1:17] Oh, should I do that?
[1:19] I wish you would.
[1:20] I'll do it.
[1:21] Give John a call, John Mitchell, and just say that you and I were chatting, and I asked you to call him about it.
[1:26] Yeah, I'll do that.
[1:27] Because then when he comes in, I won't see him.
[1:30] I'm going out to Tulsa in the morning, but I won't see him.
[1:34] Just give Mitchell a talk.
[1:35] I'll see you on Monday then.
[1:37] Now, I'm awfully sorry to bother you.
[1:40] You didn't bother me.
[1:41] That's all right.
[1:42] But I did want you to know that as far as me continuing as a senior judge, it was perfectly all right.
[1:48] Great.
[1:48] Well, I appreciate that.
[1:50] And as I told you, I hope that someday, that soon, after I'm not a senior judge, that I might fit in somewhere else.
[1:58] Right, right.
[1:59] Well, you're still full of beans.
[2:01] That's right.
[2:04] You know, I fear retirement.
[2:06] Yeah, don't blame me a bit.
[2:09] You know, when people get to the point they don't have anything left, they don't fear it.
[2:12] Yeah, I know that you and I are...
[2:14] I'm eager to work, and therefore I want you to know that.
[2:17] Good, good.
[2:18] So a senior judge just fits in fine.
[2:21] Good.
[2:22] All right, thank you.
[2:23] Bye.
[2:23] Bye.