Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 004-084
Date: Wednesday, June 9, 1971 at 9:23 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/004-084

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[0:00] Yeah.
[0:03] Did you get that Brant dinner list finished?
[0:06] Brant dinner list, yes, sir.
[0:08] It is finished.
[0:09] Yeah.
[0:09] Now, did you add business people, I mean, supporter types and so forth?
[0:12] Yes, sir, we did.
[0:13] Well, I filled it in with Colson's suggestions.
[0:17] Oh, good.
[0:17] And we will fill those seats.
[0:19] Incidentally, there's 62 of those big chairs.
[0:21] That's exactly what I want them done.
[0:23] For any of those in the future, we'll use the big chairs and have 62 people.
[0:26] Yeah.
[0:27] And not so overloaded with state and...
[0:29] and all that sort of people.
[0:31] This time we've invited a lot of them.
[0:32] Yeah, it already had a head start on the government people, which is too bad.
[0:35] We had some poor guidelines, I guess, on that, but I think we've rectified the situation.
[0:39] Yeah, I understand, I understand.
[0:40] It was just perfectly right this time, but in the future, just have the usual few number of government people, because figuring that nothing, that it's pure therapy and nothing is going to be discussed.
[0:50] Yes, sir, sure.
[0:51] Yeah, all right, fine.
[0:53] All right, sir.