Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 005-150
Date: Wednesday, June 23, 1971 at 3:41 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/005-150

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[0:00] Mr. President, you called Michael McGreevy.
[0:03] The number doesn't answer.
[0:04] I'll keep trying.
[0:05] I do have Undersecretary Philip Campbell for you.
[0:08] Yeah.
[0:10] Go ahead, sir.
[0:11] Hello?
[0:11] Mr. President?
[0:12] You're out in Wisconsin, I understand.
[0:14] I'm at the Forest Research Laboratory right now looking at all the wonderful things they're doing.
[0:19] Well, that's great.
[0:20] I just called to tell you that I'm sitting here doing some of my...
[0:24] uh general reading and i i uh came across the appearance you made at the meeting of agricultural secretaries in the south and the very effective way you spoke up for chief wilson and i i just want to thank you for it and tell you that we glad to have such a hard-hitting guy on our team well you're mighty kind mr president i hope i was afraid i'd embarrass you instead and not at all do that
[0:47] No, sir.
[0:48] You've got to really step up, and as you notice, I've taken exactly the same line myself.
[0:55] Well, I knew that the Attorney General had, and you had, and this group down there appreciates this very much.
[1:01] The president of this group, Mr. President, Donald Conner, is a Democrat from Georgia, elected, and he spent five minutes bragging on you.
[1:11] I've turned this over to John Whitaker.
[1:13] Good.
[1:14] So that you would know about it.
[1:15] Great.
[1:15] Well, we'll try to get him into something one of these days.
[1:18] You might tell John when you get back to include him in some White House function sometime.
[1:22] Yeah, well, he was here on the May Day affair.
[1:24] Oh, we saw him then.
[1:26] Good.
[1:26] And he bragged on this for five minutes.
[1:28] Great.
[1:29] Well, we appreciate your hard work out there.
[1:32] And give those people out there my best, will you?
[1:34] I sure will.
[1:35] Bye.
[1:35] Thank you, Mr. President.
[1:36] Bye.
[1:36] Thank you.