Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 006-091
Date: Friday, July 2, 1971 at 4:08 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Nixon, Thelma C. ("Pat") (Ryan); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/006-091

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[0:01] Hello.
[0:01] Mrs. Nixon, Mr. President.
[0:03] Thank you.
[0:03] Hello.
[0:04] Hi, Dick.
[0:04] Well, how did everybody feel?
[0:07] Oh, well, they had such a good time at that party.
[0:10] Right.
[0:10] Did you take her upstairs?
[0:12] No, I took her down to see the... Oh, you were... Yeah, I was there, yeah.
[0:15] I didn't want to because some people feel they can't leave, you know, until everybody's gone.
[0:19] But I don't think we need to do any more.
[0:21] I took her out last night, you know.
[0:23] Yeah, well, that was great.
[0:24] Don't she ride out with you?
[0:26] She went to the concert with me.
[0:28] Oh, I didn't know she'd been there.
[0:29] I knew she'd been there, but I didn't know she went with you.
[0:31] Oh, yeah, we went by helicopter.
[0:33] We had the works.
[0:34] Oh, well, she loved that.
[0:35] So we've really done a lot for her.
[0:37] Yeah, yeah.
[0:39] Well, I thought it was a nice lunch.
[0:41] She's a very lovely person.
[0:43] I was so surprised that, you know, she's a very pretty woman.
[0:48] Beautiful.
[0:48] Nice and really very emotional.
[0:51] She's very sweet.
[0:52] Mm-hmm.
[0:52] Mm-hmm.
[0:53] He was really, really raving about your visit.
[0:57] You know, that comes from the heart and all that.
[0:59] That's what they want, you know, don't they?
[1:01] Yeah, right, right.
[1:03] Your toast was great.
[1:05] Well, it wasn't really hard to think of anything to say, but it may have got across the point.
[1:10] No, it was just right.
[1:11] Just what they like to hear.
[1:12] They were all very happy.
[1:16] You know...
[1:16] Bill Rogers was remarking he didn't think he'd ever seen the room so pretty.
[1:20] You know, with those big chairs, it is beautiful, isn't it?
[1:24] If you notice, you don't look a bit crowded, and it's an elegant way to use those big chairs.
[1:31] Yeah, well, somebody else mentioned to me that they, you know, they'd been there always at night, and it was so much fun to be there in the daytime.
[1:38] Yeah.
[1:38] One of those undersecretaries.
[1:40] Well, we took care of a lot of people here today that don't usually get to things.
[1:44] Did you notice Mrs. Abernathy, Tom Abernathy, who's been in the Congress 29 years, says, did you know this is the first time in 29 years I've ever had a bite to eat at the White House?
[1:53] Yeah, I know.
[1:54] He was so thrilled.
[1:55] He was telling Lucy and he was telling me.
[1:58] See, I had his wife.
[1:59] I know.
[1:59] Remember, she told you that about herself.
[2:01] Yeah, yeah.
[2:01] But what did he say to you?
[2:03] Oh, the same thing.
[2:04] And, you know, they even said to Lucy, you know, we can hardly wait to...
[2:08] We can leave and call our children.
[2:12] No, they really had a good time.
[3:05] They might want to go over.
[3:06] I mean, I don't know whether you want to now.
[3:09] Tomorrow night, they're going to have just about 70 people in the archives as a live audience.
[3:16] Rogers is going to be there and people like that.
[3:18] Do you want to go or not?
[3:19] You don't have to.
[3:20] Oh, well, I think that they've already said I'm going.
[3:23] Well, no, we've left it open for you.
[3:25] But it'd be nice if you did go, but you don't have to.
[3:28] You know what I mean?
[3:29] The audience will be able to pan to you.
[3:31] See if Tricia and Eddie would go, too.
[3:33] Nice that they would go and sit with you in the audience.
[3:36] It's a very, it's never been done before.
[3:39] Never had television like that in there for a, you know, with the Constitution and the original Constitution.
[3:44] Bill Wright's right back of us, the speaker.
[3:46] It's really quite something.
[3:47] Only a half hour from 10.30 to 11.
[3:49] Okay, I'll mention it.
[3:51] All right.
[3:52] Okay.
[3:53] Bye.
[3:54] Bye.