Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 008-061
Date: Thursday, September 9, 1971 at 10:11 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/008-061

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[0:02] With regard to the church today, we're going to change the format.
[0:26] We decided to have the graves for lunch.
[0:27] Oh, okay.
[0:27] So we'll meet down at the red room at, say, 11.
[0:28] Yeah.
[0:28] 30.
[0:29] Right.
[0:29] Yeah.
[0:30] Now, I'd like to know what part of Graham's family is coming, so I don't know where to cut off the lunch.
[0:54] Do you have any of his children?
[0:55] I'm in Lucy's office right now.
[0:55] Let me just check with her quickly.
[0:56] I know he has his mother.
[0:57] I know.
[0:57] And is his wife coming?
[0:59] And his wife is coming.
[1:05] All right.
[1:05] Right.
[1:07] Well, I can get that to you, sir.
[1:07] Yeah.
[1:08] Well, I need to know so that I can know whether they're... Well, anyway, we'll need the Haydens, not the Singer.
[1:14] Right.
[1:14] Right.
[1:14] The Haydens, the Grahams, and their mother.
[1:15] And then I think in any...
[1:16] I don't know what other relative that they...
[1:20] I don't want any brothers or sisters.
[1:41] Do you want any children?
[1:43] No, no.
[1:43] I don't want any children.
[1:44] They're having their children.
[1:45] Well, Hayden.
[1:45] Well, he waits.
[1:45] Just check me out the children.
[1:46] All right.
[1:46] Check me out the children.
[1:47] All right.
[1:59] I just think there's that one child, the Hayden.
[2:20] And the Graham, I think that's it on the Graham.
[2:21] The close relative is right there.
[2:22] Yeah, Lucy's nodding.
[2:22] That's it.
[2:23] She does.
[2:23] He is not having children or any other relatives.
[2:24] No.
[2:24] Well, this is it.
[2:24] So I think you've got Hayden.
[2:25] How many would that be?
[2:25] You've got Hayden's two, Graham's two, the mother one.
[2:37] All right, sure.
[2:53] I'll do that.
[2:53] Yeah.
[3:11] Three granddaughters are coming with their husbands.
[3:46] Two sisters and a brother, a brother, with their spouse.
[4:08] I think it's too many.
[4:09] I do too, and I'm pretty close.
[4:09] I think they're too close.
[4:10] All right, then have the...
[4:15] Yeah.
[4:33] The daughters and their husbands?
[4:34] Oh, yeah.
[4:34] Yeah.
[4:34] The two sisters and the brother and their spouse.
[4:35] We never had plans to have a boy upstairs.
[4:36] A little boy?
[4:36] Yeah.
[5:01] before the service and forget the lunch?
[5:25] Forget the lunch.
[5:25] Yeah.
[5:25] We'll have them up here as well.
[5:26] All right.
[5:26] All right, yeah.
[5:26] I have one question, sir, on another subject.
[5:27] This meeting with Fukuda at 7.30?
[5:29] you said you and Secretary Rogers and Fukuda, that you, Henry was hoping, Henry felt that he should be there and Alex Johnson as well, and that's the way he had planned it, isn't it?
[5:51] Sure, I don't care.
[5:51] Yeah.
[5:52] Yeah, okay, well, that's it.
[5:52] Then who do I want?
[5:53] Well, I talked to Hagg about that.
[5:53] He said this was the way it was laid out, excluding the ambassador, but including Alex Johnson and Henry.
[5:55] I don't mean our ambassador.
[5:56] No.
[5:56] I mean Fukuda's ambassador.
[5:57] Yeah.
[5:57] You see, right here, you're overloading me.
[5:58] Well,
[6:28] You check to see whether these are OK, I will.
[7:03] I'd just like to know my own information.
[7:25] What's my name and where I'm from.
[7:26] I may have been here.
[7:26] Yes.
[7:26] Okay.
[7:26] And actually, they're not going to be in our box.
[7:27] No.
[7:28] Let's just find out where they are.
[7:28] All right.
[7:28] Can you do it without making it appear like you're at it?
[7:30] Of course I can.
[7:30] I'll be very sure about that.
[7:31] I'll let you know.
[7:31] Sure.
[7:46] I'm sure great.
[8:08] After that, worship service?
[8:08] Yeah, but I'll... Now, that's the next visit she had told me.
[8:10] They'd have the big kids last night.
[8:10] Having their kids.
[8:17] Yeah, I do.
[8:43] Yeah, I was there.
[8:44] Now, what I am thinking is, I'm going to take off.
[8:45] I'm going to have that whole bunch of water.
[8:45] I can't save it.
[8:46] I'm going to take off the floor.
[8:48] It occurred to me that we wanted, that we wanted to do that.
[9:17] Set up an eastern ground pavement.
[9:17] Just work out some sort of
[9:18] When is the test?
[9:42] One week away.
[9:42] It's the 16th, yes.
[9:43] About a week away.
[9:43] But it was just a small brunt of it.
[9:44] That's what it was.
[9:44] Yeah.
[9:44] With the kids.
[9:45] Five.
[9:45] I know.
[9:45] Yeah.
[9:52] Five or six children and five adults.
[10:18] Eight children.
[10:18] Probably.
[10:39] I think what we'll do is...
[11:02] I think what we'll do...
[11:16] Okay, that sounds good.
[11:42] That may be a separate table for the children.
[11:43] But not in the same room?
[11:44] No, not in the same room.
[11:44] Not them?
[11:44] No.
[11:44] I think the best...
[11:45] Okay, let's see.
[11:45] Third floor.
[11:54] Now, your dinner is on the second floor.
[12:05] Oh, yeah.
[12:05] Yeah.
[12:05] OK.
[12:39] Make a note.
[13:01] You don't need to let me know.
[13:02] Yeah, okay.
[13:09] All right, let's get it on.