Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 008-063
Date: Thursday, September 9, 1971 at 11:01 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/008-063

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[0:01] yeah yeah why don't you decide he's here and you'll be you're going to stay over the residence yeah i think you'll be set up there then and do you 12 or um right okay all right what is it such uh
[0:29] No, it really isn't, except, did you see that note on Carl Albert?
[0:46] Sick?
[0:47] No, no, he's fine.
[0:47] I sent a note over just to report that the people on his delegation on that trip reported that he just did a superb job in explaining the Nixon position on the trip to China and all that to the people in Taiwan and Korea and so on.
[0:53] And they just want you to know.
[1:18] See, Carl, if you wanted to just drop a word about what a great job you've done.
[1:20] And he used the fact of his private meeting with you.
[1:21] You did a good job of reassurance of our friends.
[1:22] Good.
[1:22] Good.
[1:22] No, there's a proof.
[1:24] They're set up to go on the labor meeting tomorrow.
[1:42] What is that?
[1:42] What time will that be?
[1:43] Yeah, it'll be at 10 o'clock.
[1:43] The others will be next week.
[1:44] The only problem I have, Bob, is...
[1:55] You're clear, completely clear Tuesday.
[2:13] We can have one Monday.
[2:17] We can have one Tuesday.
[2:18] We've got one Monday morning, one Tuesday morning, and one Friday afternoon.
[2:19] Monday morning.
[2:20] We still have the cabinets.
[2:20] Right.
[2:20] No, the leaders are Tuesday.
[2:21] Cabinet's Monday.
[2:21] Cabinet's Monday at 8.30 and one group at 10.30.
[2:23] And the leaders are at 8 o'clock Tuesday morning in the meetings at 11, which is .
[2:46] And then we've got the afternoons cleared.
[2:47] Friday?
[2:47] This Friday?
[2:47] We have one Friday.
[2:48] No, not this.
[2:48] Well, a week from Friday.
[2:49] Yes.
[2:49] Yeah.
[2:49] You have the last one before the meeting .
[2:50] When's the astronaut dinner?
[2:50] The astronaut dinner is Thursday night.
[2:52] Well, we can shift the conversions into the following week if they want to anyway.
[3:18] Is that what you have on site?
[3:19] Yeah.
[3:19] Well, let's do that.
[3:19] Let's not get the idea.
[3:20] Right.
[3:20] Five people, five people.
[3:20] I just looked this thing over.
[3:21] I think it's five people.
[3:22] I don't think I could go to Florida by six weeks at a minute.
[3:45] Right.
[3:45] The other thing you might want to do, however, is that Connelly will be back on Friday.
[3:48] And you might want to stay over, go to Florida late Friday afternoon to give you a chance to see Connelly to get that meeting done.
[3:50] And then you can stay through Monday.
[3:51] We have nothing scheduled on Monday.
[3:54] It might be better to do that.
[4:21] Finish out that week and then go Friday afternoon.
[4:22] Yeah.
[4:22] Thursday as of now.
[4:23] Right.
[4:23] Right.
[4:27] So the press thing, you'd want them... No.
[4:46] You'd want them by noon on Tuesday.
[4:51] I don't think so.
[4:52] It's better to give them more time.
[5:10] We've got Tuesday afternoon, basically.
[5:11] That might be one of your golf games.
[5:11] Yeah.
[5:12] Should I tell them 7.30 Tuesday evening?
[5:12] Should I tell them 7.30 Tuesday evening?
[5:13] Yeah.
[5:13] You can work on Tuesday evening.
[5:14] You have all day Wednesday and Thursday morning.
[5:15] 8 o'clock.
[5:16] I don't need to see it.
[5:44] I'd like to see it.
[5:44] It makes a difference.
[5:51] right now what's about the uh about that other thing that we're still
[6:12] Pulling together.
[6:33] The Evans meeting was postponed yesterday to meeting at 1.30 today.
[6:35] So we'll get a reading from him today and put that together.
[6:36] The Alaska part works out fine.
[6:36] It's a good thing we're doing it, John.
[6:37] It's a good thing we're doing it, John.
[6:38] It's a good thing we're doing it, John.
[6:39] Well, I can .
[6:43] No.
[6:44] But as long as we're going, we might as well.
[6:56] That's right.
[6:57] So the fact that it would be written .
[7:04] I don't want to jackass around it, but it would better be .
[7:06] But the plan would be to defer to the Hickle family.
[7:07] Right.
[7:08] I think that's our best bet for something to do.
[7:31] If he's willing.
[7:31] He does.
[7:32] He does.
[7:51] They'll have quite a crowd.
[8:09] Oh, yeah.
[8:09] Sure they will.
[8:09] No, that's right.
[8:10] They'll do a good job.
[8:10] Well, if we have the pipeline, then that'll help.
[8:11] All right, well, let's do it.
[8:25] I spoke to John today.
[9:09] One other thing I want you to .
[9:31] I think .
[9:31] That's right.
[9:32] Yep.
[9:34] And also build some of the other stuff.
[10:16] ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
[10:45] He's pinched back at the deadline.
[11:09] Yes, sir.
[11:09] Yes, he is.
[11:10] Right.
[11:10] Yes.
[11:10] Yes, I talked to him this morning.
[11:10] Yeah.
[11:11] I made it go...