Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 017-093
Date: Saturday, December 25, 1971 at 11:49 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Hodgson, James D.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-093

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[0:01] Yeah.
[0:03] Hello.
[0:04] Jim just called to wish you a Merry Christmas.
[0:08] I'm from the White House.
[0:10] Oh, you're from the White House.
[0:12] Oh, yeah.
[0:13] I have to work, you know.
[0:15] No, we have a family here.
[0:16] And we have Mrs. Eisenhower here and her family.
[0:21] With Julie.
[0:23] Yeah.
[0:23] I didn't see it, but Paula thought she was very good.
[0:28] You liked it good.
[0:30] Yeah.
[0:31] Well, the kids are always the best.
[0:36] Incidentally, I was wondering, that dock thing seemed to be pretty good news over the weekend.
[0:48] Well, a good part of it was that we got it set down so that when you're being the prime minister's auto, you won't have to worry about the dock shutdown.
[0:51] Yeah.
[0:52] Well...
[0:54] Yeah, I guess, well, we appreciate what you've done, you and Kurt and all the others on that thing.
[1:08] Yeah, well, you know, with him, he, like most of us, doesn't have much of his world's good, but he'll do well when he finishes.
[1:18] He'll be a valuable man to somebody.
[1:21] That's what I've been telling him.
[1:22] I said, now look here,
[1:23] You can make money later.
[1:28] That's good counsel.
[1:28] Yeah, right.
[1:29] Well, anyway, we hope it's a good year, and we do appreciate all your hard work.
[1:36] Well, thank you, Mr. President, and the nation appreciates you.
[1:37] Incidentally, I think we were, we're getting a little flack on it, but I think what we did on Hoffa was right.
[1:44] The guy...
[1:45] The guy really looked so terrible when he came out of prison and everything that I think people would be sympathetic with him, don't you?
[1:51] That is if he does what he says he's going to do, and that's what we've got to make sure.
[1:56] Well, we've got that as we throw him back in jail.
[1:59] And it was interesting, did you know that, I suppose you did, of course, that Woodcock wired me saying it was a good idea?
[2:10] In advance?
[2:11] No, right afterwards.
[2:12] He wired and said...
[2:14] He wired and said that it was the right thing to do and that it was justice.
[2:19] So I thought that was good.
[2:21] Okay.
[2:22] Well, bye.