Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 017-110
Date: Friday, December 31, 1971 at 7:47 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Schreiber, Taft
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-110

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[0:00] Hello.
[0:02] I have Mr. Tash Schreiber returning.
[0:03] Okay.
[0:06] Thank you.
[0:07] There you are.
[0:07] Hello.
[0:08] Hello, Mr. President.
[0:08] Just called to wish you a happy new year, nothing else.
[0:12] You're very sweet, and I...
[0:16] I hope everything's going well.
[0:17] Yes, very well.
[0:17] Sure, and I just want to wish you and your wonderful family a great year, and I hope that...
[0:20] 72 is all we do hope for, and I really believe that our country is very fortunate today.
[0:27] Let's just hope it's a good year for the country, and then however it comes out, we'll all accept it.
[0:38] Well, that's true, and I do believe that it bears repeating that you've just been the greatest, and we're just all fortunate.
[0:41] Well, I know what you've been doing, and I don't call you very often, but I do know and I do appreciate it very, very much.
[0:48] We appreciate that you're doing this.
[0:50] because let's have a great New Year.
[0:52] Right, right.
[0:53] Well, what are you going to do tonight?
[0:56] I'm here in the White House and sitting in the Lincoln Room studying for a program I'm going to do with Dan Rather Sunday night.
[1:02] And so that's my New Year's Eve.
[1:05] What are you going to do?
[1:07] I'm going down to the Music Center and I'm going to one of your old friends down here, Ted Cummings.
[1:10] Great.
[1:11] Give him my best.
[1:12] He's a wonderful guy and he's got the marvelous collection of art in his house.
[1:16] Yes, I know.
[1:17] Well, we've been just taking it easy these last two days.
[1:24] All right.
[1:25] We're going to work.
[1:25] We've been working, but we're going to give it all we've got.
[1:28] Right.
[1:28] Well, we do appreciate good friends at a time like this, believe me.
[1:32] And tell Ted and his wife that I sent my best to my old neighbors.
[1:37] I will tell them.
[1:38] Okay.
[1:38] Thank you, sir.
[1:39] Bye.