Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 017-127
Date: Saturday, January 1, 1972 at 11:54 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/017-127

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[0:00] Hello?
[0:01] Hello.
[0:02] I wondered if you had any dope on those announcement things that we were talking about.
[0:07] Yep.
[6:09] The only other thing is the Japanese were ecstatic about the luncheon in spite of their press conference and put out that they were going to the luncheon, so I think we've got to leave it on now.
[6:22] Just have it earlier.
[6:23] We'll do it early enough so that his press conference is at the New Porter.
[6:28] Oh.
[6:28] And his plan is to leave San Clemente in helicopter up to the New Porter and do his press conference.
[6:34] He kind of likes the drama of coming right from the thing, apparently.
[6:37] Well, then why don't we do the...
[6:40] Have the lunch at 12 o'clock.
[6:42] Yeah.
[6:44] And then he can go right from there.
[6:46] That's good.
[6:46] And I'll have him make it a simple lunch so that there's not a lot of courses to serve.
[6:51] That's right.
[6:53] Just have them out there.
[6:54] And then have, that way then you can re-invite Annenberg.
[6:58] I didn't un-invite him yet.
[6:59] Yeah.
[7:00] I was waiting to get all this worked out.
[7:02] And have Reagan come, which is good.
[7:03] Right.
[7:05] Yeah, because he's up there to see Sato.
[7:06] That's good.
[7:07] I'm glad it's on.
[7:08] Just make it at 12 o'clock.
[7:09] It's not a bad way to finish it anyway.
[7:11] Yeah.
[7:11] He'll be out of there by 1.30, and his press conference is at 2.
[7:15] Mm-hmm.
[7:16] Make it easily.
[7:18] Yep.
[7:18] And he's apparently not at all concerned about, you know, I thought he might be worried about the time ahead of time or something.
[7:24] No, he doesn't.
[7:25] He'd probably have it worked out.
[7:26] He's going to go read it to him anyway.
[7:29] And we've got the Dreyfus lunch set for Monday.
[7:33] The question is where you want to have that.
[7:35] I assume the downstairs dining room, family dining room, don't you?
[7:41] Or do you want to eat in the office?
[7:50] Well, we might just put him upstairs in the other dining room.
[7:55] Okay.
[7:56] That'll be gone.
[7:57] It'll be a nice thing.
[8:00] Upstairs family dining room.
[8:01] Yeah.
[8:01] Tell them to leave the Christmas tree up till then.
[8:08] Just tell Rex.
[8:10] That's good.
[8:11] That'll be a nicer place.
[8:17] Okay.
[8:24] Did you get that Kambach list?
[8:26] Yeah, I did.
[8:27] Fine.
[8:29] I'll use it from now on.
[8:31] They're grouped by a dollar amount.
[8:36] But the third group, the big group in the middle, are the 100,000.
[8:40] Right, I know.
[8:41] The ones above are over 100, and the ones below are under, but over 50.
[8:46] Right.
[8:51] So that's...
[8:56] Oh, on the Japanese thing, do you want toast at the dinner or at the lunch?
[9:02] No.
[9:03] No toast.
[9:04] At neither one?
[9:05] No.
[9:06] Okay.
[9:06] You can't have one outside and inside, but big people, you don't have a toast.
[9:16] Right.
[9:16] Okay.
[9:22] What the hell is that?
[9:24] Just have a statement to read out.
[9:29] If you check that with Mitchell, then that will determine.
[9:31] I'm working on terms of my Vietnam announcement.
[9:34] Okay.
[9:35] Put that out of the way.
[9:36] I can maybe be able to move in another direction on that.
[9:40] All right.
[9:43] It's rather interesting how the bombing story sort of dropped out of the news.
[9:49] Yep.
[9:49] Isn't it?
[9:51] One day.
[9:52] Well, it's over.
[9:53] You know, it's a funny thing, isn't it?
[9:54] They just haven't got a damn thing to write about.
[9:55] There's nothing more to say about it except that it was done.
[10:01] Mm-hmm.
[10:01] Mm-hmm.
[10:01] That'll be in the magazines on Monday.
[10:04] Oh, sure.
[10:04] The story on the bombing.
[10:05] But it'll be over.
[10:12] Rogers is going out with us.
[10:16] California.
[10:18] Oh, he's going out on... Yeah.
[10:20] He has a house out there, so he... Oh.
[10:22] I told him I was going.
[10:23] He asked me when I was going.
[10:24] He said, Monday.
[10:24] He said, I'd like to go.
[10:25] So I said, okay.
[10:27] Okay.
[10:28] So he'll be on the plane.
[10:29] It's no problem.
[10:33] But I won't need to see him.
[10:34] He understands that.
[10:36] Okay.
[10:45] Very good.
[10:47] He's apparently there planning to be out there tonight at the airport also.
[10:50] Yeah, I guess they are, yeah.
[10:53] I think that's good.
[10:54] I think they should be.
[10:55] Yeah, well, he wanted to do it.
[10:57] It's fine.
[10:58] Well, they're going to be ambassadors of the countries.
[11:01] They'll be there, and it's a good touch for Bill and Joe to be there.
[11:05] It builds it up a bit.
[11:06] Mm-hmm.
[11:16] We certainly took care of Edgar Hoover, didn't we?
[11:21] Yeah.
[11:23] That was nice.
[11:24] That'll confuse people.
[11:27] He, I'm sure, appreciated that very much.
[11:31] All right.
[11:33] Little gestures.
[11:34] Well, okay.
[11:37] See you later.
[11:38] All right.