Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 021-029
Date: Wednesday, March 8, 1972 at 12:31 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Cox, Tricia Nixon
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/021-029

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[0:00] Hello.
[0:01] Patricia.
[2:18] So it apparently was carried on the Today Show in the evening news, which was good.
[2:23] Great, great, great.
[2:24] The portrait was.
[2:25] The portrait was?
[2:26] Yeah, that was what people were interested in.
[2:29] And that's the one we wanted carried.
[2:30] We don't want the political one carried.
[2:31] I know, I know.
[2:32] And Daddy, listen to this.
[2:34] Tell me what you think of this idea.
[2:35] I was thinking of giving the cloisonne vases that you and Molly brought from China, lending them to a museum for a month so that the general public could see them in Cambridge.
[2:45] Yeah, good.
[2:46] What do you think of that?
[2:47] Great idea.
[2:47] Do you think it's bad or good?
[2:49] No, it's very good.
[2:50] I was thinking of doing it even in the Harvard community.
[2:52] Yeah.
[2:53] Do you think that's a bad idea?
[2:54] No, I'd do it.
[2:56] I think it's an excellent idea.
[2:57] I mean, it's just two things, but I think there's so much interest.
[3:00] That's right.
[3:00] I'd do it.
[3:00] It's a nice group.
[3:01] I think it's an excellent idea.
[3:02] Very subtle.
[3:03] I remember how well it went over with the Annenberg.
[3:05] Yeah, very subtle.
[3:06] Do it.
[3:07] Do it.
[3:08] Okay.
[3:22] you