Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 024-148
Date: Tuesday, May 16, 1972 at 10:11 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Nixon, Thelma C. ("Pat") (Ryan)
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/024-148
National Archives Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/646314612 (NAID 646314612)

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[0:04] NIXON: Have you seen Salinger's motion pictures?
[0:09] NIXON: Hello?
[0:10] NIXON: Yeah. Uh-uh.
[0:11] NIXON: Have you seen his motion pictures, Salinger's?
[0:14] NIXON: No. Oh, no. He's always talking to me about them.
[0:18] NIXON: Well, yeah, I've got to see them. I got to see a half hour of them today because we've got to build on them there. We've got to get through. At 4:00 I'm going to look- see it in the movie theater. Could you be free, you might want to come. I've got two or three staff members coming, I just don't want it to be by myself.
[0:30] NIXON: Well, I have to shake hands with those people afterwards.
[0:34] NIXON: No, no, I'm going to do the same thing. I'm not going to just, I'm not going to leave them and let you shake hands. I'll stay and shake hands with them, too.
[0:41] NIXON: Yeah, and then I could go down.
[0:43] NIXON: Yeah, then we could go down, fine. And invite Walter to go too, let's just build up a little crowd, okay?
[0:47] NIXON: Okay.
[0:47] NIXON: Is he there? Is Salinger going to show them himself?
[0:49] NIXON: Oh, yes. We got to listen to 30
[0:51] NIXON: Oh yeah, he's been talking to me about them.
[0:52] NIXON: Yes, but it's worth doing. Yeah, okay. Fine.