Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 028-038
Date: Tuesday, August 1, 1972 at 5:23 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); McCarroll, John; Keys, Jim; Roger, Elmer
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/028-038

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[0:00] Hello.
[0:02] I have Mr. John McCarroll.
[0:06] John.
[0:06] Hi.
[0:07] Hello.
[0:07] Mr. President.
[0:18] I'll tell you other places.
[0:20] Just pull them in in here right now.
[0:21] We're at the work center in General Motors.
[0:25] Where is that in Pittsburgh?
[0:27] Just say hi to him.
[0:28] Are they in Pittsburgh?
[0:29] Yes, sir.
[0:30] Sure, sure.
[0:31] Sure.
[0:32] Hi, President.
[0:33] Hi.
[0:33] How are you?
[0:35] I hope you're having a good time there, I hope.
[0:38] Yes, sir.
[0:39] Good backer here in John McCarroll.
[0:41] Right.
[0:41] Incidentally, have you got pretty good production now?
[0:46] Oh, yeah, yeah.
[0:46] Plenty of jobs.
[0:47] We try to keep those cars selling.
[0:49] Oh, yeah.
[0:50] We're going into 73 models now.
[0:51] Great, great.
[0:52] Here's Mr. Key, Jim Key.
[0:54] Right, right.
[0:55] Hello, Mr. President.
[0:56] Mr. Keyes, you're good to talk to you.
[0:58] And I just hope we keep selling those cars so we have lots of jobs.
[1:02] Yeah.
[1:04] All right.
[1:05] Hey, this is Mr. Elmer Rogel.
[1:06] Yes, sir.
[1:08] How are you doing, sir?
[1:09] Mr. Rogel, good to talk to you.
[1:10] I hope you're saying to all the fellows that I hope that business stays good so we get plenty of jobs out there.
[1:18] Yes, I hope.
[1:21] Yeah.
[1:23] Tell me, are your wives there, too, or is this just the men?
[1:25] No, we're at work, sir.
[1:27] Oh, you're at work.
[1:28] I caught you in the job.
[1:29] Oh, that's... No, no, no.
[1:36] I see.
[1:37] Well, you give all the fellows my best and wish them well.
[1:42] All right.
[1:42] Thank you very much.
[1:43] Right.
[1:44] Here's to John McCall.
[1:45] Right.
[1:46] Thank you, Mr. President.
[1:47] Well, it was good to talk to all these fellows.
[1:50] Well, that's terrific, Bill.
[1:51] And you're just sitting there having just a meeting on various matters, huh?
[1:54] Yes, sir.
[1:54] We're right inside this big General Motors Fisher body plant right here.
[1:59] Whenever your call comes down, I always pair up and have a little trouble out on O-line getting it to run because remodel changes.
[2:07] I see.
[2:07] Getting going.
[2:08] Right.
[2:08] Okay, Mr. President.
[2:10] Well, you'll give everybody my best and my best to your wives, too.
[2:14] Don't stand out here looking in because they heard you were calling.
[2:17] Okay.
[2:18] All right.
[2:18] Great.
[2:18] Goodbye.
[2:19] Give my best to your wife.
[2:20] Bye-bye.
[2:20] All right.
[2:21] Thank you.