Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 029-031
Date: Friday, August 4, 1972 at 2:58 PM
Participants: [Unknown person(s)]
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/029-031

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[0:03] repair desk.
[0:04] Hello, repair desk.
[0:05] Oh, Smokey.
[0:08] If you don't mind, would you talk to me for a little while?
[0:10] Sure, try to.
[0:13] I want to make sure that this thing's in good condition.
[0:18] Lenny told me what happened.
[0:23] Seemed like they lifted something and then put it back.
[0:26] Oh.
[0:27] That's why I couldn't find it.
[0:30] That certainly was a
[0:33] Peculiar.
[0:34] Well, is there a reason?
[0:37] Apparently not.
[0:41] Sounds alright.
[0:42] You don't hear any hum or anything, do you?
[0:45] No, sounds quite quiet.
[0:50] Think it's going to rain this weekend?
[0:52] I don't know.
[0:53] I hope it does.
[0:54] It's going to cool off some, huh?
[0:55] Yeah.
[0:56] We'll watch at risk because we win a game tonight and...
[0:59] Y'all don't come on when we're in more trouble.
[1:02] How soon?
[1:03] Huh?
[1:04] How soon do they come on?
[1:05] You got 45 minutes?
[1:06] I've got the weekend off, and I think it is, if it isn't pouring down rain, I'm going shooting.
[1:14] All summer I've been... Hey, is there a shoot going on at that club out there, Road 50, like East Coast?
[1:20] Because I see Michigan, all state things from all over the East Coast out there.
[1:27] Trap shooting.
[1:28] Could be.
[1:29] I don't know.
[1:31] That's not my thing.
[1:35] Strangling pistols.
[1:39] But all summer I've been trying.
[1:42] It seems like the days I've been off it's been raining or else I've worked so many hours I've been tired.
[1:50] And it seems a waste of ammunition to go out and shoot when you're bleary-eyed.
[1:55] But then I'm going to go tomorrow and have to go in a raincoat and the whole number out.
[2:07] I haven't heard at least a little squeak on this thing.
[2:10] It certainly sounds quiet to me.
[2:12] Could I have had something up to it?
[2:16] Well, I think the problem probably disappeared while testing.
[2:20] That might be a thing.
[2:24] I only think we got in trouble to get on it.
[2:28] Uh-huh.
[2:28] Maybe best not to have one.
[2:30] Well, I was told not to.
[2:33] Uh-huh.
[2:33] Not to know anything, so fine.
[2:37] I'm talking to you from a pay station.
[2:45] This office looks a lot better than it did when LBJ was here.
[2:49] Yellow furniture and blue rug and there was a bank of four television receivers and then a bank of teletype machines.
[3:01] And, you know, they weren't closed, but it looks a lot prettier now.
[3:12] Stand here in front of the Marine Corps flag with all its streamers on it.
[3:17] Very impressive.
[3:18] I was going to say, that's one of your outfits on there.
[3:21] Yeah, that's kind of like taking that home for a souvenir.
[3:28] Well, I certainly thank you, Fritz.
[3:30] Sounds good.
[3:31] Okay, thanks again.
[3:32] Right on.
[3:33] Bye.