Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 032-038
Date: Wednesday, October 25, 1972 at 2:30 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.; [Unknown person(s)]
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/032-038

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[0:00] Mr. Butterfield, sir.
[0:03] Do you have the farm speech yet?
[0:06] No, I do not.
[0:07] Well, you'll have to jack them up on that because I had forgotten when I told you about doing events on Thursday.
[0:13] I can't do too much because I have to prepare for Kentucky.
[0:18] Right.
[0:18] Yes, sir.
[0:19] So anything of those odds and ends, you told me, shift them to Friday rather than Thursday.
[0:24] Now, the other thing that I need...
[0:29] I know that we've got to do a couple of television films.
[0:33] What do you have on Thursday at the moment, do you know?
[0:36] Good morning, just a second.
[0:40] We were going to have Gilroy Roberts come in and look at you for five minutes, remember that?
[0:45] Friday, Friday.
[0:46] You'd rather have that on Friday?
[0:48] Sure, anything like that.
[0:49] I want done any of the odds and ends I said, just put them on Friday, okay?
[0:54] He's here anyway, isn't he?
[0:56] Does he come into town or is he here already?
[0:59] I think he's coming in from outside.
[1:03] But then have him come Friday.
[1:05] If he comes Thursday, I'll do it then.
[1:07] But all odds and ends should be Friday that we can possibly have.
[1:09] And the only other thing we have is this blunt box filming tomorrow at 9 o'clock.
[1:14] Tomorrow morning.
[1:15] Yes, sir.
[1:16] That's tomorrow at 9.
[1:18] And greeting Russ Train's two new members.
[1:20] No, no, no, no, no, no.
[1:23] Hell no, that can be.
[1:25] Friday, of course.
[1:26] All right.
[1:26] Yeah, there's no problem on shifting that.
[1:28] Yeah.
[1:29] Well, we'll just leave the blunt bogs filming.
[1:31] Blunt bogs things should be done.
[1:32] Now, what about the radio spots for candidates?
[1:36] Has anybody spoken to you about those?
[1:38] I'm not up to date on it.
[1:39] Well, you better find out.
[1:40] Yeah, the radio spots.
[1:41] I was supposed to do a lot of radio spots.
[1:43] Oh, about eight of them?
[1:46] Yes, sir.
[1:47] Yeah.
[1:48] What about it?
[1:49] When have you got those on for?
[1:54] We're getting a schedule from Haldeman on that, so I don't have it yet, sir.
[1:57] Well, they better do them Friday then.
[2:01] At the present time, the way the thing's piling up here.
[2:04] All right.
[2:05] And you want that farm radio speech.
[2:06] But the farm radio, I'll have to get over here.
[2:09] They should have it done.
[2:10] They were supposed to have it last night.
[2:12] So I can look at it, and I'm going to do that Friday now, and I'm going to do a city speech on Saturday.
[2:18] So they've got to get off their ass and get them both to me as quickly as they can.
[2:22] All right.
[2:23] All right, sir.
[2:24] Check up on them.
[2:24] Yeah, I will, and report back.
[2:26] Now, on the radio things, if they can get them ready, I could do some of those this afternoon.
[2:30] Mm-hmm.
[2:30] See?
[2:31] Yeah.
[2:31] If they just get the, if they can.
[2:33] They've been working on it for a month.
[2:35] They should have it done.
[2:35] Yeah, well, it's a very short, 103-word script.
[2:38] I know, I know.
[2:39] Well, they should have them, and Price is supposed to have them.
[2:41] So if they can get those, I'll start doing those this afternoon.
[2:44] Okay.
[2:45] All right.
[2:45] Okay.
[2:46] All right.
[2:46] Mm-hmm.