Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 034-073
Date: Thursday, December 14, 1972 at 1:02 PM
Participants: White House operator; Butterfield, Alexander P.; Nixon, Richard M. (President); Cox, Tricia Nixon
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/034-073

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[0:00] Yes, please.
[0:02] Operator, it's Mr. Butterfield.
[0:03] He'll take the call right now.
[0:04] Very good.
[0:04] His guests are leaving, so you can put it through.
[0:06] All right.
[0:07] I'll put it right on.
[0:08] Okay.
[0:08] He'll be right with you, Patricia.
[0:12] Hello.
[0:13] Hi, Daddy.
[0:14] Hi, Trish.
[0:15] How are you?
[0:16] Fine.
[0:16] I heard you call.
[0:16] I know.
[0:17] I missed you last night.
[0:18] I just wanted to see how everything was going.
[0:20] Is your trip going great?
[0:22] Yeah, it's just great.
[0:23] We were at the House of Commons and also the House of Lords.
[0:27] Oh, great.
[0:28] And we saw the policemen.
[0:30] Who you gave a goaltend to upon his retirement.
[0:33] Oh, yes.
[0:34] Because he was there and he was thrilled.
[0:37] And we saw a lot of interesting people.
[0:39] And we're going tonight to 10 Downing Street.
[0:41] That'll be a great experience because...
[0:43] I think that'll be interesting.
[0:45] And as I say, you tell the Prime Minister how much I admire his courage and so forth.
[0:51] And the fact that he, you know, that he's...
[0:55] Tell him not to be worried, your father said, about the fact that the polls go up and down.
[1:01] I said that I'm the greatest expert in the world on being down and coming up, and he's going to do exactly the same thing.
[1:08] Okay.
[1:09] And tell him you know you're not supposed to get involved in British politics and so forth of another country, but you can be sure that when he was elected that there was a lot of cheering in our household.
[1:24] You can tell him that, okay?
[1:26] Right.
[1:28] And if you see Alec Hume, if he's there, Sir Alec Hume, he's a foreign minister, he's a very good friend also.
[1:34] Okay.
[1:36] Tony Barber.
[1:39] Fine, thank you, honey.
[1:41] Fine.
[1:42] We just read a little bit in the papers here.
[1:43] Well, there isn't much.
[1:44] The Vietnam thing's still all up in the air, and we're going to have to continue to keep the heat on them because they haven't agreed to the right kind of things.
[1:52] But we'll keep the heat on, and we'll eventually get it.
[1:55] You'll eventually get them?
[1:56] We don't know.
[1:57] Well, I don't assume anything, but I mean, I say eventually, but I don't know when.
[2:02] Uh-huh.
[2:02] Right.
[2:03] But we'll just do the best we can.
[2:05] But in the meantime, you're going off tonight to 10 Downing, and then...
[2:11] I'm going to go off tonight to 10 Downing, and then I think we're going over to Paul Getty's 80th birthday party.
[2:16] Oh, yes.
[2:17] That's tomorrow?
[2:18] No, tonight.
[2:19] We leave the Prime Minister's at about 10.
[2:22] Oh, is his party tonight?
[2:24] Yeah, and then we just finish off by the other one.
[2:27] Well, what time is it there now?
[2:29] Well, Daddy, here it is about 6 o'clock.
[2:32] But then you're going on to the prime ministers.
[2:34] Right, in about an hour.
[2:35] And then Paul Getty's party is tonight?
[2:39] Yeah.
[2:40] So what we're going to do is first go to the prime ministers.
[2:46] And then we'll go over to Paul.
[2:48] Just stop by Paul Getty.
[2:49] Right.
[2:49] Fine.
[2:50] All right.
[2:51] So is there anything I can tell Paul Getty?
[2:53] Oh, yes.
[2:53] I'll tell you.
[2:54] I'll try to give him a call on the phone, but just tell him I always remembered my visit with him and we've appreciated his letters and through the years and wish him the very best.
[3:03] Good.
[3:04] Okay.
[3:05] Bye.
[3:05] All right, honey.
[3:06] Bye.
[3:06] Thanks for talking to me.
[3:07] Bye-bye.
[3:08] Yes.