Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 036-006
Date: Friday, January 19, 1973 at 11:56 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Eisenhower, Julie Nixon
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/036-006

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[0:00] Hello.
[0:01] Julie.
[0:02] Daddy?
[0:02] Just wanted to know how things went last night.
[0:04] Oh, it was just fine.
[0:06] Fine.
[0:06] It really was.
[0:07] How are you?
[0:08] You sound tired.
[0:09] Do I really?
[0:10] No, you just did when you first answered the phone.
[0:12] Oh, no, no.
[0:13] No, it's fine, fine.
[0:14] Good.
[0:14] Yeah.
[0:15] Daddy, I want to ask you one thing.
[0:17] The concert hall's box seats 12, and the other two boxes seat 8.
[0:22] Right.
[0:23] Do we want to invite the Marriotts to sit with us, or do we want to have just the six of us?
[0:28] Oh, the six of us should sit.
[0:30] Okay.
[0:30] I think that's important in this occasion.
[0:33] Oh, well, sure, the Marriotts can sit there.
[0:34] No, I don't want them.
[0:35] I just want to make sure.
[0:36] I just want to know if you thought it would look empty.
[0:38] I don't think it will.
[0:39] No, no, no, they'll have somebody.
[0:41] I think the six of us should be there.
[0:43] Fine.
[0:44] We'll have... And, Daddy, the other thing I wanted to ask you, Mrs. Longworth apparently is sick.
[0:51] She's spitting up blood and everything, so she can't come.
[0:54] Oh, boy.
[0:54] Yeah, she can't come.
[0:57] There is that extra seat on the front row.
[1:00] Do we want to put rows there?
[1:02] It might be awfully nice.
[1:04] You know, Ben's such a great friend.
[1:06] You mean in the box?
[1:08] No, I mean at the inaugurals on the, when you give your address.
[1:12] Fine.
[1:13] In that front row.
[1:14] Very, very good idea.
[1:15] I think it would be really nice, but only if you think it's good, because I don't know.
[1:19] Yeah, yeah, over there.
[1:21] That's a very good thought, very nice thought.
[1:24] All right.
[1:24] All righty.
[1:25] It would be a nice touch.
[1:28] People wouldn't like the idea that she's been alone and all that.
[1:32] She's really that sick, is she, Mrs. Longstreet?
[1:35] Apparently she is.
[1:36] I'm so disappointed she can't come.
[1:40] Listen, the weather is beautiful.
[1:41] It's coming along.
[1:43] Sixty.
[1:44] Yeah, we hope it stays about half this way tomorrow.
[1:47] Oh, it'll be great.
[1:48] I got your little note.
[1:49] That's fine.
[1:49] I'll go to tell sometime in the next two weeks I'll go over and see Chase.
[1:54] Sure.
[1:54] Have him come in.
[1:56] But were the events yesterday well done, well handled?
[2:00] Oh, listen, the salute.
[2:03] Mother was just mobbed at the Agnew reception, and the stories have been great.
[2:08] We saw everybody and mingled, and we're going to go over today to the heritage thing, and it will be just marvelous, I know.
[2:15] Very good.
[2:16] And then last night, Mrs. Hope sat with us in the box, and he was so great.
[2:21] It was a nice evening.
[2:22] That was a salute to the states.
[2:23] Right.
[2:25] Right.
[2:25] He did a good job, as usual.
[2:28] He did, yeah.
[2:29] And I suppose that you and Mommy got a big reception, huh?
[2:33] Yeah, we did.
[2:33] We got a great reception.
[2:35] Mommy, you know, they all stood and applauded.
[2:38] That's good.
[2:38] It was very nice.
[2:40] That's good, sweetie.
[2:41] I will have a good time tonight.
[2:43] I don't know about the Marriotts.
[2:45] I mean, frankly.
[2:46] Frankly, I think just the family.
[2:47] I just don't think we ought to have anybody else there.
[2:52] I think it should just be the family, and then everybody will understand.
[2:54] Good.
[2:55] I think so, too.
[2:56] I wonder who those people are.
[2:59] We'll do nice things for them.
[3:01] Oh, no, we don't have to do anything for them.
[3:03] They're very happy.
[3:03] Sure.
[3:04] Yeah.
[3:04] Sure, sure, sure.
[3:06] Okay.
[3:08] All right, fine, fine.
[3:08] Okay, bye.