Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 037-069
Date: Friday, March 9, 1973 at 2:16 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Rebozo, Charles G. ("Bebe")
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/037-069
National Archives Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417195279 (NAID 417195279)

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[0:00] Hello?
[0:02] Make a rebound, sister.
[0:03] Hello?
[0:03] Hello?
[0:04] Yes, sir, how are you?
[0:05] You at the bank?
[0:06] Yes, sir.
[0:07] I checked that matter out on that salary thing.
[0:10] Uh-huh.
[0:11] And I found that we've raised from 28 to 32 since we've been there.
[0:15] Do you think you ought to raise it more?
[0:18] No, I don't think so at all.
[0:20] But, you know, it's just more of the same.
[0:23] It's more of the same.
[0:24] But I thought you'd be interested to know.
[0:26] I had a check.
[0:26] I had Haldeman check.
[0:27] Well, I hadn't seen that.
[0:29] Well, I checked it, and I said, well, look, what's the score?
[0:32] He said, well, we raised from 28 to 32, so we can raise a little more.
[0:35] But it's very difficult because you see you then get to the level where you just haven't got any, you know.
[0:40] No, no, no.
[0:41] You shouldn't worry about things like that.
[0:43] I just want to see Haldeman possibly.
[0:45] Right.
[0:46] That's right.
[0:47] How are you doing otherwise?
[0:48] The nice thing this morning, incidentally, is that you might need to look.
[0:51] Rose did a very nice thing.
[0:53] I called her because he called me from Baja, California.
[0:57] He had a sudden illness, a brain tumor and all, and he asked me to see if I could get the finest doctors and all.
[1:03] So I met with him.
[1:04] He came in.
[1:05] I spent the last couple of days with him, and they operated this morning.
[1:09] But Desi said if he could just get a telegram.
[1:12] Oh, of course.
[1:13] So Rose had a beautiful telegram.
[1:16] He got it just before he went into surgery, and he was just so...
[1:20] Isn't that great?
[1:23] Isn't that great?
[1:26] Well, that's great.
[1:28] Well, we do that all the time, you know.
[1:33] Right.
[1:34] Right.
[1:35] Right.
[1:35] Oh, I know that.
[1:39] I just wanted to see what your advice was because, you know, we can, hell, it's not our money, it's yours.
[1:46] Okay.
[1:48] All right.
[1:51] Take care.