Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 043-142
Date: Wednesday, February 21, 1973 at 10:04 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Eisenhower, Julie Nixon
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/043-142

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[0:01] i just want to see how you were doing i read about your trip to columbia it sounds like it was a really good trip yes it was i think it was fine people were nice weren't they yeah well you know how it is they some of them remembered your trip there the fellow the congressman the newly elected republicans said that you really helped him when you came down there so we're fine well how's uh is your everything all right at the apartment and so forth you know it was
[0:30] will never be the same because of your visit.
[0:34] The coverage was so fabulous, I've mailed it all to Mommy.
[0:36] Good, I'm glad you did.
[0:38] Oh, they, you know, they just said they're warm and friendly, President Nixon, and told about how you met the little first graders, and talked with the POW, you know, not the POW, but about them.
[0:48] Sure, sure.
[0:50] Oh, it was just great.
[0:51] Right, right.
[0:51] Really, really nice.
[0:53] I wanted to tell you that, incidentally, that we're going to have Norman Vincent Peale for the church service next Sunday.
[1:00] And I wondered if maybe you'd like to come up to it and then be here next week because we have the governors on the 28th and we have the Golda Meir on the 1st.
[1:13] Now, I don't know whether that's... And then we have an evening on the White House the following Saturday.
[1:18] But I don't know whether you'd like to come or whether you think it'd be well to wait a little while.
[1:24] What do you think?
[1:25] Why don't I ask David about it?
[1:27] Right.
[1:28] Is the Peel speaking this Sunday?
[1:30] This Sunday, yeah.
[1:31] If David could come too, it would be great.
[1:34] Yeah.
[1:35] That's nice you're having that.
[1:36] Yeah, we're having him first.
[1:37] I mean, he's such a good speaker, you know, that he's so much better than most that it'll be a good thing.
[1:43] I wanted to tell you that I saw Van Cliburn perform last night.
[1:47] Oh, you did?
[1:48] The one-night stand of the Jacksonville Symphony.
[1:52] Yeah?
[1:52] He did Rachmaninoff.
[1:55] He did.
[1:56] He was terrific, and we went back afterwards to congratulate him.
[1:59] Did you?
[2:00] Yeah, and he's really looking forward to coming.
[2:02] For the Meyer?
[2:03] Yes.
[2:04] Great.
[2:04] And he wants to know if his mother could be invited, so I'm going to call Lucy and see if she can come.
[2:11] Sure, sure.
[2:12] But he's really thrilled about coming.
[2:14] And he was saying, well, can I practice on the spinet piano on the third floor and all this stuff?
[2:20] But he's really...
[2:22] He's so colorful, isn't he, everything?
[2:24] He is.
[2:24] He gave three ovations last night, three encores.
[2:29] Isn't that terrific?
[2:30] People just sat in their seats and didn't leave.
[2:32] It was just a real tribute to him.
[2:33] Well, I'm glad.
[2:35] It was good.
[2:35] Well, I'm sorry that we had bad weather in Florida.
[2:37] We have bad luck, haven't we?
[2:48] I wanted to tell you that I spoke to Rex about the waiters.
[2:55] Yeah.
[2:57] He said that they are using Filipinos, but the problem with getting white waiters is that the ones who are available are Cuban, and they're not citizens, and there's a government regulation.
[3:07] I see.
[3:07] Isn't that too bad?
[3:07] Yeah.
[3:08] So he's going to check in to see if they can waive that.
[3:13] Yeah.
[3:13] Yeah.
[3:14] Right, right, right, right.
[3:15] Yeah.
[3:15] Okay.
[3:17] But, yeah, we had a great reception in South Carolina, and everybody's feeling good, and I just hope things are going well.
[3:25] The present thing is that David will probably be off the 31st, but not before then, right?
[3:30] Right.
[3:31] But isn't that great?
[3:31] But the fact that he'll be off then is great.
[3:33] That's right.
[3:34] Really good.
[3:34] But you ought to plan to pop up here when you can, you know?
[3:37] Yeah, I will.
[3:38] And don't hesitate.
[3:38] You see, you can come on the plane.
[3:40] There's no problem at all.
[3:41] No problem.
[3:41] none at all no that's great so uh you if you can come to church fine if you can't that's perfectly right too are you having you're not having any event saturday night are you no no no no no no not saturday night next weekend next weekend is the evening at the white house and we have two events in the middle of the week the governors we're not inviting clipper this sunday because
[4:05] group, and Rose didn't think she'd be comfortable in the group.
[4:09] Oh, okay.
[4:09] Well, we'll just have her some future time.
[4:11] We are going to, yeah.
[4:12] Fine.
[4:13] Good.
[4:13] Okay.
[4:14] Well, I'll talk to you real soon, then.
[4:15] Right, honey, and just you and David have a good time.
[4:18] Good.
[4:18] Bye.