Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 043-184
Date: Friday, February 23, 1973 at 3:02 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/043-184

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[0:01] Yeah.
[0:03] See, one point I wanted to make with you that for the future we probably are going to have it come up in the future very, very soon.
[0:11] But I noted in the story this morning that eight members of the press had seats in the theater and that, of course, that required eight people to give up their seats.
[0:23] Now, under no circumstances in the future when I go to the theater are we to insist on seats for the press.
[0:29] I don't know how that ever happened because that's not my rule.
[0:32] All right, sir.
[0:33] If they want to go, they stand in the back.
[0:35] Yes, sir.
[0:35] How did it happen?
[0:36] Did they check that with you?
[0:38] Well, as a matter of course, in almost all cases, the theaters make seats available for the press because it
[0:47] It behooves them to have press with the president, and we don't really, we don't push for them.
[0:53] We've had them stand in the past.
[0:54] It was the theater's doing, sir.
[0:56] Well, just throwing people out, you know, and when we go late like this, everything really is, judges don't like the feel of it, right?
[1:02] Well, it was the theater who did it.
[1:04] All right.
[1:05] Just tell them not to do it then when we come in the future.
[1:08] That is, unless it's going to throw anybody out, okay?
[1:12] All right, sir, that's fine.
[1:13] All right.