Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 045-070
Date: Monday, April 30, 1973 at 11:47 PM
Participants: Cox, Tricia Nixon; White House operator; Nixon, Richard M. (President); Abplanalp, Robert H.; Rebozo, Charles G. ("Bebe")
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/045-070

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[0:00] Hello?
[0:01] Mr. Adler now calling the President.
[0:07] Just a moment, please.
[0:08] And I think this will be the last call for the evening.
[0:11] And then you can just take the messages.
[0:13] Excuse me.
[0:13] No, 15 more minutes.
[0:19] Hello?
[0:20] There you are.
[0:22] Hello, Bob.
[0:24] Mr. President.
[0:25] How are you, boy?
[0:26] I'm just fine, sir.
[0:27] I just wanted to call to say I thought you were... You did a great job tonight.
[0:30] Thank you, Bob.
[0:32] I think I have some idea of what it took to do it, but I thought you were magnificent.
[0:39] Well, how good of you to call.
[0:40] Where are you, in Waukesha?
[0:42] No, no, I'm at home.
[0:43] I'm at home in Brockville.
[0:44] With your mother-in-law?
[0:45] Yes, sir.
[0:49] But I think you did it.
[0:53] I think that it went over very, very well.
[0:57] I've had a half a dozen calls here tonight from old people like Tex.
[1:03] Tex?
[1:04] He thought it went extremely well.
[1:07] He called me about, oh, maybe a half an hour after I got off the air.
[1:12] He just felt that it was great.
[1:14] And, my God, so do I.
[1:17] And believe me, if there's anything that, you know, you want me to do at any particular time of the day or night, I'll be right there.
[1:25] Okay, bye.
[1:26] Thank you, Bob.
[1:27] Here's old BB.
[1:27] He wants to say hello to you.
[1:28] Oh, is he there?
[1:30] All right.
[1:33] What do you say there, Charles?
[1:37] Where are you calling from?
[1:38] Which one of your domains are you calling from, King, sir?
[1:41] Well, I'm calling from the one across the street from the embassy.
[1:44] Oh, I see that.
[1:45] That's right, King, sir.
[1:46] He's right across from the big embassy.
[1:49] I know that place.
[1:50] He just left a couple of minutes ago.
[1:52] Oh, but the bastard just left.
[1:54] He was eating an old friend.
[1:56] Oh, he just had dinner with an old friend, huh?
[1:58] No, we ate him.
[2:00] We ate him?
[2:02] What?
[2:03] I see.
[2:03] Were we Malians or that way?
[2:05] Is it Mahians or what do you call them?
[2:07] I tried to call you before.
[2:09] Yeah?
[2:10] What did you call me?
[2:10] What did you call me?
[2:13] I tried to call you on the telephone.
[2:15] Oh, I see.
[2:16] And they told me they couldn't find you if you weren't answering your phone.
[2:19] I see.
[2:20] Okay.
[2:21] I told the check under the bed.
[2:22] All right, King, sir.
[2:25] All right, King, sir.
[2:28] That's good.
[2:29] Great.
[2:30] Fantastic, wasn't it?
[2:32] Oh, Jesus Christ.
[2:34] Yeah.
[2:34] A couple of guys called me and said that they were in tears.
[2:37] Yeah.
[2:38] Had to be.
[2:39] Had to be.
[2:40] Just, you know, I realize what the hell I must have taken out of them.
[2:46] Listen, King, sir.
[2:47] I'm going to go down and eat some fish and lobsters one of these days.
[2:49] Yeah, I'm heading south tomorrow, King, sir.
[2:52] You take care now, yeah?
[2:53] Good, okay, fine.
[2:54] Okay, buddy.
[2:55] I hope I didn't disturb anybody.
[2:56] Oh, great.
[2:57] Wonderful.
[2:57] Okay.
[2:58] Thank you.