Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 067-004
Date: Friday, July 30, 1971 at 9:54 AM
Participants: White House tour group
Recording device: Cabinet Room
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/067-004

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[35:07] I brought my eight-year-old in here with me today.
[35:09] So I'm in.
[35:09] Here we go.
[35:09] So I'm in.
[35:09] So I'm in.
[35:10] So I'm in.
[36:30] She has a plate on the back of each chair where the kettle ever sits.
[36:35] The vice president sits directly across from the president.
[36:40] The president sits directly across from the president.
[36:56] I sit down and my wife won't press any of those buttons.
[37:06] The first woman president.
[37:07] The first woman president.
[37:10] You know, when I graduated from school, I was going to be the first woman president of the United States.
[37:16] Why not?
[37:17] I'm a chair.
[37:18] Certain things.
[37:25] All right, that's about it.
[37:30] Well, we always say we have a lady president.
[37:32] Maybe the daughter of the mayor.
[37:35] When you go back to school and see, nobody can tell he's had a president.
[37:39] You just have to believe that there's something special for him.
[37:43] That's right.
[37:47] This is where many of the decisions will be made here.
[37:50] All of these decisions affect you as being the rest of the people of the United States.
[37:55] So go well, can't you?
[37:56] Can't you?
[38:03] You know, we have this small position in your family, but you're hard to make.
[38:10] You know, when you're sitting here, all these men... Are your terms over?
[38:14] Mother's always wanted to be president.
[38:16] This is the mother, yeah, this is the mother.
[38:17] So you came through here, and I came in here.
[38:20] You can say that you sat with the president here.
[38:24] Is it comfortable wearing this present?
[38:28] Very well.
[38:28] All right.
[38:29] Come on, dad, you can do that too.
[38:33] Ah, that's good.
[38:34] You can use that to work.
[38:36] You better take two more weeks off.
[38:37] You know what's timeless?
[38:38] This is nice to hear, but they do realize fire.
[38:40] Fire goes from fireplace.
[38:41] Is it always heavy?
[38:42] Yeah.
[38:59] You have quite a responsibility to maintain this.
[39:00] Yes, it says so.
[39:00] What is your staff position so now we can take it?
[39:22] It's Hilary Boyd Mason Ranch.
[39:24] I have 283 people now.
[39:25] We take care of the White House and a bunch of other buildings.
[39:57] I can feel the fire.
[39:58] I can feel the fire.
[39:59] I can feel the fire.
[40:00] I can feel the fire.
[40:46] This is something that you would be interested in.
[40:47] This floor here, this is what they call Thomas Jones.
[40:48] They had him close to him.
[40:49] His portrait is more in the center with the knots of trees.
[40:51] This is the knots.
[40:51] He cut down a tree and put all the knots in the center of it.
[40:53] So this was all put down by Thomas Jones.
[41:19] I don't know what's coming to you.