Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 072-002
Date: Friday, September 10, 1971 at 12:12 PM
Participants: [Unknown person(s)]
Recording device: Cabinet Room
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/072-002
National Archives Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/648452357 (NAID 648452357)

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[0:00] UNKNOWN: about the market [unintelligible]
[0:04] UNKNOWN: So we still get paid, eh?
[0:15] UNKNOWN: [unintelligible] you know?
[0:18] UNKNOWN: No.
[0:32] UNKNOWN: pull the chair back so you can get up to the table or pull pushing them up so you can [laughter]
[0:36] UNKNOWN: Yeah, which way do you want to go?
[0:40] UNKNOWN: Huh?
[0:41] UNKNOWN: I don't care.
[0:42] UNKNOWN: Pull it out so I got [unintelligible] room for me. And uh [unintelligible]
[0:48] UNKNOWN: There you go.
[0:52] UNKNOWN: I had a right good beginning to say [unintelligible]
[1:24] UNKNOWN: Dead eye Dick is go for
[1:26] UNKNOWN: [laughter] Who said that?
[1:30] UNKNOWN: said that. That is all of his uh [unintelligible]
[1:35] UNKNOWN: [unintelligible] and the and then the
[1:41] UNKNOWN: Oh it's Kennedy's, uh, master.
[1:44] UNKNOWN: Kennedy's, yes.
[1:46] UNKNOWN: Go for two minutes? What is that?
[1:49] UNKNOWN: Well, not what you can do for your country, but what your country can do for you.
[1:54] UNKNOWN: That's Kennedy.
[1:56] UNKNOWN: That's that's uh Is that what the senator said?
[2:00] UNKNOWN: Yeah, that was that coach. I got it right.
[2:05] UNKNOWN: Yeah. Come down here.
[2:09] UNKNOWN: Mr. Vincent Smith?
[2:12] UNKNOWN: Yeah, Grayson Smith.
[2:13] UNKNOWN: Grayson Smith, yeah, that's right.
[2:15] UNKNOWN: See I know that guy [unintelligible] who ain't got no family.
[2:20] UNKNOWN: Hey, did you [unintelligible] question?
[2:24] UNKNOWN: Yeah. What's the reason for somebody [unintelligible]
[2:35] UNKNOWN: Oh, they sure do keep that thing on.
[2:42] UNKNOWN: Go back. No, no, it's already, that's it.
[2:45] UNKNOWN: No, a couple drawings like that.
[2:48] UNKNOWN: Excuse me.
[2:50] UNKNOWN: A cabin, then you're supposed to have, you know, like one room, you know, like that.
[2:55] UNKNOWN: [laughter] No doors or anything.
[2:58] UNKNOWN: No, no, and
[3:00] UNKNOWN: Hey, you, [laughter]
[3:02] UNKNOWN: Hm? You have to do it all systems.
[3:13] UNKNOWN: Put it back?
[3:14] UNKNOWN: Huh?
[3:15] UNKNOWN: Put it back in foot-backward piece.
[3:17] UNKNOWN: Yeah.
[3:18] UNKNOWN: Oh, that foot break is doing doing that. You still You're still working?
[3:21] UNKNOWN: Still working for me.
[3:24] UNKNOWN: Good man.
[3:25] UNKNOWN: Yeah, all my plants are done.
[3:28] UNKNOWN: Good man.
[3:35] UNKNOWN: All my [unintelligible] Good men are hard to find.
[3:44] UNKNOWN: General Sweeney says it's not hard to find them. He said that they are here. He just don't know who to choose.
[3:48] UNKNOWN: Ain't ain't who you want to choose, but
[3:50] UNKNOWN: [laughter] get forced in. Taking that door,
[3:53] UNKNOWN: management is telling you to take them. Right.
[3:55] UNKNOWN: Now he can't say it for management, then.
[3:58] UNKNOWN: Well, that's what's wrong with a lot of these ball players now, thinking they are the managers. [laughter]
[4:03] UNKNOWN: Yeah, that's right.
[4:04] UNKNOWN: Yeah, they think they're the manager.
[4:07] UNKNOWN: Yeah, they got more
[4:08] UNKNOWN: Who?
[4:10] UNKNOWN: St. Thomas [unintelligible] team and he went straight to the top.
[4:13] UNKNOWN: First fourth year ever did a thing like that. First for Detroit, yeah.
[4:17] UNKNOWN: I told you, people are happy for them to drive that next year, for it.
[4:21] UNKNOWN: Yeah, that's uh Mr. Sweeney, I mean