Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 102-004
Date: Tuesday, May 30, 1972 at 12:01 AM
Participants: [Unknown person(s)]
Recording device: Cabinet Room
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/102-004
National Archives Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/648452377 (NAID 648452377)

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[40:24] UNKNOWN: make sure that everything is ready to go.
[40:28] UNKNOWN: Make sure that everything is ready.
[40:32] UNKNOWN: We're the ones that have to clean up.
[40:35] UNKNOWN: It's a pretty thing. They have to go around and scrub that crystal and wash that crystal with ammonia and water. Yeah.
[40:43] UNKNOWN: How do they do it? With a ladder?
[40:44] UNKNOWN: Ah, no. A guy sits up with a rag and very, and holds the top and wipes all down. He goes around. That thing takes about a half an hour to an hour today. Those great, big, gigantic—
[40:56] UNKNOWN: Oh, yeah, I saw those. They got into a turning wheel and wash, and they lay, it takes hours about scaffolding, though.
[41:05] UNKNOWN: Do they dry clean them?
[41:06] UNKNOWN: No, they don't have to because hell, I think they don't know how to clean anyway. It's nice.
[41:12] UNKNOWN: They have to take them all apiece, don't they?
[41:16] UNKNOWN: Yeah.
[41:17] UNKNOWN: That is pretty. It's nice.
[41:25] UNKNOWN: That This is This is 20
[41:28] UNKNOWN: Need a fire extinguisher.
[41:29] UNKNOWN: Yeah. There's right over in here, upstairs. It's lost There's a picture of lost smoke and fire coming out the windows and firemen and all. That was opposite the Blue Room. [unintelligible] [laughter]
[41:48] UNKNOWN: In the West Wing?
[41:49] UNKNOWN: West Wing. If you get time [crosstalk] before you go down just take a look at the pictures that's down in the hall. You'll see a lot of pictures of Russia.
[41:58] UNKNOWN: That's the Bolshoi Ballet School right there on the left, this one is. And the next one is actually the Bolshoi Theater. Isn't that a place, something? We're going to go in that place.
[42:09] UNKNOWN: Huh.