Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 136-021
Date: Sunday, July 23, 1972 at 12:18 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Eisenhower, Julie Nixon
Recording device: Camp David Study Table
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/136-021

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[0:00] Hello?
[0:01] Daddy, hi.
[0:01] Are you feeling better?
[0:02] Yeah, I am feeling better, really.
[0:04] Every day it begins to come on.
[0:05] I wanted to tell you that Connelly is going to be on at 1 o'clock on Meet the Press, and I thought that you and Mommy and Tricia might watch it if you're there.
[0:15] Good.
[0:15] And then if you like it, you might give him a call.
[0:18] I'll probably give him a call because he'll be good.
[0:21] You can be sure of that.
[0:22] At 1 o'clock?
[0:22] 1 o'clock on Meet the Press.
[0:24] I didn't know that.
[0:24] Good.
[0:26] Daddy, one thing I wanted to tell you.
[0:27] Yeah, yeah.
[0:28] I got a letter from Bruce Mather.
[0:30] Yeah.
[0:31] And he said that people had been calling his dad and, you know, from your staff and asking
[0:40] And Bruce said that maybe he thought that if you called his father, his father would say yes.
[0:44] Might as well pass it on.
[0:46] I don't know if you want to do it.
[0:47] Good, good, fine.
[0:49] All right, good, good, good.
[0:51] Is the weather nice up there?
[0:52] It's terrible here.
[0:54] Oh, it's hotter than Billy Be Damned here.
[0:57] I can't even, I am not even going outside.
[0:59] I'm going to go outside.
[1:00] Really that bad?
[1:01] Yeah, I'm going to swim here.
[1:02] Well, it's not as hot as it is there.
[1:03] Yeah.
[1:04] But it's so hot that you don't care to walk around.
[1:07] Yeah.
[1:08] I took a swim yesterday, that was all.
[1:10] And then I'll take a swim today.
[1:12] And I'll be back in time for dinner at about 6.15.
[1:15] How's that?
[1:16] Oh, Daddy, why don't you stay up there and relax?
[1:19] Well, it's pretty hot there.
[1:22] Well, I might stay then past dinner.
[1:24] Yeah, you don't need to come back for dinner.
[1:25] We'll have dinner tomorrow night.
[1:27] Yeah.
[1:29] You're sweet to do it, but you might as well get the nice weather when you can.
[1:32] Well, if it stays, unless it gets better, I might stay through dinner here and just fool around and come back around 9 o'clock.
[1:39] Right.
[1:40] Good.
[1:40] I wanted to tell you that I got a new movie.
[1:43] It's an old one, a great John Wayne movie, which was Academy Award winner.
[1:48] It was one that was produced by John Ford.
[1:55] I mean, directed by John Ford.
[1:56] Did you see it?
[1:57] Yeah.
[1:57] And I want you to be sure and see it.
[1:58] It's She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.
[2:00] Have you ever seen it?
[2:02] You may have seen it, because it's a famous song.
[2:05] That's where the famous song, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.
[2:07] She wore a yellow ribbon.
[2:08] Is it really good?
[2:09] It's one of the best westerns of all time.
[2:11] I made a list today of some movies.
[2:15] Put down She Wore a Yellow Ribbon for you and David to see sometime, because he likes westerns.
[2:19] She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.
[2:21] It's one of the best westerns.
[2:22] John Wayne considers it one of his very best movies.
[2:25] Oh, really good.
[2:26] By the way, Mother was great on TV last night.
[2:30] Great.
[2:30] Well, what was she on?
[2:31] I didn't know.
[2:33] This Bob Hope did a telethon to raise money for the Agnes disaster relief.
[2:40] Oh, great.
[2:41] And John Wayne came on from Hollywood.
[2:43] Jimmy Stewart was there in person and Mike Douglas.
[2:46] Where was it held?
[2:47] It was held at... Philadelphia?
[2:49] No, Baltimore TV station.
[2:51] Good.
[2:52] Mother got a standing ovation, and it was really good.
[2:56] She went over there?
[2:57] Yeah.
[2:57] Last night?
[2:58] Yeah.
[2:58] I didn't know about her.
[2:59] I looked.
[3:00] Well, that's great.
[3:00] Yeah, and Agnew called.
[3:02] It was a telethon.
[3:03] They called in and pledged money.
[3:05] Agnew called in, pledged money.
[3:07] It was good.
[3:08] Good, good, good, good, good, good.
[3:11] That's fine.
[3:12] Well, you enjoyed the day, and Trisha said the wedding was, she thought they were all very happy about the thing.
[3:18] Oh, I think they were thrilled.
[3:20] Yeah.
[3:21] I think McGovern's on at 1230, I think, too, today, if you want to see it.
[3:25] What's he on, I wonder?
[3:27] Well, Face the Nation.
[3:28] Oh, yeah.
[3:29] I think.
[3:29] We might watch it, but he's such a jerk.
[3:31] I don't want to see him.
[3:33] Yeah, he's come out now for stopping aid to Greece.
[3:35] You know what that'll do?
[3:36] Destroy NATO.
[3:38] Well, not only that, but where are American ships supposed to base?
[3:43] Yeah, that's the reason it would destroy NATO, you see.
[3:45] Is that what you mean?
[3:46] Well, that's what I mean, because you see, Greece is the southern hinge of NATO.
[3:49] If you cut off aid to Greece, then you have no, it then isolates Turkey.
[3:57] You know, doesn't he care about the Mediterranean?
[4:00] Well, the thing is that he wants to cut off eight degrees to what he calls a right-wing dictatorship, but he wants to have better relations with Castro and with Chile, who are both left-wing dictators.
[4:11] So anyway, that'll be fine, but the press will be very easy on him.
[4:14] They just build him up all the time.
[4:15] I thought the Agnew announcement got a good play, didn't you?
[4:18] Yeah, very good.
[4:19] Yeah, he looked good in his picture.
[4:21] He's a good-looking man.
[4:21] Anything.
[4:23] Was he on television?
[4:24] Yeah, we saw him on the news.
[4:26] How did he look?
[4:26] Very good.
[4:27] He did a very, you know, very good job of saying that he wanted to be part of the administration and talk about, you know, what's been accomplished.
[4:36] Good.
[4:36] He didn't make any quips and everything.
[4:38] Well, it was the thing to do, don't you think?
[4:40] Yeah, it was the only thing to do.
[4:42] Yeah.
[4:43] And did anybody carry a picture of the wedding, I wonder?
[4:46] No, they didn't.
[4:48] Did you look through both the post and the star?
[4:50] Yeah, they didn't carry it.
[4:51] That's too bad.
[4:53] Isn't that a shame?
[4:54] We saw a little film clip of it on the 10 o'clock news.
[4:59] So that's nice.
[5:00] Oh, be well.
[5:01] Be sure Dabney knows that.
[5:02] Yeah.
[5:02] Well, they should have carried something on the way.
[5:04] The goddamn paper should have at least had a picture.
[5:06] I know.
[5:07] It's terrible.
[5:09] You sure will.
[5:10] Why don't you have the office ask them to, because we have the deal, to see if any have, just call...
[5:19] Ziegler's office or Connie Stewart's office or something, and tell them to check the press around the country.
[5:25] I bet you the wire services did carry a picture someplace, and then you can clip them and send them to her.
[5:30] Okay, I'll do that.
[5:31] That would be nice.
[5:33] All right, honey.
[5:33] We'll see you tonight.
[5:34] Bye.