Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 155-010
Date: Monday, November 20, 1972 at 9:05 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Eisenhower, Julie Nixon
Recording device: Camp David Study Table
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/155-010

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[0:00] It wasn't too bad, really.
[0:10] No, it wasn't bad at all.
[0:17] I wanted to tell you a couple of things that I had in mind.
[0:23] I have decided not to go to Florida this weekend, so we will have dinner on Thursday.
[0:30] But just for your private information, and I want you to subtly work it around for your mommy, I think I'll go to New York for the weekend.
[0:39] I've got a couple of things I've got to do.
[0:41] I've got to go down and see some of my friends in the firm on a couple of matters, etc.
[0:46] And I thought it would be rather interesting, and I'm having it checked now, to go to a show or a hockey game or something like that.
[0:55] And then we'll go to Peel's church on Sunday.
[0:58] point is, could you go?
[1:00] Could you go to New York with us?
[1:01] We'd take the suite at the Waldorf, I mean, which is always available for us.
[1:05] We would go up Friday morning about 11 o'clock and have Friday night there, Saturday night, Sunday, and then come back.
[1:14] I could definitely go.
[1:15] You could go, fine.
[1:16] It would be fun.
[1:16] Mother and I could go shopping.
[1:18] Well, shop, and incidentally, just for your private information, I wanted to do a little shopping.
[1:22] I thought, I've never done any Christmas shopping in four years, and
[1:25] I thought that I could.
[1:26] I won't go to stores, of course, unless it's all arranged.
[1:29] But then I could have Carnival bring me by some things, and I could have somebody from Silco's come by and so forth.
[1:36] But don't you want to get away?
[1:37] No, I can't do it this weekend for another reason.
[1:40] Oh, I understand.
[1:41] Okay.
[1:41] Kissinger's coming back.
[1:43] See?
[1:43] Yeah.
[1:43] And with him coming back, I can't be gallivanting around down off some damn island.
[1:47] I love New York.
[1:48] Fine.
[1:49] All right.
[1:49] Well, you tell her that that's the plan and that we will leave.
[1:54] Now,
[1:54] What time would you like to have the Thanksgiving dinner?
[1:57] But would all of us then prefer, wouldn't it be nicer to have it in the evening rather than at noon?
[2:03] I mean, with sort of the lights and everything, the noon is not too good a time.
[2:07] Maybe like around 5.30.
[2:09] 5.30 or so.
[2:10] You know what I mean?
[2:10] Well, let's do that, and then spend the night here, then go back to the White House, get all of our clothes, and then go to New York.
[2:17] See, I have appointments here in the morning.
[2:19] Go to New York around 12 noon.
[2:21] Right.
[2:21] And then have that marvelous sweet there and so forth and so on.
[2:24] And if Tricia didn't—I'll let you work that out with her—if she and Eddie would like to go, it's fine.
[2:30] You see, because remember, there are four beautiful bedrooms there.
[2:33] Sure.
[2:33] And then I would like to go over with them to Brooklyn and look at the apartment.
[2:37] I think that's not a bad thing to do, too.
[2:39] Sure.
[2:39] See what I mean?
[2:40] Because we did very well in Brooklyn, and people would be pleased that we cared about the goddamn place.
[2:45] Right.
[2:45] Okay?
[2:46] Good.
[2:46] And there are some good plays around, Daddy, apparently.
[2:49] Well— Pippin and— What?
[2:52] It's called Pippin.
[2:53] It's about Charlemagne and one other.
[2:57] It is?
[2:57] Well, I've called, incidentally, on that score, you called the White House operator.
[3:03] I have called Claudia Val and told her to give me a rundown on the plays and even a hockey game I thought we might like to see.
[3:10] That's a good idea.
[3:11] We've never been to a hockey game up there.
[3:12] You ever seen one?
[3:13] No, never.
[3:14] Oh, they're great.
[3:15] Maybe that'd be the best.
[3:16] A hockey game would be fun.
[3:17] And I thought that on one night we would go to Cote Basque.
[3:21] Good.
[3:22] And the other night, even though we don't much give one damn about it anymore, I think we should do 21 after a show because, you know, it's sort of gay and fun and so forth and so on.
[3:34] Good.
[3:34] How's that sound to you?
[3:35] That sounds great.
[3:36] Fine.
[3:36] Maybe on Saturday.
[3:37] Then Sunday I think we should go to Peel's Church.
[3:40] Good.
[3:40] Oh, that'd be nice.
[3:41] Fine.
[3:41] All right.
[3:42] You'll raise the whole thing now.
[3:44] Talk to Claudia then?
[3:45] Yeah.
[3:45] You call Claudia because she's supposed to call me back here, but I'll be involved in appointments.
[3:51] You arranged the whole thing, is that all right?
[3:54] All right.
[3:55] You call Claudia and get the list of plays that you called me up as to what.
[3:59] Fine.
[3:59] I told her either a musical comedy or a play, old or new, provided it wasn't dirty.
[4:06] And then I said, on the other hand, I said, we had seen none of that, except for that we haven't seen anything.
[4:11] Oh, one other thing is a possibility.
[4:14] We could go to Rockefeller Center.
[4:16] Radio City.
[4:18] Radio City.
[4:19] They have the movie version of 1776 and the Nativity on the Rockettes.
[4:28] Yeah.
[4:28] Does that sound good?
[4:29] A play is probably better, though.
[4:30] Yeah, Radio City is an idea, though.
[4:32] We can see a movie any time.
[4:33] There's no good play.
[4:34] If there's no good play, you could go into Radio City.
[4:37] Okay.
[4:37] Good.
[4:37] I'll talk to Claudia.
[4:38] All right, fine.
[4:39] You work the whole deal out.
[4:40] Let me know.
[4:41] Fine.
[4:41] Give me the recommendations.
[4:42] Everything's all right.
[4:43] Otherwise, fine.
[4:44] Okay.
[4:44] Bye.