Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 156-005
Date: Monday, November 27, 1972 at 11:20 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Cox, Tricia Nixon
Recording device: Camp David Study Table
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/156-005

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[0:00] Hello.
[0:01] Patricia, sir.
[0:01] Thank you.
[0:02] Daddy?
[0:03] Hi, Patricia.
[0:04] Hi, how are you?
[0:05] I was wondering about your plans.
[0:07] I wanted to be...
[0:08] Right.
[0:09] I'm going to be so busy here this weekend.
[0:11] If you want to spend some time going over them, you'll have to get them to me sometime.
[0:15] What are your, what roughly, what roughly?
[0:17] We have it all outlined now.
[0:18] What roughly, when did you plan to leave, for example?
[0:21] We probably planned to leave a week from, ten days from today.
[0:29] the end of next week.
[0:31] And what is your tentative schedule?
[0:33] Well, we'd like to start in London.
[0:35] Right.
[0:35] And if we can go to places like Egypt.
[0:37] Yeah.
[0:38] You see, we have two different schedules.
[0:40] What's Egypt?
[0:41] Well, you should do Israel, too, though.
[0:43] Exactly.
[0:43] And then we have to go to Israel and then Jordan, too.
[0:48] Right.
[0:49] But we don't know if we can do those trips.
[0:51] Well, you may be able to.
[0:52] Who do we check with to see if we can go to those places?
[0:55] Well, I would just check with the
[1:01] I think Colonel Kennedy over there or General Haig will put you in touch with the person that you have to do it with.
[1:18] Now the other thing is to get a tentative schedule and of course figure your Russian thing and those dates will have to be
[1:27] What you'll do is, if you would, is to have, when you get the attendee schedule, get it all typed out for me.
[1:33] Okay.
[1:33] And then I'll look it over for you.
[1:35] So first we should check to see if we can go to Egypt and all that.
[1:37] You just check and tell them that you've talked to me and that I want you to go to Egypt.
[1:42] I'd like you to go to Egypt.
[1:43] You should visit Egypt.
[1:45] And, you know, you should also visit that you want to go to Egypt and that you want to go to Jordan and that you want to go to Israel.
[1:53] And that they've got to arrange it.
[1:54] They'll arrange it.
[1:57] Of course you can.
[1:58] Oh, I see.
[2:00] Sure, sure.
[2:00] I just go and do them and say that you want to do those and then tell them the other countries you want to go to.
[2:06] So I tell someone on General Haig's staff?
[2:10] Yeah.
[2:10] I shouldn't tell it to him, should I?
[2:11] He's too busy.
[2:12] Well, yes, you can.
[2:17] You could just go over and ask to see him.
[2:19] Don't just want that long that you're working this trip and that if he could just assign somebody on his staff
[2:28] You'll have to work on the problem countries, right?
[2:30] Well, yes, that's right.
[2:32] You want to look at them.
[2:33] And on the Russian thing, he'll have to work out the siege of Jordan and so forth.
[2:38] Just say that I've approved it, that I think it's all right.
[2:42] I know that it's difficult to work out.
[2:44] That's the way to do it.
[2:44] Go over and see him.
[2:46] Okay?
[2:46] Okay.
[2:46] Good.
[2:47] And then I'll do it.
[2:59] And you'll be at Camp David the whole week?
[3:01] I'll be here.
[3:02] I may go to Florida Thursday night because I need a couple of days off, you know, to get the sun and so forth and so on.
[3:09] But I'll go to Florida for Friday, you know, for maybe Friday and Saturday and Sunday.
[3:14] Now, if Mommy wants to go, it's fine, but I don't know.
[3:20] The new pool should be ready, Daddy.
[3:22] Yeah, it will be.
[3:23] But if she doesn't, it's fine, too, because I will have to work down there, too.
[3:27] I know.
[3:27] You have to basically just work the whole time.
[3:28] Yeah.
[3:39] because I have got to be pulling on the coal and get this work done.
[3:43] I know.
[3:43] Now on this stuff, I remember I asked you about the, are they really going to work on that third floor thing?
[3:51] Yeah, no, the fellow really is coming.
[3:54] Good.
[3:54] And could I also suggest at the same time that they do want to put in, we do want to put in a new kitchen, you know.
[4:00] And it's, Mommy, I say, well, it's too expensive.
[4:02] That's irrelevant.
[4:03] They will anyway.
[4:04] It's 10 years old, and they don't like that gas kind of heat is dangerous, you know.
[4:08] Oh, yeah.
[4:11] But it isn't modern.
[4:12] It isn't modern.
[4:13] They want to put an electric kitchen and clean the damn thing up and make it look pleasant.
[4:18] So you can talk to him about that, too, when he's here.
[4:21] Well, apparently we really do have a lot of extra money because people have contributed.
[4:26] People have contributed, but whether they've contributed or not, you see, there are expenses to the White House that have to be undertaken.
[4:31] Every four years, yeah.
[4:34] That's right.
[4:34] That's right.
[4:35] So you do have the funds.
[4:36] That's right.
[4:37] Well, good.
[4:40] I don't want to burden you anymore with the trip, so should we just go ahead?
[4:44] Because I don't think you have to see them anymore.
[4:45] I think the rest of it, no, when I see them, all I need to do is see the plans, and then I can tell you people.
[4:51] After you get your full schedule, just send it to me, and I'll write a little memo to hear and talk to you about some of the countries and things you ought to see.
[4:59] Good.
[4:59] Fair enough.
[4:59] Great.
[4:59] Okay, bye, Daddy.