Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 189-009
Date: Wednesday, May 17, 1972 at 10:06 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kaye, Beverly J.
Recording device: Camp David Hard Wire
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/189-009
National Archives Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417174453 (NAID 417174453)

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[0:00] Have you been here before?
[0:02] No, sir.
[0:03] Oh, you have?
[0:03] I thought you were up here for one of those meetings that we had.
[0:11] I'm coming to stand by somewhere.
[0:21] We're here on the August 2nd.
[0:21] Oh, no.
[0:22] Are you in, uh, what cabin are you in?
[0:23] Right up here in Maple.
[0:25] That's a nice one.
[0:26] Oh, it's a nice one.
[0:32] Quietly, did you come up last night?
[0:39] Yes.
[0:39] What time?
[0:40] Mr. Butterfield came up about 8, I guess he arrived about 8.
[0:43] Drive?
[0:45] No, he had a little time to cue a helicopter from the Pentagon.
[0:50] He did?
[0:53] This is a, uh, this is a tape you can do.
[0:57] It's a memorandum to all of them.
[0:58] And I don't need to see it, Mr. Hurley.
[0:59] We just run it off.
[1:00] And no hurry on it.
[1:03] Just put it in there.
[1:04] Send it down on that airplane or helicopter that's going to see it.
[1:18] Go ahead.
[1:19] Go ahead.
[1:22] Then another project with energy.
[1:24] There are two books here, briefing books, which I have looked through.
[1:27] From time to time, I'll show you, I underline something, you see.
[1:35] If you'll just go through the books, and where you see that I've underlined in a paragraph, just type the whole paragraph leading to the underlying end, and you don't, and there's, and, and, and, and, and, uh,
[1:48] So, and then I'll go sit like this.
[1:51] You can see some places I may want to underline other than that, which is you type the paragraph and nothing around it.
[2:06] You just want plain papers?
[2:07] I don't know.
[2:08] You don't need to have page by page.
[2:10] You can just get and drop down.
[2:11] You don't need to put
[2:14] You see what I mean?
[2:14] You don't need to put titles or anything else.
[2:15] I just need the paragraphs.
[2:16] Not much in some of the books I've read.
[2:19] You'll have to go through the whole book to see something.
[2:29] Let's see here.
[2:30] This one has something.
[2:31] Just type the whole thing.
[2:39] Shall I insert them in here for you?
[2:42] No, no, no.
[2:44] I just want these pages done, all this done, so that I can have a folder for me, some separate folders at least, so that I know what I have here, some things I want to concentrate on, so that I don't have to take the whole book.
[3:04] Oh, you don't mean when I put a check mark or something?
[3:07] I just underlined it.
[3:08] That's better if I put a mark.
[3:11] You see what I mean?
[3:12] Just do it.
[3:12] If I have written something, sometimes I write something on the side.
[3:20] If you can make it out, you can put it down at the bottom of the paragraph.
[3:29] There you go.
[3:39] No worries.
[3:40] I don't need it today.
[3:42] Walk around, see a little of the place.
[3:59] Take a swim.
[4:01] All right.
[4:01] Take care.
[4:02] Thank you.