Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 191-005
Date: Thursday, May 18, 1972 at 10:58 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")
Recording device: Camp David Hard Wire
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/191-005

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[0:00] With regard to the ballast thing, I wonder if probably the better thing to do is still just to make a telephone call to the provider.
[0:10] Do you have any more thoughts about it?
[0:12] Oh, good.
[0:29] Yeah.
[0:38] I believe that.
[0:49] Oh, well, there are other reasons you would lose his own.
[0:52] He split his party.
[0:56] Why not?
[1:00] I would keep the spoiler on.
[1:08] He will not be at Walter Reed, so it would have to be at the other place.
[1:11] If you checked it out, you'd have to see... Also, if you land at Walter Reed, you cut down the White House press.
[1:30] I don't like to go to the White House and have a caravan of 35, 40 press cars following me.
[1:36] I think the best thing to do, frankly, is rather than landing in the hospital, is to land right up on a reef.
[1:39] All right, let's sort of plan that penny away.
[1:43] Don't tell anybody what to plan.
[1:45] We started the greening this morning.
[1:48] And we're wrestling with it again now.
[1:56] We've got to control it.
[2:06] just for my own planning, the situation on Friday afternoon, it was at the present time, 4 o'clock for the leaders and later, and 5 o'clock for the press or the men of the press, 5.30.
[2:20] I don't know if we should bother with those damn pictures or not.
[2:28] Just give it, yeah.
[2:31] Well, I just don't think I need to shake their hands.
[2:35] When you come right down here, let's just do it.
[2:37] I'll just go ahead and say a word to them.
[2:39] The only problem is the name was a bit, but, well, I can do that.
[2:45] I can do that.
[2:46] It's all right.
[2:52] It's all right.
[2:53] It's all right.
[2:54] It's all right.
[2:56] It's all right.
[3:03] I'm hauling over the silverware the rest of this time, right?
[3:11] That's good.
[3:12] Just right.
[3:15] We are, I suppose, hauling in some food, I suppose.
[3:19] That's perfectly all right, too.
[3:24] I don't think we bother.
[3:29] It's just good.
[3:37] Well, I agree, but I think it could be insoluble, provided it's the exchange of the two things.
[3:54] In other words, that's the way you put it.
[4:00] Absolutely.
[4:01] We present that to the Soviet government.
[4:03] They present a hydrofoil to the American government.
[4:06] Absolutely.
[4:07] That's what I mean.
[4:08] Not a gift to the man.
[4:09] We want to present this to the Soviet government.
[4:12] They're presenting a hydrofoil to the American government.
[4:18] That's the way I'd handle it.
[4:19] I think that could be a soluble.
[4:21] Don't say they were getting a Cadillac depression out of it.
[4:27] Get in the back of the French, give it a car.
[4:40] Get the relevant costs, I'm sure the hydrofoil is more expensive than the cattle.
[4:59] for less than $4,000 or $5,000.
[5:01] So, you know, a damn lot of things are going to cost that.
[5:07] So, that's another thing.
[5:12] Are people going out to see those damn things?
[5:14] It's another thing.
[5:16] Okay.
[5:21] Okay.