Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 191-013
Date: Thursday, May 18, 1972 at 11:38 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary
Recording device: Camp David Hard Wire
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/191-013

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[0:01] Hello.
[0:02] Were you back?
[0:04] Yeah.
[0:05] Well, it's too bad to have to go on such a journey, but these things are necessary.
[0:11] Sure, sure.
[0:12] How are you getting... Oh, I'm pretty busy.
[0:16] I'm busy trying to do two weeks' work in two days.
[0:19] It's a little hard, but it's coming along, coming along.
[0:23] Are you getting all your stuff packed and so forth?
[0:30] Yeah, there isn't much to do.
[0:31] We have one Wi-Fi, I guess.
[0:37] Oh, yes.
[0:47] By the way, this is all short dresses.
[0:49] Incidentally, you don't have to, I think, say anything to say to China, because it's the weather.
[0:53] Well, it's warmer than China.
[0:54] It's still darn cool.
[0:58] No, but I mean it's in the 40s to the 50s rather than the 80s and 90s like it was when we were there before.
[1:03] I checked the weather.
[1:07] In the south, yeah, but around Moscow it's doggone.
[1:12] You don't even worry about the warm weather.
[1:15] The spring comes very late there in the summer.
[1:17] Very, very late.
[1:18] Well, anyway.
[1:20] Sort of a mix.
[1:25] We just can't get anybody to finance it.
[1:39] Now that we've been around the track, we're taking several, but we have to just scrape the bottom receipt.
[1:50] The Reader's Digest doesn't finance it anymore, and they've got two or three, and I...
[1:54] You know, we've tried to do everything we could for our elders, but you just can't do it.
[1:58] We just can't do it out of the government funds.
[2:07] They can do it, so there's no problem getting an extra person.
[2:14] I just talked about it a moment ago.
[2:17] Raise it with him.
[2:18] Because I know it's been raised, because I went over a whole list of people, and we scrounged around and getting people on, and normally couldn't go.
[2:26] I mean, some of them, the rates are a little bit less than the others, not much, but, you know, getting them to do writing for various people.
[2:34] But in Earl's case, see, the trouble is, we just can't get anybody to write because he won't get it done.
[2:40] You know what I mean?
[2:42] That's the problem that I adjusted, because we'd love to, but we just can't justify it.
[2:49] if he's financed, if he's financed, that's fine.
[2:53] Well, talk about if he's financed, sorry.