Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 225-016
Date: Wednesday, November 15, 1972 at 9:50 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")
Recording device: Camp David Hard Wire
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/225-016

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[0:00] I think now I haven't talked to them.
[0:15] You don't need to be with them.
[0:25] This is R-N-S-T-E-N-S-T-E-N-S-T-E-N-S-T-E-N-S-T-E-N-S-T-E-N-S-T-E-N-S-T-E-N-S-T-E-N-S-T-E-N-S-T-E-N-S-T-E-N-S-T-E-N-S-T-E-N
[0:29] My people meant a great deal.
[0:35] It's impossible.
[0:36] It's impossible for me to have to sit here and fart around with these goddamn letters.
[0:43] I'll do that one over too, but there you go.
[0:50] That's pretty bad.
[0:51] It's just not good.
[0:53] It's pretty bad.
[0:54] Now, what is this?
[0:56] business about gifts and things.
[0:57] I don't know what in Christ we're talking about.
[1:00] I don't know what we're sending in the way of the meadows.
[1:04] I wonder if we should just send them later and get the letters off.
[1:09] See what I mean?
[1:10] Sure.
[1:10] It would take time and so forth.
[1:11] Then I don't have to put them in a crowd about a meadow.
[1:14] Okay.
[1:14] See?
[1:14] Okay.
[1:14] Just fire them off and send a letter to them too, right?
[1:19] Yep.
[1:20] Because there's a meadow that doesn't fit in like this.
[1:22] It'll take a while to get to the meadow.
[1:23] Residential strategic
[1:25] That should also go, too, at a later time.
[1:28] But I just think the letter should go now.
[1:31] OK, I'll put it down later.
[1:36] Presidential letters without a gift to the local CRPG .
[1:42] You can go through all that.
[1:44] But can't the advancement get the same kind of a damn letter, exactly the same that I write to the members of the committee on the election for president?
[1:50] Yeah.
[1:50] It's a good general letter.
[1:50] And the work you've done and so forth, they don't have to say,
[1:53] I think the gift should go later.
[2:04] Okay.
[2:05] That's why I got the letters all fat.
[2:13] If the letter's right now, then the white house fat.
[2:20] Anything else?
[2:21] What is the White House staff?
[2:23] What are they supposed to get?
[2:28] I think they should get... No, I don't think they should.
[2:32] Not any more than the members of the cabinet.
[2:35] That's right.
[2:36] They should get a letter, do you think?
[2:37] When they leave.
[2:39] But people shouldn't get letters for doing their duty.
[2:40] So you're right.
[2:41] Who do you write?
[2:46] Do we write down all the surrogates?
[2:49] We don't have them on here.
[2:50] Who the hell is a renter?
[2:51] That I think we should take off.
[2:53] That's the people that we bought stuff from.
[3:01] No.
[3:01] Hell no.
[3:02] Ever.
[3:03] Ever.
[3:03] Like a film producer.
[3:04] No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
[3:06] They are all paid.
[3:09] No, sir.
[3:10] No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
[3:14] I think it's bad.
[3:14] I agree.
[3:16] We have them off of the, they're not on the.
[3:21] We'll have a little talk with Buchanan, then come right over.
[3:25] Take five minutes is all you need.
[3:26] But I'll just get in the living room here and talk to him.
[3:30] Why don't you cut in when you're ready?
[3:33] All right.
[3:33] You want to meet him over there?
[3:34] Where is he now?
[3:36] He's on his way here.
[3:38] All right, let me know when you're ready.