Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 253-008
Date: Friday, May 21, 1971 at 6:34 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Rebozo, Charles G. ("Bebe")
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/253-008

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[0:00] But you know, me, all these left-handers, they say we weren't making any progress in this article.
[0:06] Muskie and Muskie and I have hearings.
[0:08] Both of us said, I don't need to take this.
[0:10] I don't want to talk about this.
[0:14] I'm not going to have this.
[0:16] You know, the guy, the guy who died so fast in that hall was really sorry for Muskie.
[0:21] Yeah, I love him.
[0:22] He was going to just die out all the other week.
[0:24] I don't know where to move with none of these guys.
[0:26] I don't know what the issue is.
[0:28] I don't know what the issue is.
[0:31] It looked as far as I said.
[0:32] I bet you're playing, you had something like that in the same one.
[0:35] Was it the same one?
[1:00] Do you have a name?
[1:02] Elaine Brown gave it to me.
[1:05] You can buy it.
[1:06] She bought it for me.
[1:07] It's the best thing in the world.
[1:09] It probably costs $100, but it's the greatest thing in the world.
[1:13] Do you ever see drugs?
[1:15] There are lots of good things.
[1:16] There's the White House.
[1:18] There's the White House.
[1:19] There's the White House.
[1:21] There's the White House.
[1:27] I think that's
[2:13] I'm awfully glad I have him, Billy.
[2:15] I'm sure Johnson probably had him spend the night every time he came.
[2:20] I don't do it for the reason that, you know, I'm just one pleasure here.
[2:36] But he's a good friend.
[2:39] He is.
[2:40] All of us do.
[2:56] No way, no way, no way, no way, no way.
[3:32] It's got a boat with a bridge to it.
[3:40] Yeah, that's great.
[3:58] It's got all furnished.
[3:59] The headman lived in this 38th, but the caretakers had been here for three and a half years.
[4:01] They had such a woman, and her two sons who were flyers in the Civil War.
[4:02] They both got killed, but she never went back down.
[4:03] She died in the 4th World War.
[4:04] A couple of days to look at it, and the guy said he won $130,000.
[4:05] He broke his arm.
[4:29] Well, if it's good enough,
[4:57] But they keep you as their chief secretary of state.
[5:00] I wouldn't take all the responsibility for that.
[5:03] Oh, just take the time.
[5:04] Just take the salary and the title.
[5:08] I was trying to make the money.
[5:11] Did you make a real cut?
[5:15] Take it.
[5:17] $1,059.
[5:17] That would have given me a lot of love.
[5:24] That's true.
[5:28] I don't know how the hell I survived.
[5:33] This is an amazing job.
[5:35] You've done a great job.
[5:38] I can't keep going.
[5:39] Yes, sir.
[5:40] I can tell you that, you know, Johnson, you know, I can change that.
[5:46] I know that you look better, but...
[7:05] Ready?
[7:35] This is a guard's office.
[7:37] You've seen it before, haven't you?
[7:38] Yeah.
[7:39] But you look at it, look at the beauty of the office.
[7:42] I think that was the thing.
[7:43] We didn't offer here.
[7:45] We refilled it with all the rest.
[7:48] It was all the way for the next generation.
[7:53] And so it is.
[7:53] And I don't know where we're going to put it.
[7:58] Well, John was kind of, he stole some of it.
[8:00] He took it out of his head and he's not going to lie about it.
[8:03] I've never been listening to George so late.
[8:04] When he first got elected, it seemed very strange why he would say it, and why George would be the president.
[8:07] It wasn't George.
[8:07] It wasn't Kevin.
[8:08] It wasn't Johnson.
[8:08] He said he never expected to have this reputation of using the fat natives as his vice president.
[8:11] So, that's funny.
[8:11] I've never heard this man's fat native as my son.
[8:12] Sure.
[8:12] It's funny.
[8:12] It's funny.
[8:13] It's funny.
[8:48] I think we're moving now.
[8:49] Right now.
[9:16] Well, there's a very definite, if you don't want to touch it, but I even notice occasionally in the press, there's a recognition.
[9:23] Is there?
[9:25] No, we've got the recognition.
[9:28] We've got the second one.
[9:31] This last one.
[9:32] Well, this thing here.
[9:34] Think about it.
[9:43] So if it's all like a game plan, and it's all falling in place, then it's better than it was.
[9:45] How can you tell what happens?
[9:46] Well, I don't know.
[9:46] You can tell the other one you want.
[9:47] You can tell the other one you want.
[9:48] You can tell the other one you want.
[9:48] You can tell the other one you want.
[10:09] We may have to change that.
[10:10] We may have to change that.
[10:11] We may have to change that.
[10:38] Well, I want to hear about that.
[11:07] And then when I saw the state of the egg that they had, he had to say that his life was saved and all the rest of it.
[11:10] We were looking at all the variables.
[11:10] Basically, the real thing I know about this is that we should have gotten the discussion out of the group that Paul now likes to cut and get better for the egg.
[11:14] The egg is a flying egg.
[11:14] The cut is more complex, more clever.
[11:15] Don't you agree?
[11:37] I don't know either.
[11:38] He's a queen.
[11:38] Yeah, I think he is.
[11:39] And he is very impressed in having himself in the Senate.
[11:40] Of course, I'm all for Agnes being the one person who's the worst aggressor, the worst thing with Agnes.
[11:43] But it may be that Agnes will decide that
[12:11] He's a very decent man.
[12:13] We will not force him.
[12:15] I've already told Agnon, let's take my bag to the server.
[12:17] And he hates the press, though, that he may not want to get retargeted.
[12:23] They'll make him retargeted.
[12:25] Oh, I know that.
[12:27] I know that.
[12:28] That's what the press can't say that they drove him out.
[12:34] That's what they're about to do.
[13:11] He said, the cat is about to share that with you.
[13:12] Well, it'll come.
[13:12] They don't need to sweep the stuff like Grandpa, where he was doing it.
[13:14] He was the best man I've got in the whole cabin.
[13:15] Except for Connery.
[13:15] Connery's the best.
[13:16] The only man that I used to wipe out of the cabin would be Frank.
[13:17] And that could be it.
[13:41] I wouldn't say right, I wouldn't say where.
[13:42] You know, wrong.
[13:42] I think this country's a hell of a bad, tough job.
[13:44] People don't know how.
[13:44] They really don't know if they have an idea.
[13:45] They don't know if they have an idea.
[13:46] They don't know if they have an idea.
[13:47] I'm happy.
[14:15] This is a good idea, Wood.
[14:19] You ready?