Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 275-022
Date: Tuesday, September 7, 1971 at 5:13 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Nixon, Thelma C. ("Pat") (Ryan)
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/275-022

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[0:03] You know, I've been checking into this Alaska thing a little further.
[0:09] The flight time out there is about seven and a half hours, and I think probably a better plan, when you work out this road to Taiwan, and then to Seattle anyway, Saturday to Seattle, and
[0:27] Spend the night there, and then fly on up to Anchorage the next day, Sunday.
[0:31] Then it's only a two-hour flight up to Anchorage from up there.
[0:38] Seven and a half hours is probably too long, because actually we'll be getting in late, so we need to make a little bit of adjustment on the time.
[0:53] Well, on the way out, I have to do something in Montana.
[0:55] I might stop in an airport stop in Montana.
[0:58] So it would be a decent deal to start out and hop in in Montana and spend the night in Seattle.
[1:07] Saturday, you see.
[1:08] Oh, on Saturday, you see.
[1:11] That's Monday.
[1:13] No, I took the two of them.
[1:16] Do you want to look?
[1:17] No, I didn't.
[1:19] Yeah.
[1:19] Well, you told me you're going.
[1:21] Well...
[1:22] But we were planning to do what I was planning to do in order to kill all two birds with one stone, was let them fly from Anchorage and to a media branch in San Francisco.
[1:38] So either way, it's all right.
[1:40] I think you ought to plan not to go to the dinner.
[1:44] Fair enough.
[1:45] If you want to get back, we can.
[1:46] No, I don't think you should try to get back.
[1:48] No, we won't.
[1:51] Come back, we would, well, we would fly out of Anchorage.
[1:57] I just told him, you should do it.
[2:04] I told him, you should do it.
[2:08] I told him, you should do it.
[2:13] I told him, you should do it.
[2:15] I told him, you should do it.
[2:21] I told him, you should do it.
[2:26] I don't think we should go that early anyway.
[2:43] We should go, but I think we would have come in late.
[2:58] If you left at 12, you don't want to get in, you could get in late.
[3:18] Get in late, man.
[3:23] But I would because of the event.
[3:24] You made a hell of an effort to get there.
[3:26] That's my point.
[3:28] This is the question.
[3:28] We were in town.
[3:29] We came in late, but you've gone clear across the country.
[3:35] They don't know very well what you're doing.
[3:38] I have no argument.
[3:40] You should.
[3:41] It's no problem.
[3:41] Yeah, well, you could be in it, so we could make that up.
[3:45] That would not be too much of a problem.
[3:47] Let me go check and see.
[3:48] But anyway, all right.
[3:49] If you're told, Amar, we'll work it out.
[3:51] All right.