Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 282-012
Date: Wednesday, October 20, 1971 at 3:06 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Rumsfeld, Donald H.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/282-012

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[0:00] Hello.
[0:00] Yeah, hi, Don.
[0:01] Oh, I wonder what your final figure came from, your friend.
[0:06] Oh, I see, yeah.
[0:07] Oh, no, no, no, I thought you said that he was gonna have it.
[0:16] That's all right, it's not important.
[0:21] No, yeah.
[0:30] Yeah.
[0:31] We don't want him to dance with me unless he wants to give it to us.
[0:36] Fine.
[0:37] Fine.
[0:37] Yeah.
[0:37] If he has, I just choose.
[0:38] But if he's going to come out Sunday, he's going to come out Sunday, he probably just wants to have it with me.
[0:43] Since they're going to have it with us, he knows that while you're in Hong Kong.
[0:48] Right.
[0:51] Right.
[0:52] Right.
[0:52] How are you getting on your names?
[0:54] I mean, everything is on the police still.
[0:56] They're coming for you, aren't they?
[1:02] I'm a public member, or a private member.
[1:06] One name that occurred to me that was a very good man in the social movement, I mean, public-minded, is Pauly Avedon.
[1:17] Is that name ever come across your desk?
[1:19] He's the president of New York Trust.
[1:21] He's a great friend of Collins.
[1:23] He was on his board.
[1:24] And he's about 60 years of age and, you know, very public-spirited, grateful, and he's sort of one of the big men
[1:32] in the financial communities.
[1:35] Hoyt, Hoyt Amidon.
[1:36] Peter knows him well, they're all, they're social buddies.
[1:38] And I don't know why I hadn't thought of his name for a year, because he was so good that he was merrily offering a fashion repair or something, so.
[1:55] But he's the name of the person.
[1:57] I should have a visit.
[1:58] Now the other.
[1:59] Fine, fine, the other thing is that
[2:02] Yeah, anytime you say, because I'll be here all day Friday.
[2:04] I'm not going away this weekend.
[2:08] So we can do it.
[2:09] That'd be good, get the Friday afternoon, so it hits next week.
[2:12] Next few weeks, magazines and the Sunday papers.
[2:17] Friday afternoon.
[2:19] I mean, there's something.
[2:20] Oh yeah, the Republican women, Friday morning.
[2:22] But I do not want that to be the big news anyway.
[2:25] So I would much prefer to have this like that.
[2:27] We can do it at 11 o'clock, 11.30.
[2:32] Uh-huh.
[2:33] Uh, the, uh, who'd you make chairman of the price board?
[2:37] Fine.
[2:42] I need you to decide your... Uh-huh.
[2:51] Uh-huh.
[2:51] Uh-huh.
[2:52] Uh-huh.
[2:52] Uh-huh.
[2:53] Uh-huh.
[2:53] Uh-huh.
[2:57] Uh-huh.
[2:58] Uh-huh.
[3:03] Sort of like, yeah, yeah, well, I, I, we always come up with that same fellow harder on this one.
[3:09] Hmm.
[3:13] This, this, this is the most important assignment of all.
[3:18] Not Scranton, huh?
[3:18] He's on the price list.
[3:21] Let me think a bit on this.
[3:25] Let's think a bit.
[3:28] You really need a strong man here, a strong, strong, vigorous man, okay?
[3:36] Well, that's the kind of, well, you ought to be able to run about that time.
[3:42] Maybe, maybe, I don't know.
[3:48] Okay, well, George's judgment would be very good on this, I think, because really, when you come down to it,
[3:59] The ideal man to have this is George.
[4:03] He's the kind of man that we're looking for, so just tell George to get somebody like himself.
[4:12] But don't you agree, George is strong and he's light on both sides and respected.
[4:21] Names are sure to come.
[4:26] Oh, yeah, because you see, the pig one is the one that scares all the businessmen.
[4:31] And of course, the businessmen are wrong.
[4:32] They're spineless, but you've got to have somebody that can not let George and Amy, these fellows, bucking down every night.
[4:43] Well, good luck.
[4:43] If you need any help, let me know.
[4:45] I'm just working over at the O.B.
[4:47] and that's about it.
[4:48] Bye.
[4:50] Bye.