Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 317-012
Date: Monday, January 24, 1972 at 3:23 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Connally, John B.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/317-012

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[0:00] Oh.
[0:04] Hi, John.
[0:17] Let me interrupt you, but I got back, and I basically decided to go tomorrow night.
[0:26] On that book, it's a story about speech, and I'm working on it now.
[0:28] I'll see you.
[0:28] I'll see you.
[0:28] Second point, I was just But you had to work on it.
[0:57] No, I said there's no off-the-cuff speech.
[1:17] You did the work before.
[1:21] Sure.
[1:21] Sure.
[1:22] Oh, sure, sure.
[1:22] What a heck of a service.
[1:22] I could have told you.
[1:24] Fine, fine, fine.
[1:24] Excellent.
[1:25] Oh, yes, excellent.
[1:25] Well, I'm the same class.
[1:26] I get it.
[1:28] Yeah, that's right.
[1:40] That's right.
[1:40] That's right.
[1:41] And not one bit.
[1:41] Not one bit.
[1:42] Not one bit.
[1:42] That's fine.
[1:42] Incidentally, he, uh, uh, he met with, uh, my friend, uh, Carter.
[1:48] Quite a couple, isn't he?
[1:49] Yeah.
[1:49] Yeah.
[1:49] Yeah.
[1:49] Yeah, I asked him.
[1:55] Yeah.
[1:56] I feel better if we could just hold out and put something in as opposed to knowing full well that nothing's going to happen.
[2:16] We didn't notice hope for those people at all.
[2:17] He says the two schools are closed in a week.
[2:19] And maybe the best we could do is just go front of it like that, right?
[2:24] And I'd rather than parsing around and do it fast.
[2:28] And one other thing I've got to tell you that I didn't learn until apparently Nellie was
[2:54] that one of you were doing in New York was taking that from my place in San Clemente.
[3:20] Well, that was a beautiful thing.
[3:20] Couldn't be a better choice.
[3:21] Couldn't be a better choice.
[3:21] Oh, yes.
[3:22] I love it.
[3:22] I just love it.
[3:22] And it will fit that house in the Hollywood area.
[3:23] Where did you find it?
[3:24] Oh.
[3:24] Hold on, I... Well, I'm not much of a fisherman, but Manolo, you know, goes on.
[3:50] My guy, he talks to Grouper and Snapper and Yellowtail and go around over here.
[3:53] That's all I ate.
[4:08] We didn't, they didn't go out for marbling that day.
[4:11] They're saving the marbling for you, I think they're keeping it right now.
[4:14] Yep, yep.
[4:14] But the place is just, you're gonna get a hell of a kick on it.
[4:18] We found a way to kill the tuber, we don't have to do it further.
[4:19] Next time we do that, we're gonna apply that to Grand Bahamas, which is a place called Tupac.
[4:22] where they have an airport big enough to take care of the big clients.
[4:40] And then the helicopter, you know, 15 minutes over to marinate, which is a place where you stay in walkers, you know, wherever you are.
[4:46] Two hours and a half in Washington, if you're out there fishing, purging water.
[4:48] Oh, there's another thing.
[4:48] I don't know whether you've ever done it, because, of course, I'm not a fisherman, but most people, have you ever done some bone fishing?
[4:51] Yeah.
[4:51] Well...
[4:52] This is the greatest bonefish flat in the world.
[5:06] And then you can see their tails coming up and down out there, so they have to get you a bonefish, too.
[5:09] Okay.
[5:09] All right.
[5:10] If you catch one, I'll have it mounted.
[5:12] That'll be all you get out of me.
[5:14] Okay.
[5:14] You sure you don't have it?