Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 319-012
Date: Monday, February 7, 1972 at 4:40 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/319-012

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[0:00] No split on it, is there?
[0:35] Do you want Stans to sit on your right tomorrow?
[0:42] Do you have any special honor other than the chair, or just mention the chair?
[0:50] Normally, you know, the leaders are either side of you.
[0:54] We'll mix them up in other than the leaders.
[0:56] I don't think Stans needs to.
[0:58] I think we've done something.
[0:59] We'll get a dinner for him and the rest.
[1:00] You would like to place the leaders on either side of you?
[1:01] They should be here.
[1:02] It's the way it always is.
[1:05] His fans should be over there, and he'll get enough out of the recognition while he's there.
[1:12] And, you know, don't worry about those people.
[1:14] He had his day.
[1:14] They got their day.
[1:16] Now, this is simply the leaders and the captain, right?
[1:26] We're not going to have a whole White House staff meeting, right?
[1:35] I can't get the ass off the leaders.
[1:36] We have too many White House staff.
[1:36] We're all at the helm.
[1:37] We don't know what that's going to apply to.
[1:38] I didn't get it.
[1:38] The inclusion, of course, is a courtesy.
[1:39] He hasn't been.
[1:39] He hasn't been.
[1:40] Dan's cooking for us.
[1:40] I wouldn't bother with this.
[1:41] Go ahead, now.
[1:41] Go ahead.
[1:45] That's the best kind of people I've met.
[1:56] I've met them.
[1:58] They do pictures on that, you know, on bare hands.
[2:09] They say, oh, I don't have all these guys, and all these guys are there coming.
[2:11] Oh, well, Steiger and Jackson.
[2:12] Steiger?
[2:12] Steiger.
[2:12] Oh, Steiger.
[2:12] Steiger, not Steiger.
[2:14] Steiger.
[2:15] Yeah, good.
[2:18] OK.