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Conversation 335-019

TapeTape 335StartWednesday, May 3, 1972 at 3:43 PMEndWednesday, May 3, 1972 at 3:46 PMTape start time01:39:08Tape end time01:43:56ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Connally, John B.Recording deviceOld Executive Office Building
AudioNARA Description

On May 3, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and John B. Connally met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 3:43 pm and 3:46 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 335-019 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 335-19

Date: May 3, 1972
Time: Between 3:43 and 3:46 pm.
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with John B. Connally.

[See Conversation No. 23-140]
Transcript (AI-Generated)

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I've been, I've been, I've been a little, uh, tied up, and I want to have a talk with your friends tomorrow, but I was going to say that, uh, you know, we've, uh, we've got a lot of problems these days, and of course, on top of all that, your Hoover died, so...
I'm giving a eulogy tomorrow.
I've been making it very brief.
So I think, frankly, that I would hope the cabinet would come.
I think it's coming up.
There's one for the thing up there.
Great, great.
I didn't go because I thought that the Congress should have its own show up there.
Well, you know, I had to do one or the other, and I felt that I should do the church.
But the Chief Justice is responding to me.
Well, he's been quite a guy, you know.
Think of the band.
And it's really interesting, you know, John, through the years, I called Johnson, tried to get him before the announcement of death, and he was out rioting again, but I got him a minute after I made it, and he appreciated it, because he was quite a close friend, you know.
So I'll have Rose maybe call and see if they'd like to come and see if they're honest, and if they want to get his car.
Well, no, he'd take the car, I'll be honest with you.
No, no, he shouldn't, because incidentally, when a father's on a heart attack, going through a funeral is the last thing you ought to do.
And he really shouldn't, really shouldn't.
No, sir, no, sir.
The right decision over Alan Sugar,
Do you think we did the right thing?
I'm glad we did it, John.
They were very important.
I've done two or three things.
First of all, I wrote to C.R.
Smith, and I've sent you a copy.
I am displaying the gift in the Oval Office, you know, on the table over there.
So it will be on display there for a month.
also i have rose called o'connor and uh to invite him and his wife to go to california
Yeah.
But most important, I wrote a letter to your daughter in her classes.
Your daughter-in-law?
Yeah.
She's a pretty bitch.
Connelly's a pretty good picker.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, that, say that young fella, he's a, how old is he?
Oh, he's a big, big boy.
Yeah, yeah.
How much is he studying?
Get out of the way.
Yeah, good.
One good thing to give me credit for, you know, honestly, is that we don't know.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, we had a great time, and just appreciate it so much.
And we're giving some thoughts to the Soviets on the moment I want to talk to you about it.
a little time, and that's when I'm working on a few of these.
I may have...
Whoa!
Whoa!
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