Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 335-019
Date: Wednesday, May 3, 1972 at 3:43 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Connally, John B.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/335-019

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[1:39:03] 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...
[1:39:19] I'm giving a eulogy tomorrow.
[1:39:19] I've been making it very brief.
[1:39:21] So I think, frankly, that I would hope the cabinet would come.
[1:39:30] I think it's coming up.
[1:39:34] There's one for the thing up there.
[1:39:35] Great, great.
[1:39:35] I didn't go because I thought that the Congress should have its own show up there.
[1:39:40] Well, you know, I had to do one or the other, and I felt that I should do the church.
[1:39:46] But the Chief Justice is responding to me.
[1:39:55] Well, he's been quite a guy, you know.
[1:39:58] Think of the band.
[1:40:00] 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.
[1:40:09] 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.
[1:40:19] Well, no, he'd take the car, I'll be honest with you.
[1:40:25] 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.
[1:40:31] And he really shouldn't, really shouldn't.
[1:40:38] No, sir, no, sir.
[1:40:39] The right decision over Alan Sugar,
[1:40:53] Do you think we did the right thing?
[1:40:57] I'm glad we did it, John.
[1:41:01] They were very important.
[1:41:02] I've done two or three things.
[1:41:03] First of all, I wrote to C.R.
[1:41:05] Smith, and I've sent you a copy.
[1:41:07] I am displaying the gift in the Oval Office, you know, on the table over there.
[1:41:14] So it will be on display there for a month.
[1:41:25] also i have rose called o'connor and uh to invite him and his wife to go to california
[1:42:01] Yeah.
[1:42:01] But most important, I wrote a letter to your daughter in her classes.
[1:42:05] Your daughter-in-law?
[1:42:07] Yeah.
[1:42:07] She's a pretty bitch.
[1:42:12] Connelly's a pretty good picker.
[1:42:13] Yeah, yeah.
[1:42:18] Yeah, that, say that young fella, he's a, how old is he?
[1:42:20] Oh, he's a big, big boy.
[1:42:23] Yeah, yeah.
[1:42:26] How much is he studying?
[1:42:29] Get out of the way.
[1:42:44] Yeah, good.
[1:42:45] One good thing to give me credit for, you know, honestly, is that we don't know.
[1:42:48] Yeah.
[1:42:48] Yeah.
[1:42:49] Yeah.
[1:42:49] Well, we had a great time, and just appreciate it so much.
[1:42:57] And we're giving some thoughts to the Soviets on the moment I want to talk to you about it.
[1:43:14] a little time, and that's when I'm working on a few of these.
[1:43:18] I may have...
[1:43:44] Whoa!
[1:43:44] Whoa!