Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 385-020
Date: Monday, December 11, 1972 at 5:42 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Eisenhower, Julie Nixon; [Unknown person(s)]
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/385-020

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[0:06] Good, because we can't think of anything for Christmas.
[0:20] Well, I don't think.
[0:22] No, but I mean, that would be good.
[0:23] You know what it is?
[0:24] You're probably very sick.
[0:24] I've got to go now.
[0:40] There was a plan for a for putting refrigerators in my bedroom .
[1:16] Thank you.
[1:56] Good.
[2:13] Thank you.
[2:25] I want to tell you that I couldn't agree more about that ice box.
[2:36] You know, that's the thing about a hotel room.
[2:41] It's only a refrigerator or whatever you want to call it.
[2:52] There's not so much security here.
[2:53] I told him to call me if I don't come down here again.
[2:54] I don't know.
[2:56] But yeah, I think it, you know, I mean, there's a lot of change in the process.
[3:18] It's always changed.
[3:18] And it's like putting in that serving pantry and putting in that dressing room pantry and putting it back in there.
[3:21] It'll be better.
[3:21] It'll be better.
[3:21] Because the family bathroom is not as good as the free room.
[3:23] And they have those betters as the blue room and the red room.
[3:24] You ever practice that?
[3:24] I've never used it.
[3:25] Well, I use it.
[3:27] You're right.
[3:52] You're right.
[3:52] You're right.
[3:53] That's right.
[4:06] Every single time there's a stage, you know, they have to tear that room apart.
[4:15] Tear it apart.
[4:15] Just to get really close.
[4:15] And also, I've seen people get really close to that.
[4:17] Oh, unbelievable.
[4:17] That is gross.
[4:17] Most people are older.
[4:18] I've never seen it.
[4:18] You know, that is just... You've got to have a personal problem with many women.
[4:20] You've got to be right up there.
[4:20] Right.
[4:20] It's just horrible to sit there.
[4:21] Sit there for 30 hours.
[4:22] It's humiliating.
[4:45] It's humiliating.
[4:46] A five-minute walk with a stranger.
[4:47] It wouldn't make it a big problem.
[4:47] It's a nice, pleasant walk.
[4:48] How old is he?
[4:48] He's got a three-door back kitchen upstairs.
[4:49] I should have bought it four years ago.
[4:50] I got that kitchen.
[4:50] It's never been built like that in the first place.
[4:51] Terrible.
[4:52] It looks like a restaurant.
[5:11] Well, he didn't look at the kitchen because he's not bald now.
[5:15] You have a kitchen, man.
[5:15] What is it?
[5:16] A beautiful thing.
[5:16] A beautiful bar and everything.
[5:18] When I wake up in the middle of the night,
[5:19] Even when I wake up and walk, that fog, it wakes me up more.
[5:33] Right.
[5:33] You just go over.
[5:33] Well, another thing is, sometimes if you've been up all night on the street, at 9.30 you'll wake up at night.
[5:40] You go to that restaurant, you wake up at 9.30, and then there's people out there, and then you have to sneak around.
[5:43] That's right.
[5:44] Right.
[5:44] You don't want to have people out there.
[5:45] Or, the other thing is, early in the morning sometimes I wake up.
[5:46] Yeah.
[5:47] And, uh, I would encourage you to say to God, here's somebody, some old, uh, clean water.
[6:03] Well, they should be around.
[6:06] They should not be around.
[6:07] You know who I run into all the time?
[6:08] It's that old man.
[6:08] He's there at 791.
[6:08] Clean and ready to die free.
[6:09] I don't know.
[6:09] I don't know.