Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 410-026
Date: Thursday, March 15, 1973 at 4:35 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Eisenhower, Julie Nixon
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/410-026

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[0:00] Hello?
[0:05] Hello?
[0:07] Julie?
[0:09] Well, how's the weather?
[0:13] What do you think?
[0:20] What's your view as to whether maybe I should come down?
[0:26] I've got a whole year's note on Taylor and something.
[0:27] Some of the information, the information's out there.
[0:29] He wanted to make them ahead of him.
[0:30] But he was too low ranked, and he didn't want to jump together with people until he wanted to do it.
[0:39] So he sure, his ambition was to be the head of the city, the service of the city.
[0:46] But, yeah.
[0:46] The other story on paper, though, is not this.
[0:48] I know.
[0:48] uh...
[1:05] Wow.
[1:32] His move, basically, to this other position gives him a much better chance to get that job than in this day and age.
[1:43] You see, this is the particular services and countervailing and border control and a lot of other things.
[1:49] And the man who goes to the top has to have a much broader experience than he was in the presidential presidency.
[1:56] That was his choice.
[1:58] We wanted him to be a doctor, but he had not been in the field in recent years, and he felt the analogs would be pretty cool about this, and he said he would prefer
[2:13] and go up, and these guys were all apparently buried.
[2:20] He was not asking him to do the job.
[2:24] In fact, he urged not to take the job here in Washington.
[2:29] He thought that by getting the speed of his circumstances and getting the preparation he wanted, and his records would go up, so that's the way it worked.
[2:37] They really checked into it, we will, but we're both, Taylor is going to,
[2:41] We're all for it.
[2:49] We'll be here four years.
[2:56] I'll have a chance to do a motion.
[3:05] We've had about a year.
[3:08] Great.
[3:20] It's too dark and cold.
[3:28] It's a lot of work to do here.
[3:30] A lot of people love doing this.
[3:33] A lot of people love doing this.
[3:34] Well, the things like the little ones.
[3:36] Like racing.
[3:36] Racing is like playing with flowers.
[3:38] Flowers going after you.
[3:40] It's great.
[3:42] We'll do it again someday.
[3:46] We can go to the hospital.