Conversation 410-026

TapeTape 410StartThursday, March 15, 1973 at 4:35 PMEndThursday, March 15, 1973 at 4:42 PMParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Eisenhower, Julie NixonRecording deviceOld Executive Office Building

On March 15, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 4:35 pm and 4:42 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 410-026 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 410-26

Date: March 15, 1973
Time: Unknown between 4:35 pm and 4:42 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

[See Conversation No. 43-95]
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Hello?
Hello?
Julie?
Well, how's the weather?
What do you think?
What's your view as to whether maybe I should come down?
I've got a whole year's note on Taylor and something.
Some of the information, the information's out there.
He wanted to make them ahead of him.
But he was too low ranked, and he didn't want to jump together with people until he wanted to do it.
So he sure, his ambition was to be the head of the city, the service of the city.
But, yeah.
The other story on paper, though, is not this.
I know.
uh...
Wow.
His move, basically, to this other position gives him a much better chance to get that job than in this day and age.
You see, this is the particular services and countervailing and border control and a lot of other things.
And the man who goes to the top has to have a much broader experience than he was in the presidential presidency.
That was his choice.
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
and go up, and these guys were all apparently buried.
He was not asking him to do the job.
In fact, he urged not to take the job here in Washington.
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.
They really checked into it, we will, but we're both, Taylor is going to,
We're all for it.
We'll be here four years.
I'll have a chance to do a motion.
We've had about a year.
Great.
It's too dark and cold.
It's a lot of work to do here.
A lot of people love doing this.
A lot of people love doing this.
Well, the things like the little ones.
Like racing.
Racing is like playing with flowers.
Flowers going after you.
It's great.
We'll do it again someday.
We can go to the hospital.