Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 455-020
Date: Monday, February 22, 1971 at 2:07 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/455-020

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[0:00] This is the only thing that's going on.
[0:21] I don't want to make any response.
[0:23] No response, sorry.
[0:28] One other thing, it's just going to be the Apollo 14 astronauts are going to receive the same resurfacing on a Saturday.
[0:46] Unless you might want to do that at the dinner.
[0:47] That might be a good time to do that.
[0:48] I'll do it without Joe today.
[0:49] I'm sorry, I'm going to go to bed.
[0:49] Hey, here.
[0:49] Nothing's going to be wrong.
[1:17] On that dinner, what did we find?
[1:40] The first one was a gal.
[1:40] Yes.
[1:40] Black-tie dinner without any special entertainment.
[1:41] We felt we might just go heavy on the army cars and strange drink dinner and not have some special entertainment.
[1:46] So the people are always looking for something.
[1:48] in there.
[1:57] And especially that we have this ceremony.
[1:58] That's a nice touch.
[1:58] Well, we were going to have the entertainment at the dinner, just the government entertainment, but the ceremony.
[2:06] It's a piece of numbers for the dinner, isn't it?
[2:08] Yeah, I would use round cables.
[2:22] I'd use round cables and uh...
[2:32] Yes.
[2:38] The dinner is to be with parents.
[3:01] I have round tables.
[3:01] I have it set up so that I can have a place where I present the medals.
[3:13] Okay.
[3:22] Sure.