Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 477-005
Date: Monday, April 12, 1971 at 12:47 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Cochran, Marilyn; Cochran, Barbara; Cochran, Bobby; Cashen, Henry C., II
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/477-005
National Archives Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417176459 (NAID 417176459)

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[0:00] Well, here's our captain.
[0:24] Well, how are you?
[0:25] Congratulations.
[0:25] Right, right.
[0:25] Your sister.
[0:25] Right.
[0:25] Oh yes.
[0:46] Oh, I see.
[0:47] Yes.
[0:47] Oh, great.
[0:53] I hope you got it.
[1:08] I mean, how do you know if you got a chance?
[1:12] Oh, here's the tone.
[1:12] There we are.
[1:13] Thank you.
[1:59] Thank you.
[2:30] Is there anything else you'd like to say?
[2:40] I think they took care of Steve, but I'm sure I don't care for what I have.
[2:41] Excuse the idea.
[2:42] I'll leave this on the couch.
[2:46] Thank you.
[3:07] That's sport, of course, it's confidence.
[3:26] I see those older people, you know, they're going to break their leg and pull back.
[3:27] That's sort of a mark of something.
[3:28] You've never broken anything, have you?
[3:29] I haven't.
[3:29] You haven't?
[3:29] No, I haven't.
[3:30] It's your leg?
[3:30] Maybe you can try to do it.
[3:31] Well, I've broken my leg.
[3:32] Well, that's still, that's still a secret.
[3:40] I know that's the main thing to me about Cedars.
[3:44] I can see it in the air from the front.
[3:46] You're going to give it up?
[3:48] Oh, no!
[3:48] You're going to go again?
[3:51] That story seems very young.
[3:52] Well, we did.
[3:53] Your father did.
[3:54] How old were you when you started?
[3:55] Three.
[3:55] Three?
[3:55] Oh, boy.
[3:55] Isn't that wonderful?
[3:57] He must be a fine Cedar, your father, wasn't he?
[4:00] Yeah.
[4:00] He doesn't see too much of himself right now.
[4:02] Yeah.
[4:02] Good coach.
[4:12] He knows all the moves.
[4:18] Yeah.
[4:18] I don't have any words to give him.
[4:19] He's a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful strength.
[4:21] Ah, let's see.
[4:21] We're going to have to deal with that.
[4:22] Here's a little record for you.
[4:23] I just think that's the first time I've seen you in a bowl.
[4:24] Some of the good things you give girls.
[4:25] Maybe even some compliments.
[4:25] I don't know what to say to you.
[4:27] Now let's see if we can get some presence, a couple inches from each other.
[4:44] Can't really get close to each other.
[4:45] So if you get close.
[4:45] Ah, there you go.
[4:47] Hey, Bobby.
[4:47] There you are.
[4:47] All right.
[4:48] And, uh, we can circumvent, uh, circumvent our actual teeth.
[4:54] Also, I think it's good for you to focus and get around around any question.
[5:15] Let the young Americans see you, you know, because you like to be liked.
[5:17] You know, and to say, you know, gee, this is the only church in the building that's worked for you to practice for hours and hours and hours.
[5:22] You fall down, fall down, get up, get up, and find your channel.
[5:27] Almost anybody can do it.
[5:37] All you want is to try it.
[5:38] Well, we didn't do the very best.
[5:39] You see, I must show you, this is the, this, you've got to have been in this room before.
[5:43] That's the mark of the room, Mr. President, you'll see a lot there, which is also reproduced in red.
[5:48] And that's the White House, 1837, where it used to be close to the room.
[5:53] You see, you can tell that the building didn't have the loops on it.
[6:13] It's British print.
[6:14] That's, believe it or not, George Washington.
[6:15] I mean, it's a very unusual photograph.
[6:16] It's probably earlier in his life.
[6:16] Actually, it's earlier in his life.
[6:17] Well, good luck to you.
[6:37] Many more candid shows.
[6:37] No broken legs.
[6:37] Bye.