Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 489-008
Date: Monday, April 26, 1971 at 12:26 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Baker, Howard H., Jr.; Baker, LaMar; Wetmore, Gordon; Longley, Bemjamin L.; Nolan, Paul V.; Johnson, Paul L.; Nidecker, John C.; Andrews, John K., Jr.; White House photographer
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/489-008

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[0:00] Oh, Margaret, how are you?
[0:14] The rest of them are fine, sir.
[0:14] We've got a Tennessee here today, haven't we?
[0:15] Oh, all right.
[0:16] You've got a hundred and one for me.
[0:16] That'll have to be a great call.
[0:17] Yeah, it'll be all right.
[0:17] It'll be a happy advance.
[0:18] It's a party.
[0:18] It's a party.
[0:19] Don't show me the scarf.
[0:19] Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
[0:20] Well, hold on, sir.
[0:37] I'll be right there as well.
[0:37] I can't read it.
[0:38] I can't read it.
[0:38] I can't read it.
[0:38] I can't read it.
[0:39] I can't read it.
[0:39] I can't read it.
[0:39] I never forget those meetings we had, you know.
[0:58] I don't know who sold that.
[1:04] Thank you.
[1:28] You can't, you can't have a motor out, not yet.
[1:38] Now let's look out the window.
[2:02] I do appreciate it.
[2:16] How long did you study art in school?
[2:17] Of course you did.
[2:17] How did you happen to get into it?
[2:35] Did your father do it?
[2:35] Did your parents do it?
[2:36] My father was very talented in it, but I thought he just got a degree in school.
[2:38] And then the last four years, I've been taught a lot.
[2:39] And then I just kind of took over it.
[2:39] And I over it with my career.
[2:40] And do you do the work that you came to primarily from your uncle?
[2:41] No, no, maybe from life.
[2:42] But from life, of course.
[2:42] What I do, but you can do it from anywhere.
[2:43] Where is your office?
[2:44] Are you in San Francisco?
[2:44] I'm in San Francisco.
[2:45] I met Mr. Richard Allen for the first time in Europe two years ago.
[2:57] Dick Allen, yes, he said he was about to work for Polaroid.
[2:59] You made the remark that you wouldn't pose for a portrait.
[3:00] And we were not going to doubt it.
[3:01] I know.
[3:01] I lost my head.
[3:01] I did lose my head.
[3:02] I wouldn't even pose for a bust.
[3:03] That's worse, I think.
[3:04] If I may interject your remark, I'm an assistant minority leader for the Tennessee House, and I was talking to Bill McDonough this morning.
[3:17] He asked me to relay two messages to him.
[3:18] One is that he joins us as the president of all Tennessee people in our city.
[3:20] First.
[3:20] The other is that he regretted that he was supposed to go to the governor's conference last week because his entire legislative program was on the House calendar.
[3:40] He said, perhaps on our base college committee money didn't sound like our federal standards, but he felt that he had to be there lobbying for them.
[3:43] So he asked the facts and he was not able to do that.
[3:45] Look, I particularly agree with the fact that as one of the fellows there, one of his assistants was there to give the message.
[3:47] I'm so glad to see him win.
[4:09] I crossed the street with Richard Duretz these days.
[4:10] He did real well with his legacy.
[4:11] He drove the market to a budget.
[4:12] Renewed with a demographic goal of half a city.
[4:13] He's not going to get any points.
[4:13] Well, let's see, what do we got?
[4:38] This is Steven.
[4:45] All right.
[4:51] I actually think they would like to come.
[4:57] Well, we'll do it.
[5:18] We were happy to introduce you to the population of Washington.
[5:45] Well, he said he wasn't going to run, but he's going to get somebody to.
[6:06] I haven't played that ever since.
[6:06] You couldn't have fallen into anything better than that.
[6:07] You're all welcome to go out and hear the Ohio chorus if you want.
[6:29] Great success in your work.
[6:56] Thank you.
[6:57] Oh, my God.