Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 495-016
Date: Friday, May 7, 1971 at 12:19 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.; Howard, W. Rick; Howard, Marcis; Northrup, Mr.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/495-016

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[0:00] Okay, get covered.
[0:03] How are you?
[0:21] Hi, how are you?
[0:25] Nice to see you.
[0:26] My wife, Marcia.
[0:27] Nice to see you.
[0:27] We're happy to have you.
[0:28] We're happy to have you.
[0:29] We're happy to have you.
[0:29] We're happy to have you.
[0:30] We're happy to have you.
[0:31] We're happy to have you.
[0:31] We're happy to have you.
[0:32] I've got a bigger camera.
[0:50] It's an experimental camera, sir.
[0:51] It's a huge camera.
[0:51] I want to try it out.
[0:52] This is the first time I've used it.
[0:52] It's a large camera.
[0:53] It's a little bigger.
[0:53] I have a picture of it.
[0:54] It's a large camera, sir.
[0:54] And you've been good enough already, I think, up there.
[0:55] Yeah.
[0:55] I was giving a little person a few comments, and he just went, oh, it's so loud.
[0:57] I know.
[0:57] It's so loud.
[0:57] If you see this needle, it's going to see what I'm going to do here.
[0:59] And you can just stare at it.
[0:59] It's, it's a, it's a little tricky.
[1:21] It's the same thing as a cobbler.
[1:22] Yeah, sure.
[1:22] She carries a chair around and everything else.
[1:23] We can't afford to have too many of those chairs go.
[1:24] We can get her a chair, you know, that she sat in at the White House and she carries it on the plane and buys an extra seat or something.
[1:27] She puts it in the chair of her husband.
[1:27] He's quite a gal.
[1:28] She's a great personality, a show business personality.
[1:29] A fine person.
[1:37] A fine person.
[1:40] She's a girl, isn't she?
[1:41] A girl, yes.
[1:43] Yeah, I'd love to see her in Dolly.
[1:46] She did do what you can't do in the White House.
[1:47] She did the, you know, the lead song in it, but I didn't get to hear it.
[1:50] She's really quite a remarkable woman.
[1:50] Quite a remarkable woman.
[1:51] Well, he's not pretty.
[1:52] She puts down these kids whenever they, uh, they behave badly.
[2:08] She helps them.
[2:09] That's right.
[2:09] Well, most of them are alright.
[2:10] It's just a few.
[2:10] Well, that's all right.
[2:11] Thank you.
[2:12] Thank you for your work.
[2:12] Thank you.
[2:12] Thank you so much.
[2:13] Well, I've got to go now.
[2:14] I'm going to go out and see the garden.
[2:15] I'm going to go see the garden.
[2:15] So hurry now.
[2:16] Thank you.