Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 502-005
Date: Thursday, May 20, 1971 at 8:32 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/502-005

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[0:00] I do not care about the size of the meeting.
[0:17] It's just a lot of people sit around in our nation.
[0:24] So we have people on the price.
[0:25] We did expand.
[0:25] Yeah, we expanded it because of the expansion.
[0:26] We've seen 23 people around.
[0:26] All you can around the table but then have...
[0:32] We did a lot of expanding the list of other people.
[0:53] I mean, even on the outside of it, you don't want to see 23.
[0:54] It's the brain that you choose.
[0:57] You're friends out of town.
[0:57] A few of us that are not really there.
[0:58] You're friends out of town.
[0:58] Not lower.
[0:59] Not lower.
[0:59] Not lower people than that, you know.
[1:00] Brown comes all the way from out of town.
[1:01] He comes all the way from out of town.
[1:01] He's probably not listening.
[1:02] Friends away.
[1:04] That's a letter.
[1:28] Yeah, that's a letter.