Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 503-020
Date: Friday, May 21, 1971 at 6:04 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/503-020

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[0:05] Should be there.
[0:31] All right.
[0:46] Through and out of two days.
[1:19] This is it.
[1:28] It is a replica.
[1:34] It's reduced slightly in scale, but very slightly.
[1:54] You know, let me say this.
[2:08] I have no intention, absolutely no intention, of the whole library planning.
[2:12] You don't want to know what I was doing?
[2:16] No, I don't.
[2:18] I don't really intend ever to use, I don't even go near the goddamn library.
[2:19] I'm going to work, I'm going to use my home.
[2:20] You know what I mean?
[2:21] Now, my office is going to be in San Clemente, you see.
[2:22] So I don't even plan that.
[2:23] I dream of having an office.
[2:25] I wouldn't think you would.
[2:31] I don't know.
[2:32] If you wanted anything on the guy, you'd have it sent over.
[2:54] I'd go with whatever is adequate.
[3:02] All you need to do is be nice and not cool to each other.
[3:32] Do that.
[3:39] but they can't get, yeah, well, he's trying to get something settled.
[3:44] They've apparently been going back and forth, and it's getting, do you agree with what you want?
[3:52] No, what you wanted to do is to have an informal dinner to honor the graduates in the Washington area of his West Point class on their 25th anniversary.
[3:57] They can't get full class representation because some of the alumni are going up to West Point for their activities up there at that time.
[4:08] So they're suggesting that we fly down
[4:11] from West Point, who would be up there, and then invite a number of other distinguished guests who have some relationship to Nicaragua to make a dinner of about 25 or 30 people.
[4:36] How many?
[4:37] I think 40.
[4:38] Oh, she has, great.
[5:04] They run a live national TV time program there.
[5:12] They're starting from the beginning of the ceremony.
[5:14] Billy Graham, national anthemist.
[5:43] If they all go on time, you'll go on in about a minute and see who goes on.
[6:00] Well, they'll never get a change.
[6:02] What the hell?
[6:04] The top of the toilet just got decided when I run five.
[6:05] I don't think they just go right on.
[6:05] Yeah, something like that.
[6:06] I hope the side of the action.
[6:07] They're never going to get to me.
[6:07] I'm not going to let them get to you.
[6:08] You know that.
[6:08] Of course, you never go on in front of them.
[6:10] I don't know what they got counseling for.
[6:14] But they've got an indication of welcome by the Board of Trustees.
[6:24] Any of them?