Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 509-007
Date: Thursday, June 3, 1971 at 12:09 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Griffith, Corrine; Johnson, Roger E.; White House photographer
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/509-007

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[0:06] of the night to see you, of the night to see you again.
[0:21] All right, all of you are going to get a picture of us.
[0:22] Would you like to do that in front of these flags?
[0:23] Yes.
[0:23] Here, all of you get a good picture of the two of us.
[0:24] This is one of the great photos of all the audience.
[0:28] I haven't heard him in a long time.
[0:35] Yeah, I know.
[0:36] He's had a very nice place down there.
[0:36] Yeah, he has.
[0:37] He's got a new camera.
[0:37] Well, nice to see you.
[0:38] Come on, let me sit down.
[0:38] Here we go.
[0:38] He's done.
[0:39] Now, sit down.
[0:42] I just met yesterday with Mr. Hoover.
[1:02] I just got to meet with him.
[1:02] We had a meeting just now.
[1:03] Police chiefs.
[1:03] We're backing him up all the way.
[1:04] I know you are, and that's just wonderful.
[1:05] Just wonderful.
[1:05] You know, when I knew her here, I remember those wonderful times.
[1:06] We used to go to the games with you.
[1:07] Right.
[1:07] Yeah, and we came.
[1:07] And we sit up there in the, you know, in the box with the, uh, with the, uh, the blanket, you know, and the heaters and everything.
[1:21] What's that?
[1:22] That was 20 years ago.
[1:23] Where do you live there?
[1:36] In Los Angeles.
[1:41] You have a house you've always had there?
[1:45] No.
[1:45] No, I have a little house.
[1:45] I bought a little house and ripped it all to pieces.
[1:47] I got enough money from the state, really.
[1:47] But I did it all over the 18th century.
[1:48] All the cornices are copied from Monticello.
[1:50] And so Williamsburg grew inside, and the hallways copied from the Dulles Palace in Williamsburg.
[2:05] Well, I spent a fortune.
[2:08] It was just for you.
[2:09] Well, that's where I got the idea of it.
[2:10] When I opened it, the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday was for the Assistance League.
[2:13] And the mayor of Los Angeles, Postman, and his wife were close to me.
[2:15] I said, Saturday, Mayor Davis and his wife will bear meals.
[2:17] And Sunday, Virginia night.
[2:17] And we got the night shift.
[2:19] I hope you can.
[2:26] Listen, I want to give you a little, get a little, get out of the metro.
[2:34] We just got, we have a little something to give you for some people.
[2:46] And this is the, you know this, that's the seal of a car.
[2:51] We have a seal reproducer in this and it's a little compact.
[2:58] And that, it's not, it isn't very, it isn't as expensive as it looks, but it's worth a lot more.
[3:04] It's because only presidents can give them.
[3:06] There's the presidential column, ma'am.
[3:21] We don't know what that means to me.
[3:22] Oh, listen, you were on our computer in part one of the supporters' time, and I always said that.
[3:24] If there's anything I can do, you're going to call on me.
[3:25] I appreciate it.
[3:25] I sure will.
[3:26] I sure will.
[3:26] I understand.
[3:26] Well, we're getting back.
[3:27] We're getting back.
[3:27] In fact, every month of the day.
[3:52] I forget them all, I didn't know.
[3:52] Great, great.
[3:53] Thank you so much.
[3:53] I'm glad to take care of you.
[3:53] I'm sure to see you live and so on.
[3:54] Thank you.
[3:54] I apologize, I just put my hand over my throat.
[3:55] Don't you worry about that.