Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 512-026
Date: Friday, June 4, 1971 at 4:44 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/512-026

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[0:00] I'd like to take a smile with the Willie Brandt over to Lucy.
[0:07] Do you want to look at this first and spin through the Colson?
[0:19] One thing that you may want to pass judgment on is Colson thinks Georgia Media ought to be invited.
[0:21] We didn't invite Brandt in the last year.
[0:24] Sure.
[0:24] Sure.
[0:29] What?
[0:34] Oh, God, no, I'm not going to have any sex work.
[0:39] I want at least 80 people.
[0:40] Hell yes, I don't want those dinners anymore.
[0:42] I've told all of them at least a dozen times.
[0:43] I don't want to have to talk to these people.
[0:44] So what we do is to set up, you know, a nice thing and use it.
[0:49] How many big chairs do they have?
[0:51] However many big chairs they have, that's what we'll have for dinner.
[0:59] You see what I mean?
[1:00] I see what you mean.
[1:01] Yeah.
[1:01] So we'll have to get you some more.
[1:02] Let's just say, you know, just add some more people.
[1:04] We can do some more.
[1:05] You know, that's just a pain in the ass.
[1:06] I'll have to look at it.
[1:06] Yeah.
[1:06] Because I don't want to see that man.
[1:17] I don't want any of this.
[1:18] I don't want to worry about that.
[1:20] I'm not interested in that.
[1:21] I don't want to hear anything.
[1:23] You see, I don't want any working cameras.
[1:35] This is a, just make it to, to be a static camera.
[1:38] How many chairs do they have?
[1:43] The big chairs.
[1:43] See, that's what we do, is I want to use the big chairs and have it static.
[1:47] But I have 80.
[1:47] You can't carry 80 people in here, Jesus Christ.
[1:49] I mean, what is it?
[1:49] They've got that work up there anyway.
[1:50] What work do they do?
[1:51] There's no damn work, huh?
[1:53] Well, those are the guidelines that came down.
[2:06] Small, you don't push it in.
[2:06] All right.
[2:07] I'm just keeping it in care all the time.
[2:07] Listen to the silence.
[2:08] The silence of the senses.
[2:08] Let's go.
[2:09] Here we go.
[2:09] Here we go.
[2:09] Well, you see, I want to, I want to widely expand my field.
[2:34] Okay.