Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 512-031
Date: Monday, June 7, 1971 at 12:35 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Brewer, William D.; Wright, W. Marshall; Bull, Stephen B.; White House photographer
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/512-031

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[0:00] Good morning, Mr. President.
[0:18] Good morning, Mr. President.
[0:19] Good morning.
[0:19] How are you?
[0:19] I'm very well, sir.
[0:20] Good morning, Mr. President.
[0:20] Thank you for the honor to be with you.
[0:21] Good morning, Mr. President.
[0:22] Mr. Brown, you've been at the Foreign Service many years, isn't it?
[0:23] I'm a webhead as an ambassador.
[0:24] Thank you very much.
[0:24] I'm glad to be with you.
[0:25] And also, sir, I want to just say, perhaps you didn't know, but when you were reporting to me, you were acting upon a recommendation of the recently named President John Adams.
[0:29] 1799.
[0:30] What was that record?
[0:31] Justin.
[0:32] to be driven because of that.
[0:54] We had a lot of interest in that in the 1790s and 1900s.
[0:55] Well, he didn't in fact act on it, but the recommendation was made by the consul that some men would be sent aside to Mauritius.
[0:58] Well, you got it.
[0:58] That's what we'd like to do is to get to a formal picture here.
[0:59] And we'll get one sitting down.
[1:00] Thank you very much.
[1:03] what you said over here.
[1:27] I'll be going back in a few weeks time.
[1:28] I'll be back in a few weeks time.
[1:29] I'll be back in a few weeks time.
[1:30] all the countries that are involved.
[1:33] Well, I wouldn't expect that you could from the part of your
[1:35] It's like Caribbean island.
[1:58] Is it?
[1:59] With the, you know, the beaches.
[1:59] Not caves.
[1:59] Yes.
[2:00] Perfectly lovely.
[2:00] And swimming.
[2:00] Yes.
[2:00] No sharks.
[2:01] Not in the, inside the reef.
[2:01] And that's, of course, the other state of Florida.
[2:02] Outside the reef, fishing is pretty good.
[2:03] I don't like fishing too well, but it sounds great.
[2:04] The beaches are great.
[2:05] Yes.
[2:05] Well, they should attract tourists.
[2:11] Well, they're trying to because, you know, it's the one crop economy, sugar, and they're increasingly worried about the output of sugar in the long term.
[2:26] So they are delayed.
[2:26] Do they have good transportation?
[2:27] Yes, airlines.
[2:28] But many, not American airlines, but Lufthansa, BOIC, Air France, East African Airways, hotels.
[2:31] They have several, but they need more.
[2:51] Well, they have some.
[2:52] They have two that are really very good, but they're usually full.
[2:53] Oh, yeah.
[2:53] This is the problem.
[2:54] They get full of smart people.
[2:54] That would be great.
[2:55] Well, a lot of it is in the back of my mind.
[2:56] I always think, well, those are different places.
[2:57] Well, it's a beautiful spot.
[2:57] Where did you come from, Richard?
[2:58] Connecticut, Mr. President.
[3:01] That's right.
[3:09] From Connecticut.
[3:12] Yeah, I was the first member of the lecture school.
[3:15] Yes, sir.
[3:16] Right.
[3:16] And that's it.
[3:17] Very good memory.
[3:17] Yeah.
[3:17] But I was the first member to leave the New England 300 years.
[3:23] Yeah.
[3:23] And then came on down and entered the Foreign Service quite...
[3:24] Yes, sir.
[3:24] Right after 1947.
[3:25] Yeah, well, right after the war.
[3:27] After the war.
[3:29] Yeah.
[3:29] 1947.
[3:29] Moved up.
[3:31] Well, it must have been, you wouldn't trade it, but you'd do the same thing again.
[3:48] You like what you're doing.
[3:49] Yeah.
[3:49] And one of the very few, perhaps, settled on this kind of career, very young, about eight or nine years old.
[3:51] Did you really?
[3:52] That was your father?
[3:53] No, sir.
[3:53] I don't recall including myself.
[3:55] Why?
[3:55] Yeah.
[3:55] But I must have said to somebody, this is not quite a good idea.
[4:03] And everybody said, oh, yes.
[4:04] And from that point on, well, I would say that geography was my best subject.
[4:06] I was most interested in it.
[4:06] Yes.
[4:07] County line is a big deal in those days.
[4:23] But, or down to Tijuana.
[4:27] And since then I've gone to about 75 countries.
[4:28] So that's one thing.
[4:29] Join the Foreign Service and see the world.
[4:30] Well, I want you to tell us some of the presidential companies.
[4:31] And let me give you some of our most tradition badges.
[4:33] Thank you for the time.
[4:39] I hope you'll be honored.
[4:39] You a golfer?
[4:40] No, sir.
[4:40] I am the...
[4:52] paper I use in my songs.
[5:05] One reason why I've written it best is because it's small, which indicates you don't have too much paper in here.
[5:09] Mr. President, I don't know whether I wrote it to you, but maybe I haven't brought it to your attention, but your annual report got the right impression very much.
[5:15] And as I handed it to him, he looked at the table of contents and he said, boy, President Nixon must have an efficient operation.
[5:20] That's how you will pass.
[5:41] You know, it is quite a, you know, it's sort of a book, you know, 60,000 words, and we cut it for $120,000.
[5:43] And I think it's not a bad thing.
[5:44] But I think he read it and thought it was a good thing.
[5:45] Thank you very much, Mr. President.
[5:46] I wish you the best in your continuing service.
[5:47] Thank you again very much.
[5:47] Do you want to get up?
[5:48] You've already been up all night.
[5:48] Well, I've got to get up tomorrow.
[5:49] Did you go to, let's see, let's see.
[5:50] And you went directly from there into college?
[6:04] That's right, yes.
[6:04] My former law partner, Bill Rose, trustee.
[6:05] Oh, yes.
[6:05] Thank you very much, President.
[6:06] Thank you.