Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 522-006
Date: Wednesday, June 16, 1971 at 12:46 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)]; Klein, Herbert G.; Ziegler, Ronald L.; Tames, George; Noel, Arnold C.; Driscoll, Norman; Rollins, Byron; Johnson, Maurice; Shutt, Charles; Stroup, Barry; Gaylin, George; Beall, William; Kramer, Carl; Raney, James; Woolsey, Charles; McGee, John; Arrowsmith, John; Galbraith, William; Peterson, Lynne; Smith, Allan; Chung, Constance ("Connie"); Sisco, Paul; Cancellare, Frank E.; Griffin, Henry; Craven, Thomas ("Tom"), Sr.; Johnson, Hugo; Denton, Robert D.; Baltzell, J. Thomas; Dorsey, George; Roberts, Joe; May, Andrew J.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/522-006

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[0:16] Hello, sir.
[0:33] I'm Charlie.
[0:34] I'm Charlie.
[0:34] I'm Charlie.
[0:34] I'm Charlie.
[0:34] I'm Charlie.
[0:35] Still being him?
[0:55] Still being him?
[0:56] We're recording all this.
[1:11] All right, one of the originals, one of the originals.
[1:32] All right, one of the originals.
[1:33] Uh, get all the fights.
[1:56] When we finish all the fights, get us that most bigger round.
[1:58] Yeah, we do.
[1:58] You work there.
[1:58] No, I don't.
[1:58] You do work.
[1:59] No, I'm talking about that.
[1:59] Right.
[1:59] Over in the middle.
[2:00] I don't know.
[2:00] I don't know.
[2:00] I don't know.
[2:01] I don't know.
[2:01] I don't know.
[2:01] I don't know.
[2:01] I don't know.
[2:02] I don't know.
[2:02] I don't know.
[2:03] And of course, the other time,
[2:23] You know this gentleman, Mr. Bob Mays Jr.?
[2:45] Yeah.
[2:45] No, this is very funny.
[2:45] He blocked it on the pitch.
[2:46] He's not doing it again.
[2:47] Oh, yeah.
[2:47] He's doing the original.
[2:47] All right.
[2:47] All right.
[2:48] All right.
[2:48] All right.
[2:48] All right.
[2:48] All right.
[2:48] Oh, yeah.
[3:03] We do have to meet at the restaurant.
[3:04] I don't know.
[3:04] I don't know.
[3:04] That's right.
[3:24] We do go to .
[3:48] We go back to the day .
[3:48] Mr. President.
[3:49] This booklet may not take name from the original, one of the two of the original bricks from the Capitol.
[4:09] The architects told me when they put the new elevator that they went down in the 1880s, this is the brick they made.
[4:13] It has your name and the CEO's presidency on one side and the American side on the other two panels.
[4:17] And then on this one, it has
[4:17] It says from the U.S. Capitol, 8 through 19, in April was the opening of the day of the march.
[4:35] This was the dinner.
[4:35] That is right, Mr. President.
[4:36] As you know, today, if you actually think, the 15th anniversary of the White House Youth Department Association, Mr. President, that's, it's really a, it's a only a, it's a lifetime anniversary to the life of one individual.
[4:46] So it seems, it just seems, I'm sure that the original 28 men who started this organization, we do have five here today of the seven survivors.
[5:07] And I would like to have them to read our poems to them.
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[5:40] All right, I don't want to read it.
[6:04] All right.
[6:04] We have thousands of pictures of you.
[6:27] Nobody knows how good a photographer you are.
[6:28] I wonder if you would trust the honor of taking a picture of the survivors from a few years ago.
[6:30] It won't work.
[6:33] I'm Ronald Dale.
[6:58] I'm living.
[6:59] Only person.
[6:59] My age is.
[6:59] Never takes photographs.
[7:00] Right there.
[7:00] Where is the picture?
[7:00] Right here.
[7:01] Right here.
[7:01] Right here.
[7:01] Right here.
[7:01] to your eye.
[7:28] That's it.
[7:28] Now, if you stand there, what do you mean?
[7:29] Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't,
[7:31] All right, now let's see, what are we giving to you?
[7:56] See, we don't, we might get grief if we don't take things into the bag.
[7:57] Yeah, we'll get off like that, everybody.
[7:58] You're not in one group shot.
[8:18] Oh, I'm not in every group shot.
[8:19] Go ahead.
[8:19] No, let's get in now.
[8:20] Okay.
[8:20] Okay, let's get in here.
[8:20] First, I was wondering about what's the newspaper deal with him.
[8:22] Say about that program.
[8:22] Well, I guess.
[8:22] We're going to think of a collection right after this is made for the president.
[8:24] We're going to do it.
[8:24] Yeah.
[8:25] We're going to do it together.
[8:25] Yeah, he's going to use the line.
[8:26] Well, I figured I'll get on the side.
[8:27] I'll get the list for me.
[8:27] Yeah.
[8:27] Go ahead, you guys.
[8:28] Now, we're going to get each of you to present your covenants.
[8:42] It's a seal.
[9:03] No name on it.
[9:03] It says President Yankovic.
[9:11] Yeah, yeah.
[9:11] Thank you.
[9:12] What do you do with guys?
[9:31] I couldn't tell you what the name of the architect was actually.
[9:51] It happened to be this morning, though.
[9:52] All the pictures that were made, you know, once when Martin would think about photography, what would this country have been like if it hadn't had a cameraman to record the events?
[9:57] Of course, your daughter being married, everyone,
[9:59] But as far as I'm concerned, I think the picture they're going to be looking at 20 or 30 years from now is a shot of you and your niece.
[10:13] You know, that signifies more than words can tell.
[10:16] And, Mr. President, I have a catalog from our annual, and in it is also a prayer that opened the annual show this year, rather than eating a dinner.
[10:30] And I thought it summed up the whole feeling of the photographers at that time.
[10:35] I thought you'd like to have that.
[10:44] Thank you.
[10:45] Well, we want to thank you very hard.
[10:55] It's getting harder to write in this future.
[10:59] Thank you very much.
[11:21] Thank you very much.
[11:21] Thank you.
[11:21] I wish you the best.
[11:22] All I look at is the picture, so I can read it.
[11:23] Now I can take it, right?
[11:23] All right.
[11:23] Is that your television?
[11:37] You know what the way to do that?
[11:38] Just turn the sound off.
[11:38] There you have it.
[11:38] Thank you.
[12:08] Thank you.
[12:08] Thank you.
[12:39] Thank you very much.