Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 532-027
Date: Wednesday, June 30, 1971 at 12:08 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Manesiotis, Louis G.; Nakis, Sam; Spirtos, Michael N.; Tsaffaras, William P.; Derzis, Peter N.; Bell, George T.; Korologos, Thomas C.; Atkins, Oliver F. ("Ollie")
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/532-027

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[0:04] Mr. President.
[0:28] Mr. President.
[0:29] Mr. President.
[0:29] Mr. President.
[0:29] Mr. President.
[0:29] Mr. President.
[0:30] First I owe it to my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great
[0:48] I just had a call this morning from our city center here in Kentucky, from my daughter Julie, who is in Athens.
[1:16] She lives there, and she's there, and the people are
[1:22] I have to meet him someplace else.
[1:41] He just said he's a strong man, a good man, a good American.
[2:01] Well, he's Italian.
[2:02] Yes, he is.
[2:02] We're so comparable.
[2:03] I don't know what I am, but I'm American.
[2:03] I think so.
[2:04] Well, Mr. President, we're extremely honored to present to you the 150th anniversary of the United States.
[2:07] And we'll also be pirating that.
[2:31] So we have to do it.
[2:32] We should have done it.
[2:32] You got a good one?
[2:33] Yes.
[2:33] But they have a magazine.
[2:33] Oh, yeah.
[2:33] We have a magazine.
[2:34] Oh, yeah.
[2:34] So we're going to try to do it twice.
[2:35] Tomorrow we're going to do it.
[2:36] Now, what about the Vice President?
[3:02] He's wrong.
[3:02] Thank you, sir.
[3:02] Yes, sir.
[3:02] All right.
[3:03] As a matter of fact, if you look down, please, you're worried that he received this advice more than I'm sure.
[3:05] Yes, sir.
[3:05] Yes, sir.
[3:05] Yes, sir.
[3:05] Yes, sir.
[3:06] I attended it several years ago, and I can't get to any of it.
[3:27] When I give something to you, all the people that are here, this is not, I'm going to say, not a soft joke.
[3:29] I'm sure that's true.
[3:31] These are the presidential comments.
[3:49] And there you can see them.
[3:51] And there it is in the comments.
[3:53] And, uh, let's see here.
[3:56] We ought to give, you know, Vice President-elect Donald Trump
[4:05] Thank you, Mr. Craig.
[4:31] Thank you, Mr. Craig.
[4:41] Here's for the widows.
[4:56] You can prove you're a watchtower.
[4:57] You see what happened the other way.
[4:57] You see I was an auctioneer.
[4:58] He said, you probably gave this to her.
[5:16] I always say to them, if you give it to your wife, I tell her that you gave it to her.
[5:18] But if you give it to some other girl, you're going to write on it.
[5:19] And I go, well...
[5:20] Great.
[5:24] So there you are.
[5:29] That's all we got.
[5:37] We can't give you another chance.
[5:38] Thank you very much.
[5:39] We appreciate your much-needed support.
[5:39] I'd like to ask a favor.
[5:40] If all the Americans in this country had the loyalty of the great Americans and the hatreds of the other countries, I'd appreciate that.
[5:43] And of course, great, great numbers do.
[5:43] And your people have been very high-ranking.
[5:44] I can't hate the Senate.
[5:45] Thank you.
[5:45] This is George Christopher.
[5:46] One of those, uh, my great-grandsons, uh, really, uh, in San Francisco, they, they were reading my whole can right here, and they were... Oh, great.
[6:10] I don't know if you guys have any questions.
[6:11] Yeah.
[6:11] All right.
[6:11] We were both out.
[6:12] That was, that was great.
[6:12] Well, Inspector Senator...
[6:13] Inspector Senator... Make a hole in one.
[6:14] All right.
[6:14] You make a hole in one, send the ball back.
[6:15] Inspector Senator...
[6:15] Inspector Senator...
[6:21] Thank you.