Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 548-009
Date: Tuesday, July 27, 1971 at 3:26 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Weicker, Lowell P., Jr.; Calley, Paul; White House photographer; Bull, Stephen B.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/548-009

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[0:01] President, Senator Wagner.
[0:13] Hi, Paul.
[0:13] How are you?
[0:14] Nice to see you.
[0:14] Well, this is a perfect time to bring this in.
[0:15] I'm not going to put a man on the moon.
[0:16] In other words, Paul County has absolutely overwhelmed me.
[0:17] But I'm glad to see you.
[0:17] I have, you know, a second date.
[0:18] I'm glad to see you.
[0:18] I can't believe the boys are out there.
[0:34] That's right, for Halloween, we should say, not out at the top.
[0:36] And we're saying that there's good news, that they could get cleaned up, you know, and they're gonna have a lot of good time.
[0:39] So, but I see a lot of people, so I just told you, I don't know, two, two, just a couple of guys go up there.
[0:42] They have, and when I got a question, it was, well, did you go down there?
[0:43] I went in there, it's the best that I've ever had.
[0:44] It's just fantastic.
[0:45] I went there for the first time, clear blue sky, so you watch for about three minutes.
[0:46] That was the last thing I was going to say.
[0:47] One of the...
[0:48] did with TV.
[0:55] And people come out like that.
[0:57] You know, it's amazing to know that we were down 11.
[1:02] I did a series.
[1:02] You did?
[1:03] Yeah, for NASA.
[1:03] I can understand seeing how TV got to be broadcast from a room that actually had communications when we came back and saw the landing.
[1:16] It was just an absolutely incredible thing.
[1:16] That must be signed by Baldwin.
[1:19] You know, you'll have to get a new one now with that Jeep.
[1:41] Not Jeep, a golf cart.
[1:42] Oh, I would love to.
[1:42] I wanted to do it with me, and I left that first shot out.
[1:43] Let's get a, should we get a proper one?
[1:45] No, it's great.
[1:46] It's a great job.
[1:48] Well, now, I don't have anything that you'd like me to do.
[2:09] I'd like you to attend to the president.
[2:13] She's aware.
[2:13] She has it out there for you.
[2:13] Thank you very much.
[2:14] I just want to tell you something.
[2:35] I was talking to Paul outside.
[2:36] I made a statement a couple days ago, and I kind of want to tell it to you personally.
[2:37] I said it was a great interview, and I thought, there's no precedent in my life.
[2:40] are more creative in foreign policy than the ones you produce here in the White House, whether it's the Middle East or China, or together in the next three years.
[2:57] We just hold the words now.
[2:58] But at least the main thing about China, which is very, very clear, is that it looks far to the future.
[3:01] And it doesn't speak, basically, to the problem that I have three, four years from now, five, but it's absolutely indispensable.
[3:10] That's incredible in terms of tenders.
[3:17] You know, you can date hundreds of people.
[3:18] What do you do?
[3:19] And where do you go?
[3:19] How is it that you're doing this?
[3:23] What other issues?
[3:27] I realize I'm supposed to be the one person for it, but I'm the ambassador for it.
[3:38] Thank you very much.
[3:38] You're really good at it.
[3:39] You're a buzzsaw at it.
[3:39] I am.
[3:39] Where did I land here at?
[3:40] You live in the center, didn't you?
[3:41] Sanford.
[3:41] Sanford.
[3:41] Go ahead.
[3:42] Time goes through there.
[4:02] Yes, it goes through there.
[4:03] I know.
[4:03] I know.
[4:03] I knew a lawyer years ago when I was in the Navy.
[4:04] Well, just before I went to the Navy, I was an LPA.
[4:05] And I remember his lawyer lived in, he was in Washington.
[4:06] And he used to say he lived in Stanford and worked in New York.
[4:08] That's how it started.
[4:08] I'd never been to Stanford.
[4:09] I didn't know.
[4:09] I still thought I'd done that.
[4:10] I didn't know that.
[4:10] I know.
[4:10] That's right.
[4:11] That's right.
[4:11] Well, thank you very much.
[4:11] Good luck.
[4:12] Thank you.
[4:13] All right.
[4:43] Yeah.