Nixon, Woods & Bull on Presidential Correspondence and Personal Scheduling

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Oh, wow.

How are you doing?

I'm fine, thank you.

You look fine.

Much better.

Well, it's a little like I have an eagle.

That's a good match.

It's all better.

I mean, it's real bright red.

It's as bright as my whole body.

It's great to be out here.

Sir, if you'd just like to see what he's done.

He's a great guy.

He's a partner.

All right, sir.

He is here.

Oh, when would you like to see him?

That's really the only thing.

You don't have anything until three.

Two-thirty.

It looks like you got the colors right.

Yeah.

They're really nice.

I'll, you know, I'll give you a little... Yeah, Peter's been knocked down.

Just to get rid of you a little.

Just to get rid of y'all.

I thought they'd be all sorry.

Horrible.

You know, with so much in that, that guest bedroom is really, if you ever spend any time resting, it's a great spot because with the door open, you just look right out into that lovely courtyard.

And it was just wonderful.

Those doctors at both hospitals, the California and the Polk, like, it was just absolutely marvelous.

Shall we start it up?

I don't know if I'd rather write a letter than read this to the captain.

He's running back to the hospital.

That's one of the few members of my family that's here to be unstoppable.

Back to the back.

Oh, this is a good one.

Here.

So it's to me and my responsibilities.

Some of the old people were trying to do the same thing.

But thanks to the parish, it's always so hard.

Oh, I'll check that.

Oh, hey, I saw them out there.

They might be good ones to have.

And if you don't have an old girl, that's a good time.

We'll have this quater this time of year.

Another thing I'd like you to check with the interior there, I have some new suits mapped out.

We have changed the style a little in terms of the colors and so forth.

I have several suits that I particularly like in terms of coverage, et cetera, that I would, if they ain't useful,

I think maybe he offered one time to maybe change something.

While you're thinking about clothes, uh, Duke Rose called, uh, called, you know, Bowers down there.

He, uh,

Keep changing, you know, while he goes on.

Yeah, is that all?

She's probably.

She's still a washing machine.

That's her mom.

Probably.

She's probably.

I don't know where she is.

Hey, what?

He has several kinds that make slacks, different types, and he's going to send you a lot of different ones.

He's got the major thing.

The major thing is...

He wants to know if you want cuffs or not cuffs for any golf slacks.

He doesn't wear cuffs on his golf slacks because they get... No, I would like to try them without cuffs.

The only thing that I would suggest is that for slacks, I don't like them too tight.

And that's why I like them pleated.

In the slide, I'm going to go about these real tiny things.

I like a really long line.

And I like to have this sort of thing that likes light batteries, you know, just because sometimes I can do very warm places.

OK.

He said they had all different colors and different things, and he thought he might enjoy the... And you, do you want all without cuffs or just one?

Sure, I want without cuffs.

He's right.

It didn't get, it just didn't get to the left.

It didn't get to the left.

Well, and Julie, one time she said yesterday, one time she said, Daddy looks so, so well.

She said, I hope he, I think he got a little bit of rest this time, which was so cute.

Thank God.

Yeah, I feel so, as though I don't know what's going on in the world almost.

It's so hard to do that.

It's all right, but isn't that a problem?

I think we've written, well, I did have him write a letter to, you know, George Garrett.

Oh, okay.

Oh, I told him to prepare a letter.

You didn't know him, but I still thought he should write a letter to his wife with him.

I was thinking of a new picture for a reserve, too.

The one we're using now, we used for the Japanese, is the one at the wedding, which is a great picture.

Don't you think so?

I think it's nice.

And I was thinking we might send that to a few people.

What would you think of that?

That'd be good.

Well, she can't do it.

You know, everybody can't imitate, right?

She can imitate mine.

What's funny is that she can sign things for me.

Well, I'm going to hear it.

Well, I think it's terribly important that you just continue to do it.

But try to get down to it.

Use it.

Use it as much as you can.

It's not a deal.

The other thing is about our, I was thinking that you can discuss this, if you would, Bob, I haven't talked about it, is whether it might be a few of our very close friends would love to have that, you know what I mean, some picture of the, and also we've got a thing in terms of our new picture that you've now improved, which is a great improvement, don't you think?

I thought it was, I had about four or five out of that group that I thought were excellent.

Great improvement.

It goes out.

That's been selected down, everything?

Yeah, I've worked it out.

They select things.

They probably, out of the four, they pick two.

So they're all bad.

And two for a greater use.

Another two would be used for anything, you know.

I thought they were very good.

I think we can even make up a list of friends who would love to have that picture.

We're going to have a speech Thursday night by 7 o'clock, so we won't have to meet you, though.

But we'll talk Thursday.

Well, I'll be fine.

I'm going to go home probably a little early today.

Just to feel so up and up like Wednesday.

Tomorrow I'll be stronger.

I'll be stronger every day.

Yeah, it's awfully hard to come back.

Julie said he had some kind of pink grouper.

Is it a grouper?

That looks good.

I bet he was so sweet.

Being in your house was so wonderful.

That's such a lovely spot.

Well, the night, the last night we were there, we had one of those fucks that you saw one time where the whole sky was red and looking through those trees.

It was amazing.

So subtle, isn't it?

I know.

It's the other one.

You know, I had been going to some lady and her, we had...

I'm just going to do this.

I'm going to take off my, every three weeks in Florida, come hell or high water.

And I believe you can't live.

You've just got to stay in shape in this job state.

And, you know, I don't have the other parents of that creation.

Like, I don't see movies during the week.

And I don't do it.

play bridge and I don't play golf.

You know, I just figured that you could just wear yourself down a little bit.

You have to stay up for hours and hours.

Three or four days down there is good for me.

I feel better.

Well, when you look, yeah, you look great.

Better is part of the reason we live.

I saw him for a minute on the property.

He was so, he was so lazy to sing.

He's just a nice person.

Oh, he's great.

Nixon, Woods & Bull on Presidential Correspondence and Personal Scheduling

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