Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 584-005
Date: Tuesday, October 5, 1971 at 1:11 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary; Bull, Stephen B.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/584-005

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[0:00] Oh, wow.
[0:03] How are you doing?
[0:10] I'm fine, thank you.
[0:10] You look fine.
[0:10] Much better.
[0:11] Well, it's a little like I have an eagle.
[0:12] That's a good match.
[0:13] It's all better.
[0:13] I mean, it's real bright red.
[0:14] It's as bright as my whole body.
[0:23] It's great to be out here.
[0:25] Sir, if you'd just like to see what he's done.
[0:26] He's a great guy.
[0:26] He's a partner.
[0:27] All right, sir.
[0:27] He is here.
[0:27] Oh, when would you like to see him?
[0:28] That's really the only thing.
[0:34] You don't have anything until three.
[0:59] Two-thirty.
[0:59] Two-thirty.
[1:00] It looks like you got the colors right.
[1:00] Yeah.
[1:01] They're really nice.
[1:03] I'll, you know, I'll give you a little... Yeah, Peter's been knocked down.
[1:18] Just to get rid of you a little.
[1:22] Just to get rid of y'all.
[1:23] I thought they'd be all sorry.
[1:24] Horrible.
[1:24] Horrible.
[1:25] 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.
[1:32] And it was just wonderful.
[1:45] Those doctors at both hospitals, the California and the Polk, like, it was just absolutely marvelous.
[1:55] Shall we start it up?
[1:56] I don't know if I'd rather write a letter than read this to the captain.
[1:57] He's running back to the hospital.
[2:25] That's one of the few members of my family that's here to be unstoppable.
[2:42] Back to the back.
[2:49] Oh, this is a good one.
[2:49] Here.
[2:59] So it's to me and my responsibilities.
[3:18] Some of the old people were trying to do the same thing.
[3:19] But thanks to the parish, it's always so hard.
[5:14] Oh, I'll check that.
[5:27] Oh, hey, I saw them out there.
[5:34] They might be good ones to have.
[5:34] And if you don't have an old girl, that's a good time.
[5:36] We'll have this quater this time of year.
[5:39] Another thing I'd like you to check with the interior there, I have some new suits mapped out.
[6:00] We have changed the style a little in terms of the colors and so forth.
[6:05] I have several suits that I particularly like in terms of coverage, et cetera, that I would, if they ain't useful,
[6:09] I think maybe he offered one time to maybe change something.
[6:26] While you're thinking about clothes, uh, Duke Rose called, uh, called, you know, Bowers down there.
[6:54] He, uh,
[6:56] Keep changing, you know, while he goes on.
[7:06] Yeah, is that all?
[7:09] She's probably.
[7:09] She's still a washing machine.
[7:10] That's her mom.
[7:10] Probably.
[7:11] She's probably.
[7:11] I don't know where she is.
[7:12] Hey, what?
[7:12] He has several kinds that make slacks, different types, and he's going to send you a lot of different ones.
[7:30] He's got the major thing.
[7:31] The major thing is...
[7:31] He wants to know if you want cuffs or not cuffs for any golf slacks.
[7:33] He doesn't wear cuffs on his golf slacks because they get... No, I would like to try them without cuffs.
[7:35] The only thing that I would suggest is that for slacks, I don't like them too tight.
[7:37] And that's why I like them pleated.
[7:38] In the slide, I'm going to go about these real tiny things.
[7:53] I like a really long line.
[7:54] And I like to have this sort of thing that likes light batteries, you know, just because sometimes I can do very warm places.
[7:56] OK.
[7:57] 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?
[8:21] Sure, I want without cuffs.
[8:23] He's right.
[8:23] It didn't get, it just didn't get to the left.
[8:29] It didn't get to the left.
[9:28] Well, and Julie, one time she said yesterday, one time she said, Daddy looks so, so well.
[9:37] She said, I hope he, I think he got a little bit of rest this time, which was so cute.
[9:51] Thank God.
[9:52] Yeah, I feel so, as though I don't know what's going on in the world almost.
[10:01] It's so hard to do that.
[10:02] It's all right, but isn't that a problem?
[10:04] I think we've written, well, I did have him write a letter to, you know, George Garrett.
[10:11] Oh, okay.
[10:11] Oh, I told him to prepare a letter.
[10:13] You didn't know him, but I still thought he should write a letter to his wife with him.
[10:16] I was thinking of a new picture for a reserve, too.
[10:31] The one we're using now, we used for the Japanese, is the one at the wedding, which is a great picture.
[10:33] Don't you think so?
[10:34] I think it's nice.
[10:34] And I was thinking we might send that to a few people.
[10:35] What would you think of that?
[10:36] That'd be good.
[10:40] Well, she can't do it.
[10:52] You know, everybody can't imitate, right?
[10:59] She can imitate mine.
[11:01] What's funny is that she can sign things for me.
[11:04] Well, I'm going to hear it.
[11:05] Well, I think it's terribly important that you just continue to do it.
[11:07] But try to get down to it.
[11:09] Use it.
[11:09] Use it as much as you can.
[11:10] It's not a deal.
[11:12] 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?
[11:39] I thought it was, I had about four or five out of that group that I thought were excellent.
[11:41] Great improvement.
[11:44] It goes out.
[11:52] That's been selected down, everything?
[11:58] Yeah, I've worked it out.
[11:59] They select things.
[12:02] They probably, out of the four, they pick two.
[12:04] So they're all bad.
[12:08] And two for a greater use.
[12:09] Another two would be used for anything, you know.
[12:10] I thought they were very good.
[12:11] I think we can even make up a list of friends who would love to have that picture.
[12:13] We're going to have a speech Thursday night by 7 o'clock, so we won't have to meet you, though.
[12:26] But we'll talk Thursday.
[12:27] Well, I'll be fine.
[12:36] I'm going to go home probably a little early today.
[12:40] Just to feel so up and up like Wednesday.
[12:43] Tomorrow I'll be stronger.
[12:44] I'll be stronger every day.
[12:49] Yeah, it's awfully hard to come back.
[12:54] Julie said he had some kind of pink grouper.
[13:02] Is it a grouper?
[13:03] That looks good.
[13:03] I bet he was so sweet.
[13:08] Being in your house was so wonderful.
[13:11] That's such a lovely spot.
[13:12] 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.
[13:27] It was amazing.
[13:27] So subtle, isn't it?
[13:28] I know.
[13:28] It's the other one.
[13:29] You know, I had been going to some lady and her, we had...
[13:34] I'm just going to do this.
[13:42] I'm going to take off my, every three weeks in Florida, come hell or high water.
[13:45] And I believe you can't live.
[13:47] You've just got to stay in shape in this job state.
[13:49] And, you know, I don't have the other parents of that creation.
[13:52] Like, I don't see movies during the week.
[13:53] And I don't do it.
[13:54] play bridge and I don't play golf.
[13:59] You know, I just figured that you could just wear yourself down a little bit.
[14:03] You have to stay up for hours and hours.
[14:10] Three or four days down there is good for me.
[14:12] I feel better.
[14:14] Well, when you look, yeah, you look great.
[14:14] Better is part of the reason we live.
[14:24] I saw him for a minute on the property.
[14:32] He was so, he was so lazy to sing.
[14:33] He's just a nice person.
[14:33] Oh, he's great.