Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 594-003
Date: Monday, October 18, 1971 at 10:00 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary; Butterfield, Alexander P.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/594-003

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[1:23:12] Julie spoke to me about the kid letters.
[1:23:29] About them getting
[1:23:31] letters with my signature yeah i agree just with her and ask her to look at them because she wants you next time they can be in my signature i think anything that can go that has no problem to it there's no reason not to get any quality
[1:23:58] You send an answer to a little boy or a little girl right in, the whole family is going to be thrilled.
[1:24:03] We just don't have to go third, second year.
[1:24:05] Oh, they're terrible.
[1:24:06] They're terrible letters to begin with.
[1:24:08] It sounds terrible.
[1:24:10] They don't write it well.
[1:24:10] That's the other thing.
[1:24:12] I've always said if you're going to write it for the president or Christ, they write it as a letter.
[1:24:17] They don't know it.
[1:24:19] Okay, you just take over those kid letters and that would be my signature.
[1:24:26] It's not the one she needs, right?
[1:24:27] That's all you have to do.
[1:24:29] Well, they can serve.
[1:24:30] And Julie made a couple of good ones.
[1:24:31] One letter she wrote for writing to a teacher who was teaching her class about the flag and the country and so forth.
[1:24:36] Did you ever write out to that one?
[1:24:38] I haven't yet, no.
[1:24:39] But they're working on that.
[1:24:41] They're working on it.
[1:24:43] It's hard to find somebody...
[1:24:46] We don't have a name, you know, to find somebody to lose and write two out of the hundreds of thousands of letters.
[1:24:51] Oh, I see.
[1:24:54] See, there's just a year left.
[1:24:55] Wait, I feel like I can dispute it.
[1:24:57] I just get a hold of somebody in West Virginia.
[1:25:01] Who was the teacher of the year in 19?
[1:25:04] Okay, well, that's good.
[1:25:05] Who was the teacher of the year in West Virginia?
[1:25:19] Wayne Andrews said that they had a collection of $200,000 and asked you to hold it.
[1:25:24] I said, it must be worth a penny.
[1:25:28] It's so nice to go to them.
[1:25:30] He said, sure.
[1:25:31] And I said, you.
[1:25:32] He backed me before.
[1:25:35] So, I don't know whether you should.
[1:25:38] Maybe you should.
[1:25:39] Well, you've got a good way.
[1:25:45] It's mainly true hope, anyway.
[1:25:48] I mean, an old post goes like, if you do a call today, there's nothing I don't want to see, and I don't want to know.
[1:33:24] So at the end of his time, I actually got home and he said, I said, I mean, you know, this is good, don't tell anybody.
[1:33:27] You see, don't tell, you see, you don't tell a lot of other people.
[1:33:28] I said, I don't know.
[1:33:28] I said, this is for you.
[1:33:29] You're supposed to put it in there.
[1:33:30] You're supposed to put it down.
[1:33:30] You told the best.
[1:33:31] You got what I understood.
[1:33:31] I didn't tell you.
[1:33:31] I didn't tell you anything.
[1:33:55] So some of this is just right here in the cabin, and you know it.
[1:33:56] It's just totally...
[1:33:57] I think it's just not, not, it's just a lot of that blood.
[1:34:23] That's me, I'm leaving now.
[1:34:23] I don't need to go back to Chicago.
[1:34:52] Well, I'll put it here so we can understand it.
[1:35:27] So then there's something like a $9,000 bill that we want.
[1:35:28] That's right for me to pay that in taxes.
[1:36:01] Yeah, but it's I who told him to be sure, because I already knew if I do it that way.
[1:36:02] Yeah.
[1:36:03] It's her, uh, father, I guess.
[1:36:03] There you go.
[1:36:03] Exactly.
[1:36:04] Yeah, well, thank you.
[1:36:04] I have to say, when I got that one, I thought it was a technical problem.
[1:36:30] Well, um, I had a prescription for it somewhere today, and I, I think that, uh, I just have to say something about it.
[1:36:32] I didn't decide to direct it to Bob.
[1:36:57] Is it?
[1:37:36] I understand.
[1:37:37] I didn't know that.
[1:37:37] Thank you so much.
[1:37:38] There's no problem.
[1:37:38] It's all here.
[1:37:38] It's a dog.
[1:37:38] It's trying to play with all of us.
[1:37:39] It's a college.
[1:37:40] Not that.
[1:37:40] I just want to do it.
[1:37:40] It's a dog.
[1:37:41] It's a dog.
[1:38:06] I think that, you know, that last time they gave you some of the very big things, right?
[1:38:09] You know, the ones that were in that?
[1:38:10] Okay.
[1:39:10] Thank you very much.