Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 599-008
Date: Friday, October 22, 1971 at 10:40 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary; Bull, Stephen B.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/599-008

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[0:00] Oh, okay.
[0:05] Well, that's very handsome.
[0:09] And the one last thing I'd love to tell you.
[0:12] Somebody, like Marge, even said, gosh, you look so great in a white shirt and a tie and a gray suit.
[0:19] It really was.
[0:20] The blackness, the lighting, everything was just perfect.
[0:23] And he just thought you looked absolutely wonderful.
[0:36] He was very pleased with the way you handled it and talked about the prize.
[0:49] And Bob was with him.
[0:50] He said, you might just force me, you know, laughing, you might force me to go over and walk your cake, stuff like that.
[0:58] He also said that he, he said, uh,
[1:00] He felt that all, you know, he might have gotten a little chilled last Sunday because it was, you know, the pool was so great.
[1:06] It was a little cool.
[1:08] And he thought your voice was last weekend.
[1:11] Yeah, well, whatever it was.
[1:38] All right, Mr. President, I believe you have three advices.
[1:54] The main amendments are not here.
[1:56] It looks as though they're not going to show.
[1:57] For the sake of the church, I'll just say for the final check, I don't think they're going to show.
[1:59] It doesn't mean you're able to work out the entity.
[2:00] What's the reason for that?
[2:01] I don't have the reason.
[2:01] According to Hawthorne last night, they were annoyed that it was a foul play.
[2:04] Remember, he thought that you called me.
[2:05] I don't think he had an issue.
[2:07] Did you?
[2:07] He hasn't become the best.
[2:09] They're ready if you'd like to open the meeting.
[2:17] I'm not supposed to open the meeting.
[2:21] Are you supposed to drop in?
[2:23] The meeting is just about to start if you'd like to come in right at the beginning.
[2:31] It would be very appropriate for us to have them outside.
[2:32] So they're sure to wait for people to come in?
[2:34] I'm not 90% sure.
[2:43] They're 15 minutes late now and apparently not coming in.
[2:47] There will be no pictures then?
[2:50] There will be no pictures.
[2:53] That's correct.
[2:53] Because if the labor people are not there...
[2:54] Yes sir.
[2:54] Do you get my point?
[2:55] Yes sir.
[2:56] They understand.
[2:56] Yes sir.
[2:56] They don't know that you're coming in anymore.
[2:58] So if the labor people are not there, it would be very obvious.
[3:00] Yes sir.
[3:01] And the other point, it looks like...
[3:02] I'm not sure who it is.
[3:03] Sign up for a very new exam.
[3:16] That's right.
[3:17] I will not be able to attend school.
[3:17] Tell him I'll be about five minutes late.
[3:18] Fine.
[3:18] We'll let him stay for a year.
[3:19] Just let her.
[3:19] We'll have a little interspersed.
[3:20] I don't think that I'll be ready in about five minutes.
[3:21] So I'd rather have you do that.
[3:22] I'll read the words and I'll accomplish them.
[3:23] Sure, yeah.
[3:28] He said he was just worried about coming down there because of the nice weather.
[3:35] Well, I agree with you.
[4:26] Oh, I get it.
[4:46] I don't know about that.
[4:46] I don't know the whole theater.
[4:47] It would be a little better for everything.
[4:48] Well, I got the American Bar Association, so I had income.
[4:49] And actually, there would be a little bit cheaper for some kind.
[4:50] At least the bar would be bigger.
[4:51] I don't know.
[4:51] I don't have at least one woman on the board.
[4:53] It was 12 and up.
[4:54] It was 12 and up.
[4:55] And the women, that is not a pair.
[4:59] There are women lawyers.
[5:01] They are members of the ADA.
[5:02] One of them should be a lawyer.
[5:05] But they both wrote money.
[5:05] Well, I think in between times.
[5:06] It's good.
[5:07] Because there will be another time.
[5:10] They can really.
[5:10] Build somebody up.
[5:12] Yeah.
[5:12] In fact, someone I haven't known is in there.
[5:13] Someone called me yesterday and gave the notes on Eva Adams.
[5:19] Oh, I don't know.
[5:19] Eva Adams is a nice woman.
[5:21] Never, never, never, never.
[5:31] She's a liar.
[5:31] I know it.
[5:32] No way.
[5:32] She said it.
[5:32] Because she's on the cat community.
[5:34] I mean, we're from the cat community.
[5:37] There are too many.
[5:37] That's what I mean.
[5:37] Too many problems.
[5:38] I know her very well.
[5:39] I have a letter I want to share, too, that came to you.
[5:40] Really, it's the best way I can read a little bit from that.
[5:42] Thank you.
[5:43] We need Percy.
[5:44] I've got to look at this letter.
[5:47] You remember when I got here around 5.30 or 6.00 last night, before you knew who the choices were, he...
[5:52] Objected to it.
[5:53] Well, he was saying that you had talked with him at your office, saying that you were looking forward to this helping out or something in Hawaii.
[6:01] And that he just, and you had said there wouldn't be any...
[6:07] Supreme Court appointments to hurt or something like that.
[6:13] And he said, no, it looks like there might be.
[6:15] You know, I came close to picking up the phone call and saying, he really annoys me.
[6:22] It arrived, a handwritten letter.
[6:22] It arrived to me.
[6:24] Went down and did his goddamn thing out there in Chicago.
[6:27] Well, you know, and I... Don't tell me how that letter is going to be responded to.
[6:40] Oh, no.
[6:41] The trouble is, all these people are not here to answer.
[6:43] Everything.
[6:43] I'm not going to let any of them speak to us.
[6:44] No.
[6:44] It's viable.
[6:45] It's viable.
[6:45] And don't tell them how we're going to be gotten either.
[6:47] No.
[6:47] And I...
[6:47] But I just think you might want to... Our people are so stupid.
[6:48] They want to respond to everything.
[6:51] Oh, they've sent to me.
[6:52] But, you know, and I think Henry was very embarrassed because Joe told me that...
[6:56] Henry arrived, and of course Henry didn't want to do a straight-out political thing.
[7:03] Do you know, that was a big $100 plate dinner or something like that, and it was a, you know, it was a big crowd.
[7:07] And Henry did a good job.
[7:09] He even said, well, Chuck had asked him to come out for, I suppose he said Senator, had asked him to come out for a few, you know, his close friends, and then he got there, and it was a big political meeting.
[7:20] Joe said he felt sorry for him.
[7:24] I personally ask for everything and give something, and he's just, on that one, I would just, I just finally forget it.
[7:37] You know that Negro woman that I mentioned there?
[7:39] I think I'll put that woman and her husband on a dinner, one of these dinners coming up.
[7:42] We meet Negroes all the time, but it's not a dinner.
[7:44] Is that all right, or would that be embarrassing?
[7:45] I don't even know.
[7:47] Okay.
[7:47] No, I know you don't, but I don't want to.