Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 625-020
Date: Monday, November 29, 1971 at 11:20 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary; Lonstreth, William Thacher; White House operator; MacGregor, Clark; Rooney, John J.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/625-020

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[0:03] Probably, sir, because you caught the other thing.
[0:15] I caught it, but they didn't have to call it, because I don't follow signs, and so forth, but I didn't notice.
[0:26] You've got to notice, sir.
[0:32] Oh, we've had to make it back.
[0:34] There's no time for that.
[0:36] There's no time for that.
[0:39] There's no time for that.
[0:43] There's no time for that.
[0:44] There's no time for that.
[1:07] How much does your vacation have to earn?
[1:09] Strengths?
[1:10] Can they?
[1:11] Okay.
[1:11] Work?
[1:11] You?
[1:11] Okay.
[1:11] If you work, it's very honest.
[1:40] Thank you.
[2:44] Come along, come along.
[2:46] You.
[2:46] There, don't move up.
[2:48] Don't move up there.
[2:50] We got your needs.
[3:17] All right.
[3:18] All right.
[3:51] There's some go that way.
[4:17] You compare him to Jack O'Neil, you don't get harassed by anything.
[4:21] Well, like, a lot of other stuff.
[4:24] In fact, Jack was horrible at it, too.
[4:27] He had to give him that much love.
[4:30] And there he is, in truth.
[4:31] I mean, it's just really nice to look at him.
[4:34] I think one is nice, but he just... Oh, he's an insecure, black person.
[4:37] He just needs to be seen.
[4:38] He has to have that lower eye, I mean.
[4:42] There's a headless child coming here.
[4:50] They had a region that would play one number two or something before five minutes, so then that would be out of the way.
[5:17] Yeah, it's too bad we haven't really picked some.
[5:22] I don't know.
[5:23] I think they're better than that.
[5:27] That must be boring.
[5:30] When you know whether you can go out on any trips, could I go?
[5:39] Yeah.
[5:57] Yeah.
[5:58] Yeah.
[6:17] Okay.
[6:18] Okay.
[6:19] Okay.
[6:52] Thank you.
[7:22] Hello?
[7:24] John, I did want to have one of your old colleagues go and clear back of the idiot that missed your birthday.
[7:31] Yeah, I know that you already have a go for a big match at such a match, so go home at half-past, okay?
[7:38] Now, I want to spend a little time with you.
[7:42] Yeah, well, good to talk to you.
[7:46] We'll wish you the best of luck, okay?
[7:48] Many happy returns, Bob.
[7:51] See ya.
[8:15] I'm saying what I think you'd better throw.
[8:18] I just don't know what, for example, may come up while I'm on the trip.
[8:22] I might have to make up some damn statement or something.
[8:26] It won't be what I think you'll do.
[8:28] I don't get that.
[8:31] We don't have to go and slice down their staff situation.
[8:36] I mean, so that you don't have to do some of the things that they're all doing.
[8:43] You know, it wasn't really an extent of what we were concerned.
[8:50] We had another one involved, you know, that they were on the sides.
[8:56] the size of the group was very distinct.
[9:01] I got that idea in California.
[9:03] I checked that office situation, and I said, I don't know who's in these offices.
[9:08] He said, well, they've got to argue with that one.
[9:13] Where the hell is Ryan's office?
[9:15] Right outside there, sir.
[9:21] Well, Butterfield's never was there.
[9:24] Butterfield didn't used to go.
[9:26] Then, when Butterfield came, he and Steve used to both occupy the office.
[9:33] And then, for some reason or other, they thought they had been in his way, like a gnome.
[9:39] I don't know whose idea it may have been.
[9:44] Well, I think it's still a real secret that it's a secret.
[9:47] It's a secret.
[9:49] Because they're, you know, the...
[9:51] They may not have people they can count on.
[9:54] But... Now you've got, you see, you've got Butterfield, you've got Dwight, you've got, you've got...
[9:59] They go on there.
[10:00] They go to work in the military.
[10:03] Well, they're up in the antebellum and all that.
[10:06] The A's, the A's, it's there.
[10:08] Don, here's Pat's office.
[10:10] Now, the A's, the office actually is up in the antebellum.
[10:17] But...
[10:18] That's fairly small.
[10:19] But on the other hand, on these trips, I'm a military aide.
[10:24] I've got all these other people who've got that much.
[10:27] Well, a lot of the people I've dealt with, Rickman is not there either, as you well know.
[10:31] There's hardly anybody in the office at any time.
[10:34] Maybe you could look at it.
[10:36] At least I've been in one of those offices for an hour a day.
[10:45] Nobody's been out of town.
[10:51] I don't know what the use of that is.
[10:57] For example, wasn't there a priest that should be known as the Lord of the Wind of the Christ?
[11:03] Sir, you shouldn't think I'm a priest, but before that grapevine, it just looked like a dance floor.
[11:08] I had somebody walking in there, and I was trying to think who they were calling out.
[11:14] I don't know.
[11:16] I'm going to have all these good gentlemen.
[11:18] I'm going to have all these goddamn people.
[11:20] I think it's going to happen a lot.
[11:23] And he was like, well, I don't have anybody there to go in and say, get the hell out of here.
[11:27] Man, I have to go out there and talk to you.
[11:30] I mean, I've got a aide, and I've got a secret service man, and I've got a military aide.
[11:35] Man, I'm trying to get you in here, but when you have a free, nobody lives in here.
[11:39] They live in their home.
[11:40] They all want to live in there, but nobody has any responsibility.
[11:43] And the only thing I can do is wait for someone to do this.
[11:50] And you go very, very far.
[11:51] It really is.
[11:53] It really is.
[11:56] I agree.
[11:56] When you go, unless you're going to have a lot to do.
[11:58] When there's a big schedule and a big schedule, they have to be able to take.
[12:02] I would always have been for a smaller rather than a larger staff.
[12:06] But I think, really, people do more when they're pushed a little.
[12:12] Not pushed hard.
[12:13] I mean, it's not going to be a thunder.
[12:15] You know, I was going to say, and I called it.
[12:19] She couldn't believe we were there.
[12:24] We got there in time.
[13:55] Yeah, I think, I think it worked out very well.
[14:00] And I ordered it up.
[14:02] I ordered it to pass, ordered the whole den, and then ordered a side, and then an additional side order and stuff.
[14:09] Potatoes, they had some mashed potatoes.
[14:12] I think it got a thank you feel at that time, she got home and said,
[14:27] Yes, it was quite a little today.
[14:39] I don't know what such a beautiful place.
[16:26] What about free space for you?
[16:28] Go back.
[16:28] I don't have much.
[16:32] I don't have much.
[16:36] I don't have much.
[16:37] I don't have much.
[16:39] I don't have much.
[17:13] When I was over there, I thought...
[17:17] I think when I was over there, I may have occurred to you, you know...
[18:00] I've got it.
[24:13] What's going on today?
[24:18] I'm going to take this place out today.
[24:23] I feel like this is going to be cool.
[24:36] This is making sense.
[24:57] All right.