Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 642-026
Date: Monday, January 3, 1972 at 11:09 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/642-026

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[4:12:52] Which, if we can possibly bring, if they could bring themselves to live with a woman, other than their wife, we could put a woman in that council and it would be very good, this one.
[4:13:05] well there is this uh girl that i mentioned to you on the helicopter that day oh yeah he would like her john o'connelly's reading was not negative but rather lukewarm on her uh i don't think that's a personal reading because he doesn't know her he asked and he gets out of that but she's the best woman around and she's
[4:13:32] She's very good.
[4:13:33] She says, no.
[4:13:34] All right.
[4:13:35] Would Stein take her?
[4:13:37] Oh, yeah.
[4:13:37] Stein would be rather.
[4:13:38] She would come to Bob Hall and ask him to call Collin and tell Collin that this would help us very much politically to have a woman on the council.
[4:13:47] That doesn't make any goddamn sense.
[4:13:49] I'm not sure we can get it, but she would be in fine stroke if we could get it.
[4:14:13] I'll be glad to do that, or I'd be glad to call John myself if it's like, or would you rather have Bob call?
[4:14:18] You call him.
[4:14:19] You call him, yeah.
[4:14:20] No, I was just saying, you know what I'm saying?
[4:14:23] You were just saying that, uh, we, we've got the thing open from a political standpoint, and I, uh,
[4:14:30] I feel that since we struck out on the court, I think a woman on the council would be good that she's really first-class, she'll play her game and sign and satisfy Woodburn and Bradford.
[4:14:43] First of all, unless she's totally acceptable to John, then who do you want?
[4:14:49] Put it that way, that I respond like that.
[4:14:51] She isn't.
[4:14:52] Who am I?
[4:14:52] Somebody else?
[4:14:54] Okay.
[4:14:55] Very fine.
[4:14:55] I'll do that.
[4:14:56] You have to have a fight with her.
[4:14:59] No, I don't think.
[4:15:00] She's on our price commission, and that's the only sense in which he's focused on her.
[4:15:05] And I'm sure that her field is international economics, and probably some in the Treasury have evaluated her as so-so or whatnot in the international economic field.
[4:15:18] But our fault is...
[4:15:20] Ken Dan, for instance, a judgment I have good respect for in this field, has worked with her and thinks she's first class.
[4:15:27] The guy in the Kraken doesn't think so.
[4:15:30] She's pretty.
[4:15:31] Oh, that's better.
[4:15:34] Okay.
[4:15:49] the way they shot the way they shot they they at least it seemed to me that gave you the appearance of somewhat lopsided
[4:16:52] Could you name Mr. Smith?
[4:16:53] Uh, he is, uh... Mr. Smith, you've got a number.
[4:16:54] He's our mayor of Iowa, Ironshire.
[4:16:57] Uh, the number is 712-426-2185.
[4:16:58] Mr. Smith?
[4:16:59] Yeah.
[4:16:59] Yeah, Mr. Smith, uh, 712-426-2185.
[4:17:00] You want to say a greater name, Mr. Smith?
[4:17:03] Uh, I have a little bit of trouble, sir.
[4:17:30] For whatever it is worth,
[4:18:15] The camera work was not the best.
[4:18:18] The face was given a lopsided appearance, which is in a straight-on shot, which I sat in that chair.
[4:18:25] I felt it wouldn't be that way because I could see what they were doing.
[4:18:34] Schultz thought that his percent of the truth.
[4:18:38] He didn't criticize it.
[4:18:40] He said that he heard it on the radio and said it was a tremendous thing.
[4:18:48] I know that you and others, all the people say it was wonderful.
[4:18:54] They shot the room.
[4:18:56] It's a nice shot of your feet.