Nixon, Woods & Rangel on White House administration and Camp David

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Well, I finally caught up with you.

Yeah.

Well, I tell you, it's a lot different.

A lot better.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's right.

That's right.

Yeah.

Well, we'll be down on the 21st, I think.

So I look forward to seeing you then.

Is everything going all right?

Yeah.

Yeah, well, that's good.

And we can...

I didn't take any time off because I was quite busy.

But everything was fine.

She sure did.

Excellent coverage.

Excellent.

That's what we all thought.

All right.

Well, we look forward to seeing you.

Thank you.

This is something from France.

Now that would be here.

Here's a Jewish fellow in New York.

Well, he does sometimes.

Sometimes he does.

Most of the people are using him.

Huh?

Most of the people are using him.

And he does it sometimes.

It's true.

Let me see.

Yeah, I just wanted to show the difference in the white.

Yeah.

Everything is just great.

But I just wanted to show the difference in the white.

We already did order, and they're all right.

Thank you.

This follows some of all of these...another...nay cabins.

He probably was just promoting for himself.

Well, he's in some sort of business, Rose.

Ah, yes.

Yeah, he's in some, he's in, you know, he's already talked to Woody, right?

About the business.

And just sort of a very bright guy.

Whatever the case might be.

You know, it's like all of our people, people, by the scores.

Oh, they count all of them, but you just can't count them.

You don't know what the hell to do about it, I guess.

And he can't realize the scope of what you have to do.

He doesn't realize that you can't sit here and think about individual problems.

He has the slightest idea.

And it was good, I knew that when we got news, but... Well, that's not true.

She's had great success.

It was good for her and Trisha and Julie and David.

They were all nice.

Yeah, they were very nice.

Very nice affairs.

And it's been much better, you know.

And Trisha also is, she's been, I think,

I want to be sure that that Grammar fan gets a nice note, you know, that Grammar fan gets a nice note.

Yes, sir.

Yes, that letter that I...

I've had that.

Enthusiasm, of course, on the suburb.

I'm not very sure on the suburb.

during the operation.

Well, now he was worse than my son.

They got you all over here, sir.

They were...

They all agreed that they were bad.

I was proud of them.

And then, what do you tell them?

I don't think anybody in this city can write up maybe get a crisis from hell.

Who would be in charge of that now?

It would have to come through, yes, sir.

But what they do is they approve the language.

Ray Price is on the trip, you know, or somebody, whoever is on the trip has to, it's the kind of letter where they say, dear Mr. President.

Yeah, well, they would have an agency do them as they went along, give them drafts.

So let me find out whether from those that they write in.

I didn't want a letter from me.

I know.

Any smart person around here can take those letters and answer like that and so forth.

Just put up the word on the table and please do not forget it, okay?

If you get a smarter person, you get the rest.

Are you going to try to get up to Camp David to work on your pizza?

That's what I was thinking.

It's better.

You can do it better.

Yeah.

Okay.

And when you're talking to Haldeman, maybe you can tell me, he mentioned the other day, and you said you did want to do something for a general view.

Well, that would be something probably small in the White, over in Whitehouse, wouldn't it?

I'd be happy to answer because, you know, his people kind of do something.

Sure.

Yeah.

Well, I think that's a different matter.

It would just be different dates and penalties, all right.

Yeah.

If Hollywood can let me know, I can tell them not to.

Makes the day easier.

And with all the things you have to do, I don't know, but if you want to see any of their love telegrams standing for your birthday, do you want me to just put a few specials somewhere and leave them in the FYI until you're ready to see them?

That's a nice idea.

Let me go to the floor and go back.

Yeah, that's what I thought later on.

I didn't see the special Christmas cards.

Oh, I sent a box over to that?

Well, they never got them to me, so maybe you could send us a few of those small boxes.

Did you ever get your oath yesterday?

Last night?

The oath?

No, the oath.

I suppose they're over there.

I wonder where they are.

They are in my bedroom.

No, they sent them over and told them one for you, one for Pat.

But I'll find out where they are.

I didn't ask when I was there, because I thought maybe Walter might stay downstairs a few minutes, you know, so you could all get up there and sort of get settled.

But I know you didn't have time to read it.

No, we didn't see it.

And I was going to keep something from a fifth grade class for you or something, just a little thing.

So I'll find out where they are.

and save the things and get them ready and send them out.

It's just a little package for you to look at down on the floor.

And Mrs. Trout, I will tell you from her note, she's like the handwritten note that she gave us.

That she was the first president and she had any truck that was close to $3,000 just for the committee to be elected.

Yes, that's right.

Now, would you like to go ahead and get a complete two dozen of the same type that you have up there and then have these as extras?

So that they have a full two dozen of them, that's all they have.

That's what I thought.

Right.

Just leave these extras.

That's right.

Don't try to replace this stuff.

Well, you can't.

You see, we ordered this, but they don't make it count.

I think it's great.

That's right.

That's just great.

That's great.

I love these.

How?

Or if I do, I'll buy any of them.

That's right.

I do use them.

You're absolutely right.

Is that all right?

Yes.

and don't look back.

Nixon, Woods & Rangel on White House administration and Camp David

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