Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 644-005
Date: Monday, January 10, 1972 at 10:22 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary; Rangel, Charles B.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/644-005

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[0:02] Well, I finally caught up with you.
[0:24] Yeah.
[0:24] Well, I tell you, it's a lot different.
[0:30] A lot better.
[0:32] Yeah.
[0:33] Yeah, that's right.
[0:34] That's right.
[0:36] Yeah.
[0:37] Well, we'll be down on the 21st, I think.
[0:40] So I look forward to seeing you then.
[0:42] Is everything going all right?
[0:45] Yeah.
[0:45] Yeah, well, that's good.
[0:47] And we can...
[0:56] I didn't take any time off because I was quite busy.
[1:00] But everything was fine.
[1:04] She sure did.
[1:05] Excellent coverage.
[1:07] Excellent.
[1:08] That's what we all thought.
[1:11] All right.
[1:12] Well, we look forward to seeing you.
[1:23] Thank you.
[1:24] Thank you.
[1:32] This is something from France.
[1:37] Now that would be here.
[1:48] Here's a Jewish fellow in New York.
[2:01] Well, he does sometimes.
[2:05] Sometimes he does.
[2:10] Most of the people are using him.
[2:12] Huh?
[2:12] Most of the people are using him.
[2:15] And he does it sometimes.
[2:26] It's true.
[2:26] Let me see.
[2:28] Yeah, I just wanted to show the difference in the white.
[2:36] Yeah.
[2:37] Everything is just great.
[2:40] But I just wanted to show the difference in the white.
[2:43] We already did order, and they're all right.
[2:46] Thank you.
[2:58] This follows some of all of these...another...nay cabins.
[3:40] He probably was just promoting for himself.
[3:43] Well, he's in some sort of business, Rose.
[3:46] Ah, yes.
[3:47] Yeah, he's in some, he's in, you know, he's already talked to Woody, right?
[3:51] About the business.
[3:54] And just sort of a very bright guy.
[4:01] Whatever the case might be.
[4:04] You know, it's like all of our people, people, by the scores.
[4:09] Oh, they count all of them, but you just can't count them.
[4:12] You don't know what the hell to do about it, I guess.
[4:22] And he can't realize the scope of what you have to do.
[4:25] He doesn't realize that you can't sit here and think about individual problems.
[4:33] He has the slightest idea.
[5:13] And it was good, I knew that when we got news, but... Well, that's not true.
[5:19] She's had great success.
[5:20] It was good for her and Trisha and Julie and David.
[5:27] They were all nice.
[5:32] Yeah, they were very nice.
[5:33] Very nice affairs.
[5:35] And it's been much better, you know.
[5:38] And Trisha also is, she's been, I think,
[5:53] I want to be sure that that Grammar fan gets a nice note, you know, that Grammar fan gets a nice note.
[6:00] Yes, sir.
[6:01] Yes, that letter that I...
[6:02] I've had that.
[6:04] Enthusiasm, of course, on the suburb.
[6:11] I'm not very sure on the suburb.
[6:22] during the operation.
[6:23] Well, now he was worse than my son.
[6:25] They got you all over here, sir.
[6:33] They were...
[6:33] They all agreed that they were bad.
[6:40] I was proud of them.
[6:50] And then, what do you tell them?
[6:54] I don't think anybody in this city can write up maybe get a crisis from hell.
[7:09] Who would be in charge of that now?
[7:11] It would have to come through, yes, sir.
[7:13] But what they do is they approve the language.
[7:15] 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.
[7:24] Yeah, well, they would have an agency do them as they went along, give them drafts.
[7:27] So let me find out whether from those that they write in.
[7:30] I didn't want a letter from me.
[7:31] I know.
[7:56] Any smart person around here can take those letters and answer like that and so forth.
[8:06] Just put up the word on the table and please do not forget it, okay?
[8:25] If you get a smarter person, you get the rest.
[9:31] Are you going to try to get up to Camp David to work on your pizza?
[9:52] That's what I was thinking.
[9:57] It's better.
[9:58] You can do it better.
[10:18] Yeah.
[10:19] Okay.
[10:40] 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.
[10:50] Well, that would be something probably small in the White, over in Whitehouse, wouldn't it?
[10:57] I'd be happy to answer because, you know, his people kind of do something.
[11:00] Sure.
[11:00] Yeah.
[11:01] Well, I think that's a different matter.
[11:02] It would just be different dates and penalties, all right.
[11:04] Yeah.
[11:08] If Hollywood can let me know, I can tell them not to.
[11:11] Makes the day easier.
[11:40] 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?
[11:52] That's a nice idea.
[11:53] Let me go to the floor and go back.
[11:55] Yeah, that's what I thought later on.
[11:57] I didn't see the special Christmas cards.
[12:00] Oh, I sent a box over to that?
[12:02] Well, they never got them to me, so maybe you could send us a few of those small boxes.
[12:10] Did you ever get your oath yesterday?
[12:18] Last night?
[12:19] The oath?
[12:22] No, the oath.
[12:23] I suppose they're over there.
[12:25] I wonder where they are.
[12:28] They are in my bedroom.
[12:31] No, they sent them over and told them one for you, one for Pat.
[12:36] But I'll find out where they are.
[12:43] 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.
[12:51] But I know you didn't have time to read it.
[12:55] No, we didn't see it.
[12:56] And I was going to keep something from a fifth grade class for you or something, just a little thing.
[13:02] So I'll find out where they are.
[13:11] and save the things and get them ready and send them out.
[13:13] It's just a little package for you to look at down on the floor.
[13:20] And Mrs. Trout, I will tell you from her note, she's like the handwritten note that she gave us.
[13:27] That she was the first president and she had any truck that was close to $3,000 just for the committee to be elected.
[13:35] Yes, that's right.
[13:45] 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?
[13:57] So that they have a full two dozen of them, that's all they have.
[14:02] That's what I thought.
[14:05] Right.
[14:05] Just leave these extras.
[14:06] That's right.
[14:07] Don't try to replace this stuff.
[14:09] Well, you can't.
[14:10] You see, we ordered this, but they don't make it count.
[14:14] I think it's great.
[14:16] I think it's great.
[14:17] That's right.
[14:18] That's right.
[14:19] That's right.
[14:20] That's just great.
[14:20] That's great.
[14:21] I love these.
[14:23] How?
[14:24] Or if I do, I'll buy any of them.
[14:34] That's right.
[14:35] I do use them.
[14:36] You're absolutely right.
[14:38] Is that all right?
[14:42] Yes.
[14:44] and don't look back.