Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 658-019
Date: Thursday, January 27, 1972 at 2:20 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/658-019

This transcript was generated automatically by AI (WhisperX) and has not been reviewed for accuracy. Do not cite it as authoritative.

[4:17:50] leaders, practice, theater, have a sense of which to be the center of the team.
[4:17:57] And then, just to sit down and go over everything that we plan to talk about.
[4:18:01] We don't mean as truly as we can.
[4:18:03] And then, of course, when we come back, we'll repeat.
[4:18:06] So, is that something that I'd like to do in the competition?
[4:18:11] Yeah.
[4:18:12] Well, the reason I advance, we tend to advance parties over very interesting things.
[4:18:18] And 24 people would win.
[4:18:21] It would have been awful.
[4:18:22] 18 got sick.
[4:18:23] Now they were sick from fatigue and hours and so forth, but they all recommended to be sure it was better.
[4:18:31] In other words, not just go all out.
[4:18:34] They said you've got to be there to change the restrictions and talk to your terminal owner.
[4:18:39] That made it big.
[4:18:40] They go on and rush kind of that way.
[4:18:44] So they thought, I better go to Hawaii first.
[4:18:47] I'm going to go there.
[4:18:47] So I'm on a whole day and a night.
[4:18:50] Then I go on a whole day and a night.
[4:18:54] And then fly over to Beijing the next day.
[4:18:57] Hopefully in Greece.
[4:18:58] Because I, well, the talks go on for four days.
[4:19:03] So that's the real thing.
[4:19:04] Now the other thing I want you to know, too, is that