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Conversation 659-008

TapeTape 659StartFriday, January 28, 1972 at 1:35 PMEndFriday, January 28, 1972 at 1:35 PMTape start time02:53:48Tape end time03:05:47ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  White House operatorRecording deviceOval Office
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On January 28, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at 1:35 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 659-008 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 659-8

Date: January 28, 1972
Time: 1:35 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 19-146; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]
Transcript (AI-Generated)

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No, I can read this, but all it is is a line.
It's not so bad in this scenario.
You can see it from the dinner.
So I...
but I can just briefly tell you what it is in conclusion.
Well, in the evening, as would normally be the case, you would stand up to introduce the entertainer.
There will be, after dinner, guests who will moderate your toast to the wallaces, be appropriate on that, to use that as a preface to talk about the wallaces again.
I think what I'm trying to do is to say something brief about the losses at the dinner and let this be the talk.
I'm not going to make any speech.
I'm not going to make another speech in the other room, Judge Hank.
This is it.
What, you're going to do this at dinner?
Nope.
When I go to the other room, that's what I'm going to do, but I'm not going to make any progress here.
All right, so you are going to toast him at dinner?
Toast him at dinner.
He'd respond at dinner.
All right.
In the name of that, in order for the guests to know, in the name of this middle drill,
If that sounds like it, then I see that we can't tell them that, so it's kind of a surprise to them, kind of a surprise to the guests.
There is now press coverage of it, and this involves the first lady.
It also enables you, enables us to get Mr. and Mrs. Wallace back down so you can introduce the next in.
Maybe put that so that it's easier to read, have it typed off.
Yeah, maybe you'd better read that because it's a little hard to read that kind of script without light and everything.
If you would do that, it would be helpful.
The only other thing, you've asked for a program of that team as a standard policy piece in your folder.
They had to send it back.
It was, they found some time to wrap it up.
The way you kind of say it, he's an inductor and they have, I think, about 16 or 18 singers.
That's a program of community.
Yeah.
I understand it's a very good one.
It includes God Bless America.
That's right.
I understand it's a very good program.
It includes God Bless America.
Joan Goldwater Ross, she's the daughter of Senator Goldwater and she's in Arizona and she's going to be married in about a half hour, so we're trying to get her on the phone, please.
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