Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 659-008
Date: Friday, January 28, 1972 at 1:35 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/659-008

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[2:52:40] No, I can read this, but all it is is a line.
[2:53:07] It's not so bad in this scenario.
[2:53:12] You can see it from the dinner.
[2:53:15] So I...
[2:53:42] but I can just briefly tell you what it is in conclusion.
[2:53:46] Well, in the evening, as would normally be the case, you would stand up to introduce the entertainer.
[2:53:54] 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.
[2:54:09] 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.
[2:54:18] I'm not going to make any speech.
[2:54:21] I'm not going to make another speech in the other room, Judge Hank.
[2:54:23] This is it.
[2:54:24] What, you're going to do this at dinner?
[2:54:26] Nope.
[2:54:26] 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.
[2:54:31] All right, so you are going to toast him at dinner?
[2:54:33] Toast him at dinner.
[2:54:34] He'd respond at dinner.
[2:54:36] All right.
[2:54:36] In the name of that, in order for the guests to know, in the name of this middle drill,
[2:55:06] 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.
[2:55:14] There is now press coverage of it, and this involves the first lady.
[2:55:18] It also enables you, enables us to get Mr. and Mrs. Wallace back down so you can introduce the next in.
[2:55:24] Maybe put that so that it's easier to read, have it typed off.
[2:55:29] Yeah, maybe you'd better read that because it's a little hard to read that kind of script without light and everything.
[2:55:42] If you would do that, it would be helpful.
[2:55:45] The only other thing, you've asked for a program of that team as a standard policy piece in your folder.
[2:55:52] They had to send it back.
[2:55:53] It was, they found some time to wrap it up.
[2:56:00] The way you kind of say it, he's an inductor and they have, I think, about 16 or 18 singers.
[2:56:08] That's a program of community.
[2:56:11] Yeah.
[2:56:11] I understand it's a very good one.
[2:56:12] It includes God Bless America.
[2:56:15] That's right.
[2:56:16] I understand it's a very good program.
[2:56:17] It includes God Bless America.
[2:56:33] 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.