Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 661-012
Date: Monday, January 31, 1972 at 5:49 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary; Butterfield, Alexander P.; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); [Unknown person(s)]
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/661-012

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[0:05] Okay.
[0:05] This is the thing you got me into.
[0:11] Oh, no, you didn't.
[0:13] I thought it had a little .
[0:27] Oh, isn't that a hand sign?
[0:31] Good.
[0:40] John Dean is asking whether you would feel you could sign, you don't have to appear in court now, you don't have to appeal to people.
[0:47] Of course.
[0:47] Of course, appeal in court.
[0:49] Thank you.
[0:49] All right.
[0:50] Thank you.
[0:50] Let's just request the appeal of the answer, John Dean.
[0:54] Of course.
[0:54] Okay.
[0:54] Thank you.
[1:08] I don't think they even do it that way.
[1:11] I think, at least they've changed the rules you're gonna have to follow.
[1:25] I don't believe it.
[1:42] Where were you when you were 30 years old?
[1:44] Well, it was a great day for me.
[1:50] Where else?
[1:51] Oh, my.
[1:51] I thought Tom was going to faint when he came in.
[1:54] He got so light when he saw everybody.
[1:57] It was a nice day.
[2:00] Oh, it was great.
[2:01] All the rest of them.
[2:02] It really was.
[2:20] She's so cute, she was over here a while ago.
[2:35] It's time to look at that bust of mine.
[2:39] Tom Foster Dawson's over in your other office.
[2:42] Yeah, I saw it.
[2:43] It's pretty good, I think, don't you?
[2:45] Sort of catching the...
[2:46] Yes.
[2:48] The way he looked.
[2:53] That's why I brought it.
[2:57] Yeah.
[2:58] Did he do that one too, the Dolphin?
[3:00] No, the Dolphin was done by David Water, who's still over at the stadium.
[3:09] He saw that John posted all the drops from Chicago with him.
[3:13] Oh.
[3:14] Or something, you know.
[3:16] I think he had a little test for protocol in the hospital.
[3:20] And he didn't want it to come through the channels and all that.
[3:30] But the fellow, the same fellow did the Churchill one that did the, you know, turn.
[3:38] He's really tricky.
[3:39] I think that one on Churchill we have over there, don't you think?
[3:42] Yes.
[3:44] Yeah.
[4:13] Do you have any kind of...
[4:44] I haven't seen the board.
[4:46] No more than five minutes.
[4:49] We know.
[5:08] Hey, Bob, we, the prayer practice people, only expect a very brief remark from them, and they don't have an opportunity for a damn big speech.
[5:38] Well, last year, Berger... Berger had the bad habit of talking too long.
[5:43] I went to dinner one night and he was just responding to a toast and it went on for a half hour.
[5:57] It was just painful.
[5:59] He's just a darling man, though.
[6:04] You know, it comes to 25 different endings, and it doesn't stop.
[6:11] It doesn't stop.
[6:12] That was what happened.
[6:14] I remember that.
[6:15] I remember that, too.
[6:18] I remember that.
[6:19] I haven't finished the damn thing.
[6:22] But I'm just not going to do that no more.
[6:23] I mean, they are really...
[6:40] I don't understand that.
[6:42] Of course, did you read the scripture?
[6:44] Ah, thank you.
[6:45] Well, even at the end of the day, they bring people from Europe here.
[6:49] I don't understand that.
[6:50] Well, I don't know if they are nice people, but, you know, Rosa, I...
[7:10] provide people with just keep you alive and just bug you and bug you and bug you and bug you.
[7:21] I've done the darn breakfast.
[7:23] I shouldn't have to do it every year.
[7:27] Well, I know I don't do them every year either.
[7:30] I don't do them.
[7:31] I do the cancer one one year and I do the dystrophy the next year.
[7:37] You know, you just can't
[7:39] Yeah, I know.
[7:40] It takes so much time.
[7:41] Anyway, we have too much of a submissive scene.
[7:45] Did they tell you that Dudley swam back today?
[7:54] Oh, yeah.
[7:54] No, I didn't know, but I'm not surprised.
[7:59] He's a big man.
[8:03] Probably had a heart attack.
[8:04] Heart attack, got me.
[8:09] It was over 70 roses.
[8:10] Oh, was it?
[8:11] I didn't realize that.
[8:12] I don't understand.
[8:13] I didn't realize that at all.
[8:17] You see, we're in a period now where we can expect many people to die.
[8:23] Oh, yeah.
[8:23] Ever since we've been in office, there's been an awful lot of people that you probably don't even know.
[8:31] I remember Tom Dilley, Dean Atchison.
[8:34] Well, they're old men.
[8:35] Yeah.
[8:37] They died.
[8:49] I don't need much.
[8:51] I have a lot of children.
[8:54] It's going to be so brief.
[9:01] So they know.
[9:04] It's all completed.
[9:09] Yeah, but they don't have a.
[9:12] They're giving a suggestion.
[9:15] Well, I.
[9:22] The last year was a horrible look.
[9:24] He got an invocation.
[9:26] Statement by Congressman Dave.
[9:27] Greedy by Congressman Hicks.
[9:30] Old Testament.
[9:31] Greedy by Dr. Herman.
[9:32] Solo with three British students.
[9:34] His testimony.
[9:35] Prayer of the next leader of Justice.
[9:38] Message from Mayor Walter Washington.
[10:11] Don't you agree?
[10:12] I do, because there aren't many people who just get up and they read just a few verses or they say something.
[10:22] It's just to be too long, especially when I do it.
[10:24] But obviously it's that long a program.
[10:26] But I know that they can't even be introduced and clapped for in less than two or three minutes.
[10:34] That's right.
[10:35] It's time to get people bored to death.
[10:39] That's right.
[10:40] And all your speeches are anachronistic.
[10:46] I don't know why they all want speeches, but they do.
[10:57] Why don't you come over and have a drink with Julie over there?
[11:01] Are you free?
[11:03] Um, yeah.
[11:04] I have to get a coke.