Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 662-006
Date: Tuesday, February 1, 1972 at 11:53 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Scott, David R. (Col.); Scott, David R. (Mrs.); Irwin, James B. (Col.); Irwin, James B. (Mrs.); Worden, Alfred M. (Lt. Col.); Flanigan, Peter M.; Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; White House photographer; Bull, Stephen B.; Nixon, Richard M. (President); Scott, David R. (Col.); Scott, David R. (Mrs.); Irwin, James B. (Col.); Irwin, James B. (Mrs.); Worden, Alfred M. (Lt. Col.); Flanigan, Peter M.; Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; White House photographer; Bull, Stephen B.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/662-006

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[0:07] I'm glad to see you again, Tommy.
[0:08] I heard a word from you.
[0:09] I'm glad to see you again, Tommy.
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[0:10] I'm glad to see you again, Tommy.
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[0:35] Oh, we want to get this for the purposes of their Voice of America and that sort of thing.
[1:04] What would you like to tell her?
[1:08] I don't know if that's right.
[1:10] Well, she isn't, huh?
[1:12] How's that?
[1:14] All right.
[1:15] Good as it goes.
[1:17] You asked for it.
[1:19] You asked for it.
[1:20] Most of you got the idea that her wife is a mom.
[1:33] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[1:57] Where you were, it didn't do you as long.
[2:02] You just held her out, and you decided to sit down.
[2:09] And all of them decided to force off and do that.
[2:14] Yeah.
[2:15] Yeah.
[2:15] Yeah.
[2:22] Because, you know, it's actually a great tragedy that those people have to live on those damn old counties.
[2:31] You know, the Poles, the Poles hate that.
[2:37] They'll be with us in a minute.
[2:38] I mean, if they have a chance to do it.
[2:41] Oh, there are no questions.
[2:42] And they have to, but it's there.
[2:43] And you get the same impression in Hungary, in Slovakia, in Maine, in all those countries.
[2:52] It just seems that all aren't, frankly, a lot of us there are Europeans.
[3:03] It's really a general situation.
[3:08] And any of you who have been there before, you know that our country is not so good.
[3:14] But it seems to be great.
[3:19] Or do you want to go next?
[3:42] Well, I'll tell you.
[3:47] What's the next ?
[3:49] You're all Air Force.
[3:51] What's the next one?
[3:58] Is it Air Force or Air Force?
[4:05] It's .
[4:13] You got what you need now for just Poland, Yugoslavia, America, and so forth and so on.
[4:23] Great.
[4:24] Well, I must say, we're awfully proud of you.
[4:29] We're proud of you now, so are you.
[4:36] Space witness, these travels.
[4:44] in those foreign countries, and I would hope in this country, you know, to remember that, you know, there are lots of people here who will appreciate it.
[4:58] I'm still a fascination with it, despite what you've agreed with on tolls and all that sort of thing.
[5:03] I was very fascinated by you as people, as people.
[5:05] I was grateful that we had the opportunity.
[5:08] Yeah, sure.
[5:12] But I mean, here at the United States, you get around everything that we want to do, and we're just people in this world.
[5:25] So you just start following.
[5:26] I mean, you just start following.
[5:30] We have very few, well, not a lot of good stars.
[5:32] We have all the same ones.
[5:35] We're all looking to change the universe.
[5:39] Do you follow, sir?
[5:43] Well, I guess it's something that happens here.
[5:47] So I appreciate you giving it a round.
[5:53] It's a pleasure for us to be able to do it.
[5:55] People really like it here.
[5:57] Wherever we go, we have these things they want.
[6:01] Well, he had the right of insurance.
[6:02] He made it out of the U.S. government.
[6:07] He had a group that comes by there.
[6:10] This is a shape like a car.
[6:13] They don't even believe in that.
[6:16] No, we don't believe in that.
[6:17] But once we've been there, we should see.
[6:28] We need to practice a little bit.
[6:30] No, we'll send you.
[6:30] It's a long way.
[6:31] We'll send you by this morning.
[6:32] Practice soft landing.
[6:33] We've got a million of them.
[6:34] Well, then, I'll put us along there practicing.
[6:41] Oh, oh, oh, this is the new space lab, the shuttle, designed to share the land.
[6:53] On the ground, right?
[6:56] You go to the moon, right?
[6:57] Absolutely, absolutely.
[6:58] You've got to see what you've got.
[7:00] So, as a matter of fact, it was interesting to hear what our friends in Poland responded upon that.
[7:09] One of the great things about the space shuttle is that it will allow that management of operations just for the first time.
[7:22] You couldn't have a tight crew, three-volts, you know, I mean, you can't just, that's what it does.
[7:30] force that they kind of set up, you know, the Europeans or something to work.
[7:37] But in the case here, you could pay six or eight.
[7:41] It's like a bus.
[7:43] They get up there and decide as you look around.
[7:54] Anyway, if you get your watch, it's fine.
[7:55] That's all, sir.
[7:56] Yes, sir.
[7:56] Yes, sir.
[7:56] You've got your complexion.
[7:57] Oh, here.
[7:57] Thank you very much, sir.
[7:58] Thank you very much.
[8:01] Oh, no, no, thank you.
[8:05] Here.
[8:06] Just for that small favor, anybody who does want to come, please.
[8:11] We won't disturb that.
[8:18] That's a good reason.
[8:20] Ah!
[8:21] Well, anyway, we'll...
[8:34] You were ready to go anyplace else for my call.
[8:40] Yes, sir.
[8:41] Yes, sir.
[8:41] Oh.
[8:42] Oh.
[8:42] Oh.
[8:43] Well, we probably wouldn't need so much for lunch, either, if we didn't have all the musicians around playing mini-songs.
[8:56] Everybody getting rid of it.
[9:06] It's good to see you again.
[9:13] We'll be calling.
[9:14] Thank you, sir.
[9:16] All right.
[9:31] We were at Camp David's, and by the way, I was there with people who were so concerned.
[9:37] I knew that, but they were lying.
[9:39] They wrote the cards.
[9:39] Mr. President, after our visit here, while he was in school, and they were discussing white house, he told his classmates that he was the president.
[9:48] He was out there as the president, and he was the president.
[9:58] Which he did, all by himself.
[10:00] Oh, yeah.
[10:00] And we'll leave for him.
[10:03] So you're going to get there early next time.
[10:06] I'll tell you, I'm going to take him.
[10:09] Isn't that wonderful?
[10:10] I mean, this is true of all of your actions.
[10:15] It's great.
[10:16] But it's a, it's a problem.
[11:00] Steve.
[11:01] Yes, sir.
[11:02] Yeah.
[11:02] Well, I'm not Steve, but anyway.
[11:05] Here's what it is.
[11:07] He signed your name, et cetera, et cetera.
[11:17] For all that, our kids.
[11:22] Is that what it is?
[11:25] Is that what it is?
[11:30] Thank you.