Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 683-006
Date: Monday, March 13, 1972 at 12:02 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.; [Unknown person(s)]; Whitman, Marina von Neumann; Whitman, Robert (Dr.); Whitman, Malcolm; Whitman, Laura; Pierce, Josephine; Stein, Herbert; Solomon, Ezra; Shultz, George P.; Safire, William L.; Franklin, Barbara H.; McArdle, Paul; White House photographer
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/683-006

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[2:39:49] Oh, I have something I want to tell you, my son.
[2:39:56] As you can catch me squeezing down.
[2:40:01] OK?
[2:40:02] Have a good rest of your day.
[2:40:05] Get ready.
[2:41:14] Yeah, yeah.
[2:41:48] Just a moment.
[2:41:52] Miss Whippen, you stand right here, please.
[2:41:56] Right here, thank you.
[2:41:57] Right here, thank you.
[2:41:58] Miss Whippen, stand right next to me.
[2:42:00] Go ahead, check your throat.
[2:42:04] Stand right here.
[2:42:08] And right over on the side here.
[2:42:11] Stay with the rest of your family.
[2:42:37] Thank you.
[2:42:54] Yeah.
[2:43:31] They're all in the same room.
[2:43:37] Ready to go.
[2:43:37] Perfect.
[2:44:03] I, uh, have a revival for you.
[2:44:04] All right.
[2:44:48] that I will bear his face and allegiance to his name, that I take the time of his execution, that I take his validation freely, without any mental reservation, without any mental reservation, or purpose for his name, that I do as well
[2:45:08] But I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am vacuumed.
[2:45:15] So help me God.
[2:45:24] I wonder if anybody could get us some pictures or something.
[2:45:25] Oh, yeah, I think they do.
[2:45:51] No, this is Malcolm Whitman.
[2:45:53] You're number one.
[2:45:54] No, this is Malcolm Whitman.
[2:45:55] You're number one.
[2:45:57] Yes.
[2:45:57] And Laura is number two.
[2:45:58] Laura, let's see.
[2:46:00] Let me set this up right here.
[2:46:09] Right here.
[2:46:16] Why don't you stay?
[2:46:17] Why don't you stay right over here?
[2:46:22] There you go.
[2:46:23] We'll be looking out there.
[2:46:35] We'll give you all a copy of this picture.
[2:46:38] Now, if we could have all of the family step out and let's get the council panel in.
[2:46:44] We've got the whole council in this way.
[2:46:56] Press the button.
[2:47:00] I'll take one of the council loans.
[2:47:09] So you can have a .
[2:47:12] Do you want to be in the middle or should you be in the middle?
[2:47:20] I should be in the middle.
[2:47:23] Everything's coming up except for .
[2:47:28] Now you've got everything here.
[2:47:32] Do you want to get one of them, George?
[2:47:34] And if you'd like to get this one, George, you don't have to stand up.
[2:47:42] Now we've covered everybody.
[2:47:48] Well, first of all, so now we've got it.
[2:47:52] We've got an extra arm.
[2:47:53] We've got to get it out there a couple times.
[2:47:56] And I'm trying to get the wire to seal it.
[2:47:59] Right.
[2:48:00] And here's for you.
[2:48:05] Well, Mr. Covenant, you don't have to wear it, though, but if you do want to wear it some day, if you do, that's a little less presidential seal, a little bolder than you can wear it.
[2:48:16] And it's worth losing the part of it.
[2:48:19] But I'm sure it's going to be different.
[2:48:21] You've got this for loaning her to us.
[2:48:26] I love that.
[2:48:28] You will be good.
[2:48:29] You're going to be here in Washington, right?
[2:48:32] Yes, I will.
[2:48:33] Good, good, good.
[2:48:36] We're talking about that.
[2:48:38] Thank you.
[2:48:44] Listen, just get the council's reports in a kind of language I can understand right here.
[2:48:56] Do you understand?
[2:49:01] Well, I'll tell you a story.
[2:49:03] There's one thing that was snuck into that.
[2:49:07] My grandmother's favorite animal was an elephant.
[2:49:12] So somewhere, even among all the grasses on it, is an elephant.
[2:49:22] An elephant?
[2:49:23] That's right.
[2:49:24] Well, that's right.
[2:49:25] We'll find that elephant.
[2:49:28] You know, it's going to be looming.
[2:49:33] I heard a pretty good voice this morning.
[2:49:36] Oh, yeah.
[2:49:38] That's the .
[2:49:38] These trees are .
[2:49:41] The ones down there are .
[2:49:44] One of the greatest .
[2:49:51] And the garden is planted here.
[2:49:55] The tulips are planted.
[2:49:58] The tulips are planted.
[2:50:01] We'll bring them back .
[2:50:06] This is an interesting thing here.
[2:50:11] It's for Anne Heard, the ambassador to Paris.
[2:50:15] This makes it seem as interesting as it seems to me.
[2:50:26] It's one of those .
[2:50:28] You know that .
[2:50:39] Oh, is that the beautiful building on the street?
[2:50:45] It's really impressive.
[2:50:46] If you go on there and you look back at the building, or you look back at the fountain, that's a stupid place to live.
[2:50:52] That's where they let me sit.
[2:50:53] Someday we're going to my yard and go back and see it.
[2:50:56] We've been to the building.
[2:50:58] Well, good to see you.
[2:51:00] You did a good job here.
[2:51:01] Thank you very much.
[2:51:02] What we call our first stage.
[2:51:04] All right.
[2:51:04] Now next, she's got to be chairman.
[2:51:06] Oh!
[2:51:06] When you get ready, sir, I'm gonna rule you out.
[2:51:07] You understand?
[2:51:07] What are your policies with that group of sirs that you're acting towards moving out?
[2:51:10] Oh, yeah.
[2:51:10] Take a look at their walk-in.
[2:51:11] That's it.
[2:51:11] Bye.
[2:51:47] That's a little cruel word to do against the day of the election.
[2:51:52] Oh, yes, I remember reading that.
[2:51:52] That's the only person I remember.
[2:51:55] Did you say that one?
[2:51:56] Would you remember the person?
[2:52:02] No.
[2:52:02] I don't remember that one.
[2:52:03] And that's the White House.
[2:52:04] Gears met the British years ago before the winds were put off.
[2:52:08] The river was much closer.
[2:52:10] That's more than worth it.
[2:52:12] This wing was put on by Theodore Roosevelt.
[2:52:16] The other wing was put on before that.
[2:52:18] And it's weird to see it right up there.
[2:52:21] Where did it go?
[2:52:22] The long ball.
[2:52:25] The long ball.
[2:52:26] And they cut it off with a great head.
[2:52:29] And then they filled in.
[2:52:35] This little, this little tree came from Pete King.
[2:52:36] Oh, this little tree came from Pete King?
[2:52:38] Yeah, yeah.
[2:52:38] Oh, it's really enjoying it.
[2:52:39] It's part of the thing.
[2:52:40] They are, they are.
[2:52:40] Have you ever been to the Washington Zoo in the morning?
[2:52:42] Of course not.
[2:52:42] Have you ever been to the Washington Zoo in the morning?
[2:52:44] Of course not.
[2:52:44] Have you ever been to the Washington Zoo in the morning?
[2:52:46] Of course not.
[2:52:46] Have you ever been to the Washington Zoo in the morning?
[2:52:48] Of course not.
[2:52:49] Have you ever been to the Washington Zoo in the morning?
[2:52:50] Of course not.
[2:52:51] Have you ever been to the Washington Zoo in the morning?
[2:52:52] Of course not.
[2:52:52] Have you ever been to the Washington Zoo in the morning?
[2:52:54] Of course not.
[2:52:54] Have you ever been to the Washington Zoo in the morning?
[2:52:56] Of course not.
[2:52:56] Have you ever been to the Washington Zoo in the morning?
[2:52:58] Of course not.
[2:52:58] Have you ever been to the Washington Zoo in the morning?
[2:53:00] Of course not.
[2:53:00] Have you ever been to the Washington Zoo in the morning?
[2:53:02] Of course not.
[2:53:02] Have you
[2:53:05] There are only, at the present time, two pandas.
[2:53:08] One in London and another in the other European city.
[2:53:14] A lot outside of China.
[2:53:17] Only two in the world.
[2:53:19] They only tear pandas off.
[2:53:21] They have one Russian, one Russian, one Russian, one Russian, one Russian, one Russian, one Russian, one Russian, one Russian, one Russian,
[2:53:39] Good to see you.
[2:53:41] Oh, thank you.
[2:53:44] That's right.
[2:53:45] All right.
[2:54:06] All right.
[2:54:07] Do you want to leave that student class up here?
[2:54:09] Yeah, I'll leave it there for a while.
[2:54:11] For a while, yeah, go ahead.