Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 709-001
Date: Monday, April 17, 1972 at 8:36 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President)
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/709-001

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[0:00] This is a Mary Hansen profile that we have inscribed.
[0:03] These are some random notes from a visit from the governor's family.
[0:11] His ancestors had come from England.
[0:19] They were English leaders in the Pennsylvania colony.
[0:23] And they explained the very, very interesting fact that my mother's
[0:30] Ancestors came from Ireland, but that's the name of the colony.
[0:36] The Michener, who writes, is primarily an orphan who's adopted.
[0:44] But it is the same Michener family.
[0:49] I met Robertson, the opposite number of Bertrand, who spoke to
[0:54] Trudeau about what high regard I had for training all the soldiers in the system, which provided for the continuity of dedicated civil service officers.
[1:05] Robertson, in Trudeau's presence, said, well, maybe it wasn't too good an idea because there needed to be changes of government in order to get rid of the spiking bureaucracy, which otherwise looked good.