Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 746-005
Date: Saturday, July 1, 1972 at 9:45 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Bull, Stephen B.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/746-005

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[0:12] Good.
[0:12] Eat with a lot of that at the end.
[0:15] That's good money.
[0:16] You've got to think the last two billion.
[0:23] That makes a lot of sense.
[0:30] It makes a lot of good news.
[0:33] Do you think that you really can sell?
[0:42] I think maybe you're right.
[1:10] That text won't be running or anything.
[1:11] It wasn't.
[1:13] I wouldn't think so.
[1:14] We'll release it.
[1:16] But I don't think that what they'll run is that they'll say it is.
[1:19] It's technically run.
[1:20] I don't know.
[1:21] The second paragraph will run.
[1:23] Yeah, that one.
[2:22] I don't know.
[2:23] I just have to be sure the damn thing's still on.
[2:26] I think that's all.
[2:28] I'm going to make sure we all know.
[2:29] I don't know.
[2:31] There's no need for you to join.
[2:33] I asked you to call.
[2:34] Okay, we're going to confirm.
[2:37] We're just going to confirm.
[2:40] We're not going to do it until 6 or 12 30 because Gregor has a press conference this morning wrapping up the congressional session which had been set up for us to read.
[2:57] Oh, yeah.
[2:57] I'm sure.
[2:58] Especially if you're a candidate.
[3:27] be sure to make a note.
[3:29] I felt we've got to cover most of the people.
[3:31] I haven't covered the others, but I just wanted to know.
[3:34] Would you be sure that Abby's wedding is the wedding that I want, not the job?
[3:41] I'm going to attend.
[3:45] We'll be here in Washington.
[3:50] I just want to be sure I'm not awful at
[3:56] I got an interview with Bob, and said, hey, Julie, take care of it.
[4:01] He called Steve and said that he wanted to put on his schedule.
[4:03] Would you follow through with the MSC staff?
[4:07] I asked them to read through all the records of my conversations around here.
[4:10] My conversations.
[4:10] They picked the, they picked the anecdotes out.
[4:17] I mean, we had it on every single one of them.
[4:27] I've got the filing.
[4:30] The other thing you asked for, which was the impressions of the evening and the adoption.
[4:38] Did that talk about who drank?
[4:40] Well, this is the case.
[4:43] You know, who drank what, not the cigarettes they smoked.
[4:46] That's what I said.
[4:48] Good.
[4:48] So, the only purpose of this is to find out.
[4:52] I don't need it.
[4:53] Okay.
[4:54] I don't need it.
[4:55] I just want to
[4:58] Another thing, I'm going to have Weinberger come out sometime next week and talk to him about the questions he has.
[5:06] He's always like, come with me, but I want Weinberger to come.
[5:11] Maybe I should come with both of these.
[5:13] Yeah, I'll cover both of these.
[5:25] Ken Berg, one last thing.
[5:28] I made a decision on it.
[5:30] There's no problem now about the tennis court.
[5:32] I don't want you to mention this to the tennis players around here.
[5:37] But at appropriate time, whenever you're talking to Walter Hamburg, say the president would not mention this to you, but he found that you could give the tennis court a chance.
[5:47] I mean, that pool, he feels it would be a wonderful thing.
[5:52] He would like it.
[5:56] I want to work a tennis court.
[5:58] And that's not that tennis court.
[6:10] And the reason I'm going to say this is because you're going to find that you play the rest of the time.
[6:14] But I asked, I said, Walter, how many presidents have played tennis in Japan?
[6:19] You know, about this century.
[6:23] And he goes, he goes, what else?
[6:26] Teddy didn't fight much.
[6:28] Teddy was more a hiker.
[6:30] And Wilson was a golfer.
[6:32] Wilson was an out-golfer.
[6:33] You seldom, seldom hear of Wilson ever in a tennis court.
[6:37] Not in a tennis court.
[6:38] It's not for folks.
[6:39] I mean, it isn't for older people.
[6:41] You know what I mean?
[6:42] Very new play.
[6:43] So I think pool is all right.
[6:45] What do you think?
[6:47] And there's no problem with it.
[6:48] It's a delightful play.
[6:49] So you can get included.
[6:50] This is good enough, but I think it can't be.
[6:51] I think it can be, you know, it can be what it is.
[6:57] Hold up, because the other hand can be done, which you might want to do.
[7:03] If we start from scratch, just make it a saltwater pool.
[7:07] I didn't know that.
[7:08] It would have cost a fortune to ship this old saltwater.
[7:12] I think you can do that.
[7:14] I may not be able to keep a saltwater pool.
[7:18] Anyway, go up.
[7:20] Okay.