Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 786-009
Date: Monday, September 25, 1972 at 10:27 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/786-009

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[0:00] This is the
[0:27] The guy here may suggest that these are the two John Warner and Bill Gacy.
[0:34] That's OK. We'll go ahead with that.
[0:39] And these are his alternatives.
[0:42] I don't need to have water.
[0:43] I have grass.
[0:44] And I have a limb.
[0:58] Okay, and then the Soviets here.
[1:00] Even the Soviets have asked for enemies recommended in the addition of three Soviets.
[1:05] All right, I'm all for that.
[1:07] Okay, and then the custom Americans.
[1:09] Where are the Americans?
[1:13] These are the ones we directed.
[1:14] If we had three Soviets, we could have... Oh, no, we don't have the same number.
[1:20] Yes, sir.
[1:21] What are the Americans?
[1:22] We have myself, Rogers, and... That's what moves.
[1:26] But you're six to four, if you know that.
[1:29] That makes ten.
[1:30] We had three anyway.
[1:33] We had three Soviets.
[1:34] We got ten anyway.
[1:38] Six to four, ten.
[1:40] That's not bad.
[1:41] I think ten is enough for them.
[1:56] Yeah, there's only suggestions on that same list there, so you don't have any.
[2:00] All right, here.
[2:01] Just like that.
[2:01] And there's only suggestions on that list.
[2:05] If you don't see anyone there, you might want to go with it.
[2:08] 64, accommodation.
[2:09] Yeah, well, I don't think we're handing that one over.
[2:16] Is that Aspen, where we're going?
[2:19] Yeah.
[2:19] Yeah, we always have it there on that day.
[2:22] Let me think.
[2:57] If we were to ask, we ought to have an officer that would visit us there.
[3:01] You see, one thing you've got to do, Alex, is not to have so many people that are from the White House staff.
[3:19] You've got to have just your officers.
[3:21] And that's kind of good.
[3:25] You don't need to have hate.
[3:27] You don't need to have a son involved.
[3:30] See what I mean?
[3:31] Should we overdo that?
[3:32] And you don't need to have plenty.
[3:36] I mean, that's just too damn many.
[3:48] That's my point.
[3:49] Let me look at the pen here.
[4:00] I would say Butts and Peterson should be added.
[4:13] Now if you miss one of them, you've got to have somebody else.
[4:19] I'd have Russ Crane or David.
[4:27] They were trained, it might be, but the Butson-Peterson, let's add a couple of cabin officers to that, maybe 12, okay.
[4:33] They were trained on these alternatives to Butson-Peterson.
[4:36] Yeah, oh, sure, sure.
[4:36] I meant it.
[4:37] I want 12, I don't want 11.
[4:41] On this one, I know that Kearns is good, and I know that Lynn is good, I suppose.
[4:44] He's good.
[4:44] Anybody care to hear anything?
[4:50] Well, he wants to do everything.
[4:52] He's a whiner, but he does work hard.
[4:54] The minute he responds...
[4:59] And if neither of them can come, see, there's no reason for you to bring him there.
[5:06] How many of you have him for you?
[5:08] Sixteen.
[5:10] We've already had sixteen.
[5:11] Where is he?
[5:17] I don't know if I can show the sense of that, but I'd be sure to put Krummer's raising a medal in or something to Mrs. Nexon.
[5:23] I don't want to be here tomorrow.
[5:26] I mean, I'll do it.
[5:26] I'll do it.
[5:30] Good God, why the hell would it?
[5:33] Have you already invited these people inside?
[5:35] No, I'm not invited.
[5:40] Well, let's have you.
[5:40] I don't see any reason to have Peterson.
[5:44] You have him for the other one.
[5:47] Let's write him off.
[5:52] Bush is a good one.
[5:53] Well, Bush should be the alternative.
[5:57] Rather, he should be the alternative, because rather than David, they're trying to... First off, first off, it would be Bush.
[6:13] Why the hell would they ask for the president?
[6:18] He's such a brown, dismissal.
[6:21] Let's take Peterson off.
[6:24] The trouble is...
[6:29] Thank you.
[7:09] And I just thought, oh, he's, well, Bolin has had an operation, hasn't he?
[7:19] No, no, no, no.
[7:22] Yeah, that was, I think he had.
[7:26] Just checked to see if he could possibly come to the, you know, Bolin to Russia.
[7:33] Yeah.
[7:33] And have him as the, you see, rather than as the alternate.
[7:38] See, Peterson's Bucks.
[7:40] Peterson's Bucks, one of them may be out of town.
[7:42] Don't let him cancel anything.
[7:46] And I don't want Bush and Bolt in there, so we've got to take him off.
[7:50] If he takes one, then they'll let me know.
[7:53] Supposedly, first off, his health is, yeah, good.
[7:58] Just so you know, he's in private, yeah.
[8:02] Thank you.
[8:53] We've got to find an owner for Peterson and maybe one for Bush for the distribution area.
[9:02] Find some other owners that are here.
[9:07] Goals.
[9:07] Check them so we can check them by this afternoon.
[10:08] The only farmer ambassador for Britain I can think of is Chuck Whitney.
[10:31] I think he might be a pretty good one to have.
[10:36] asshole, but anyways, he was a former ambassador.
[10:41] He might put him on to the British dinner to head.
[10:46] If not, then I'd go maybe to, uh, to find these.
[11:02] Check first with, uh,
[11:05] All of it.
[11:05] See what he's attributed.
[11:07] He hasn't attributed it.
[11:09] You know what I mean?
[11:12] Maybe it is.
[11:43] That's all right.
[11:44] I think you've got a pretty good going here.
[11:47] Fair enough.
[11:48] Good.