Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 796-003
Date: Thursday, October 12, 1972 at 9:45 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/796-003

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[0:00] You get these for us, we all.
[0:03] Yeah.
[0:04] It's the best thing you can make that you don't want to see.
[0:12] Okay, we'll do it.
[0:13] Seriously.
[0:50] Okay, Monday, it's, uh, whatever news you were mentioning, the week, whatever you wanted, that Bud Krug and Jaffee and Pam were speaking to the, uh, the, uh, council, the council, the council, the cabinet, when you got by the cabinet, it was about this, about this, and it's, I, what is that, like, I'm going to take it, Monday's the campaign, we're going to speak to the campaign, okay, so I won't be here, I, you know, I can't do it.
[1:20] We'll be up there Monday all day.
[1:28] The only other thing is Foreign Minister O'Hara.
[1:33] Japan is in here to greet some of our people.
[1:35] Tanaka's...
[1:35] I don't see him, is it?
[1:38] I don't see him.
[1:41] I just saw him.
[1:43] Yeah, you saw him on the line.
[1:45] That's just terrible.
[1:47] I should be
[1:51] Do you understand?
[1:51] Yes, I understand.
[1:52] It's just that we have to for Japanese-American relations.
[1:55] I'll do it.
[1:56] Seriously?
[1:57] Yes, sir.
[1:58] That could be Tuesday, you mean?
[1:59] No, that would be toward the end of the week, Thursday.
[2:02] Oh, right.
[2:02] Just Thursday.
[2:03] Yeah.
[2:04] Right.
[2:04] He leaves in the Senate.
[2:06] Well, it can't be Friday.
[2:08] Nothing on Wednesday or Thursday.
[2:11] I've got to beat all politics next week, and I want to be moderate in this crowd.
[2:16] Okay.
[2:17] So Tuesday I'll do a little stuff.
[2:19] Nothing Wednesday, nothing Thursday.
[2:21] Wednesday, I think there's one little guy.
[2:23] Yeah, I'll read it.
[2:25] I don't see it this night.
[2:27] Nothing here.
[2:27] But Wednesday and Thursday, I'll be tied up.
[2:31] Yes, sir.
[2:32] Thursday afternoon, I could do something around 4 o'clock.
[2:34] That's about the way it adds up.
[2:37] All right.
[2:38] In other words, if they feel it's urgent,
[2:41] Urgent.
[2:41] Put it off until Friday.
[2:42] Put it off until just before his departure.
[2:44] I think he departs Friday night, now that I look at this.
[2:46] Sure.
[2:47] Well, he'd worth late Thursday afternoon.
[2:50] Or Friday.
[2:50] Right.
[2:50] Or Tuesday.
[2:51] Right.