Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 815-015
Date: Friday, November 24, 1972 at 11:38 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/815-015

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[0:04] We intend to cover this with a small pool in New York, just a basic 10-man pool.
[0:19] I'm sure once you're there, there'll be other press around, but we can handle it like we have before without much.
[0:31] I've got to be sure that somebody is there.
[0:35] I'll be there with that officer.
[0:38] Just so that I just want to be sure that I don't want to be caught by somebody with a mic.
[0:46] And if you could go, I'll be down at the farm.
[0:54] You can call it a little bit of a restaurant, a theater tonight.
[0:57] We'll handle it the way we have to.
[0:57] I don't know about the barricades.
[0:59] No, with regard to time.
[0:59] I'm just going to say we just went there for, uh, I don't know what the hell you say you're going for.
[1:11] Well, what I'd like to do, Mr. President, is to say that since Election Day, you have been working on...
[1:14] restructuring and reorganization and the transition to the second term.
[1:19] You decided that you'd take a break this weekend to take the family to New York?
[1:26] I'd like to say take a break from the work.
[1:46] I haven't had constant touch with you and I haven't given instructions to him on everything.
[2:07] But I mean, we continue to make that point.
[2:15] Okay.
[2:15] The, uh, we're back for lunch later.
[2:18] I should go by 9.
[2:22] We'll probably go to Cote Blanche for one of the two races.
[2:26] I'm going to leave all that loose.
[2:28] Yeah, I'll leave the flight out loose.
[2:30] Until about 9.
[2:30] I'm not going to hang on.
[2:31] I'm not going to leave you back there.
[2:33] I'm not going to stay all the way there.
[2:37] Well, when I do go to the law firm and say why you didn't do my will, is that she had never been there since the election.
[2:42] And I guess it was an option for someone who was supposed to say hello to his old colleagues.
[2:49] Anyway, you haven't been there since the first election.
[2:54] That's right, since the election of 68, right?
[2:59] Well, you guys up there, if you just want to say hello to everybody, if you just want to say hello to your old colleagues.
[3:04] If a guy does jump up, I'll always be there, but you know, they sometimes sneak out of somewhere else.
[3:07] Would you stand while Buckley always has me, or give me him a second?
[3:10] I'll handle that.
[3:11] Any questions, everyone?
[3:19] Okay, I'm leaving your plans loose until you decide for next week.
[3:24] They'll say, well, I think I will return to the campaign.
[3:27] Good.
[3:27] I got it.
[3:27] We decided that the president will return, and we'll resume his meetings at the campaign.
[3:34] I talked to Bob earlier about this.
[3:35] If we could begin, if you're ready, if we could begin to make some announcements in Camp David next week, that really solidifies the whole Camp David scene.
[3:44] Well, we've been thinking about possibly announcing the entire camp in the next year in Camp David.
[3:50] It would be excellent.
[3:55] Yes, sir.
[3:55] Or even in a series of steps.
[3:57] But I don't necessarily remember.
[3:59] You see, we did the hair.
[4:01] I suppose you could put heaters in there.
[4:03] Oh, they're hangers, sir.
[4:03] It's heated up.
[4:04] You could take the hanger, set the thing up, and so forth and so on.
[4:07] If I could press up, and they could get a hell of a pool up there and have them come up.
[4:12] They'd all come up.
[4:14] They'd all come up.
[4:15] We'd have them filed out of here, and they'd trade on there, and I'm going to announce it again, and have lunch on it.
[4:23] Or there's a bunch of briefs and all that.
[4:25] Well, however you decide.
[4:26] I just think that cabinets...
[4:28] You did it in a unique way in 68 or 69.
[4:32] It's been done a lot of different ways.
[4:33] This solidifies the whole Camp David thing.
[4:36] It means that Camp David isn't a retreat.
[4:38] Camp David is really an extension of the White House.
[4:42] It's hard for them to get that across.
[4:44] But this would be .
[4:46] They recognize that they are getting too much across.
[4:52] They don't.
[4:52] But they got that news on there.
[4:56] And they got this last week, but I mean, this was solidified.
[4:59] Right.
[5:01] Okay.
[5:03] Okay, let's see.
[5:04] It's pretty good.
[5:07] Pretty good.
[5:08] They're still waiting, waiting for some things.
[5:13] Well, last week was helpful, I think, with the...
[5:17] Right after this period of time, you've got to get your ducks in the room.
[5:23] No more questions.
[5:24] They can all write about other things.
[5:25] See the peace thing's going?
[5:28] This is excellent this weekend.
[5:29] This is a good tone this weekend.
[5:31] Oh, yeah.
[5:31] Yeah, I don't get up.
[5:34] I see it.
[5:34] I see it in people.
[5:35] This is great.
[5:35] I don't get up.
[5:36] I don't get all those things.
[5:42] And doing it on this basis, taking a break with the families.
[5:44] But they're going to break with this family over the weekend.
[5:48] Right.
[5:49] We'll leave at 12.45 tomorrow.
[5:54] Good.
[5:54] Okay, Ron.
[5:54] Thank you, sir.
[5:55] See you today.