Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 829-011
Date: Monday, January 1, 1973 at 9:35 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/829-011

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[0:27] This kind of delegation, of course, is, whether it is inaugurating a funeral, a celebration of an annual day or what have you, is a way that we can reward some of our loyalists.
[0:46] Inevitably, the very few who come from states named some former ambassador or some state department type
[0:57] The other tendency is to overload it with official types like the vice president, chaplain, officers, etc.
[1:10] In the case of the Pearson delegation, we would have gotten up in such a hurry that the only names that were submitted to me were the official type.
[1:28] State Department recommendations and a couple of labor leaders in Colson.
[1:38] What we need here is to look at major financial contributors, major political supporters, major publishers, and
[1:57] are loyalists in Congress, as well as some of the loyalists in the majority.
[2:10] And they have a list of about 100 from which we can crawl in the future whenever we have to put together an delegation in a hurry.
[2:21] This way, it will not be done on the basis of who happens to be the most vigorous
[2:28] and getting his constituency represented on the delegation.
[2:42] Paragraph.
[2:44] On this list, I want the, I want officials from the administration, I want a representation from administration officials kept to the bare minimum necessary to give it
[2:59] uh the uh status that uh give the delegation status uh what we need to do is put down the line they've got some other names