Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 829-014
Date: Monday, January 1, 1973 at 10:45 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Annenberg, Walter H.; Allen, George H.; Lumbroso, Felix; Lumbroso, Felix (Mrs.); Allen, Henrietta ("Etty"); Allen, George F.; Allen, Greg; Allen, Bruce; Allen, Jennifer; Farrell, Michael J.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/829-014

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[0:06] All right.
[0:07] All right.
[0:08] All right.
[0:24] How are you?
[0:26] Nice to see you, my father-in-law.
[0:30] I was two years to shake your hand.
[0:32] Since 1952 and with your courage.
[0:36] When you made the speech.
[0:39] Yes, yes.
[0:39] Because you were there then.
[0:42] Yes, yes.
[0:43] Yes, yes.
[0:51] Oh, beautiful.
[0:52] Yeah, beautiful.
[0:52] I notice you're leaving Sunday.
[0:53] Come on over.
[0:54] Let's, uh, probably we'll do something that will be, uh, we'll get some outside on Saturday.
[1:00] Let's get a picture for your, before we go out and get a press picture, let's get a picture for your family.
[1:07] George, you'll be here on my right.
[1:11] Here.
[1:12] Now, come on.
[1:15] We've got to do it in two different ways.
[1:17] Just the young people, just the immediate family.
[1:20] The girl that's standing, her father's brother.
[1:23] There you go.
[1:24] Now, come into your place.
[1:25] Now, we'll get you down to the pen.
[1:29] Hold on, hold on.
[1:30] Go to the pen and act.
[1:32] Now, look out and smile at that handsome fellow.
[1:38] Good.
[1:38] Now, use the voice of the boy and the, uh, the, uh, you come in, please.
[1:44] Say the thing perhaps that she said.
[1:47] Have a smile and say,
[1:50] Thank you.
[1:51] Well, uh,
[2:21] You know, I've shown this before, but I was looking at it this morning.
[2:28] Do you remember this ball?
[2:30] That's right.
[2:31] Did you know there are only three names, I think, on the team line, and they're yours, of course.
[2:38] You know, Lennox, right?
[2:41] What have you done?
[2:43] I don't know anything else.
[2:50] Yeah, yes, there is.
[2:51] How could he have been on that scene?
[2:53] Well, we got both sides.
[2:55] Oh, he's at East and West.
[2:57] Rosie Taylor's on it.
[2:59] Boy, did he get so much history.
[3:02] There it is.
[3:03] There you have it.
[3:04] Now, there's one other from Washington.
[3:06] Who else would be?
[3:09] Well, isn't that Vernon?
[3:11] No, it's not Vernon.
[3:13] No, it's not Vincent.
[3:15] It's not Vincent.
[3:15] It's not Vincent.
[3:16] It's not Vincent.
[3:18] It's not Vincent.
[3:19] It's not Vincent.
[3:20] So you want to have that verbal game.
[3:23] This is the truth.
[3:24] So I thought you could tell the trust out there.
[3:28] The truth is that you can't just see.
[3:31] There's us.
[3:31] There's us.
[3:32] There's us.
[3:34] There's us.
[3:35] There's us.
[3:36] There's us.
[3:38] There's us.
[3:39] There's us.
[3:40] There's us.
[3:54] Oh, the people on here.
[3:56] Is she still with you, Dan?
[3:58] There she is.
[4:00] So there she is.
[4:02] George, Rosie Taylor, Glenn Haas.
[4:06] How do you like that?
[4:08] A little bit soft.
[4:10] I hope it's pretty good, though.
[4:12] Thank you.
[4:16] I wrote a little note to her, and that's a little gift from her, too.
[4:22] And then for each of them, now for the
[4:42] This is the president with the presidential seal.
[4:47] That's what I'm sending to the daughter.
[4:51] Now, the boys, I don't know if you want to wear cuffs.
[4:56] That's the seal of the flag.
[4:58] That's why it's in colors.
[5:00] So if you don't want to wear cuffs, you don't have to wear cuffs.
[5:09] I probably won't for a reason.
[5:12] There's another reason that going to the games, the big games, the championship games,
[5:41] I actually went to a game.
[5:42] In fact, it was the only time I had gone to one since I've been off there, except for one Rams game, an exhibition game.
[5:49] That's when I went to the Nebraska-Oklahoma game.
[5:53] When I go to a game, 100 camp followers have to come home.
[5:56] We have to have 100 seats.
[5:58] That includes 50 members of the press, 40 secret service, and 10 senators.
[6:03] Now, go to that game, and to take those 100 seats away is just wrong.
[6:08] And I can see there's another way.
[6:12] Really?
[6:13] Yeah.
[6:34] You know, I made a statement.
[6:37] I didn't realize this to the press.
[6:41] I said, well, you know, Washington has no other franchise than the Redskins.
[6:49] And so we feel allegations.
[6:52] So one of the press wrote, well, I didn't mean that to them either.
[6:58] I didn't mean that.
[7:00] I thought they had something.
[7:01] Major League Baseball, no.
[7:03] Well, I thought we were after basketball.
[7:05] Well, you know, these guys were after basketball.
[7:09] Yeah, because they had that, you know.
[7:11] Miami doesn't have a minor league baseball team, though.
[7:15] They have a minor league baseball team.
[7:18] You are right.
[7:19] They do not have a major league baseball team.
[7:22] They have a minor league football club.
[7:25] Yeah, they've had different defenses.
[7:27] They've had football.
[7:28] They've had basketball.
[7:31] I think it's going to be Matthew Sparrow of California.
[7:35] Look, the main thing on this one.
[7:37] I'll tell you what we've done.
[7:38] I learned that you didn't have this day's tour of Christmas decorations.
[7:41] So if you would like to do something very special today, this place is in California.
[7:46] It's in Roseberry.
[7:49] And if you're looking at this, I'm having Mike Farrell take you up to the second floor of the White House.
[8:01] so that you could see the private room.
[8:05] In other words, the Lincoln head room and the famous tree room, which used to be the Lincoln's cabin room.
[8:11] The queen's room, where all the heads of state were staying.
[8:15] And then also you'd see the family Christmas tree, which is very beautiful.
[8:19] And you'd see the whole room where you'd see the heads of state.
[8:23] So the only people who get to see this are my friends in the family.
[8:29] So we thought we'd like to do
[8:31] I think the real problem there is to keep them up.
[8:41] I think it's good that it's two weeks.
[8:48] Now that I can be, I can really lay off for what we want to do for a week.
[8:55] And then that's it.
[8:59] that it has to come up slowly.
[9:00] I think getting out there and going down to Anaheim, that's a good place to be.
[9:06] How is that hotel?
[9:07] I've never been there, but I understand it's new.
[9:10] I've seen a man on fire.
[9:13] Check everything, make sure we have... Of course.
[9:15] I was so smart to have the... That was the... No, no.
[9:20] You have to take over the whole hotel.
[9:24] Let me tell you this.
[9:27] Just play the press the way you have.
[9:29] Keep them out.
[9:30] Oh, yeah.
[9:31] That's right.
[9:31] See, we've had four contracts.
[9:33] You'll get through.
[9:34] Four contracts in the last two weeks.
[9:36] And I kind of say, swill.
[9:38] Right.
[9:38] And you won.
[9:40] And a concentration game.
[9:41] I had with those guys out of there.
[9:43] And we did some things that we didn't want them to see.
[9:45] You know?
[9:46] Of course.
[9:46] And they always replied with closing.
[9:49] Oh, I wouldn't.
[9:50] I wouldn't.
[9:51] Well, how do you know when a press guy is in three months?
[9:54] I could be on the tape, right?
[9:55] And they don't even know any better.
[9:57] Some of them are here.
[9:59] Yeah, right.
[10:00] They'd rather see it.
[10:02] But that takes more reward.
[10:04] Well, you'll have to know.
[10:07] Going back to L.A., what a day for you.
[10:12] I was going to say, I don't see how, what you did in that Rams game.
[10:16] I was in, oh, let's see, the A-stars.
[10:21] I'm not going to do it right now.
[10:24] I hear it on the radio, and I'm going for it.
[10:27] But it's another issue, and it seems that I'm always a fraud.
[10:31] You played the Miami in the preseason in 2017, 24.
[10:34] I was in Kanaka, Japan, and I was walking the speedball back after the score.
[10:43] And I was in Kanaka, Kanaka, Kanaka, Kanaka, Kanaka, Kanaka, Kanaka, Kanaka.
[10:51] I walked back to the room, and I heard the story.
[10:56] I said, well, I'll place a small bet that those two teams would be considerable.
[11:02] Well, you can tell the guy.
[11:04] All right.
[11:04] He walked out.
[11:05] It's so nice.
[11:20] All right.