Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 831-015
Date: Wednesday, January 3, 1973 at 2:52 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/831-015

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[0:09] and so forth and so on and so on.
[0:14] You know what I mean?
[0:15] You could really have about one a day.
[0:20] And I'm not even sure that you've got that coach coming in, but you're getting lots of pressures for basically the jackass kind of stuff.
[0:31] And generally speaking, I don't think it's worth an hour a day at this point.
[0:36] I mean, I think about...
[0:43] Basically, as we know, this is not something that is done for our purposes.
[0:47] It's basically done for the purposes of the people coming in.
[0:54] And you'll have to sit down and talk about this issue.
[0:58] It's just written right now.
[1:02] I don't want a congressman, senator to
[1:12] You know, treating at the limit of two or just one day.
[1:15] I was thinking really just the other way with regards to things like that.
[1:20] It's not that worship is really important, but as long as any interruption, I think probably a five minute interruption on any day really is a thing of life.
[1:30] It's true, it's true, but the point is, I just shouldn't, I mean, just don't do it at all.
[1:35] You see what I'm saying?
[1:37] Don't be legit, have to do these, that sort of thing at all.
[1:41] Or to do it always for our purposes and not for anybody else's purposes.
[1:44] So if you have a bike interruption, you can do it and that's it.
[1:48] That's what I mean.
[1:50] Be one of them.
[1:51] But, gee, they say, well, I have to get this one in and get that in.
[1:55] Well, of course, there are some things that I'm going to have to do.
[1:58] Like, say, you could buy the food for three people after the 20 and so forth.
[2:03] But that I understand.
[2:04] But I am like, this is a mess.
[2:05] I'm a truck driver.
[2:17] That's a nice thing to do with a truck driver.
[2:23] He doesn't know what to do with the teachers.
[2:26] And of course I said, no, no, no, lunch is over.
[2:28] He said, I'll have the president and the teachers and all that sort of thing.
[2:32] You see, we're just not going to do it this way.
[2:35] We mustn't be available for that.
[2:39] It'll be making it more scarce.
[2:41] It'll make it a hell of a lot more bad.
[2:51] Put in two or three things because a day is free.
[2:53] Let's take one thing a day.
[2:56] If you have one thing in order to have an event, if you want to have an event, just have it.