Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 843-013
Date: Friday, January 26, 1973 at 12:21 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Timmons, William E.; Woods, Rose Mary; Bull, Stephen B.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/843-013
National Archives Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417182241 (NAID 417182241)

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[0:00] Well, it passed the resolution, Mr. President.
[0:05] Oh, did it?
[0:07] Good, good.
[0:11] 24 hours.
[0:11] Well, I think we've got them to be given a pretty good shot here today.
[0:15] Well, that was a good session, I'd say.
[0:19] It was just a good job.
[0:22] That was amazing.
[0:22] But they all recognize the strength.
[0:24] Well, also, we put the shot across the bow.
[0:28] I think there's a...
[0:30] If it's a tax increase for all of us, yours, it's not mine.
[0:33] And they're going to have to know that.
[0:34] And so I got it.
[0:35] They bring this budget.
[0:37] They take the responsibility for the tax increase.
[0:39] They ask for the responsibility.
[0:40] They're going to get it.
[0:42] You know, you just got to lay it to them hard.
[0:44] I wish that Mike and the speaker had been able to stay for the given take later on, because that was productive.
[0:50] And they had to go back to Congress, of course.
[0:52] But they were a problem, I think.
[0:55] Well, it didn't take long to bring it up.
[0:57] It was good to just remind us of what those people have done.
[1:03] You know, except for Mike.
[1:05] Everybody in that room supports what we've done.
[1:08] Did you realize that?
[1:10] And we had one over here.
[1:11] And it was true the other morning too.
[1:23] I'm sending a copy of my radio speech to all the Republicans.
[1:38] And I've asked the...
[1:39] I'm going to give you two more names that you can add to this out there.
[1:44] Scott, he wanted to do the name of the race, and I'm very bad at it.
[1:51] Had he told you that earlier?
[1:53] No, he hadn't.
[1:54] And we didn't recommend him.
[1:55] As you know, we want to get new faces.
[1:57] He told me this morning.
[1:58] Oh, yeah.
[1:58] But if we could add one to that band banner.
[2:01] But I wouldn't have it for any of the others.
[2:05] Because I told them we were picking.
[2:07] They could take their pick.
[2:09] Mike should be called, and that's all.
[2:11] But not a lot of British anarchists.
[2:13] We've got the Sado banner.
[2:15] We've got the Hussein banner.
[2:18] I think that's good enough.
[2:22] They don't have to come here every month, do they?
[2:26] They don't.
[2:27] I don't think they expect to.
[2:29] Oh, Scott.
[2:29] Scott doesn't have to come here every month.
[2:34] Well, he was upset.
[2:34] He was invited to a lesser individual once, and he felt that he didn't really want to come to that.
[2:40] He wanted the biggies.
[2:42] I forgot to say one more thing.
[2:43] We were just talking about these dinner girls and Bill Jones' friends.
[2:48] It's impossible to please, and particularly Scott, who is a jerk.
[2:55] Scott raised Bill on the, I mean, mostly on TV, but raised him, of course.
[3:04] It's too late for that.
[3:06] Did we have a, did they all accept?
[3:08] Well, I don't know.
[3:10] That was so late, you know, right now.
[3:12] Let me say that we could put him in the British, but then he gets none of the others.
[3:16] You see, we've got, I've added the same now, so you've got one more here in flavor.
[3:24] He won't know what I want.
[3:25] There are 144 on the British list already.
[3:27] I don't know if you're having an E-shaped table, but you can only see the 111.
[3:30] So we have to have that in the grid, I suppose.
[3:34] Yeah.
[3:41] 144.
[3:41] Well, you have to do it that many over, or you don't have enough.
[3:45] People know everybody the day before.
[3:48] We didn't know that, necessarily, so many times.
[3:51] I had no objection to the round table.
[3:57] Round table, then it's a hard question, isn't it?
[4:00] I wouldn't mind having a round table, but with us seated at a long table at the front.
[4:09] It's much better for me not to sit around people, because then I have to talk here around the table.
[4:13] See what I mean?
[4:14] It's a very wearing thing.
[4:15] And people like to see the Prime Minister and the President sitting together.
[4:20] But you didn't do that.
[4:21] It's a lot easier for me to do it that way.
[4:27] So, yeah.
[4:27] Let's see.
[4:28] The Mallory is going to sit here.
[4:32] My mom is going to sit here.
[4:33] I don't know.
[4:33] At least we were going to be just partners.
[4:38] Oh, OK.
[4:39] But if you have to, I would just have the British be ready.
[4:57] They do have more fun.
[4:59] People get to sit around and talk to each other.
[5:02] They get acquainted with people.
[5:04] We can share.
[5:05] That's right.
[5:05] Otherwise, they get seated between two people and they don't know.
[5:08] That's right.
[5:09] They have eight people around the table and they can talk.
[5:12] Well, we can sort of see that they do know somebody at least once.
[5:23] And then, you know, like we did once for the fire question, we just put a table for eight of us up there.
[5:32] And we can sit there.
[5:33] And Eve and I need to sit together for a minute.
[5:36] I need to sit with the head governor, because we use the dinner for the purpose of continuing our conversation, you see.
[5:44] Other than that, expect that to happen.
[5:48] Well, if you work it out, Rose.
[5:51] Don't press too hard.
[5:53] I gave her the options.
[5:55] I said, you take it with you.
[5:57] Okay.
[5:58] Thank you.