Nixon, Bull & Woods on White House social events and State dinner

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Excuse me, Mr. President, I just wanted to confirm about preparations for tomorrow's meeting.

And if you're going to have a lunch, what would be your recommendation?

You're going to have a lunch at 4 or 1 o'clock.

You're going to have a meeting around 3 hours, 3 to 6.

For the rest of the party, I'm still alive around 6 o'clock.

We'll put them in their cabins.

We'll have them in their cabins when they get dressed up.

Right.

What time is the dinner?

If you'd like, we've got 7 o'clock.

Roughly 7 to 9 o'clock soon.

Well, they won't have it.

The party has to have it.

Would you like to have it?

We've got to ask them.

It's all right.

It'll be a total of nine.

They're not buying anything after.

Yes, sir.

And he'll get to get it tonight.

Yeah.

Would you like it?

Initially, I can't.

Well, I don't know if I'm going to get it.

I would think that.

And they'll all return right afterwards.

They incidentally receive your invitation to stay overnight, but just because of the other activities, they couldn't do it.

And is there anything in particular or anything special you'd like them to do or just understand the work you do?

That's what we've got here.

Yes, sir.

They should have any particular preference, any particular wines, or anything of that nature.

Well, I want them to get out the 55 Chateau Margot investment.

That's what I'd prefer.

If they don't have that, get out the 55 Montmartre Rothschild that Amber gave us with the 55 wine one serving.

If they're going to have white wine, do the

The white burgundy is kind of a French burgundy.

And that's good.

Don't have any... Don't bother with the champagne.

Don't have to.

Just use two glasses.

Just use the thin glasses, not the thick ones.

The nice glasses.

Since we're going to have a luncheon on the day of the British Embassy, it should not be a heavy meal.

A very light fish, you know, if you get a very light fish.

But, uh, but not, uh, that's, uh, uh, very likely that, uh, you're having a fever tonight.

It's very deep tonight, sir.

All right.

Well, may I have a look, please, at your hand?

No, I didn't.

I didn't.

I understand that it's so rough, but Secretary Schultz, if he makes some subtle inquiries as to whether he could be included in tonight's dinner, since he has some dealings with the British, we'll continue to have some in the European community.

I know that you're originally a member of the administration personnel.

Well, you know, I'm a member of the State Department of Social Control, and I do include quite a bit.

I mean, actually, how many come here to the British, I mean?

I have that outside, Mr. President.

I think it's, well, not sure.

It'd also be good to have, but if you hadn't had that advert, you ought to have, uh... Well, give me the list of where you should have it, and I'll see who else you can add.

Okay?

All right.

Let's see if we have it right here.

That's not...

Okay, well, this is it for tonight, sir.

I don't like it.

Rose?

Yes?

Can we add one couple tonight?

We can add a couple, can't we?

Because we've got several cancellations to put through this month.

We'll put Shelton in anyway.

And we're adding more because Pat told us more.

She's here tonight.

All right.

Good.

We added them to the room.

Good.

Now, uh, does that do it?

I don't, we don't want to overcrowd it.

Well, you can have more if you want to, to serve your people.

Got the flu.

We didn't put Schultz on here at first because you said that...

I know.

We were cutting it down, but he's asked to go, and I'm just really working hard.

Is Aggie on tonight?

Yes.

Aggie's on.

Okay, Schultz can come.

And, uh...

Is the, uh, is George Bush on that?

No, I don't think so.

That would be a very good one to have.

I think we had him on, I think we were going to put him on the same.

Well, if we, we can offer him either one.

I can see it.

We can offer him either one.

Yeah.

And, uh, and if we haven't, and the other ones we would have would be Armstrong, which is, uh,

Yeah, one of the two.

Take her to Hussein because he's got 99 men coming on here.

I see.

We're not going to include his whole party, but everybody is, only one husband has gone home.

His wife is bringing his wife.

Well, it's two women out of 24 or five people.

I know.

Well, okay, that's fine.

You called, and Rosa called, and Lawrence, and we lost our entertainers, and they should go down and see ourselves.

I thought you wrote it down yourself.

They got it themselves from you.

They're working on another office.

The Army Corps, as you know, is a reserve.

Go out and come to shoot.

I think you might have joined better than an officer.

Yeah.

Yeah, I wouldn't cry.

Nobody likes to be a substitute.

We'll just have the Army cars and tell them to be upbeat and things, particularly the stout-hearted man who drove the man away.

I don't think like that.

Okay.

Yes, sir.

Thank you very much.

And when I called Chilton, I don't want to tell him, you know, that you wanted him.

I wanted him just so we're trying to cut him off.

And all of this with Kevin, it's all this way.

I don't want to be in it.

I do think that they repealed it early when Chilton went to at least 40.

Oh, yes.

And we've tried to put down, I forgot now because we're working on two or three, we've tried to put, we're trying to get the new ones in.

Yeah, you've got them.

Brennan, we've got one tonight.

Yeah, Brennan one time.

He's got to be on that one.

Well, Brennan, we're trying to get Brennan and Brennan and, you know, but with some of the other older ones.

And I think we've got to try.

I'm going to talk to Julie when she takes over and call me because I want to

I actually had to instruct the staff to send to our own people an advance list so that when they go in there, they go in and mix, you know.

Oh, I was going to mention that.

Do we have round tables tonight, or do we have a head table?

You have a head table for you and a round table.

All right.

I want the host in each round table to have the names, to have the word on the side, and the people at the head table

So that he had, for example, he's a major contributor.

He did this.

Give him the kind of thing you give me.

See, we can do that.

And give that to, say, the secretary.

Put Schultz at our house table, or Kearns at our house table, and all that.

And say, we would appreciate it if you would give them the names.

And say, these are the people that are here.

He's an actor.

And that will help him enormously.

This is a letter that Helen sent over, and I haven't bothered to look at it.

It came Monday.

It's congratulating you on it, but also saying what, you know, what they did on the piece.

Oh, sure.

It all worked.

I think it's an effort just to be on the record.

And they did work hard, too.

Okay, but do you think anybody else... Well, I think if we add six, we add that.

I think that's going to be enough for me tonight.

So there's two crowds.

Then we'll try to get...

Because you haven't been accepted.

Dan is the one coming tonight, the Congress fellow.

Well, I hope your white friend dies.

Well.

Oh, OK. Now, I was one of the last, basically.

We did Dan because it was Congress.

It was an old one.

It was an old one, right.

OK. And we thought Brennan would be better with maybe the same, with the King.

And I don't know.

Brennan's ours, isn't he?

Yeah, that's right.

And I just thought maybe it was there in the States.

That's right.

Nixon, Bull & Woods on White House social events and State dinner

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