Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 848-013
Date: Monday, February 5, 1973 at 12:45 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ehrlichman, John D.; Brown, Robert J.; Bull, Stephen B.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/848-013

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[0:00] Thank you.
[0:03] Well, we're going to try another picture here, huh?
[0:07] I guess the day finally comes when he leaves, but I'm really proud to be around him.
[0:13] That's right.
[0:14] You're confident that Scott's going to be very good, because he's good at Brown.
[0:21] Well, I didn't know that.
[0:23] Come on, let's get another picture here.
[0:25] That's a good picture.
[0:25] At least for the moment, you're on this side.
[0:29] All right.
[0:32] Now let's go down here.
[0:34] Didn't really take that many shots.
[0:39] You probably get one.
[0:40] Well, like I said, I'll deal with the others.
[0:42] Of course, nobody can do a better job than that for us.
[0:46] Thanks.
[0:47] You fought a good fight.
[0:49] Counsel.
[0:50] Counsel.
[0:55] I remember what you told me, David, just reward our guys, right?
[0:59] Yes, sir.
[0:59] I still believe that.
[1:00] I still believe that.
[1:01] I remember that.
[1:02] And it's been great for us, and we'll miss it very much.
[1:04] And we hope to get back often.
[1:09] I'll be staying here.
[1:11] I've had my time here.
[1:12] So I was going back home.
[1:14] I'm trying to get the house straightened out and all that.
[1:17] And it's only about 40 minutes from here by plane.
[1:21] So, you know, it would be...
[1:24] But there are a lot of things that I want to do.
[1:27] I've talked at some talks with George Bush to see what we can do about, you know, and the public broadcasting.
[1:38] Good.
[1:38] And one in particular, I've been talking to a group of businessmen over the last few weeks, guys who helped us and accomplished people who are interested in the international
[1:54] You checked the, uh, with the, uh...
[2:20] to change things and all these leader programs.
[2:26] Now, take a little time.
[2:27] It's probably your tradition.
[2:29] It's an excellent idea.
[2:30] And we'll have some of your guys go.
[2:34] Whether we can, China won't be that involved at this point because they probably don't have money.
[2:37] Like, you can go to Japan.
[2:45] Thank you.
[2:47] Thank you.
[3:19] So that it's too bad, you know, that people get an impression of this country and the whole group of people in the country.
[3:28] There's one radical, you know, I mean, if you think of those, if you think of those, I don't know, Stanislavs and others, you know, I mean, there's a lot of people, there's a lot of people, there's a lot of people, there's a lot of people, there's a lot of people, there's a lot of people,
[3:48] People are just, because people are black and white, they do bad things.
[3:52] I mean, it's a question of, frankly, some people are just bad.
[3:58] Or nuts.
[3:59] I have a lot of those.
[4:00] Yeah, there are too many nuts running around.
[4:03] Well, we've got your share, and we appreciate it very much.
[4:07] You're always welcome here, you know, the way that it is.
[4:10] Whenever you go on a day like that, we'll go, this is a good idea.
[4:13] We'll, John, let's see what we can do.
[4:18] Any committees that we set up, we want to be sure of, right?
[4:27] We know that it's been mighty hard.
[4:32] Some of the people, you know, they say we're all prejudiced.
[4:43] We've reached all the sites and so forth.
[4:58] We'll do the right thing.
[5:01] We just appreciate what you have.
[5:05] Thank you very much.
[5:06] And I hope we get a chance to go back to the White House sometime.
[5:14] You will.
[5:15] Thank you very much.
[5:24] There's no problem on that side, I agree.
[5:28] Okay, thank you.
[5:30] We agree to this.
[5:31] Well, uh, Senor Conrad, you're on the top one.
[5:35] What?
[5:35] Top one.
[5:36] That's where they make all the furniture.
[5:39] I know.
[5:39] I think that's only about 40 miles for girls.
[5:43] It is, uh, 50 miles.
[5:44] A girl, I remember, took five minutes to wrap it up.
[5:49] All right, how do we love it?
[5:51] It's just, I don't know what to say.
[5:53] It'll take a while.
[5:54] This is North Carolina doing pretty well as a border state on the whole typewriter relationship.
[5:59] Very well.
[6:00] And Jim Holtzhaus is already starting.
[6:03] He's doing a good job.
[6:06] He does.
[6:06] You give him a kick, you know.
[6:08] All right.
[6:09] All right.
[6:10] All right.
[6:11] All right.
[6:13] All right.
[6:21] and he has done i think everything he can do with one exception to keep her the one exception is to abandon regionalization
[6:53] Why don't you wait?
[6:55] Why don't you wait a lot?
[6:58] These are the people that were killed in the Amazon, and I must get them out of the way.
[7:04] And then I'm going to have to wait right outside.
[7:09] This is quite a sizable group of brothers and sisters here.
[7:12] It's a total of 13, sir.
[7:35] Oh, I think we should put the dancers to work.
[7:38] These people should help.
[7:58] Okay.
[8:00] There are five sons.
[8:02] Five children.
[8:04] He's got brothers and sisters.
[8:06] They're getting a special tour of the White House immediately after this.
[8:11] They're going to the Capitol.
[8:13] Ripley's arranged for a tour up there.
[8:17] Okay.