Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 855-018
Date: Wednesday, February 14, 1973 at 12:23 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Morgan, Edward L.; Bull, Stephen B.; Ehrlichman, John D.; Clawson, James; Clawson, James (Mrs.); Clawson, Courtney; Clawson, Jason B.; Clawson, Brooke A.; Evans, Katherine R.; Evans, Constance R.; Evans, Elizabeth G.; Evans, John F., III; Cashen, Henry C., II; White, Stuart C.; White, Stuart C. (Mrs.)
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/855-018

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[0:26] Great jobs.
[0:27] Great jobs are the skill of determination.
[0:59] Great job.
[1:24] I'm seeing more alone because I want to establish the procedure right now already from the beginning that I will see it.
[1:41] And just tell them I don't want to get a report from you, but I haven't seen him get a report from the DOD.
[1:48] That's very nice of you.
[1:57] Are you feeling any better today?
[1:57] A little better, yeah.
[1:58] My son's worse, but I'm feeling a little better.
[2:02] That's the way it goes.
[2:05] I'm feeling good.
[2:11] It's not worse tomorrow.
[2:12] It's not worse last night.
[2:14] I know.
[2:14] I know that.
[2:15] I've seen it.
[2:15] How are you?
[2:16] Good to see you, sir.
[2:18] How are you?
[2:27] Now you're going over to the training spot.
[2:56] If you have any more questions or trouble, you better come back.
[3:00] I told Martin this thing with the leg.
[3:03] He said, you're the guy who integrated the stoolie.
[3:05] He said, well, it's a great job with very great skill and patience.
[3:08] We did the job.
[3:09] So I'm just talking about it.
[3:11] And we didn't care that it was a good mark on it.
[3:15] It was a good job.
[3:16] So I told Martin, this is a job you're working on making in a bathroom in Mississippi.
[3:52] He's going to be a right-hand man in Congress.
[3:53] He's going to work in New Jersey.
[3:58] He's going to be a right-hand man who's handled unemployment, benefits, and problems.
[4:03] Things are going to happen.
[4:05] Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President.
[4:08] Well, we are all here to see you again.
[4:09] Don't make sure all of these children talk in the original.
[4:12] Some are boys and some are men.
[4:15] How are you?
[4:17] I'm out of D.C. You're the oldest.
[4:18] You're the first one.
[4:20] Yes.
[5:21] Well, I appreciate all your work.
[5:27] Go to Congress.
[6:19] I know, he'll be in politics in that long term, better yet.
[6:26] I agree.
[6:29] I sent him a client the other day.
[6:32] That's right.
[6:33] I thank you for it.
[6:34] I want to have a client on Thanksgiving.
[6:37] What are you going to do for me today?
[6:39] That's a very good place.
[6:40] He seemed like a friend.
[6:42] He's got a lot of action going on.
[6:46] he'll find that he can begin to buy us leases and dresses again.
[6:49] Sure.
[6:50] That's pretty much it.
[6:51] He does what he always does.
[6:53] Oh, he's just telling you cheaper than anything.
[6:54] That's what he said.
[6:56] That's what he said.
[6:57] He said you were a politician.
[6:59] That's what he always said.
[7:00] But even as I told John when he took off, he said, no, I'm just going to crush you.
[7:04] So, listen, that has been very important.
[7:10] I appreciate everything you've done and all that.
[7:19] Yeah.
[7:20] Yeah.
[7:22] Yeah.
[7:23] Yeah.
[7:23] Yeah.
[8:23] I appreciate all of that.
[9:06] Well, isn't that nice?
[9:07] That is.
[9:09] I appreciate it.
[9:12] All right.
[9:12] We have two.
[9:16] Well, let's see.
[9:17] We've got to get her a book.
[9:24] We've got to look at that.
[9:25] We'll raise it up.
[9:36] There it is.
[9:37] There it is.
[9:39] There it is.
[10:14] and the CEO of the President of the United States.
[10:16] We just give a very special