Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 861-016
Date: Thursday, February 22, 1973 at 12:33 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/861-016

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[0:00] I go left, that's better than natural.
[0:29] Well, we were pulling the date on the March 11th.
[0:33] Now we've got it.
[0:37] But now we're firm on the 11th.
[1:01] All right.
[1:01] All right.
[1:01] Bye.
[1:27] We're looking towards the early relentless.
[1:56] I want to include one of those I don't know whether he's in common or not, but he's a great friend of mine.
[2:11] Wallace Wade, the former coach at Duke, and his wife.
[2:19] She could make it on the bench.
[2:21] He's a very old man.
[2:24] I don't know.
[2:31] And you've got the urban Berlin and also the large one.
[2:36] Yes.
[2:38] Right.
[2:50] I know I'm better in Berlin as the author of God Bless America.
[2:54] Well, it would make me the best.
[2:55] But who could you have for the orchestra?
[2:57] Maybe you've got... Who would be the entertainers you could get?
[3:02] Micah, our old friend Les Brown.
[3:05] Of course, that's a long way to come.
[3:07] Possibly Ray Blunt.
[3:09] Ray who?
[3:10] Ray Blunt.
[3:10] He was one of our nobodies when he died.
[3:12] I've talked to Norman Turok.
[3:15] I don't know from the opera, but we think they've been very helpful.
[3:18] Norman Turok is a producer.
[3:21] And very enthusiastic about this idea.
[3:26] The other thing is to invite the three astronauts in our life.
[3:32] Which one are you going to have on board?
[3:34] Well, I wanted to ask that question of you, sir.
[3:37] Perhaps we might want to invite them to this first one.
[3:43] And invite them to Camp David.
[3:44] Camp David here, Friday night, Saturday, or afternoon evening,
[3:55] What I would do would be to have them go up to the,
[4:23] Right.
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[4:52] We don't have a check here.
[4:56] We've got a check for PR people.
[4:58] There's a phone in the PR room.
[5:04] Some of the thoughts that did write so many things.
[5:09] But fortunately, some of our supporters have been involved in productions such as .
[5:14] I don't know where your voice is.
[5:17] She still has a voice on the show.
[5:20] Sure.
[5:22] Yeah.
[5:23] So we were all working on it.
[5:24] We were not confirmed with Irving, but when he's about 75 or 76, we understand he's a little bit frail.
[5:30] And we're looking at it.
[5:32] And that will appear.
[5:35] Fine.
[5:36] All right.
[5:36] Good.
[5:36] We'll give you what you've got.
[5:43] Yeah.
[5:45] For the God Bless America one, though, I would then get the Army Chorus in.
[5:52] for the finale and something.
[5:55] And so they have a big, boomy thing.
[5:57] And not just play this, have the orchestra.
[5:59] You see what I mean?
[6:00] I could envision all of the audience singing with it.
[6:03] I understand that.
[6:05] The orchestra quite is.
[6:07] I just want to get the army chorus so that everybody moves it up.
[6:12] They could perhaps do the first chorus.
[6:25] All right, now let's see.
[6:34] What about the list of the people that you got that
[6:55] Well, I don't, I'm not looking for anything there.
[7:00] I mean, I, I don't want to.
[7:05] We want to own the people and we should too.
[7:06] I don't know how to consolidate the rest of the staff and
[7:26] I think I would have, you can invite Harlow and McGregor to this thing tonight.
[7:34] But one other thing I was going to tell you, any calls from the POW,
[7:55] If you get a call from a BW or a BW wife, I don't want to take them in person.
[8:00] In fact, I would not be able to take them in arm.
[8:03] But sometimes, if I am free at a time, and a call comes in, I should take one out of the arms of the BW wife.
[8:11] Well, I've had that one work.
[8:12] I've taken a couple of calls.
[8:14] I've said the president's unavailable, but I know you want me to respond immediately, so I can talk to you.
[8:20] Sure.
[8:21] That's fine.
[8:22] I think that helps as well.
[8:25] have a school problem dropping.