Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 867-029
Date: Friday, March 2, 1973 at 4:08 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.; Villarreal, Carlos C.; Villarreal, Carlos C. (Mrs.)
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/867-029

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[0:00] Professor, Mr. and Mrs. Carlson, are you real?
[0:04] Oh, yes.
[0:04] How are you?
[0:06] Good to see you.
[0:07] Good to see you.
[0:08] How are you?
[0:09] Nice to see you.
[0:11] Nice to see you.
[0:12] Nice to see you.
[0:14] Well, we want to get our formal picture here for you.
[0:17] Good.
[0:23] I understand that you're still considering any other evening, but if you will, what would you like to order?
[0:27] Well, I spoke with Jerry .
[0:28] He told me that there were two alternatives to the issue of that.
[0:32] One was- Maybe it's another one.
[0:35] The Secretary of the Navy's restoration of business.
[0:41] Mm-hm.
[0:42] And I'm going to make an interview with him this week.
[0:45] All right.
[0:45] The other, as you said, was .
[0:51] Yes, yes.
[0:51] Those are good positions.
[0:55] Very important.
[1:00] AID is the truth.
[1:01] Yes.
[1:02] Where is it?
[1:03] Here.
[1:04] Well, I think that's part of the argument.
[1:07] Well, I don't know.
[1:08] What was the woman going to say?
[1:09] She said, Mr. President, I'm not sure if it was a foreign country or not.
[1:15] And I want it to be here in Washington.
[1:17] Well, you could have said it would have been.
[1:20] I see the AID, of course, to be a foreign country out here.
[1:23] Yes.
[1:25] He doesn't have a big office here.
[1:26] Of course, those are the best jobs we have here.
[1:31] He's got to be the responsibility.
[1:32] He's got to be a man.
[1:34] He has to be a man.
[1:39] rather than being working for somebody else.
[1:43] But other than that, I think that if I was in the Navy, it would be a good chance to be built out of the game.
[1:48] And also the service.
[1:49] Most of the service isn't true.
[1:51] That would be very, very bad.
[1:52] I wanted to say, Mr. President, to continue to help you, we've got those Spanish people.
[1:58] That's why we want you, we want you, we want you to do it, and consider either one of them.
[2:03] Both of those are in Washington.
[2:04] Yes, they are.
[2:05] And I would, in my track, prefer these sisters to be in the Navy.
[2:09] That would be good.
[2:13] Is that John Warner?
[2:14] That's John Warner, yes, sir.
[2:16] Go talk to him.
[2:18] That's good.
[2:19] That would be very, very interesting, too.
[2:21] The Navy is such a solid business.
[2:27] Well, sir, were you in the Navy?
[2:28] Yes, I'm in the Navy.
[2:29] Take the Navy, that's what I mean.
[2:33] But also, you come around the world, you know, you create.
[2:41] Well, I'll tell you now.
[2:42] There's such a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a,
[2:52] Thank you.
[2:53] Thank you.
[2:55] Thank you.
[2:58] Thank you.
[2:59] Thank you.
[2:59] Thank you.