Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 867-030
Date: Friday, March 2, 1973 at 4:08 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.; Beggs, James M.; Beggs, James M. (Mrs.)
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/867-030

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[0:09] Oh, yes.
[0:10] Here's my best campaigner.
[0:12] I didn't miss you.
[0:13] I didn't know about you.
[0:15] My goodness.
[0:15] They said you were a pistol.
[0:17] I was a person.
[0:18] How are you?
[0:18] Good to see you.
[0:19] We're going to turn around and get a campaigning picture for you.
[0:24] I didn't know you were supposed to be here.
[0:27] Nice to meet you.
[0:33] After receiving the bachelor's, now I have to bring my wife.
[0:34] And, uh, so they can take each other.
[0:36] I think that these are the things that are going to give her the connections.
[0:42] I think that means more to me than it does to her.
[0:45] And I hope the department's enough for them to say, you know, the master's is awesome, and the wife's is awesome.
[0:53] Well, I want you to know that we've appreciated your work over there, and your transportation, and that new, almost impossible department.
[1:01] But, uh, I mean, you know, it's actually impossible in the sense that, uh, I don't want to say that we've got to do it, but, uh, we've got to do it.
[1:18] We've got to do it.
[1:19] We've got to do it.
[1:19] We've got to do it.
[1:20] We've got to do it.
[1:20] We've got to do it.
[1:21] We've got to do it.
[1:22] We've got to do it.
[1:23] We've got to do it.
[1:27] He was fun to work with.
[1:28] He was.
[1:28] He's such an exciting guy, you know.
[1:29] He loves him.
[1:30] He's going to go over there in February and tell you that America's going to have a great time.
[1:40] He puts out so much that that's what happens when he gets in our trouble.
[1:50] Yes.
[1:51] When we barely know, it's always emotional.
[1:54] Yeah.
[1:57] But on the other hand, you can't work 20 hours a day when you put so much of yourself into it.
[2:06] You can't put once you've never run for something.
[2:08] I'm well aware of how many of us, they come to us and say, what's going on?
[2:12] What's going on?
[2:13] They say you really had a good voice and you whacked it on the ground.
[2:16] No, I don't work in anything.
[2:18] I've been in politics since I was 18.
[2:21] Really?
[2:21] Is it good?
[2:22] Do you want to have fewer answers?
[2:24] He just had a very common friend, an old girl, and I told her I had to discuss politics with somebody and I told her I didn't get to do it.
[2:32] Isn't that right?
[2:33] You probably didn't want it.
[2:35] No, I enjoyed it.
[2:38] And I really wasn't worried about it.
[2:42] You were a county chairman.
[2:45] Really?
[2:45] Oh, yeah.
[2:45] That's how you won the first vote in county general?
[2:47] Yeah.
[2:48] I converted to Democrat county.
[2:48] We won the first time in 1895.
[2:50] That's true.
[2:50] Well, I hope you stay here.
[2:55] I hope you stay here.
[2:56] We just might move out to another part of the world.
[3:03] Are you a serial?
[3:06] Yes, sir.
[3:07] Well, I've been associated with Bypass.
[3:14] Oh, yeah, I have more people.
[3:18] But you and I are going to be like children.
[3:20] Have you ever lived there?
[3:22] No, sir, never have.
[3:25] Well, mainly because in terms of what your specialty is, that's the place.
[3:31] They have more people, there's more food, there's more problems, they don't have masks, they can't say anything else.
[3:43] And what company do you have on your mind?
[3:45] Well, it would be the used people.
[3:48] That's a great, great company.
[3:51] The used or I don't know, any company except the state.
[3:53] I'd recommend it for the reason that you have.
[4:00] You read about hues, and there was these powered hues.
[4:07] And you get the hues, air pressure, the hues, tools.
[4:12] I guess they're very marvelous, aren't they?
[4:17] Yes, yes, yes.
[4:18] Okay.
[4:18] Yes.
[4:18] Listen, they're marvelous managers.
[4:20] They're very happy to use them, right?
[4:22] And it's definitely good.
[4:22] I think I would use them a lot.
[4:24] What do you think?
[4:27] But Hughes is a great company.
[4:29] They have great management.
[4:31] Great management.
[4:32] And I'm very impressed.
[4:33] They're goalers.
[4:34] They're goalers.
[4:37] And you'll love it there.
[4:39] And we did at some point.
[4:42] There we are.
[4:43] No, I think that would be great.
[4:47] That would be great because their management is great.
[4:49] And that would be better than staying in the East.
[4:53] Thank you.
[4:54] So that's my advice.
[4:56] Thank you.
[4:57] That's pretty good advice.
[5:01] Thank you.
[5:01] Bye-bye.
[5:02] Yes, sir.