Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 867-039
Date: Friday, March 2, 1973 at 5:40 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.; [Unknown person(s)]
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/867-039

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[0:04] I don't think that radio speech, I don't want to get that done, so we're going to raise it.
[0:22] Is that a final comment?
[0:25] Yes, sir.
[0:26] Thank you.
[0:31] George Gordon, heavyweight champion, is in town.
[0:33] He will be attending tomorrow night's evening at the White House.
[0:38] He's a real fine American.
[0:39] He just won in 1979.
[0:40] I don't know about you.
[0:41] I'm going to suggest that the great attention is tomorrow.
[0:47] I'm going to be glad he's coming.
[0:48] I'm going to be glad he's coming.
[0:51] I'm going to be glad he's coming.
[0:53] I'm going to be glad he's coming.
[0:59] I don't think it's just 10 minutes.
[1:01] I'd like to have it sort of as a half hour, and that's as long as it keeps up my talk.
[1:07] We'll put that down.
[1:09] What time are you going to ask?
[1:11] Let me ask the time.
[1:14] Tomorrow's the quadrant meeting at 10.
[1:15] All right.
[1:16] Just a little meeting with Jack Dreyfuss at 1130.
[1:18] Swearing in ceremony for Brad Cook.
[1:21] That's just a brief one in the new SEC chair.
[1:22] I don't have to do that one.
[1:27] Good God, no, I don't swear in the SEC chair.
[1:31] All right, all right.
[1:59] The money we're keeping totally clear.
[2:00] That's right.
[2:01] I will see that Monday.
[2:02] Would you like to invite Rose Woods to go up this weekend to Camp David, Mr. President?
[2:07] Yes, she can go.
[2:07] Well, no, Mrs. Nixon's not going, so I don't know.
[2:09] I mean, she won't.
[2:11] I won't hand it over.
[2:13] She's welcome to go, but we'll send another secretary if she has to.
[2:19] I will send it.
[2:19] That's right.
[2:20] Somebody so she can have dinner with us.
[2:24] Mr. President, would you use the gesture?
[2:26] Sure.
[2:27] She wants to go.
[2:28] I'm not going.
[2:29] I'll go back.
[2:32] I'm on the act.
[2:34] I'm playing.
[2:36] She's an advisor.
[2:37] I said take another secretary with you.
[2:41] In order to monetize your concern with food prices, it's been proposed that you spend ten minutes open at a meeting with the food advising panel across the system.
[2:54] Thank you.
[3:15] Tuesday afternoon, Mrs.
[3:16] Rush is having a lunch at her home for the new cabinet wives.
[3:21] And it's been proposed that sometimes during a luncheon, you telephone her and emphasize the importance of the next four years' administration contribution to wives.
[3:33] Good, good.
[3:33] Not a public call.
[3:34] Sure, sure, of course.
[3:36] That's easy to do.
[3:48] Moving on to Thursday's courtesy meeting with Sons of Parliament and Young.
[3:53] It's basically a courtesy meeting, general discussion of the budget corruption, as well as their support of all the line-on excess appropriations.
[3:59] You've got to figure out what at least three quarters of an hour.
[4:13] Back in October, there was a drug raid.
[4:18] up in New York, where one agent was killed and another one got convicted.
[4:24] And we postpone the consideration of presenting this Hank Manfredi Award to the Treasury Department Award to the family and to the men.
[4:34] Now, this will be coming right on the eve of your crime and drug speech.
[4:40] And we tend to...
[4:50] This is a proposal that Bob Baldwin poses.
[4:53] He doesn't feel that it's necessary, but he recommended it by Roy Ash.
[4:56] That's the line from Fred Mellon.
[4:59] He wants to present the 1972 Presidential Management Improvement Awards.
[5:01] These are two 10 awards that will be given to some federal career employees in addition to service to public management.
[5:16] We've probably 10 minutes or
[5:29] The retarded poster child, that's the child we didn't see a couple of years ago.
[5:33] No, I did see him.
[5:35] Yes, sir.
[5:35] I did the next year because of that, right?
[5:37] I remember we brought him in the next year.
[5:40] We didn't see him one time.
[5:41] We didn't see him.
[5:42] We've seen him since.
[5:43] Do you want me to do it again?
[5:45] Yes, sir.
[5:46] Bob's comment was, it's probably better to do it than take the heat from not doing it.
[5:52] I realize that we've done a lot of poster children, and we've done the retarded children, I guess now.
[5:58] Three years.
[5:59] Yes.
[6:01] Who's insisting on this?
[6:04] Well, she started in 1969, 1970.
[6:10] So I guess that's enough.
[6:13] No, no more.
[6:16] That's enough.
[6:17] Well, I don't think we should have to recharge it.
[6:21] That's a very bad idea.
[6:26] That's just an .
[6:29] That should be a very .
[6:32] I don't care what they do.
[6:34] I'm sorry.
[6:35] I'm sorry.
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[6:55] if it is such an institute to murder you and the economic problems that they say.
[7:02] Sure, sure.
[7:25] Looking ahead to that day, this CDA game would be the only other event besides taking the role of government station.
[7:39] Hmm.
[7:39] Well, if it's the 16th, let me suggest
[7:56] I'd like to have them for breakfast.
[8:02] I'd like to speak to them.
[8:03] And you can speak to her sign and tell them that they would like them, just to make them more.
[8:14] I mean, it could be a business session as well, but I wouldn't mind inviting their wives for breakfast, too.
[8:31] But if he just thinks it would be better for the four of us, it's fine.
[8:37] I'm delighted to do it.
[8:42] If he is leaving too, I want him included in the evening at the White House.
[8:46] That Saturday evening, including the evening at the White House this Saturday.
[9:02] Just prior to the last leadership meeting, I think that you mentioned to Tim that this might be at the same time, five or ten minutes with the Russian relations staff prior to a leader meeting.
[9:15] Now, this is Tuesday.
[9:17] We just had Scott.
[9:18] Oh, we don't hear that.
[9:19] Well, I don't care.
[9:20] They need it.
[9:20] Whatever.
[9:21] No, I don't think so.
[9:22] I don't think so.
[9:23] Matt, at least you can read the background, I'm sure.
[9:26] But if Tim is 60, I mean, it's fine.
[9:28] You know, I'll get it.
[9:37] I don't know what that is.
[10:08] I don't like the sea challenge as well.
[10:19] All right.
[10:36] Yeah.
[10:38] Yeah.
[11:26] I appreciate it.
[11:33] Thank you.
[11:35] Thank you, Jack.
[11:58] Yeah.
[12:00] Yeah.