Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 886-018
Date: Wednesday, March 21, 1973 at 1:06 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/886-018

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[0:00] Hi.
[0:02] Hi, tell me about the accessibility.
[0:06] Sure, yes.
[0:07] I just want to ask you about that.
[0:10] I think it's a really important fact, but thank you to Nancy for this.
[0:16] Thank you for the glasses here that you've been using now.
[0:20] Sold.
[0:20] And part of the pandemic, our old friend, Dan Parker, had taken over a new company.
[0:25] They would get us into this kind of a ballroom.
[0:33] These glasses, which is X and Y will come out in the next motion.
[0:42] And it goes where it all comes from.
[0:46] And none of the black box has 8.50 for 8 in box.
[0:51] The others are 8.50 for 6 in a box, and not this kind of box.
[0:58] You need to get 8 glasses for $8.50.
[1:03] With this edged off.
[1:04] The glasses are, the glasses are $8 a piece.
[1:08] No, no, no, this is $8.50 for this box.
[1:12] Great.
[1:12] Do you buy them?
[1:14] No, no, I don't think they do.
[1:16] Do you buy them?
[1:17] Those guys change.
[1:18] They have something different.
[1:20] Yeah, and then they really will last forever.
[1:23] Sure, sure, sure.
[1:25] I need to buy them because they're $8.00.
[1:31] $9.00.
[1:31] $9.00. $9.00.
[1:32] Those were such nice things.
[1:37] I remember I could kick the people.
[1:40] And then most of the time, I was retiring from that committee.
[1:45] And he didn't want to even hear it.
[1:49] Yeah.
[1:50] He really didn't spend the time on reserved things because he had quit.
[2:01] There's a beautiful package, which I think you want to read at the end of time.
[2:24] Okay, I'll put Pat's letter in there.
[2:27] I have sent out some of those.
[2:29] There are some that are legal in the current law.
[2:32] I'm going to take you to a nutrition and a trip to Europe.
[2:38] It was about an hour before the trip.
[2:46] And, um...
[3:02] What's your office?
[3:08] Well, I work in the transportation office.
[3:14] Good.
[3:15] Good.
[3:16] Yeah.
[3:17] Let me ask you something.
[3:19] I was, uh...
[3:20] Uh... We... First time they had the papers...
[3:32] It would be reversed at a later time, but I don't know.
[3:46] I don't know.
[3:47] I don't know.
[3:56] I don't know.
[3:58] I don't know.
[3:59] I don't know.
[4:00] I don't know.
[4:01] I don't want to have this, but I'm not the right person to do this.
[4:08] I'm not the right person to do this.
[4:13] I'm not the right person to do this.
[4:18] I'm not the right person to do this.
[4:19] I'm not the right person to do this.
[4:23] I'm not the right person to do this.
[4:24] I'm not the right person to do this.
[4:28] I'm not the right person to do this.
[4:29] I'm not the right person to do this.
[4:32] We may have to call I don't know
[5:02] Let me ask you, is that it?
[5:06] What kind of, uh... That's why I didn't want to leave it to the others.
[5:14] Oh, let's see what you're writing.
[5:15] I didn't know where it was.
[5:17] I don't know.
[5:18] I don't know.
[5:18] I can't get it.
[5:22] We have to use it for, you know, for you to say.
[5:31] Okay.
[5:31] Okay.
[5:32] Okay.
[5:32] Okay.
[5:32] Okay.
[6:04] Well, I know.
[6:05] I know what it is.
[6:06] It's all supposed to be a campaign.
[6:20] We are going down to the first party.
[6:22] Well, when I'm going to, it's Friday night.
[6:26] I'm going.
[6:27] I had raised the salute to the Air Force Ball in New York.
[6:32] Since I remember he's going to be up there, I thought I'd go, try to go early to the truck park, although it might be a little, probably till 30 or 1, but go by and just say hello.
[6:43] Or just the other way around, I don't know what to tell you.
[6:47] Oh, yeah, I see.
[6:52] Sure, I appreciate that.
[6:54] Well, at least I've got the letter.
[6:56] Bristlehead called me, and he wrote a letter to say, command to form me.
[7:00] You know what was happening?
[7:07] We didn't realize how big and crowded the yard was until I went back again.
[7:19] So I watched the door against the room that I had.
[7:21] That's the room I had a picture of.
[7:22] It was that bigger room we had.
[7:24] Better space.
[7:25] Tom, that was the size of the room we had on the other side.
[7:27] Well, that was one of the directions we were going to be going.
[7:30] Yeah.
[7:30] But they're just jamming through the water.
[7:43] Most people are, yeah.
[7:44] But space is very short.
[7:49] Well, it's very expensive.
[7:50] They have to do that.
[7:51] In New York, there's now a space that's one bay, because they've got those two big... Big toilets.
[7:58] Well, it's just so expensive.
[8:02] And now we can drop some of the people in New York who can get more.
[8:08] Is that right?
[8:09] Okay, let's just work more.
[8:10] You told me that.
[8:13] That's inevitable.
[8:14] Some business person can't do that anymore.
[8:28] I am tentatively planning tomorrow, including Florida, for three days.
[8:29] I'd like to be ready for a possible speech on the extramural or a possible press conference on the extramural, which will come to an end just as quickly.
[8:33] We would have to return, and they will return the horses.
[8:34] You will not have to go, because that's not something I'm going to be doing.
[8:35] We did not try to return.
[8:59] I can do it better there in the actual city, but you can't be over here in that event.
[9:12] I work in the occupation, but you've got to work there, sure.
[9:18] I'll be out there writing stuff.
[9:29] It's only been 33 days.
[9:30] They didn't bring him back to the project in that three days.
[9:36] Well, and the weather, if they could correct Jack Sherwood, has finally gotten very, very nice and smart.
[9:40] He should have called me.
[9:43] He told me that yesterday.
[9:44] Yeah.
[9:44] He said that it's been awful for him since when he'd come back.
[9:47] But the last couple of weeks have been very, very nice and great.
[9:58] Thank you.
[9:59] Thank you very much.
[10:39] I was going to say, what I was thinking is, so that it's much less than, rather than us each stopping and making her about it for her, you know, right?
[10:48] That would mean, it would be my thought to the back, on Monday night, probably.
[11:10] Okay.
[11:40] Okay, those glasses are nice.
[11:43] Whenever you think of somebody that you really care about, you need Rossi.
[11:46] I didn't know why you hated Rossi because of that.
[11:50] Well, he's very thrilled about me and that he came in to see me.
[11:55] Yeah, I didn't mention it because I didn't want to hear it.
[11:58] Well, I don't know.
[12:00] The other one may or may not be an officer.
[12:03] Rossi would be an officer in the event that we would be in later if we can't go.
[12:10] And it's the weeks that went by when these things arrived.
[12:13] And he also said, he told me, please, if there's anything else that you want, you know, just to let him know.
[12:20] Because he said, no, no, you know, don't say something to me.
[12:24] That's what he came in for.
[12:35] So we'll put it down on the list for anything special we can have.
[12:39] Yeah.
[12:40] Yeah.
[12:41] Yeah.
[12:42] Yeah.
[13:08] Yeah.
[13:10] She's here?
[13:11] Yeah.
[13:11] She's still in Minnesota?
[13:13] Uh-huh.
[13:14] Still present at the University of Minnesota?
[13:15] What did she become from her?
[13:19] Apparently so.
[13:20] The last few years... She had a problem.
[13:22] Oh, yes.
[13:23] A very big problem.
[13:24] Apparently so.
[13:25] She's been just fine.
[13:26] She got out, you know, out into the...
[13:28] I'm going to go with you and me, so if you'd like to bring her in here.
[13:31] Okay.
[13:31] Well, I...
[13:32] The door's open.
[13:33] Well, yeah, right.
[13:35] She's still on that floor.
[13:36] That one.