Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 916-017
Date: Friday, May 11, 1973 at 12:44 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Slemp, John C.; Bull, Stephen B.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/916-017

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[0:38] John, any other things?
[0:41] Yes, sir.
[0:41] Well, I've never heard of it.
[0:45] It's a great pleasure to be here.
[0:54] Reverend Slinton, I have
[1:12] religious journalism, and he's traveled around the world twice.
[1:17] Yeah.
[1:17] Well, I must say, you must have had a fascinating wife.
[1:25] Yes, I have.
[1:27] How did she get the wedding?
[1:29] Well, you know, I've been working on it a long time, and I remember writing in the early 30s.
[1:38] I don't know the sonnet, but I bought the sonnet.
[1:42] And I said, it's a Christmas century publication.
[1:45] And when it came out, one of the lines had a foot missing.
[1:49] And instead of having 14 lines, it had 13.
[1:53] And so they're writing ever since.
[1:59] Published in the Christmas century in the Christian Herald.
[2:02] And several periodicals and something, and policies.
[2:07] But no book, just the periodicals here.
[2:16] I became a journalist.
[2:20] So I've been in religious journalism my whole life.
[2:50] But there was a 15-year period of travel and studying in various parts of the world.
[2:58] And so things worked out very interesting to me.
[3:03] Let's do this mix and we'll go to China all around.
[3:05] We didn't get to China because we were cut out of China, you know, of course.
[3:09] But we were in Hong Kong and India and all over.
[3:13] So a lot of Chinese people said, oh, a lot of Chinese.
[3:19] All the work was fascinating, but Asia has a certain fascination in me.
[3:23] It certainly does.
[3:24] Asia.
[3:25] Yeah, India and all of Hawaii.
[3:27] And Thailand and all those countries are great.
[3:30] Very much.
[3:33] And then we got into Africa and then into, of course, over Europe.
[3:37] Latin America.
[3:38] Latin America.
[3:38] Yeah.
[3:40] And even got to Russia later on.
[3:42] You got to give every state a little bit.
[3:45] All every state in the union.
[3:55] And she knows every president of the United States, the names of their wives, and she can say the back of her heart.
[4:06] She certainly has been mentioned in her history.
[4:10] And she said, be sure to write it.
[4:12] The president will give me his autograph.
[4:13] Be sure to write it.
[4:55] I'm so happy to see you.
[4:56] I'm so happy to see you.
[4:59] Thank you for your encouragement, your prayers.
[5:03] I believe in you.
[5:05] Thank you.
[5:06] I love you.
[5:07] I love you.
[5:08] I love you.
[5:08] I love you.
[5:34] I know it.
[5:35] That might be related to that.