Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 917-025
Date: Monday, May 14, 1973 at 12:04 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)]; Clemente, Vera; Moorhead, William S.; Scott, Hugh; Schweiker, Richard S.; Benitez, Jaime; Stargell, Willie; Sanguillen, Manny; Zabala, Orlando; Davis, Kenneth; Nieves, Paul; Members of the press
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/917-025

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[0:13] Mrs. Quinney, in terms of this, you're welcome, you're welcome.
[0:16] I'm delighted to welcome you here.
[0:18] It's an honor to have you on this occasion.
[0:39] Let's go down.
[1:04] Oh, I know, I know.
[1:31] I know.
[1:33] I know.
[1:36] I know.
[1:38] I know.
[1:50] I know.
[1:52] I know.
[1:55] I know.
[1:58] I know.
[2:02] Oh, Ken, how are you?
[2:06] Now, what we would like to do is so that we have this all set up, we have two ceremonies.
[2:12] First, I'll present the Citizen's Medal to Mrs. Clementi over here.
[2:18] Then we'll sign the bill here.
[2:20] For the bill signing ceremony, the senator and the congressman will be like this on either side.
[2:30] The rest of you will come over.
[2:34] I'll pull this group in for a presentation of the bill.
[2:41] We want the bill signing to be one story.
[2:46] Fair enough.
[2:47] Mrs. Clemente will be over for the bill signing too.
[2:51] And you set her up perhaps between the two of you.
[2:54] So if we do these things this way, otherwise we can go back to you.
[2:56] And I'll get the hands of all the veterans.
[3:02] And we have a player's picture alone.
[3:03] And then I'd like to have William and Manny over.
[3:07] Let's have a follow-up.
[4:06] goes to the vertical line.
[4:08] I'd like to read something here, because I was fascinated by the famous thing in regards to the vertical line.
[4:19] Citizens of the Meadow Sanctuary, the vertical line, all who saw the vertical line in action, whether on the diamond or on the front lines of the charitable sector,
[4:47] selfless dedication to helping those with two strikes against one.
[4:52] Thus, now, I set an example for you.
[4:57] As long as athletes and experimentarians are honored, Roberto commanded his members to live.
[5:07] As long as citizens and members of his members, he will be known as one, because this person was.
[6:00] I'm going to use five minutes.
[6:01] I'm going to use five minutes.
[6:04] I'm going to use five minutes.
[6:07] I'm going to use five minutes.
[6:10] I'm going to use five minutes.
[6:12] I'm going to use five minutes.
[6:13] I'm going to use five minutes.
[6:15] I'm going to use five minutes.
[6:17] I'm going to use five minutes.
[6:19] I'm going to use five minutes.
[6:42] Now, ladies and gentlemen, we will have another ceremony at this time.
[7:10] The bill was introduced in the House by Senator Marget, who represents some districts in the Senate, by Senator Scott.
[7:19] It was a bill which received, if you might imagine, overwhelming support in both the House and the Senate.
[7:25] And Senator Weicker here is also a correspondent of the bill.
[7:43] Thank you.
[7:43] Thank you.
[7:43] Thank you.
[8:18] And Senator Scott, who I recognize in the purpose of the response,
[8:50] I don't want to set up a fight, so I'm going to call it.
[8:51] I think the story will work.
[8:52] I think it's all going to be easy.
[8:53] I think we all know what we're going to have to do.
[8:55] We're going to have to do a lot of things.
[9:00] We're going to raise this down from $150,000 to $250,000 equally.
[9:07] And in order to be published at the first time, we're going to have to do a lot of things.
[9:19] We're going to have to do a lot of things
[9:51] Thank you.
[9:52] Thank you.
[9:54] Thank you.
[10:06] Thank you.
[10:07] Thank you.
[10:31] Come on, Howard.
[11:03] Thank you very much.
[11:26] Thank you.
[11:27] Thank you.
[11:35] Thank you.
[11:37] Thank you.
[12:05] Let's see if we can get some, let's see if we can get some.
[12:38] You can see that these go to her son's good.
[12:42] That's right.
[12:42] We're going to meet tomorrow.
[12:47] All right.
[12:48] Any ideas?
[12:50] This is the presidential seat of the president.
[12:54] So it's not for each of them to have one.
[13:02] That's the pin.
[13:03] You can go over there and see if you have any pets.
[13:17] Do you have any sons?
[13:18] Three boys.
[13:18] How old are the other boys?
[13:20] Four, six, and seven.
[13:23] Give each of them a tie bar.
[13:25] That's a great idea.
[13:27] I'm very proud to see you.
[13:28] I wish you well.
[13:30] We hope we meet on occasion.
[13:33] Thank you.
[14:11] Thank you, Mr. President.
[14:23] Thank you, Mr. President.