Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 918-021
Date: Tuesday, May 15, 1973 at 12:19 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Parris, Stanford E.; Goodnough, Robert G.; Parrish, Harry; Friedersdorf, Max L.; White House photographer
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/918-021

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[0:00] Mr. President, I'm from St. Paris.
[0:02] How are you?
[0:02] President, nice to be here.
[0:04] Thank you.
[0:06] We're a hundred years old in St. Paris.
[0:07] Yeah, Paris.
[0:08] Nice to see you again.
[0:09] How are you?
[0:10] Good to see you.
[0:11] I thought Manassas was older than that.
[0:14] We were just older than that.
[0:17] Yeah, this is a hundred years.
[0:18] It is.
[0:20] Oh, I say we're a hundred years old.
[0:22] That's right.
[0:23] You don't do that.
[0:24] It's a solid book of books.
[0:27] Ha ha ha!
[0:29] Well, uh, shall we go over to our visitor here?
[0:33] We'll try to give you some information about the area at the time, and we certainly do appreciate it.
[0:38] Oh, I have 300 of them.
[0:39] I've got a study from, uh, Massachusetts University.
[0:44] So, it's a couple hundred years old.
[0:46] Oh, a hundred years old.
[0:49] That's about it.
[0:50] You've got some flat ears.
[0:51] Yes, I have.
[0:51] I've got some distorting heads here, two sizes, so I'm going to settle with you.
[1:00] Yes, sir.
[1:03] Yes, sir.
[1:06] Yes, sir.
[1:11] Yes, sir.
[1:23] You are going to go ahead and pre-fit the, uh, it has a, both sides of the book, that's number one on the, grade on the side.
[1:36] I see.
[1:36] It's a limited issue.
[1:37] Haha, yeah, yeah.
[1:37] Well, you know where these go, they go to the presidential library, and they're very proud to have it there.
[1:41] People would go like that.
[1:43] That's just, it'll be there for a couple of years.
[1:49] I don't even ask you to get everybody in the line of work.
[1:56] Thank you very much.
[1:58] Well, we wish you the best.
[2:00] Let's give these gentlemen a hug.
[2:04] Thank you.
[2:04] Thank you.
[2:08] I appreciate your support out there too.
[2:13] Thank you.