Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 921-018
Date: Thursday, May 17, 1973 at 12:21 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Clancy, Donald D.; Cornett, Chester; Donovan, Thomas; Donovan, Thomas (Mrs.); Donovan, Danny; Donovan, Betsy; Donovan, Shawn; Friedersdorf, Max L.; White House photographer
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/921-018

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[0:00] Mr. President.
[0:03] Mr. President, Congressman Clancy.
[0:05] Tom Clancy, services.
[0:07] Oh, Don.
[0:08] How are you?
[0:09] Hi.
[0:09] How are you, Mr. President?
[0:10] Glad to see you.
[0:11] Mr. President here.
[0:12] Mr. Cornyn.
[0:13] How are you doing, Mr. Cornyn?
[0:15] Glad to meet you.
[0:15] Yes, sir.
[0:16] Well, now, you come on over here.
[0:16] We're going to get a picture of this chair, which is such a doable art of work across the ship.
[0:22] And, uh, here we are.
[0:26] You did this all yourself, Tom?
[0:28] Yeah, yeah.
[0:33] Let's get a little closer, Tom.
[0:35] I don't want you in the picture, too, here.
[0:37] I'll stand right here.
[0:40] Mr. President, this is the Donovan family of Cincinnati.
[0:43] This is Mr. and Mrs. Tom Donovan and Sean Donovan.
[0:47] They're our children.
[0:48] All right.
[0:48] They drove all night to help us.
[0:50] They're right here.
[0:51] They're with me.
[0:52] Okay.
[0:52] All right.
[0:52] Mr. Anthony.
[0:53] How are you?
[0:54] This boy here is Frank.
[0:57] Thank you.
[1:00] Thank you.
[1:02] Thank you.
[1:23] I didn't try to meet you.
[1:31] That's right.
[1:34] You stand over in front of me.
[1:46] There you go.
[1:53] Well, we're glad to meet you.
[1:55] Would that you call me some pictures, would that be?
[1:59] Thank you, thank you.
[2:01] So that each family can have one.
[2:02] Why don't you take them to school?
[2:03] I should, but that's what they'll do.
[2:04] You're going to copy them pictures you've taken to school.
[2:06] I don't know, I think you're going to take one.
[2:09] That's right.
[2:09] He's a bright boy.
[2:11] You will see that we're going to get the pictures to the Congressman's office, and you see that they're distributing it to folks.
[2:17] You can make up a batch, can't you?
[2:19] I'll tell you about it.
[2:20] We can do something about it.
[2:21] Is that what you want to say?
[2:22] I don't know what will happen.
[2:24] Mr. President, he just wants to take a second to express his feelings.
[2:30] Yeah.
[2:45] Yeah.
[2:46] Uh-huh.
[2:47] Uh-huh.
[2:48] Uh-huh.
[2:48] Uh-huh.
[2:49] Uh-huh.
[3:14] Why good, but you sure have done a good job.
[3:18] Thank you.
[3:18] Say thank you.
[3:19] Thank you very much.
[3:21] We've got more to do.
[3:23] We've got to meet with the Russians next month and the Chinese and a few other people.
[3:27] But maybe we can make it the same in the world for these kids.
[3:31] I sure appreciate it.
[3:33] He's done this completely out of admiration for you.
[3:36] There's been nothing other, anything else involved in this.
[3:40] He's had this locked in a room for months, and it's taken me over a year to get his trust up to where we could get it up here.
[3:56] Good luck.
[3:57] Thank you.
[3:57] Good luck to you, boy.
[3:59] All right.
[3:59] Thanks for your help.
[4:01] Goodbye.
[4:01] Have a nice, pleasant morning.