Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 928-007
Date: Friday, May 25, 1973 at 10:45 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Dramesi, John A. (Lt. Col.); Dramesi, Adriana; Bull, Stephen B.; White House photographer; Members of the press
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/928-007

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[0:00] Good morning, my friend, Lieutenant Colonel John D'Amici.
[0:05] Yes, how are you?
[0:06] Good to see you this morning, Mr. Biden.
[0:09] How are you?
[0:10] Very nice to see you.
[0:13] Well, I wanted to say I sent you a little card.
[0:19] I sent a mail or something.
[0:22] Yes.
[0:22] Yes.
[0:23] Yes.
[0:24] This is the one you made?
[0:25] This is the one you made?
[0:27] This is the one you made?
[0:30] This is the one you made?
[0:35] This is the one you made?
[0:42] This is the one you made?
[0:46] This is the one you made?
[0:56] And now we'll have a picture of you.
[1:48] Thank you.
[2:14] You don't need to do it again.
[2:15] You don't need to do it again.
[2:15] You don't need to do it again.
[2:16] You don't need to do it again.
[2:43] The lights are on.
[2:44] Thank you very much.
[2:44] Yeah, I think that's it.
[2:45] That would be proud to have it in my house.
[3:08] We're in the area of the presidential library.
[3:09] I'm glad you guys are here.
[3:09] I'm glad you guys are here.
[3:10] Go ahead.
[3:36] Your buddy's going to be that way.
[3:45] It's a great deal.
[3:47] I'm so glad you're staying with us.
[3:49] This is a little four-year-old kid.
[3:52] I'm telling you.
[3:53] He's going to be a dinner partner.
[3:56] Just take all the invitations you get for him.
[3:59] I want to talk to some of those dogs.
[4:02] Thank you.
[4:04] See if we can get, you've got the mic.
[4:30] Yes, the ashtray is the pen, the gunwalex.
[4:32] We have this time-lapse, the new time-lapse.
[4:35] Oh, we have the new time-lapse.
[4:37] We've got to get you shopping for this.
[4:46] This is, uh, the presidential time-lapse.
[4:50] It'll match the cut.
[4:52] Let's see if it'll save your coverage.
[4:56] I wasn't at the ceremony.
[4:59] I just started the program last night.
[5:14] I was on a super show.
[5:25] I mean, the most looking thing always was when they marched in colors.
[5:29] Wasn't that great?
[5:30] They played the songs.
[5:32] Well, I think it was very well done.
[5:35] In the beginning, it was certainly something to be enthused about.
[5:41] In the end, they...
[5:44] Very brilliant.
[5:45] Yeah, well, you know, he's been very young, very, very...
[5:48] It's his first call in years.
[5:49] He came down, and he was so radiant.
[5:54] I always thought to myself at one time after I was released that I would be overwhelmed and probably come up close to
[6:22] being emotional and probably, uh, that was the, uh, the nurses that came to us last time and started talking to us.
[6:27] I think it was the same with some of us.
[6:32] The last time, yeah.
[6:32] I guess we all felt that way.
[6:33] And, uh, I think that's good.
[6:37] I, uh, I think it's good.
[6:37] We've got to keep feeling it.
[6:38] Well, it's emotional.
[6:39] And all of you, the way you're retiring, keep feeling it as a country.
[6:41] And we will continue to.
[6:43] As I said yesterday in my talk, just continue to leave some of your chins out there.
[6:49] You're celebrities now.
[6:52] They'll see.
[6:53] They'll see.
[6:54] You'll do well.
[6:54] You'll do well.
[6:55] Well, I bet you it will send you copies of the pictures.
[6:58] They might bring the files.
[7:00] But we're going to hand it to Mike.
[7:02] He's a mighty proud of us boy.
[7:09] Mighty proud of me.
[7:10] And I'm proud of you.
[7:11] Yeah, good way.
[7:12] That's it.
[7:12] That's it.
[7:14] I'm married.
[7:15] We're going to do a bar here.
[7:16] Yeah.
[7:16] You're in Philadelphia.
[7:18] You're in Philadelphia.
[7:19] South Idaho.
[7:19] Yes.
[7:20] Philadelphia.
[7:21] Yes, sir.
[7:23] And then moved to New Jersey.
[7:24] And then moved to New Jersey for 30 years.
[7:30] All right.
[7:30] All right.
[7:33] Your boy wanted to do something else.
[7:36] Air Force.
[7:37] I had one year.
[7:38] What is the name?
[7:39] What is the name?
[7:39] We are.
[7:39] Let's try to start with the best name.
[7:41] If I heard the other two boys, what are they now?
[7:43] And we just spent it for a year.
[7:44] Yeah.
[7:45] Yeah.
[7:45] Get a couple extra years.
[7:48] Find the other two boys and send them home.
[7:50] All right.
[7:51] All right.