Conversation 940-004

TapeTape 940StartThursday, June 14, 1973 at 10:56 AMEndThursday, June 14, 1973 at 11:10 AMParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Woods, Rose MaryRecording deviceOval Office

On June 14, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:56 am to 11:10 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 940-004 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 940-4

Date: June 14, 1973
Time: 10:56 am - 11:10 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

       President’s address to nation addressing price control measures
              -Woods’s schedule
              -Telephone calls to Woods
                      -John B. Connally
                      -Kathleen (Carmody) Stans
                      -Maurice H. Stans

       Watergate
             -Stans
                     -Forthcoming telephone call from Rose Mary Woods
              -President’s conversations
                     -John D. Ehrlichman
                     -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
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            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                (rev. March-2011)

                                                         Conversation No. 940-4 (cont’d)

               -Charles Colson
                      -Frank Fitzsimmons

Forthcoming Leonid I. Brezhnev visit
       -Dinner
              -Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s note to Rose Woods
                      -Arrangements
                             -Unknown person
                             -Anne [last name unknown]
                             -Connally
                             -Ambassador

Possible invitation to John B. Connally and Idanell (Brill) (“Nellie”) Connally
       -California
               -Overnight visit
               -Disneyland
               -Brezhnev

Woods’s forthcoming conversation with George H. W. Bush
      -Anne L. Armstrong
      -John Connally
              -Republican Party members
                    -Large cities
                            -Invitations

Forthcoming Brezhnev visit
       -Guest lists
              -Handshaking
              -Undersecretaries and assistant secretaries
              -Woods’s conversation with William E. Timmons
              -Cabinet and other officials
                                            -Elliot L. Richardson, Earl Butz, Dr. James
                      R. Schlesinger, George P. Shultz, Melvin R. Laird, Alexander M.
                      Haig, Jr., Bryce N. Harlow
              -Harlow
                     -Announcement
              -Peter M. Flanigan
              -Haig
                     -Compared to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
              -Laird
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            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                               (rev. March-2011)

                                                         Conversation No. 940-4 (cont’d)

              -[Armstrong] [?]
              -William L. Safire
              -Herbert G. Klein
              -John W. Warner
              -Johnny Mann Singers
              -Debbie Reynolds

President’s address to nation addressing price control measures
       -President’s recent conversation with Haig
       -Speech writers
               -First draft
               -Economy
       -Importance of beginning and end
       -John Connally’s view

Connally
      -Woods’s forthcoming telephone call to Donald McI. Kendall
            -Golf clubs

Forthcoming Brezhnev visit
       -Guest list
              -Kendall
              -Hobart D. C. (“Hobe”) Lewis
                     -Writing
              -Handshaking
                     -Administrators
       -Timmons
       -An unknown man
              -President’s trip to People’s Republic of China [PRC]

President’s address to nation addressing price control measures
       -Walter Taylor’s view
       -Forthcoming Brezhnev visit

Forthcoming Brezhnev visit
       -Guest list
              -Non-partisan aspect
              -Taylor
              -Paul Hall
       -Agenda
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      (rev. March-2011)

                                                            Conversation No. 940-4 (cont’d)

              -Guest list in San Clemente
                     -Ronald W. Reagan
                     -Stars
                     -Business people
                              -Chicago
                     -Governors
                              -New Mexico
                     -Reagan
                     -Business people
                     -Californians
                     -John Wayne, Jimmy (“Jimmy”) Stewart
                     -Number
                              -Buffet
                     -Count Basie

Rose Mary Woods left at 11:10 am.

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I switched him over to you, but you know, he always does that.
He always takes the call from me.
He does that every time.
And then, you know, he asks if anyone wants to talk to Kathleen and Sam.
Which ended up was so sweet, because my contacts were so great.
I called him every time he called me.
I would like to do a couple of things.
It's very important to have an NIR announcement.
I had a call, I raised a really broken note, and I think he'll come to dinner here.
He said he'd let him come to either one.
I think it'll be the one here, but Ann's going to call him back.
It's very important.
The coffee's going to be here for a week.
I want them to hold it.
I don't want the capacity to stay.
Well, yes, this is what I suggested.
Wow, wow.
Also, with the coffee, we could talk about the coffee, the tea that we hear.
Also, one of the signs that we hope that the actors will see.
They might say, you know, we have to return the actors to their present place.
I don't know.
Thank you very much.
Only you can come past George Bush.
And I am.
And I am.
And I am.
And I am.
I've already told you I don't want just the...
I don't need to say this in charge, but I can relate it as the bookshelves.
I would like a quite a big shelf thing, and I think I'll have fresh stuff out here.
Well, let's see, they're already invited.
I'll assure you, no, because I invited undersecretaries, and this is a secretary.
I don't mean secretary, I mean undersecretary of department.
Timmons, as I mentioned the other day, sent me 41 names, and I cut off about six of them, because they don't make every call on me.
And I told them, I said, we just can't do that, you know.
But I don't know.
I'll look at the list of people I'll contact.
The list is important and not gross.
I'm going to have freshmen, please, that are two classes, please.
If I had thought of it, I think I would have added a few RBIBs, including Newcastle.
Well, we've got quite a few candidates coming to dinner.
No, wait a minute.
Your son is not, Ricky's not coming tonight.
No, no, but we've got more candidates.
Butts is not.
Butts, well, Butts, Steve, and that's all.
Butts, and that's all.
Who?
Well, I'm still looking.
See, I'm working on mine for July, and I haven't paid for it.
I can bring them a little bit right now.
Shells should come.
Shells should come.
And layers.
Layers and hay.
Layers and hay.
Layers and hay should come.
Now, we did not put rice on them, but he won't care.
Well, no, I thought he lost some of those from making dinner returns.
He went over there and signed some papers.
The return is fine.
But Pete, he's been to virtually everything here.
And I love him.
But it's, you know, I mean, there are other people.
Yeah, yeah, he's amazing.
And he has died me like all of us.
In the whole of America.
He's just as I thought I wanted to have him to come over there.
And I'm ready to put him on for other purposes.
Legs for a while.
And show him.
Yeah.
And you mentioned trying to get people... And also the woman, she comes by.
Yes, she comes by, which we tried to balance out quite well.
And the only people, I was trying to think of people who were involved, maybe in the afternoon, it doesn't get too cold.
Thank you for watching!
You know, I'm just telling the hell out of everybody.
It's a little key to successful speeches on the internet.
Successfully dead in the chat.
We've never seen a person like that before.
They just want me to get up and talk about it all the time.
You see?
That's what it's all about.
And I'll give you a bit of that last week.
I'll give you that last week.
Well, you know what?
Connelly said what?
That it was such a good, understandable play.
Understandable the reason that everybody knows that.
So it was.
It wasn't a good understanding.
You asked Don Handel to make some of all the books for Connelly.
I think I need some of mine, and I want some of Handel's books.
I don't know why I haven't been able to mention that for a long time.
And I don't think it's a good look at what's there today.
I think it's a good look at what's there today.
Don't worry about those roads.
Don't worry.
Well, one of the thoughts that I had was that one fellow, because he had wanted to go on the championship, and he couldn't go on the championship, and I said, look, you know, we really can't do this.
These are too important to us.
I don't know how he did it.
It was a good job, and Walter Taylor called him.
He had just arrived in town to turn on the television and watch it, and he thought it was a good idea.
I didn't know how you knew me.
I came along.
You know, you had the bill.
You guys had a visit coming up.
We have very few, as I told you, you saw the last night's delivery.
We made it pretty nonpartisan, because I think I'm just looking to the top.
And we'll spread that out together.
That's good.
That's great.
You can buy it.
And if this is not real, we're going to ask Paul Hall.
I don't know whether they did this today or not.
And if not, are you still going to have a poolside party?
I don't know what's going to develop out there at this point.
I think we should.
I'd love to have it.
If so, I'm going to have Raven.
I just can't have stars.
I want a lot of stars.
I'd love to see the stars.
They're charging the business people from as far as Chicago and Washington may be out.
And you could invite Reagan, and you could invite the governors and things around the area.
How the hell was that?
Reagan, if you're not a citizen of the government, you cannot help those people.
Fair enough, but you know I think it would be good for some of our dinners to add like a Governor Maxwell or something.
Yeah, to dinners I would have them, but I wouldn't add them to this sort of thing.
I started with making them a list of two crowds of people.
Reagan and I had just friends, real friends of business people.
But mostly Californians?
All Californians.
All Californians.
And the stars, the more that changes.
Yeah.
We'll start working on this.
You want to say, you know, a couple hundred people, or a hundred people would.
Well, when they service us, you were planning on something like you did for the stars, which would be a buffet.
You know, have that buffet table set up.
And have it be, um, um, cuffed up.
And it would be, they would, you would have to bring them live back somewhere and just tag them alive.
Please.
And that means good work on this song.
Please keep on that.
Please.
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