Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 948-007
Date: Wednesday, July 11, 1973 at 12:09 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Humphrey, Hubert H.; Ford, Gerald R.; Hanson, Arthur B.; Timmons, William E.; White House photographer; Members of the press
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/948-007

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[0:03] All right.
[0:04] All right.
[0:19] Well, you heard the big shots today.
[0:21] I know.
[0:22] That's right.
[0:23] The president and senator was admiring the new cabinet table.
[0:28] Oh, yeah.
[0:30] He said he hopes that his wife doesn't see it.
[0:37] I think we're right.
[0:46] That's why I said my heart is that Williamsburg, she's so crazy about Williamsburg, right?
[1:02] She made a lot of minutes.
[1:06] That's right.
[1:09] That's right.
[1:16] Well, I'm doing this to ask the rest of my friends, friends of ours in Europe and Asia, and this is one of my, I don't know if you're kind of told, but this is an artist who did a lot of medicine.
[1:20] I don't know how to explain it, but this is something I'm doing to our audience for you.
[1:36] And we are presenting to you this medal of W.O.S.S.
[1:37] I'm going to put this here to show us the capital on one side.
[1:40] So George Washington laid forth the name W.O.S.S.
[1:41] on the other.
[1:42] That's the number 1777.
[1:57] Gary and I were, uh, presented with a medal in my conference, uh, and he had the best swing, and said, it's $108.
[2:02] I think he lost it, but I don't know, but I should say, uh, there are 1,976 of those, uh, and, uh, for the purpose of making a list.
[2:19] I saw them here, the men, all three of them, all three of them.
[2:59] I will honor it by
[3:18] I mean, it's just no way.
[3:20] I mean, it's just no way.
[3:22] I mean, it's just no way.
[3:24] I mean, it's just no way.
[3:27] I mean, it's just no way.
[3:31] I mean, it's just no way.
[3:37] Just loves his...
[3:51] What he does in every respect.
[3:58] We all owe him a lot because it hasn't been his.
[4:04] That's right.
[4:06] And he just picked that up when he was a member of Congress.
[4:13] We only have three and a half years, but two and a half.
[4:21] That's right.
[4:22] The year begins in January of 76.
[4:24] Well, we've got to have some kind of celebration.
[4:28] What I have to say is that, Mr. President, both of you gentlemen, is that with my Marine Corps hat on, we have just signed a 50-year lease for a dollar a year for the city of Philadelphia, and we're going to, through the Marine Corps Memorial Foundation, build a replica of Cunt Tavern.
[4:48] And we're going to put it up there right near the centennial buildings and right near Independence Hall.
[4:54] And we've got the land that's all dedicated.
[4:56] And I just signed that lease this week.
[4:59] And we've got, if the cost is not a half a million dollars, it's not that big a project.
[5:05] If we'd had it by the land, it wouldn't have been a big project.
[5:07] But Philadelphia, we finally talked it into other areas.
[5:10] And we're banging away at that.
[5:12] And that will be dedicated as one of the 1776, 1976 programs.
[5:46] And these are all just .
[5:50] You guys, this is very .
[5:56] Yes, I'm going to play next week at the University of Minnesota.
[5:59] Wow.
[6:00] On all the occasions.
[6:03] You're very kind.
[6:04] Oh, you're a Russian now.
[6:09] I don't play very much, really.
[6:12] This is the Wiggins.
[6:13] They've got a Wiggins scholarship.
[6:16] They get all those blokes up who can't play.
[6:19] Yeah, this is the athlete's scholarship to the University of Minnesota.
[6:30] Oh, Melissa!
[6:31] Melissa!
[6:39] Yeah.
[6:40] Yeah.
[6:55] We've got to get a football team.
[6:58] I said, you're having trouble with the legislature.
[7:00] He said, where are we trying to develop a high-quality university?
[7:05] I said, by God, get a football team.
[7:07] Well, I have to say, University of Southern California, that's a great school.
[7:14] It's a great law school.
[7:16] They're number one.
[7:17] Nebraska's a great university.
[7:19] You can have both.
[7:22] And that's not our first idea.
[7:29] We had to take that off.
[7:32] Even though we took it off, I agree with you, they lost a couple of games.
[7:38] But at the end of the year, they played on that ball.
[7:42] For real, the two best teams were Nebraska and Southern California.
[7:46] Nebraska was big enough to have the USC, the kind of... SC was kind of in a powerful league, you know.
[7:56] That first half, Lee Hayes, his team held it back.
[8:01] But no way, no way, but Nebraska...
[8:07] I see it's your favorite club that's recent practice now, and Mr. Allen's.
[8:19] to go right this year.
[8:20] I think he's probably right.
[8:24] I don't know.
[8:26] He's got to buy it.
[8:27] He bought it by doing it.
[8:30] He brought in some money.
[8:32] He got a guy.
[8:33] I don't know.
[8:35] I don't know about that, but he's got this.
[8:38] He got Benson.
[8:40] Yeah.
[8:40] Canadian.
[8:41] Oh, God.
[8:42] And he brought this.
[8:43] I don't know.
[8:44] I don't know.
[8:45] I don't know.
[8:47] I don't know.
[8:49] We filled in the precinct.
[8:50] How many?
[8:50] Five.
[8:50] Five.
[8:51] Well, uh, back in Austin was one of them.
[8:52] He didn't eat him.
[8:53] No.
[8:54] And he gave up.
[8:55] There were other people that liked him.
[8:57] Yeah, I know.
[8:59] That's true.
[9:00] That's not good.
[9:01] Yeah, I forgot.
[9:01] No, he did.
[9:02] Well, that's how it was for me.
[9:06] I'm interested in the Vikings.
[9:11] The only last year he just slept a bit.
[9:18] Purple.
[9:19] Purple.
[9:19] Thank you for your time.
[9:24] Thanks for your time.
[9:27] Thanks for your time.
[9:43] Thank you.