Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 949-009
Date: Thursday, July 12, 1973 at 4:25 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bland, Richard E.; McClennan, W. Howard; Tipton, Howard D.; Mead, Dana G.; Scott, Walter D.; White House photographer
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/949-009

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[0:03] All right.
[0:05] All right.
[0:06] All right.
[0:30] to America.
[0:30] Yes, sir.
[0:31] Please.
[0:31] We gave them two years to treat it, and we're proud of you for a long time.
[0:37] The applause that you've given to us, I think we completely fulfill the responsibility of the charge.
[0:42] We appreciate your support and consideration of your administration.
[0:49] We think there's something very positive in you.
[0:53] Tell me this about the fall.
[1:02] all kinds of volunteer environments.
[1:05] Yes, sir.
[1:05] Are they creating a volunteer chief in state college?
[1:10] That's a big mover.
[1:11] State college?
[1:12] Yes.
[1:12] Yes.
[1:12] Yes.
[1:12] Senator Stephen Hill.
[1:13] Yes, sir.
[1:14] Yes, sir.
[1:14] I have a thought there.
[1:16] I think it's probably trying to disabuse that.
[1:19] I'm going to mark it.
[1:23] I'm going to mark it.
[1:28] We're out there.
[1:28] And you're in the building on the Nixon farm the other day, just in the store.
[1:31] Yeah.
[1:33] But on this business, tell me about the, uh...
[1:34] The reason I ask about the bomb material is I, uh...
[1:43] I saw...
[1:43] I don't know if I heard it happening.
[1:46] You know, Rolling Hills, California, a very, very expensive place.
[1:51] And my friends, they're good friends that live right next door.
[1:56] They've all gone.
[1:56] The flames came right next to their house.
[2:01] Very difficult.
[2:02] But you cover such things as forest fires.
[2:07] Yes, sir.
[2:08] We cover forest fires.
[2:10] We try to cover the entire fire problem as comprehensive a fashion as we could in two years.
[2:18] We believe it will be a cost effective program.
[2:25] We want to reorient if we can from fire suppression towards fire prevention.
[2:34] Well, thank you for your life and work.
[2:36] I've never enjoyed anything more than... Don't say you enjoy it.
[2:39] I certainly have.
[2:40] All you have to do is to knock your electric tables off and you run with it.
[2:42] Well, that's very nice of you.
[2:43] It's really about your career being able to do a good job.
[2:46] That's what you're saying, Mr. Mann.
[2:47] Very.
[2:47] An engineer's that effective in a big change, isn't it?
[2:50] Well, certainly one that does a good job.
[2:51] Well, do you know of the people that fight fires, you know?
[2:55] It's a concern.
[2:56] It must be a frustrating job, this program you're sitting around on fire.
[3:01] Come on.
[3:03] thank you very much
[3:37] For wives, you see the seal over there?
[3:40] Yes, sir.
[3:41] You see it there?
[3:43] Yes, sir.
[3:43] The mark of the shirt.
[3:45] There it is.
[3:46] You should appreciate that.
[3:48] I'm part secretary of law.
[3:50] I'm part secretary of law.
[3:52] You're part of the secretary's office.
[3:55] We'll do.
[3:56] That's not a good idea.
[3:57] No.
[3:58] God bless you.
[3:58] We're very happy to have you with us.
[4:02] Right.
[4:02] We wish you the best.
[4:04] Thank you.
[4:05] Washington, you're here.
[4:09] Glory to God.
[4:11] You know, they're no older.
[4:14] Do they ever have forest fires in Houston?
[4:20] I'm not in the sense that you have a job.
[4:21] We don't have to count the wrong places.
[4:22] I've noticed that there's a neat sign inside the drive at the end of the day.
[4:26] I don't know if you've covered some things, but I noticed a sign up there.
[4:35] There's still a rod right up on the line.
[4:37] It's very, very dry at the time.
[4:39] And it says, no smoking, even in our homes.
[4:41] Even in our own homes.
[4:44] It would seem to me that in a place that bright, the fireplace would not be allowed.
[4:59] Or is the fireplace?
[5:06] Not the fire hazard, sure.
[5:09] No, but it seems to me, if you light a fire in a fireplace, it goes up quite a lot, but you've got a lot of crush.
[5:15] No, the report points out that there are three causes of fire, wind and wind and sugar.
[5:19] And it's the careless, it's the misuse of fire that gets us in trouble, and the fireplace, inherently, is very safe.
[5:26] If you misuse it, you're in trouble.
[5:31] I support fire safety.
[5:32] Yes, of course.
[5:39] I mean, I was a third stringer, but I got another two brotherly schemes.
[6:04] Only after they were hopelessly won or hopelessly lost, that's when the achievement of the achievement was our coach says.
[6:11] But it was a great rivalry.
[6:12] This one, we used to play usually Thanksgiving Day in those days.
[6:16] And I remember one time, I remember this was interesting to you, you didn't tell me to remember this, but there was a very great football game that was played between Southern Cal
[6:29] And Notre Dame, that's early in the series, this is the time that right at the clock, it's definitely happening as a coach.
[6:38] Notre Dame have been undefeated for 23 games.
[6:43] They came into the fourth quarter 14 to nothing over Southern Cal.
[6:49] And Southern Cal came back and scored two touchdowns.
[6:55] And then Johnny Baker.
[6:59] And I'll never forget the chief who was from Sutter County.
[7:10] They were riding in the bus for a minute.
[7:16] He said, they are just .
[7:17] We all know nothing about Sutter County.
[7:19] It's a great, great university.
[7:22] How many students do you have at Redwoods now?
[7:28] That's enough.
[7:29] That's enough.
[7:30] That's such a beautiful location.
[7:34] It has the kind of college that not only has academic standards, but maintains some religious background.
[7:49] Even if they're bad.
[7:51] Thank you.
[7:52] Thanks very much.
[7:53] You were very kind.
[7:55] Oh, you're big enough.
[7:59] Good luck.
[7:59] Good luck to you.
[8:00] Thank you for coming.