Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 004-002
Date: Tuesday, June 1, 1971 at 4:19 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/004-002

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[0:00] Yeah.
[0:01] Mr. Haldeman, sir.
[0:02] Yeah.
[0:03] On the line, sir.
[0:04] Hello.
[0:05] At Lockheed, there are 31,000 that would be affected, 17,000 on Lockheed's payroll and 14,000 on Lockheed's supplier's payrolls.
[0:14] Okay.
[0:14] On that contract.
[0:16] Fine.
[0:16] The total Lockheed employment role is 90,000.
[0:18] And if they go broke, they'd all lose their jobs.
[0:22] Yeah.
[0:24] But the other one, the 31, is the contract figure.
[0:27] Then on the gun control, it gets a little complicated.
[0:29] We launched a study when we came in because the Gun Control Act of 68 prohibited import of those guns but not domestic manufacture of them.
[0:40] So we've been testing the domestically manufactured ones, and we're trying to draw a set of objective criteria at which time we will propose legislation, but we haven't done it.
[0:53] which would outlaw this kind of thing?
[0:55] No, it's to plug the loopholes.
[0:57] So our legislation would be to require that only guns that met certain criteria could be manufactured and sold.
[1:07] And so the ones that can't hit the targets or don't hold up would be outlawed.
[1:11] Yeah.
[1:12] But not necessarily just because of price.
[1:15] Yeah, yeah.
[1:17] So we have been in the process of extensive testing in order to develop criteria for legislation to plug the loophole in this.
[1:27] All right.
[1:29] Okay.
[1:30] Thank you.
[1:32] Okay.