Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 006-131
Date: Saturday, July 3, 1971 at 4:37 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/006-131

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[0:01] Yeah.
[0:02] One way it occurs to me, of course, to get a better bounce out of this, and I assume you've already taken care of it or are taking care of it, and that is to be sure that our congressmen and senators, and to the extent we have them other spokesmen, that rather than their relying on
[0:22] on this release and sort of the mixed bag they get out of the press to just give them a simple one-page statement, maybe about Hodgson or something like that.
[0:31] We sent one up yesterday, which you saw, perhaps in the new summary, that Dole and Scott used.
[0:37] Yeah, I see.
[0:38] And it's damn good.
[0:40] Yeah, good.
[0:41] It points out that the breadwinners are down to 3.1% unemployment.
[0:46] The full-time workers are down to 5%.
[0:50] It's excellent.
[0:52] Well, I think the two that are starting with the main thing, employment dropped to the biggest drop in 20 years.
[0:59] Right.
[1:00] Okay.
[1:01] And we're on the verge of 80 million jobs in this country, which is unprecedented.
[1:05] Okay.
[1:05] We'll see what they all have to answer.
[1:08] Bye.