Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 007-079
Date: Monday, August 9, 1971 at 5:47 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Shultz, George P.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/007-079

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[0:00] Hello.
[0:01] Mr. Schultz.
[0:01] Yeah.
[0:04] George.
[0:04] Yes, sir.
[0:05] On those two bills, I talked to Connolly about them, and I think he makes a very good point in one respect.
[0:12] I mean, it sort of leans the other way on the budget thing, but the reason that he has for not vetoing is that we will not have laid the proper predicate for it.
[0:25] His view is that once we have vetoed
[0:27] made the other moves that we're planning but then you just veto them in a minute you know and then throw the ball right back over to the congress but here to do it now he thinks there's some doubts about it now that's his argument for whatever it's worth and uh i i i hate to roll over on those bills i must say but i i still want to see tomorrow what what the congressional chances are if we do veto okay okay