Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 009-124
Date: Wednesday, September 22, 1971 at 5:37 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Buchanan, Patrick J.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/009-124

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[0:00] Yeah.
[0:02] Ready, Mr. President.
[0:02] Yes, sir.
[0:03] We've got McCracken stuff, and we'll get that stuff over from Rockefeller House's people within an hour or so.
[0:08] If they want it, fine.
[0:09] Now, the other thing is that Schultz had some, I called him and I said, you know, we ought to use, and one thing we, a little weekend in this, is to talk about some of the optimistic side of the economy.
[0:22] In other words, there's a lot of stuff that is, you know, some is not, I mean, there's a tendency for the press to only deploy the
[0:29] But, you know, everything from housing to, you know, just the litany.
[0:34] Right.
[0:34] And why don't you get a hold of him and get... You want that long list of... or a shortened list of... A short list.
[0:43] A short list of the best, huh?
[0:44] So you can do it for a minute, you know, retail sales, housing, automobiles up, you know, and...
[0:54] Okay.
[0:55] The...
[0:59] economy generally moving and so forth and so on.
[1:02] Okay, fine, sir.
[1:03] Confidence factor.
[1:04] Right.
[1:05] Which he thinks is very important to mention.
[1:07] The confidence factor is moving up.
[1:09] Okay.
[1:10] So maybe you can get a little rhetoric on that.
[1:14] That would be a good thing.
[1:15] I mean, I think these things are
[1:17] probably more important from the standpoint of making that kind of a point than to try to give them a lot of damned information about phase two.
[1:24] I agree with you.
[1:25] And what are you going to do about the Japanese yen?
[1:28] You see, the thing is, the press pad is only interested in that kind of crap.
[1:32] Right.
[1:32] But the folks are interested in the other things, right?
[1:35] Right.
[1:36] I agree with you.
[1:36] Okay.
[1:36] And so let's see if you can find a few little demagogue points to make.
[1:40] Okay, fine.
[1:41] Sapphire might have some of that, might have him work that up for you, too.
[1:45] He's been working on that.
[1:46] Okay, fine, sir.