Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 011-042
Date: Monday, October 11, 1971 at 4:33 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Shultz, George P.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/011-042

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[0:00] Yes, sir.
[0:03] Whenever you're ready, George, I can go over that stuff with you.
[0:06] Okay, why don't I come right along?
[0:08] I thought I'd bring Don Rumsfeld with me, if that's all right.
[0:13] Yeah, yeah.
[0:14] He's the new director of that, so.
[0:16] Yeah, that's fine.
[0:17] The only thing I was going to say is that I would prefer to concentrate, however, on things that might come up in this conference tomorrow.
[0:22] I don't want to go into any long-range plans at this point.
[0:26] Just the questions, you see.
[0:27] The executive council meeting you mean?
[0:29] No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
[0:30] I'm not going to talk about that.
[0:32] I mean when I meet, when I do my press thing tomorrow.
[0:35] Oh.
[0:35] That's what I'm trying to think about now.
[0:37] I don't want to get...
[0:37] I see.
[0:38] I don't want to get into long-range problems now.
[0:40] I'd prefer not to.
[0:41] Well, we wanted to get your okay on a...
[0:49] A move that Hudson might make tonight or early tomorrow morning with us.
[0:53] Oh, sure, that sort of thing, of course.
[0:54] No, that's what I meant.
[0:56] I just meant let's concentrate on things we have to do tomorrow.
[0:59] Okay, fine.
[1:00] All right, I'll be right back.