Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 011-057
Date: Tuesday, October 12, 1971 at 10:14 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Shultz, George P.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/011-057

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[0:00] George, one thing that occurred to me is to keep our own COLC people from privately or publicly yapping around, publicly, except for Arthur Nunn would, but I wonder if maybe Rumsfeld could run this around.
[0:19] Well, the only ones that I can think of that would be a problem would be Romney, Stans, and Burns.
[0:25] What do you think?
[0:26] Just to simply say that this was a statement that
[0:29] that was developed from Connolly's press conference and the other briefings representing the viewpoint.
[0:36] Don't you think it's a good idea?
[0:38] Yes.
[0:38] Let's have a united front of the thing.
[0:40] And as far as the business thing is concerned, I'm not so, I mean, I don't, the capitulation thing doesn't stand up, George, unless they have built up an idea that we're going to do something that we never intended to do, but maybe they have.
[0:56] Is that the point?
[0:57] In other words, they may have thought that mean he was.
[1:01] No, I think people are trying to reach conclusions too rapidly without thinking carefully about what is involved.
[1:13] And I think anyone who really thinks about it would recognize that any time you can get labor to accept
[1:21] a reasonable degree of responsibility for doing something about high wage settlements.
[1:27] That's right.
[1:27] That you have achieved something enormous.
[1:29] Enormous.
[1:30] For a while.
[1:30] For a while.
[1:32] I agree.
[1:32] And that's what you've got to, let's get that around to a few people and so that we don't have the business people, you know, whining around.
[1:41] Okay.
[1:41] All right, sir.
[1:42] Bye, George.