Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 013-121
Date: Thursday, November 4, 1971 at 3:47 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/013-121

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[0:00] Hello.
[0:02] Mr. President.
[0:03] Yeah.
[0:03] Mr. Coulson.
[0:04] Yeah.
[0:04] There you are.
[0:06] Okay.
[0:06] Hello.
[0:07] Yes, sir, Mr. President.
[0:08] Yeah.
[0:08] Yeah.
[0:09] What's new today?
[0:10] Well, I...
[0:12] I think we got some good news.
[0:15] We got a call that the labor unions on the maritime side have bought our deal, and it looks like the corn will ship next week if the Russians stick to their end of the bargain, but we have...
[0:30] It really is a rather historic thing, because both Kennedy and Johnson tried this.
[0:36] They were boycotted by the unions who wouldn't handle a cargo, and they never were able to ship anything.
[0:45] When and how can we get it out, Chuck?
[0:48] Well, I've got everybody working on it right now, Mr. President.
[0:51] If the Russian embassy agrees...
[0:55] And Peterson has been working on this.
[0:56] We'll be able to announce it tomorrow.
[0:57] We want to announce it tomorrow because the unions have asked us to so that they're... Well, now, rather than Peterson, may I just respectfully suggest
[1:07] that uh get kissinger to shove him if there's any problem oh yes indeed he knows about it no he doesn't have a call into him uh yeah and i just haven't talked to me it just happened within the last hour i'll have him call you all right that'd be great he uh it if nothing goes wrong it won't go wrong now from the union side but if nothing goes wrong on the deal yeah uh basically with the russians or continental grain it's going to be a big jolt in the farm belt we've got everybody out there good alerted to speed