Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 014-111
Date: Monday, November 15, 1971 at 6:04 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator; Scott, Hugh
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/014-111

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[0:00] Hello.
[0:01] Senator Scott.
[0:02] Hello, Hugh, how are you?
[0:03] I'm fine, sir.
[0:05] I was sorry I was in a cabinet meeting, just got through with it, but that's all right.
[0:11] Mike had the same senators who were down there, plus Aiken and Fulbright, in a meeting, and what came out of it was an agreement by all, including Fulbright, to approve a continuing resolution to December 1st with a
[0:26] agreement among ourselves to extend it to Saturday the 4th if needed.
[0:33] Of course, under the law to continue at the 2.64 level, 2,640,000,000 level.
[0:43] I was not able to get Ellen to call that meeting tomorrow.
[0:46] The most he will do is call a meeting of both his subcommittee and then his full committee Wednesday morning to act on the resolution day after tomorrow.
[0:55] Fulbright is a little grumpy about the whole thing, but went along.
[0:59] He says, however, that he wants plenty of time in conference on the aid bill itself to insist on the so-called restrictive clauses.
[1:09] He says, I can tell you it'll Christmas if I don't get those clauses, but he doesn't seem so concerned on the amounts anymore.
[1:16] Mm-hmm.
[1:16] He just wants the language.
[1:18] Yeah, Mansfield Amendment and that sort of thing.
[1:20] That sort of thing, yeah.
[1:21] Yeah, and Cooper Church, et cetera, et cetera.
[1:24] Cooper Church is out.
[1:24] He would not insist on that.
[1:26] Well, that's fine.
[1:27] The way it will work, then, they will announce this so that the— Yes, we agreed that Allender would announce it.
[1:33] That's a good way to tie into it.
[1:35] And then that way, then we go forward and for two days do it on faith, and then you pass it on Wednesday, yeah?
[1:41] That's the plan, yes.
[1:42] Well, that's good.
[1:44] One light note, I went up—
[1:45] to the hill with Milt Young in Mansfield, Maryland.
[1:49] I said, you know, it's the fifth time the president's promised to see my movies.
[1:53] I know.
[1:54] I put the damn thing up before Russia, but I'll see them.
[1:59] But I'll do it.
[2:00] I'll do it.
[2:01] I'll do it.
[2:01] Anyway, it was necessary.
[2:03] I thought all of you certainly played the role nicely, but I was, as you know, it was pretty tough, and I just felt we had to be
[2:10] or we wouldn't have never gotten it out of them.
[2:11] Well, I think that's absolutely true.
[2:13] And if it were not for the fact that you put it on the skillful basis that you did, we wouldn't have gotten it.
[2:20] Well, I appreciated your help, Hugh, on it very much, very much.
[2:24] All right.
[2:25] All right, sir.
[2:34] Thanks.