Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 020-015
Date: Tuesday, February 1, 1972 at 9:49 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/020-015

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[0:01] Hello.
[0:03] Hello.
[0:04] Good evening, Mr. President.
[0:05] Well, what's the news on your front tonight?
[0:07] Well, we...
[0:08] I just finished the governor's.
[0:10] Well, you got rid of them pretty fast, I think.
[0:11] Well, we started at 7, so they finish at 9.30.
[0:17] Oh, that's right.
[0:18] That's a long time.
[13:14] Good.
[13:31] Good.
[13:31] They're going to do it, huh?
[13:43] Good.
[13:43] Aaron.
[13:43] Right.
[13:43] the dripping of the water after we can do that we'll keep it up to you reagan and evan
[14:22] That's the way.
[14:35] Good.
[14:35] Yeah, and eventually it'll begin to play.
[14:45] Hope we can settle it.
[14:46] Mm-hmm.
[15:13] Go do that.
[15:13] Mm-hmm.
[15:24] Yeah, he sent that in.
[15:44] Mm-hmm.
[15:56] When do the unemployment figures come out this week?
[16:14] Friday.
[16:19] I'll have those either late tomorrow or Thursday.
[16:20] Thursday.
[16:20] I'm not even going to predict.
[16:21] Oh, no.
[16:21] Hell, yeah.
[16:21] Every time I guess those figures, I'm off.
[16:22] Yeah.
[16:22] I just can't see.
[16:22] We're going to get a break eventually.
[16:23] Well, if we don't get it this month, we may not.
[16:24] They adjusted the number back there.
[16:25] It didn't rise in December, as we thought.
[16:27] Yep.
[16:43] Well, we weren't going to worry about it.
[16:54] No, no.
[16:54] I don't know what you mean.
[16:55] You saw that, didn't you?
[17:15] No, I didn't.
[17:15] You told me about it.
[17:16] Well, he, uh, I think he kind of met it head on.
[17:17] He felt that he, uh, didn't agree with it, but in fact, that he did not agree with it.
[17:18] And, uh, he took the time to study what it might do, in fact, to, uh, uh, that he, uh, felt that it was wrong to, uh, bother him.
[17:27] Well, it plays very well.
[17:43] He took a very responsible line, saying he did not believe in the course of it.
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