Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 020-048
Date: Monday, February 7, 1972 at 3:41 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Price, Raymond K., Jr.; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/020-048

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[0:00] Mr. President.
[0:10] Mr. President.
[0:12] Hello.
[0:13] Mr. President.
[0:13] Yeah.
[0:14] Mr. Price on the line.
[0:15] Yeah.
[0:16] Yes, sir.
[0:17] Yeah, well, before when?
[0:19] Just a second.
[0:21] Oh.
[0:21] Well, he could come right now then, fine.
[0:28] Well, before I get
[0:29] Hello, Ray.
[0:31] You know, I think maybe we just might try this one on a red basis tonight.
[0:40] I'm not.
[0:41] But I think that what I would do, I think it needs, we're going to need more than that.
[0:47] I think what would be well would be to fit the first part
[0:51] In other words, the part that has been prepared for the script.
[0:55] When you go down to page six, other nations and America has to exert itself.
[1:01] Then start right after that on page six for America.
[1:07] You got that?
[1:09] Let's see.
[1:10] In the formal draft.
[1:12] Yeah.
[1:13] Then just pick up
[1:15] the talking points, which, incidentally, they are in speech form anyway, you see.
[1:20] Why don't you try splicing the two together, and it'll make about a 2,000-word operation.
[1:30] But I don't think it's too bad, perhaps, to just lay it out that way.
[1:35] And then I won't have to make the effort to try to put everything together.
[1:41] It might be just as well to...
[1:44] to put out something like this in written form.
[1:52] Wait a minute, I don't know if you can... Yeah, it will work.
[1:56] I don't think there's much overlapping when you do that.
[1:59] Well, yes, you do mention the wage price freeze a little earlier, but... Well, I think you see what I mean.
[2:11] If you could pick up
[2:13] the two and put them together.
[2:15] The last is substance.
[2:18] I mean, what the talking points are, the principal points of substance, and the first is, you know, good introductory stuff, see?
[2:26] Would you like to try that and get me something back as soon as you can?
[2:29] Just spice together, scissors and paste.
[2:31] You can tell, strike out a paragraph here and put another and bring something back as soon as you can.
[2:36] Fair enough.
[2:37] Bye.