Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 031-037
Date: Friday, October 13, 1972 at 9:44 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Price, Raymond K., Jr.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/031-037

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[0:00] Hello.
[0:01] Ray Price.
[0:02] Hello.
[0:03] Sir, I saw your memorandum on the crime and drug thing, and I have no problem in taking it out.
[0:12] As a matter of fact, in the event that you think it raises a problem, perhaps we just ought to leave out the dangerous drugs things, because, I mean...
[0:24] Any smart person, I think, could just maybe ask the... Of course, my position on the marijuana has already been made.
[0:31] Yes, you did.
[0:31] But would you prefer to leave that out, too?
[0:33] I mean, I could just put in the two things.
[0:35] I think that might be better.
[0:37] Just leave it out so we don't raise the question.
[0:38] I think the position is just the matter.
[0:41] Now, the rest is... Yeah.
[0:44] So, all right, fine.
[0:45] I'll work it over now for...
[0:48] In terms of just getting the rough edges moved off and so forth and so on.
[0:53] And...
[0:54] How are you coming on education?
[0:55] That's the next one.
[0:57] I mean, how are you working on now?
[1:00] We're just about to crank up on that, and that's one we hadn't gotten started on because there's been some question about whether we really should do one.
[1:07] Oh, yeah.
[1:08] I see.
[1:08] There were some people who felt that it would be a good idea.
[1:12] What about others?
[1:15] We're well along, of course, on the paternalism list.
[1:20] I'd be ready to throw, but... And we're working on the veterans ones.
[1:23] The veterans, of course, right, right.
[1:25] That's an easy one.
[1:26] That's just, that's basically on a farm when we've got to have something for the farmer.
[1:30] We've got an agriculture draft, which is a pretty good starting point.
[1:32] We're going to work over on that.
[1:34] And then I think one, a very high level one, you know, for the, toward the end is needed.
[1:43] Let's see what other subsets we want besides education.
[1:45] Well, one that we haven't started on, but we've been gathering a little stuff on, is a health one, which I think could be good.
[1:51] Health.
[1:52] as as possibilities it does yeah uh we've got the foreign uh the unfinished agenda in foreign affairs which uh yeah we had a draft on which we wanted to do a little more work on well i'll tell you with the with foreign affairs you really have got to i'd sort of put that on the back burner i know i would get it i'd have the draft but i put in the back burner because everything really hinges on
[2:14] I mean, as long as Vietnam is being negotiated, you know, you don't know, nothing may happen.
[2:21] That's the only subject people give a damn about.
[2:24] And so that would come very late, that one, unless, okay.
[2:33] All right, fine, Ray, thanks.
[2:34] Sure, thank you.