Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 097-001
Date: Thursday, March 23, 1972 at 3:56 PM
Participants: Connally, John B.; Shultz, George P.; Rumsfeld, Donald H.; Cheney, Richard B.; [Unknown person(s)]
Recording device: Cabinet Room
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/097-001

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[1:29] There is a statutory aspect to this.
[1:55] I get it for you somewhere here.
[2:12] The only thing I'd add, trust me, Mr. Chairman, is that when this is said, should we notify the price commission and the government, we are likely to defend it.
[2:27] I don't think so.
[2:28] I don't think so.
[2:28] I don't think so.
[2:29] I don't think so.
[2:30] I don't think so.
[2:34] I don't think so.
[2:35] I don't think so.
[2:37] I don't think so.
[2:38] I don't think so.
[2:39] I don't think so.
[2:41] Recommendation 2 makes two parts.
[2:44] One will change the name of the group who will undertake the study.
[2:49] Number 2 is the attitude, the attempt to perform the price-admission reaction that's caused by the Council of State.
[2:55] Is your objection to it?
[2:59] If not, I assume the recommendation has been absolutely...
[3:08] Yes, sir.
[3:59] Make sure to hide the weight on it.
[4:02] So you're talking about hiding what's inside of it.
[4:05] So here is what the devil did right now.
[4:08] What is that cost on this?
[4:09] It's about that.
[4:10] That's about $25,000.
[4:10] So here's what's happened to the sensor.
[4:12] The price was pretty good.
[4:13] $500 on some of the other sensors.
[4:14] I call that price $500.
[4:45] There's another...
[4:46] There's another interesting fact.
[4:48] One of our guys told us that, oddly enough, the farmer doesn't get nearly as much of this increase as one would have expected.
[4:59] That is the...
[5:01] The...
[5:07] The work of the pay board has been rather well publicized this week, and I know that all the ways to it beyond that, which everyone now knows.
[5:15] The pricing mission is in Chicago today, holding hearings.
[5:19] Various people are testifying to senior unions.
[5:54] The, uh, figures of the IRS system are here below the sound cover.
[5:58] Number of inquiries, how are you?
[16:54] I'm trying to get it.
[16:58] I need to talk to the mayor.
[17:00] I'm trying to get the name of it.
[17:01] Good.
[17:02] It's scary to put a hold on it.
[17:03] I need someone to put a hold on it.
[17:08] You want to be there to vote for us?
[17:11] You're either going to do that or you're just going to retire from that role.
[17:18] That's a good thing.
[17:23] That's a good thing.
[17:26] That's a good thing.
[17:30] That's a good thing.
[17:32] That's a good thing.
[17:35] That's a good thing.
[17:38] Demanding that let's see if this beer raises in this beer.
[17:42] The Washington Post said this morning they were funding this.
[17:46] Well, they asked for it, but it wasn't written on it.
[17:49] It was written down on the table.
[17:51] Oh, yeah.
[17:52] I read that.
[17:53] In other words, I said to the attorney, I've got a few bucks over the bed on me, and she just won't be able to get it out of her hands.
[18:01] I haven't thought about it, and so have I.
[18:31] So he didn't really have a mind to memorize them anyway.
[18:34] He could never get to the truth of this thing.
[18:39] Anderson hasn't really had a quick account of it.
[18:42] He put it to one side and said, oh, it's like, it's the ones we're pre-existing on.
[18:48] They...
[18:49] They had, instead of Chinese and the SS and the ITT, if anybody over there ever brought up the point that, you know, if they did make a deal, or if they made the last deal ever known to man, I mean, they'd have been better off if they'd given Hartford up the chicken.
[19:07] The stock market, as I recall, went down 7 points the day after, and within a week it went down 12 points.
[19:12] I know this is not the right...
[19:39] I understand that I can't see, and I don't understand, I don't know, what Auburn means to $100,000 that we were bidding for the Democratic Convention.
[19:52] We can't get the goddamn state chairman to turn the letter over to us.
[20:00] But I think I see a copy of it.
[20:03] State to state.