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Conversation 010-084

TapeTape 10StartWednesday, October 6, 1971 at 2:09 PMEndWednesday, October 6, 1971 at 2:12 PMTape start time02:40:33Tape end time02:42:07ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Safire, William L.Recording deviceWhite House Telephone
AI Summary

President Nixon consults with speechwriter William Safire regarding the inclusion of legislative updates in an upcoming Phase II economic address. Nixon directs Safire to incorporate a segment urging the Senate to act promptly on a tax program already passed by the House, highlighting its potential for job creation. This addition serves to reinforce the administration's momentum on the "three-front program" of restraining prices, creating jobs, and stabilizing the dollar.

Phase II economic policyWilliam SafireTax legislationJob creationLegislative strategyPresidential speechwriting
AudioNARA Description

On October 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and William L. Safire talked on the telephone from 2:09 pm to 2:12 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 010-084 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 10-84

Date: October 6, 1971
Time: 2:09 pm - 2:12 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with William L. Safire.

[See Conversation No. 283-40]

     Phase II Speech
          -Three-front program

          -Job front
                -House of Representatives
                     -Tax program
                     -Senate
Transcript (AI-Generated)

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Yeah.
Mr. Sapphire, Mr. President.
Yeah.
One missing item right at the first, which will take a couple lines.
You see, we discussed at the beginning the three-front program, you know, to restrain prices, create jobs, and the dollar, et cetera.
I think we should say on the job front, of course, while an international thing deals with it on the job front, and I think by tomorrow you probably can say it, I think that the House...
I don't know what day it's going to pass, but it may have passed the tax program.
The House of Representatives today has passed the program that will create so many thousand jobs.
Remember, we've used a number on that, haven't we?
Right.
And we...
I... Urge the Senate to...
I call upon the Senate...
I know that all Americans join me in calling upon the Senate to act as promptly as the House so that this program can go into effect that will create so many jobs and so forth.
You can check to see on the legislative thing whether that's the case, but if it doesn't, just leave it all out.
But it's a nice thing to throw in to sort of remind everybody that
We're moving on that front, too.
Got it.
Okay, very good.
All right, fine.
How's everything coming?
Oh, cooking right along.
Good.
All right, fine.
Right there.
All right.
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