Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 191-011
Date: Thursday, May 18, 1972 at 11:34 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Shultz, George P.
Recording device: Camp David Hard Wire
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/191-011

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[0:00] Woods, please.
[0:02] Yeah.
[0:05] Yeah, I'll take it.
[0:10] I'll take it.
[0:11] Yeah, George.
[0:16] Yeah, yeah.
[0:20] Right.
[0:23] Right.
[0:26] You ought to bring in at least a couple of your own people.
[0:31] You've got to have an aide that is your own.
[0:35] Now, the one that impressed me that I thought was a particularly good, I like this Donnelly.
[0:41] He's bright as a tack and he's a good salesman since he's new.
[0:44] Of course, naturally, Walker and Booker you've got to keep.
[0:48] But it's your judgment.
[0:49] If you touch what you want to do, you go ahead and do it.
[0:52] Well, the point is it's probably hard to get somebody to come for eight months.
[0:56] That's all you can commit to at the moment.
[1:01] But if you could get, I'd only suggest that if you could get, in order to get a conditional stroke into the thinking there and some new thinking, you know, get some of your friends like Milton Friedman and three or four others who will, you know, come in and counsel with you.
[1:15] But that's what I, I just think you shouldn't go in there and sort of continue as it is.
[1:21] You see my point?
[1:24] Yeah, they see it.
[1:26] They take on tax reform.
[1:28] We wait until January to come up with something for tax reform.
[1:31] And that means we're waiting two years, two sessions.
[1:34] So you've got to start thinking about it now.
[1:36] So I would have something done on the outside on that, maybe.
[1:39] That's what I mean, things of that sort.
[1:55] Right?
[1:58] That's all right with me.
[1:59] All right, fine.
[2:01] If that's what you want, we'll do it.
[2:05] Fine.
[2:06] Fine.
[2:06] You just tell Butterfield or Hall or somebody to prepare them, and I'll sign them.
[2:12] It's done.
[2:13] You've got to just run the show the way you think is right.
[2:15] All right, George.