Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 273-041
Date: Sunday, August 15, 1971 at 5:43 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Safire, William L.; Woods, Rose Mary
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/273-041

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[4:04:46] And I'll change it online after that.
[4:06:16] Just leave it with me.
[4:06:22] Leave it with me.
[4:06:24] Leave it with me.
[4:06:26] Leave it with me.
[4:07:04] I think you better stand over there.
[4:07:30] Fine, fine, I'll assert the word.
[4:07:32] You don't have to type the page.
[4:07:34] Don't type the page.
[4:07:35] No, he's right about that.
[4:07:38] I put things like that, you know, in comparison.
[4:07:41] You don't have to type the page.
[4:07:44] Well, he's right about the line, correct?
[4:07:54] All right, please.
[4:08:09] Yeah.
[4:08:10] Yeah.
[4:08:10] Bill, on that, any other changes ?
[4:08:20] That's fine.
[4:08:22] That's fine.
[4:08:27] That's fine.
[4:08:28] That's a very good idea.
[4:08:37] We haven't set a go-round yet.
[4:08:37] I don't have it yet, but that's perfectly all right.
[4:08:45] I don't mind it there.
[4:08:46] Bye, Michael.
[4:08:51] Bye.
[4:08:52] Good.
[4:08:55] We have an issue here.
[4:08:56] Yeah.
[4:09:00] All right.
[4:09:01] Bye.
[4:09:01] I am insisting, or I shall insist,
[4:09:07] Great.
[4:09:07] How do you feel about their arrest of the cyclone?
[4:09:10] Is it bothering you?
[4:09:11] Is he all right on it?
[4:09:13] Yeah.
[4:09:13] The hostage?
[4:09:17] Yeah.
[4:09:19] One sentence I think, Bill, is worth putting in, if I may suggest, because it was a hard response.
[4:09:27] It just occurred to me, though, to sit here now, and I'll see if I can find it.
[4:09:36] You know, Arthur points out that, really, this is not a deregulation, but a stabilization of the dollar.
[4:09:42] And the place that should go in is the...
[4:09:45] In the long run, then, will be stabilized around it, not devalued.
[4:10:02] Why not say that?
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[4:10:45] Well, that's all they need to see, is that the rest of it they should see, because they ought to be in surprise, too.
[4:10:54] They want to walk in to listen.
[4:10:56] And also, we... Oh, yeah.