On September 8, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Raymond K. Price, Jr., Manolo Sanchez, John D. Ehrlichman, unknown person(s), Stephen B. Bull, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:34 pm and 3:03 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 274-034 of the White House Tapes.
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Give these two to him, too.
That'll be too pricey to come to the E.O.D.
Yes, yes, get one of those.
Yeah.
I'm having several of these.
I should bring over an extra copy.
Okay.
Yeah.
Hello.
Yeah, any time.
Hi.
Uh, what do you mean, bad?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Most of the questions that we have are unresolved.
I don't know what you can find together.
Did you get the shows to find out what that is?
What do you want to say on that?
I've heard people like, you know, they have these five meetings where they want to have, that's a good lead, but if you've got to do it.
There's no great query on the main thing, by the end of the day.
The main thing is short.
I mean, I don't want to go along on that dissertation about, you know, what they would watch, what I say they would watch.
We've got to have all the incentives.
We've just got to get the deliverables.
As I understand it, we want to have the business, the labor, the environment, the privacy, the supply.
But I have done it.
I think they started the messages going out.
I don't know if they would like to start with us.
We're going to say glory to God.
Well, you're working on that.
You'll work that paragraph.
This is what I've worked on.
Let me say that I'm not concerned about this kind of image.
I'll let you know what it is.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I don't really care much about that line, but you know what I mean.
It just depends on what you're aiming to say, what it is.
But the kid is now fast.
What's the matter?
Let me just run out of time.
Now, your copy here, I went through it.
I just had my old copy of it.
I do small little things.
It may be changed in your draft already.
If you go to the page where I asked the conference to do 500 jobs,
I just tried to get her a piece of the best, but...
I know it's your memorandum of regard to both mechanics and the other matters, but I feel very strongly about this topic.
I know I've been through the research, and I think it fits nicely.
I don't think John said it was not going to do that, but why didn't we do that?
Why not lift the curtain on this?
No, I thought the last time was that nothing was supposed to happen, but it was all easy because we're so supportive of what we're talking about next year.
Well, I've read the passage like it's been a long time ago, but I have.
I don't know if it's appropriate, but I've read it.
I've read it.
I've read it.
I've read it.
I've read it.
I've read it.
I've read it.
On the tax front.
Their shelter does not say that at all.
But aren't we going to have some tax reform that's just inevitable or what?
Who do you think it is?
Does that have a problem?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
In other words, I think it's very important that that be also written down.
I think we're good.
But this has been changed.
In the next session of Congress, I shall present to the folks who will be there in the back.
And congratulations on that.
Thank you.
I look forward to working with the Congress and achieving these goals.
I'm trying to be as considerate as possible.
We have Americans that are going to be able to adjust to our programs.
In America, that would include the U.S. House of Representatives.
I don't think it's the U.S. House of Representatives.
It's a disparity in the system.
We've been concerned about that for many years.
We've been concerned about that for a long time.
We've been concerned about that for many years.
We've been concerned about that for a long time.
We've been concerned about that for a long time.
Right about America.
Sure.
Would you bring in what she has done?
Right.
What really matters are two things here, what they mean for me.
First, it's not a matter of much of the American spirit, but it's a lot of work to do.
So, it's really important to be here.
Fourth, and then also, it's not a matter of being here.
It's not a matter of being here.
It's not a matter of being here.
John.
All right.
Ray.
No, no, I was talking to Ray.
I'm sorry.
John, I was just talking to Ray, and he has already talked to you about this, and we're working on some more of it.
But as it is now, I think lifting the lid just a little on this is rather essential in this future.
We've got a little bit of something to do.
And I think particularly the part of research in that it fits in with the gloom jobs that are going to be there through a block.
It fits in.
It doesn't bother you now, huh?
No?
And how about the tax thing?
The tax thing bothers George, but I guess George would refuse to accept it.
Well, anyway.
All right, fine, fine.
Okay.
What's that?
If you will take page one, I believe that it seems to be a sort of hard shot.
Rather than the bid and go of a man, that's the way it ought to be.
It's a joint session to ask the Congress to join in our people and achieve it.
I think it's
If any of the versions start out with a positive thing, then I really sort of reason, try to reason the truth.
And then I come down to the never had this and that.
It's not better.
Do you have a suggestion that you could come?
Just one thing.
Do you think this is another case where you're...
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Who asked the cooperation of the Congress to achieve it?
Who asked the cooperation of the Congress to achieve it?
Do you think any part of that is enough?
Kind of like that business with the president, you know, he fought Congress for war, and now we come for peace.
You know, you think of Wilson, you know, he came to Congress several times, and of course, he wrote about it.
And I could go to a number of, I don't know how many, special sessions.
for economic policy.
I'm not sure if it's different.
You don't think so, but I don't want to look into it.
But I do think that it makes a point that if it doesn't exist, then of course it's not going to happen.
Your attention, I'll get your attention.
You do?
Alright.
I'd like to bear with you for a couple of moments.
You think this is well there?
Good.
Alright, well then, as we're getting into the market, now we're going to go.
Now we're going to go.
And she's a microbe.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
Has she got page four?
I'll see if she's got page four, please.
I know, but I didn't re-type.
Did she re-type it?
Page four.
The reaction of the American people to the culture, to the new economic policies that have been exhausted in the region, to the reaction of our trading partners abroad and through major construction, I am confident that this conference will respond in a similar spirit as it has in so many other pastures and many other great challenges in the past.
This is a time to set aside partnerships.
Let us join together in placing the national interests above special interests.
that feels a little better than it does, that I ask the Congress to work in San Francisco.
Are you, what I urge the Congress to do in San Francisco?
Well, I, I, I, I'll get you to work in San Francisco.
I've played with it back and forth, but I don't know if there's going to be any way to get all of this to get to, uh, some of the settlements in San Francisco.
Well, as it has, only so many have a great challenge in their hands.
Just saying, if you Republicans would share, this is the time to set aside a partnership.
So let's join together as a place in the national community.
They're all part of it.
They're all sheer lies.
I know what you're trying to do, but I can do it.
It's the great problem of dealing with a basically partisan democratic process in the last year, just as it would be difficult for a democratic process to be partisan in public.
We all know what they're going to do.
They're going to kind of screw us, but why don't we say it that way?
It's a nice way, the way you're doing it.
I know what she's trying to do.
And I must say, I just feel I'm a damn damn kid at this.
I know better than anybody else what they're up to.
And they know what I know.
But I don't think it's too damn inappropriate, Mr. Neal.
No, I don't think so.
See, she's got an x-ray.
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
She's got an x-ray.
Well, let's face it, the man's field was good, and the man's field was good.
Three weeks ago, I am confident this conference will respond in the same spirit.
I will that be.
I'm wondering if you want to give more credibility to them.
You see, we had a damn good meeting with Walter Ruff, the law, my meeting with the bipartisan leadership at the White House, obviously, three weeks ago.
No, I think not.
Do you agree?
That's what I'm basing it on.
Oh, this is...
It becomes very dry.
One to the other side.
We've had sort of a major change in the tax company over the last few years.
If you look at your page 4 and 6, it goes down to the same.
This adjustment recognizes that there is no longer an admission line.
This is the main reason we recommended the answer, and the answer is yes.
We examine our budget prospects at this time.
Any additional tax cuts, not offset by spending cuts, will be certain to start us again on a spiral of higher prospects.
It is confident in its tax and spending decisions, but that its highest priority is not tax cuts or spending increases, which benefit some of the people, but hold it down to cost of living for all people.
Marbly can afford, or a tax less than it can afford, is the sure root of the price of higher income employment.
This time, it's the way we have it.
That's the way to conquer the thing.
I know why you put it in.
You can drop it off at the bottom of the planet.
That's why we put it in.
That's why we put it in.
That is our effect.
Any additional patch notes?
Not all set by spending comes from that big air of ours and our traditions and our standards.
Those are two musky air orders, long and all the rest of them are half and half.
We'll be certain to start us again on a spiral aircraft.
We've got this kind of thing.
We've got this kind of thing.
We've got this kind of thing.
We've got this kind of thing.
We've got this kind of thing.
We've got this kind of thing.
We've got this kind of thing.
We've got this kind of thing.
Uh, I'm just trying to sort out here because the last priority, we're, we're, we're, we're bringing it down to office.
So I'm going to bring it to the, to the, to the, uh, to the draft.
Uh, it's priority is on the draft, on the draft.
Uh, what do we expect of, uh, of this, of this, of this, of this, of this, of this, of this, of this, of this, of this, of this, of this,
That's not bad.
I think that states it pretty well.
Do you agree?
Why don't you take that?
Thank you.
That's the way I'd like to say it.
I'd like to state that I owe it.
I owe it here, but it's not the reality, but the reality.
If we consider the sayings that we're really saying, if we consider the federal budget today,
I'll tell you.
I'll tell you.
I'll tell you.
I'll tell you.
I'll tell you.
I'll tell you.
I have got a slug.
You go on with that line then.
You take that page and it's now page seven.
Here's where your stuff comes in about the follow-on thing, and I'll have to see that as soon as you're done with it.
I'm going to work on that.
It's necessarily stringent or aggressive, in other words.
Drastic is what I, and why I'm changing to drastic, that's the only change I'm going to do.
And I'll pay Jake.
What I've done, I'll leave it at pay Jake.
I've cut out Americans a little bit, but they're only been on for three, four, five, six, seven, eight, three hundred, six, seven, eight.
I just start to prepare them.
Regimentation, that was coercion.
I'm not sure what that is.
I got a magic, I got a word of magic that turned me on.
I just believed that for a week or two, then we could be in contact with the establishment.
We need your approach to ensuring that you're honest, loyal, and scientific, and that you do what that agent says you want.
Do you have an extra comment?
I don't have anything to say.
I don't need your text.
And prosperity is a job for everyone.
Uh...
This thing, food and our needs are on our feet.
We're going to have to find a way to help pull them back.
I think that we're going to have to put it on our feet or something.
We're going to have to go and try and pull them back.
We're going to have to reach their heart and carry them home and say,
I go rather than eat some dessert.
I go to a five-year-old business on a campus.
You can't help it, but I think it should do you good.
I think it should do you good.
I don't want to leave America.
I'm actually used to America's technology.
I'm hanging out there alone.
I'm leaving because of the problems.
I guess leaving doesn't apply to a lot of people.
That is why I again urge the Congress to act in this session.
That's why I again urge the Congress to act in this session on the master plan for the rest of the year.
That is why I again urge the Congress to act in this session on the master plan for the rest of the year.
That is why I again urge the Congress to act in this session on the master plan for the rest of the year.
And I'm trying to take the excuse of saying, well, we gave these attacks for a month, so they can't act on them over the month.
They can't act on them over the year.
They can't act on them over the year.
Oh, they can.
They can do it all.
I agree with you on that.
That's the change that I'm hearing.
I don't know whether it's the message that they're looking for.
I don't know whether it's the message that they're looking for.
Despite the fact that, in other words, after you've got a driver, and whether or not it's going to be a necessary one, or it has to be, it's going to be a good one, you've got to make, you've got to postpone some funding for this.
It's difficult to get that to move it up.
We've been making great mistakes over and so on, and they're dropping down, and I'm trying to get it to move up again, and finally it has to be up behind the wall.
And we were not a great team.
Not a great team.
Yeah, just bring it back.
I think it's better.
I think it's better.
I think it's better.
I think it's better.
I'm a great nation.
I'm a great nation.
I'm a great nation.
I'm a great nation.
State number one.
State 17.
I thought we needed a little bit of jumping up there.
Provide better health and education.
Clean up the car, bring the dignity and security to the nation.
Provide a guarantee of equal opportunity for every man, all that he deserves.
Tax reform on Paganon.
Tax reform on the 380.
That roach is starting to chirp on the max of its juice.
It's probably snagged bulls.
It's probably snagged bulls.
It's probably snagged bulls.
It's probably snagged bulls.
It's probably snagged bulls.
It's probably snagged bulls.
It's probably snagged bulls.
I think so, you have to check with the squad now.
Yeah, the meeting language you have to work out.
Take anything you need.
What?
Yeah, I think one copy at the end, but don't bother with the clean copy because it gets your, uh, I don't need a clean copy until you get the meeting thing.
The meeting thing has to be written in person and present.
One line.
uh, that I had earlier drafted wasn't bad.
What?
Remember your line about credit, who gets the credit?
Yeah, for a long time.
Yeah, for a long time.
Yeah, for a while.
There it is.
There will be a hell of a... That naturally is.
Argumentable, isn't it?
Watch this.
The price is going to be good.
Go back and have one of your boys read over the other copy, too.
Get the two credit lines and see if Peter knows where it's going to end.
And there's probably a good place to put it.
You can just raise that.
There it is, sir.
All right, well, after you put in your paragraph, at the end of your paragraph, you are about to make the final decision.
Remember, when it's bad, that could also go in high up in the air.
Right after the two sentences about my president coming for us, he put a paragraph in my thing.
It's been very much important.
We say if, uh, now I'm there making the idea that the 7th American Revolution, oh, well, I'm not going to do it.
I'm going to try to bring the challenge to the floor.
I'm going to try to bring the challenge to the table.
This will require the cooperation of all of us.
So, we're going to try to bring the challenge to the floor.
I mean, you can put the credits in where we say I've been all members of Congress.
She's a friend of mine.
Last night.
I agree with you.
I agree with you.
Let's move it right along there.
Fine.
Okay.
Got it.
I don't think you want to tell.
I'm just going to say you don't want to.
I'm liable to the action, but I'm just going to say it's horrible.
We're good at 715, so we probably won't want to go a little over 715, Chris.
I think I have them all.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
We might have a private meeting with him.
He should come up.
He's the leader of the delegation.
What is he?
What does he bring?
He should bring their lives.
Or they could come.
And actually, uh, we could have, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
Yeah.
um um
He told me it was very weak.
He said it was very weak, but it was great, and I loved it.
He said I was supposed to respond.
He would.
He would.
He would.
And we started to talk to each other.
You have to go in.
You have to go in.
You have to go in.
You know, they're very, they're very proper.
They don't have any rules or anything.
I don't know.
Sorry.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
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I don't know.
I don't know.
Well, I don't.
I don't.