Nixon, Price & Ehrlichman on Economic Policy and Speechwriting

2:20:58Give these two to him, too.
2:21:03That'll be too pricey to come to the E.O.D.
2:21:15Yes, yes, get one of those.
2:21:33Yeah.
2:21:36I'm having several of these.
2:21:37I should bring over an extra copy.
2:21:43Okay.
2:21:46Yeah.
2:21:46Hello.
2:21:48Yeah, any time.
2:22:09Hi.
2:22:10Uh, what do you mean, bad?
2:22:11I don't know.
2:23:21Most of the questions that we have are unresolved.
2:23:30I don't know what you can find together.
2:23:36Did you get the shows to find out what that is?
2:23:41What do you want to say on that?
2:23:43I'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.
2:23:51There's no great query on the main thing, by the end of the day.
2:23:55The main thing is short.
2:23:56I mean, I don't want to go along on that dissertation about, you know, what they would watch, what I say they would watch.
2:24:16We've got to have all the incentives.
2:24:19We've just got to get the deliverables.
2:24:20As I understand it, we want to have the business, the labor, the environment, the privacy, the supply.
2:24:28But I have done it.
2:24:29I think they started the messages going out.
2:24:33I don't know if they would like to start with us.
2:24:38We're going to say glory to God.
2:24:40Well, you're working on that.
2:24:41You'll work that paragraph.
2:24:42This is what I've worked on.
2:24:44Let me say that I'm not concerned about this kind of image.
2:24:47I'll let you know what it is.
2:24:50I'm sorry.
2:24:51I'm sorry.
2:24:54I'm sorry.
2:25:00I'm sorry.
2:25:03I don't really care much about that line, but you know what I mean.
2:25:06It just depends on what you're aiming to say, what it is.
2:25:08But the kid is now fast.
2:25:09What's the matter?
2:25:10Let me just run out of time.
2:25:11Now, your copy here, I went through it.
2:25:13I just had my old copy of it.
2:25:14I do small little things.
2:25:15It may be changed in your draft already.
2:25:17If you go to the page where I asked the conference to do 500 jobs,
2:25:32I just tried to get her a piece of the best, but...
2:25:55I know it's your memorandum of regard to both mechanics and the other matters, but I feel very strongly about this topic.
2:26:05I know I've been through the research, and I think it fits nicely.
2:26:09I don't think John said it was not going to do that, but why didn't we do that?
2:26:15Why not lift the curtain on this?
2:26:18No, 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.
2:26:30Well, I've read the passage like it's been a long time ago, but I have.
2:26:32I don't know if it's appropriate, but I've read it.
2:26:34I've read it.
2:26:37On the tax front.
2:27:00Their shelter does not say that at all.
2:27:05But aren't we going to have some tax reform that's just inevitable or what?
2:27:13Who do you think it is?
2:27:15Does that have a problem?
2:27:26In other words, I think it's very important that that be also written down.
2:27:28I think we're good.
2:27:29But this has been changed.
2:27:30In the next session of Congress, I shall present to the folks who will be there in the back.
2:27:42And congratulations on that.
2:27:48Thank you.
2:27:53I look forward to working with the Congress and achieving these goals.
2:27:58I'm trying to be as considerate as possible.
2:28:03We have Americans that are going to be able to adjust to our programs.
2:28:18In America, that would include the U.S. House of Representatives.
2:28:20I don't think it's the U.S. House of Representatives.
2:28:24It's a disparity in the system.
2:28:28We've been concerned about that for many years.
2:28:31We've been concerned about that for a long time.
2:28:34We've been concerned about that for many years.
2:28:48Right about America.
2:28:50Sure.
2:29:10Would you bring in what she has done?
2:29:43Right.
2:30:02What really matters are two things here, what they mean for me.
2:30:05First, it's not a matter of much of the American spirit, but it's a lot of work to do.
2:30:07So, it's really important to be here.
2:30:08Fourth, and then also, it's not a matter of being here.
2:30:10It's not a matter of being here.
2:30:11It's not a matter of being here.
2:30:33John.
2:30:37All right.
2:30:37Ray.
2:30:38No, no, I was talking to Ray.
2:30:40I'm sorry.
2:30:40John, I was just talking to Ray, and he has already talked to you about this, and we're working on some more of it.
2:30:49But as it is now, I think lifting the lid just a little on this is rather essential in this future.
2:30:55We've got a little bit of something to do.
2:31:01And 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.
2:31:14It fits in.
2:31:14It doesn't bother you now, huh?
2:31:16No?
2:31:16And how about the tax thing?
2:31:18The tax thing bothers George, but I guess George would refuse to accept it.
2:31:24Well, anyway.
2:31:25All right, fine, fine.
2:31:28Okay.
2:31:28What's that?
2:31:32If you will take page one, I believe that it seems to be a sort of hard shot.
2:31:37Rather than the bid and go of a man, that's the way it ought to be.
2:31:47It's a joint session to ask the Congress to join in our people and achieve it.
2:32:14I think it's
2:32:41If any of the versions start out with a positive thing, then I really sort of reason, try to reason the truth.
2:32:50And then I come down to the never had this and that.
2:32:55It's not better.
2:32:56Do you have a suggestion that you could come?
2:32:59Just one thing.
2:33:00Do you think this is another case where you're...
2:33:13Who asked the cooperation of the Congress to achieve it?
2:33:21Who asked the cooperation of the Congress to achieve it?
2:33:31Do you think any part of that is enough?
2:33:41Kind of like that business with the president, you know, he fought Congress for war, and now we come for peace.
2:33:47You know, you think of Wilson, you know, he came to Congress several times, and of course, he wrote about it.
2:33:53And I could go to a number of, I don't know how many, special sessions.
2:33:59for economic policy.
2:33:59I'm not sure if it's different.
2:34:00You don't think so, but I don't want to look into it.
2:34:02But I do think that it makes a point that if it doesn't exist, then of course it's not going to happen.
2:34:16Your attention, I'll get your attention.
2:34:18You do?
2:34:19Alright.
2:34:19I'd like to bear with you for a couple of moments.
2:34:21You think this is well there?
2:34:23Good.
2:34:23Alright, well then, as we're getting into the market, now we're going to go.
2:34:27Now we're going to go.
2:34:29And she's a microbe.
2:34:30One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
2:34:48Has she got page four?
2:34:49I'll see if she's got page four, please.
2:34:52I know, but I didn't re-type.
2:34:55Did she re-type it?
2:34:57Page four.
2:35:04The 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.
2:35:21This is a time to set aside partnerships.
2:35:23Let us join together in placing the national interests above special interests.
2:35:29that feels a little better than it does, that I ask the Congress to work in San Francisco.
2:35:33Are you, what I urge the Congress to do in San Francisco?
2:35:39Well, I, I, I, I'll get you to work in San Francisco.
2:35:40I'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.
2:35:49Well, as it has, only so many have a great challenge in their hands.
2:35:51Just saying, if you Republicans would share, this is the time to set aside a partnership.
2:35:57So let's join together as a place in the national community.
2:36:00They're all part of it.
2:36:01They're all sheer lies.
2:36:04I know what you're trying to do, but I can do it.
2:36:07It'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.
2:36:18We all know what they're going to do.
2:36:21They're going to kind of screw us, but why don't we say it that way?
2:36:25It's a nice way, the way you're doing it.
2:36:46I know what she's trying to do.
2:36:51And I must say, I just feel I'm a damn damn kid at this.
2:36:55I know better than anybody else what they're up to.
2:36:57And they know what I know.
2:37:00But I don't think it's too damn inappropriate, Mr. Neal.
2:37:05No, I don't think so.
2:37:06See, she's got an x-ray.
2:37:08Yes, sir.
2:37:09Yes, sir.
2:37:10She's got an x-ray.
2:37:12Well, let's face it, the man's field was good, and the man's field was good.
2:37:23Three weeks ago, I am confident this conference will respond in the same spirit.
2:37:37I will that be.
2:37:43I'm wondering if you want to give more credibility to them.
2:37:48You 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.
2:38:03No, I think not.
2:38:08Do you agree?
2:38:08That's what I'm basing it on.
2:38:09Oh, this is...
2:38:10It becomes very dry.
2:38:13One to the other side.
2:40:27We've had sort of a major change in the tax company over the last few years.
2:40:33If you look at your page 4 and 6, it goes down to the same.
2:40:39This adjustment recognizes that there is no longer an admission line.
2:40:44This is the main reason we recommended the answer, and the answer is yes.
2:40:58We examine our budget prospects at this time.
2:41:08Any additional tax cuts, not offset by spending cuts, will be certain to start us again on a spiral of higher prospects.
2:41:25It 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.
2:41:39Marbly can afford, or a tax less than it can afford, is the sure root of the price of higher income employment.
2:42:12This time, it's the way we have it.
2:42:13That's the way to conquer the thing.
2:42:14I know why you put it in.
2:42:15You can drop it off at the bottom of the planet.
2:42:17That's why we put it in.
2:42:19That's why we put it in.
2:42:21That is our effect.
2:42:23Any additional patch notes?
2:42:25Not all set by spending comes from that big air of ours and our traditions and our standards.
2:42:29Those are two musky air orders, long and all the rest of them are half and half.
2:42:34We'll be certain to start us again on a spiral aircraft.
2:42:38We've got this kind of thing.
2:43:01Uh, 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.
2:43:06So I'm going to bring it to the, to the, to the, uh, to the draft.
2:43:08Uh, it's priority is on the draft, on the draft.
2:43:10Uh, 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,
2:43:28That's not bad.
2:43:29I think that states it pretty well.
2:43:30Do you agree?
2:43:57Why don't you take that?
2:43:58Thank you.
2:44:23That's the way I'd like to say it.
2:44:27I'd like to state that I owe it.
2:44:31I owe it here, but it's not the reality, but the reality.
2:44:39If we consider the sayings that we're really saying, if we consider the federal budget today,
2:44:53I'll tell you.
2:45:03I have got a slug.
2:45:04You go on with that line then.
2:45:07You take that page and it's now page seven.
2:45:10Here'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.
2:45:20I'm going to work on that.
2:45:22It's necessarily stringent or aggressive, in other words.
2:45:27Drastic is what I, and why I'm changing to drastic, that's the only change I'm going to do.
2:45:32And I'll pay Jake.
2:45:33What I've done, I'll leave it at pay Jake.
2:45:38I'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.
2:45:47I just start to prepare them.
2:45:49Regimentation, that was coercion.
2:45:51I'm not sure what that is.
2:45:55I got a magic, I got a word of magic that turned me on.
2:45:58I just believed that for a week or two, then we could be in contact with the establishment.
2:46:02We need your approach to ensuring that you're honest, loyal, and scientific, and that you do what that agent says you want.
2:46:10Do you have an extra comment?
2:46:12I don't have anything to say.
2:46:24I don't need your text.
2:46:53And prosperity is a job for everyone.
2:47:19Uh...
2:47:45This thing, food and our needs are on our feet.
2:47:47We're going to have to find a way to help pull them back.
2:47:50I think that we're going to have to put it on our feet or something.
2:47:54We're going to have to go and try and pull them back.
2:47:56We're going to have to reach their heart and carry them home and say,
2:48:13I go rather than eat some dessert.
2:48:15I go to a five-year-old business on a campus.
2:48:19You can't help it, but I think it should do you good.
2:48:22I think it should do you good.
2:48:24I don't want to leave America.
2:48:26I'm actually used to America's technology.
2:48:29I'm hanging out there alone.
2:48:30I'm leaving because of the problems.
2:48:33I guess leaving doesn't apply to a lot of people.
2:48:58That is why I again urge the Congress to act in this session.
2:49:12That's why I again urge the Congress to act in this session on the master plan for the rest of the year.
2:49:14That is why I again urge the Congress to act in this session on the master plan for the rest of the year.
2:49:19That is why I again urge the Congress to act in this session on the master plan for the rest of the year.
2:49:41And 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.
2:49:47They can't act on them over the year.
2:49:50They can't act on them over the year.
2:49:52Oh, they can.
2:49:52They can do it all.
2:49:53I agree with you on that.
2:49:55That's the change that I'm hearing.
2:49:58I don't know whether it's the message that they're looking for.
2:50:01I don't know whether it's the message that they're looking for.
2:50:07Despite 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.
2:51:05It's difficult to get that to move it up.
2:51:06We'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.
2:51:11And we were not a great team.
2:51:12Not a great team.
2:51:26Yeah, just bring it back.
2:51:55I think it's better.
2:52:25I'm a great nation.
2:52:54State number one.
2:52:54State 17.
2:52:55I thought we needed a little bit of jumping up there.
2:52:57Provide better health and education.
2:53:24Clean up the car, bring the dignity and security to the nation.
2:53:26Provide a guarantee of equal opportunity for every man, all that he deserves.
2:53:29Tax reform on Paganon.
2:53:30Tax reform on the 380.
2:53:54That roach is starting to chirp on the max of its juice.
2:53:58It's probably snagged bulls.
2:54:19I think so, you have to check with the squad now.
2:54:21Yeah, the meeting language you have to work out.
2:54:23Take anything you need.
2:54:24What?
2:54:44Yeah, 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.
2:55:05The meeting thing has to be written in person and present.
2:55:13One line.
2:55:14uh, that I had earlier drafted wasn't bad.
2:55:19What?
2:55:21Remember your line about credit, who gets the credit?
2:55:26Yeah, for a long time.
2:55:28Yeah, for a long time.
2:55:30Yeah, for a while.
2:55:38There it is.
2:56:06There will be a hell of a... That naturally is.
2:56:09Argumentable, isn't it?
2:56:12Watch this.
2:56:12The price is going to be good.
2:56:16Go back and have one of your boys read over the other copy, too.
2:56:22Get the two credit lines and see if Peter knows where it's going to end.
2:56:25And there's probably a good place to put it.
2:56:27You can just raise that.
2:56:29There it is, sir.
2:56:36All right, well, after you put in your paragraph, at the end of your paragraph, you are about to make the final decision.
2:57:06Remember, when it's bad, that could also go in high up in the air.
2:57:33Right after the two sentences about my president coming for us, he put a paragraph in my thing.
2:57:42It's been very much important.
2:57:49We say if, uh, now I'm there making the idea that the 7th American Revolution, oh, well, I'm not going to do it.
2:57:57I'm going to try to bring the challenge to the floor.
2:58:00I'm going to try to bring the challenge to the table.
2:58:03This will require the cooperation of all of us.
2:58:09So, we're going to try to bring the challenge to the floor.
2:58:21I mean, you can put the credits in where we say I've been all members of Congress.
2:58:27She's a friend of mine.
2:58:28Last night.
2:58:52I agree with you.
2:58:53I agree with you.
2:58:54Let's move it right along there.
2:58:56Fine.
2:58:56Okay.
2:58:58Got it.
2:58:59I don't think you want to tell.
2:59:01I'm just going to say you don't want to.
2:59:07I'm liable to the action, but I'm just going to say it's horrible.
2:59:34We're good at 715, so we probably won't want to go a little over 715, Chris.
3:00:32I think I have them all.
3:00:33Oh, no, no, no, no.
3:00:35We might have a private meeting with him.
3:00:40He should come up.
3:00:41He's the leader of the delegation.
3:00:46What is he?
3:00:47What does he bring?
3:00:50He should bring their lives.
3:00:55Or they could come.
3:00:58And actually, uh, we could have, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
3:01:25Yeah.
3:02:09um um
3:02:32He told me it was very weak.
3:02:33He said it was very weak, but it was great, and I loved it.
3:02:36He said I was supposed to respond.
3:02:37He would.
3:02:37He would.
3:02:37He would.
3:02:37And we started to talk to each other.
3:02:54You have to go in.
3:03:18You know, they're very, they're very proper.
3:03:19They don't have any rules or anything.
3:03:21Sorry.
3:04:15Well, I don't.
3:04:16I don't.

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