Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 275-031
Date: Tuesday, September 7, 1971 at 5:56 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Connally, John B.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/275-031

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[0:02] Well, well, if they let you down, you've been back.
[0:07] I'll be back.
[0:20] I'm glad to be a part of the whole program.
[0:30] The only way you're going to keep them down is to load this thing up.
[0:43] How do you think of that?
[0:44] How do you think of muskies?
[0:47] My God, I mean, $100 sure enough for anybody to buy anything but an automobile.
[0:53] Now, what's that prove?
[0:54] I don't know.
[0:55] I just couldn't believe it.
[0:56] I mean, I... Yeah.
[0:59] But I just thought, you know, they'll ask you about it tomorrow, I'm sure.
[1:03] Well, they may not.
[1:09] They may not.
[1:10] No.
[1:10] You know, the... You think the Japanese meeting is...
[1:18] Oh, don't worry.
[1:26] Don't worry.
[1:28] We're in a strong position.
[1:33] And I feel so strongly that we don't want to let it stoop.
[1:49] Good, good, good.
[1:52] Don't worry, I'm going to start closing in.
[2:00] I don't know how much risk, but you know, you've got to remember what the expectations were.
[2:07] We've now bought the time.
[2:08] Sure, sure, sure.
[2:08] So we're probably going to have some.
[2:10] We're going to play the game.
[2:10] You know, it's hard to hear 40,000 numbers.
[2:12] I think you were right to have an organization like that.
[2:16] They had 40,000 in one room, you know, in that apartment called The Dark Place.
[2:18] I've never seen it this size.
[2:20] The trees look all beautiful.
[2:21] Oh, they cheered and yelled, you know what I mean?
[2:25] Particularly what I talked about, the fact that there's people out of work rather than, you know, welfare.
[2:32] That's what they like to hear.
[2:34] I'm going to put that in the speech.
[2:39] I'm going to say that we've got to be restrained, that we can't have tax cuts without the respective cuts, right?
[2:45] Okay.
[2:46] I got it.
[2:48] Thank you.