On September 10, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:53 pm to 4:17 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 276-007 of the White House Tapes.
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Hello?
Yeah.
Hi, Chuck.
How goes the battle today?
Good.
Thank you for the check there.
It's about the menace about the menial work, but I've got to take that position.
You see, he doesn't understand that you see, my feeling on this, Chuck, is this is
When I was a kid, and I still do live, you know, I washed floors.
I picked beans.
I have a year of work in a lemon-packed house.
It's the worst damn work there is.
It stinks, and it makes you sick, but you do it.
But that's the way we did it, in order to stay off of this thing.
And, yeah.
Well, that's the point.
It's so easy to go to that investment.
I know what it is, and he's exactly right.
I know he has to say that, and he's got to say that in his constituency.
But, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the laborators are in contract right now, you know, and that's something that's just wrong, you know.
I think that the problem is what we do about such horrible things, the very way we've increased the amount of others that, uh,
We have to pay our time to the laborers because of the charity position that we're in.
All the people who are not medical and not medical people are just members who don't support their position.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We have a situation that we should come up with.
You know, Gallup showed the same approval.
It's a very...
until the war and the economy will, in other words, the bank don't want to change anything.
And they come and say, well, one thing about this,
too great, too bad, in a way that he couldn't have had them on.
And the applause factor apparently was carried so much that it was pretty dull.
One thing we could have done for you, having taken prime time, but I couldn't take prime time again to say it relevant by the same time.
They would have raised our president back to equal time.
Jackson, Jackson, I understand, is now a director.
I love you.
Ha ha ha.
Oh, of course he will.
Jackson.
Well, first of all, that curve is terribly soft.
Terribly, where we were really all about, you know, we have done it ourselves one night.
It probably cost a stretch, but look.
I didn't realize it.
I only saw a little squibble in the picture about it.
But I would hope that Brooke would see that.
Now, as a matter of fact, let me tell you, if I were picking a guy for vice president, Brooke would come damn high on my list.
And he knows that.
As a matter of fact, you know, we have followed him at times before.
He himself, he himself would not want it.
Because he knows.
He talked to me about it.
He said, you know what,
I think, first, we've got to move from a fellow line of work to a special group of law.
And that's the way it's going to happen.
I know that there's a lot of people who need to be in charge of their own problems.
But it's getting around.
I don't know if I can distract you there.
Maybe if you could just help me.
Or I could help you in the summer.
That's the way I want it.
I'm asking.
Nobody asked me to volunteer to hold.
They asked me.
Well, his answer was very easy.
Certainly, I put it back in any qualified position.
No, sir.
It may be your approach.
It may be your answer, and then do what you please.
On the other hand, Bradley praised me for it.
The mayor came and was very honest.
You remember his gridiron?
He's still in speech, I mean, because he was so mean.
All blacks and whites are both against him.
Well, anyway, we hope it will work.
The idea, I don't know if you've heard of this one, but I think it's a date.
Well, my feeling is that we are going to do it by that date, and I don't see any reason for that.
I'm certain it will work.
Well, and I anticipate that it will happen.
See, it's going to happen now or it's going to happen later.
And so that ought to be people to think that we are still fighting inflation.
We're going to keep the wage price freeze on so that we can keep it on.
That's where the speaker's going to be set.
I covered that very directly in the speech where I said, we've got to keep this thing on.
We're probably out of time right now, but we don't want to lose the initiative.
But I don't want, I don't want to be, we announced the mandate the other day, they didn't have a face-up vote.
I don't know if it happens this year, probably not.
That's Japanese there.
Okay, bye-bye.