Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 276-007
Date: Friday, September 10, 1971 at 3:53 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/276-007

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[0:02] Hello?
[0:04] Yeah.
[0:06] Hi, Chuck.
[0:07] How goes the battle today?
[0:11] Good.
[0:14] Thank you for the check there.
[0:18] It's about the menace about the menial work, but I've got to take that position.
[0:24] You see, he doesn't understand that you see, my feeling on this, Chuck, is this is
[0:30] When I was a kid, and I still do live, you know, I washed floors.
[0:35] I picked beans.
[0:36] I have a year of work in a lemon-packed house.
[0:39] It's the worst damn work there is.
[0:42] It stinks, and it makes you sick, but you do it.
[0:45] But that's the way we did it, in order to stay off of this thing.
[0:48] And, yeah.
[0:48] Well, that's the point.
[0:52] It's so easy to go to that investment.
[0:57] I know what it is, and he's exactly right.
[0:58] I know he has to say that, and he's got to say that in his constituency.
[1:01] 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.
[1:14] 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,
[1:20] We have to pay our time to the laborers because of the charity position that we're in.
[1:25] All the people who are not medical and not medical people are just members who don't support their position.
[1:35] Yeah.
[1:36] Yeah.
[1:36] We have a situation that we should come up with.
[1:40] You know, Gallup showed the same approval.
[1:45] It's a very...
[1:48] until the war and the economy will, in other words, the bank don't want to change anything.
[2:06] And they come and say, well, one thing about this,
[2:15] too great, too bad, in a way that he couldn't have had them on.
[2:19] And the applause factor apparently was carried so much that it was pretty dull.
[2:26] 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.
[2:36] They would have raised our president back to equal time.
[2:39] Jackson, Jackson, I understand, is now a director.
[2:41] I love you.
[2:42] Ha ha ha.
[2:44] Oh, of course he will.
[2:51] Jackson.
[3:12] Well, first of all, that curve is terribly soft.
[3:22] Terribly, where we were really all about, you know, we have done it ourselves one night.
[3:34] It probably cost a stretch, but look.
[3:41] I didn't realize it.
[3:44] I only saw a little squibble in the picture about it.
[4:07] But I would hope that Brooke would see that.
[4:10] 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.
[4:17] And he knows that.
[4:20] As a matter of fact, you know, we have followed him at times before.
[4:25] He himself, he himself would not want it.
[4:29] Because he knows.
[4:30] He talked to me about it.
[4:32] He said, you know what,
[4:34] I think, first, we've got to move from a fellow line of work to a special group of law.
[4:40] And that's the way it's going to happen.
[4:42] I know that there's a lot of people who need to be in charge of their own problems.
[4:47] But it's getting around.
[4:48] I don't know if I can distract you there.
[4:51] Maybe if you could just help me.
[4:51] Or I could help you in the summer.
[4:56] That's the way I want it.
[4:57] I'm asking.
[4:58] Nobody asked me to volunteer to hold.
[5:00] They asked me.
[5:01] Well, his answer was very easy.
[5:03] Certainly, I put it back in any qualified position.
[5:05] No, sir.
[5:08] It may be your approach.
[5:10] It may be your answer, and then do what you please.
[5:15] On the other hand, Bradley praised me for it.
[5:16] The mayor came and was very honest.
[5:24] You remember his gridiron?
[5:30] He's still in speech, I mean, because he was so mean.
[5:34] All blacks and whites are both against him.
[5:37] Well, anyway, we hope it will work.
[5:39] The idea, I don't know if you've heard of this one, but I think it's a date.
[5:49] Well, my feeling is that we are going to do it by that date, and I don't see any reason for that.
[5:56] I'm certain it will work.
[6:01] Well, and I anticipate that it will happen.
[6:04] See, it's going to happen now or it's going to happen later.
[6:07] And so that ought to be people to think that we are still fighting inflation.
[6:11] We're going to keep the wage price freeze on so that we can keep it on.
[6:17] That's where the speaker's going to be set.
[6:20] I covered that very directly in the speech where I said, we've got to keep this thing on.
[6:27] We're probably out of time right now, but we don't want to lose the initiative.
[6:33] 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.
[6:40] I don't know if it happens this year, probably not.
[6:46] That's Japanese there.
[6:48] Okay, bye-bye.