Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 278-006
Date: Thursday, September 9, 1971 at 1:33 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/278-006

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[0:06] My daughter, Krisha, has made an interesting point.
[0:08] She said, well, you know, Danny, economics is a territory.
[0:11] And all of a sudden, I was about as interested as you were.
[0:15] Maybe it worked awfully hard to get those people to put it off their hands.
[0:20] Yeah, that's it.
[0:26] They checked in with a hell of a good speech.
[0:30] That had more interest in mind, you know, like the last night I was in Hawaii.
[0:34] Let us get rid of the system that makes it more profitable for a man to go on welfare than to go to work.
[0:43] That would be part of the scenario.
[0:45] And any work is preferable to welfare.
[0:50] They have poker chips.
[0:51] They've got all of this.
[0:54] We generously passed out the chips, and now it's time to play again.
[1:01] The team was a response junk, which is not too healthy.
[1:05] It basically was terribly isolationist.
[1:06] That's why the latter part of the speech was important.
[1:10] It was important, but where I said, look, we've got to compete.
[1:15] But they thought of that.
[1:26] Yeah, they came over well.
[1:30] Yeah.
[1:36] Yeah.
[1:39] Yeah.
[1:42] Yeah.
[1:45] Yeah.
[1:46] Yeah.
[1:52] I hate to litter as well.
[2:01] I can't put it out there very hard.
[2:05] And in fact, keeping it at 30 minutes is what I do.
[2:12] I always do that.
[2:15] But I don't believe in letting a farm implode and dribble out.
[2:17] I'd rather cut it up and step on it.
[2:24] give me a call back