On October 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, William L. Safire, and Nellie L. Yates met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 8:40 pm and 11:59 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 284-022 of the White House Tapes.
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Well, nice draft, huh?
Nice.
Did you get Ray's stuff?
Yes, we did.
Yeah, there's very good stuff.
Bang, I think the way I looked it over there, the way I'm going to use some names and some not, you know what I mean?
The name on them is good.
I didn't do that thing wrong.
I think it's a little stronger than I heard.
Let me show you what I mean.
I didn't hear that one.
I think that worked out.
I'm just going to tell you a story.
Rather than asking for sacrifice, which is what I'm like, folks might say, I would sacrifice.
I am a defendant.
I'm a defendant.
The Christ Board is not on the Christ Commission.
The reason for that is that we're not on the Commission on the Board.
Washington is not on the Commission on the Board.
We're on the Commission on the Board.
Well, I don't think we agreed, scientists agreed.
Nobody's quite sure.
It doesn't make a lot of sense.
It's just as important and the price is just as important for the first time.
I don't think it's particularly not just as important.
It's closer to the present than the future.
It's fine for the first time.
You know, you can think of it as a half for the first time.
Three or four of these things in the letter category, they're so good.
A couple of them, not three or four, but they have a total of five.
We've got three.
Three, let's see if it's going to fall a little bit.
It's not going to fall.
It's not going to fall.
It's not going to fall.
All right.
It will be headed by Dr. Alan Wallace.
I don't know if that's what it is.
It's making sense.
It will be headed by Dr. Alan Wallace.
Um, first, so, you know, in the beginning of the National Congress, the Prime Commission was talking about, you know, the offshore of the Palatinate.
You were asked to give the Palatinate to the Commission.
Correct.
Schultz, on the other hand, wanted the Palatinate to go to the Wage Commission.
Thank you, Mr. President.
He didn't want to have that kind of question.
He was empowered about the wage bill.
He was empowered to do that.
All right.
have practically all, so little further than mine here, true to truth, practically, practically all of energy, not only right, but across the world, for Christ's mission, government sanctions, government sanctions, where necessary, I think we should say that, back with government sanctions where necessary,
I will ask the proper staff I control to give it up to you.
It's fine.
It's fine.
In fact, she's been doing it until we told her.
And, uh...
I don't know what she's doing.
She said, don't go into the home building.
I don't know how important it is.
She gave me the actual language.
I don't know what she's saying.
I don't know what she's saying.
And then she assured me that there's somebody
That's enough.
I have the same feeling.
That's the second story.
It's all benefits.
We save all Americans.
It's all benefits.
We save all Americans.
That's the one I was concerned about.
This is a much
I don't want to be told I'm wasted.
I don't want to be told the price is too high.
and the profits would be here for the coming crisis.
So I decided to come out and blast them in here.
They were being called out for this, and I said, well, I'm going to put them on a substation park and they'll cross the river.
And I said, well, that would kind of be changing the lives of the people.
You know what I'm saying?
That would be a change, a large share, a fair share of the government.
But it was a lot.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Hello.
I understand you're on your way to Europe.
Well, I heard you're having a party for you tonight.
Well, I hope you have a great time.
You been there before?
Yeah.
Well, that's great.
Well, you just have a great time.
And I'm sure you'll enjoy it.
You want to fly?
Right.
Right.
Great.
Nice pushing.
Fine.
You just have a great time now.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Come along.
Fine.
Right.
Fine.
You just have a great time now.
Fine.
I'm concerned about this, the real thing we want to avoid seeing in the comics.
The last two sentences, we start at the core point.
I think the sentence I call upon them is to say, you know, make that sentence up.
Time has come for some price reduction psychology.
I would say a far better way is for the price commission
Christ's mission to make certain that they're going to farm.
To make certain, you know what we're talking about.
The bottom line is that we're not going to do that.
Instead of questioning, we've got to do it on the inside.
Not make certain.
That goes too far to... We're not going to encourage them to do that kind of thing.
But you can't, if you go to too much policing, you can't go and get every price to see, to see whether or not they ought to panic, they ought to reduce prices, and not to see, you know, to, you know, to, uh, to, uh, to, uh, to, uh,
There's a lot better ways for business to have a normally incurred wage than an efficiency.
Then maybe you'd rather put in that sentence there, then we'll start on the other.
The price reduction, the price commission will take a step.
Well, one of the responsibilities of the price commission
We'll be choosing it.
We'll be choosing it.
We've got a far better way.
Far better way for business to pass along.
That's right.
It's forbidden to pass along.
It's a little vague enough to strike out.
Strike out is what I call it.
Just leave it so and fell in love.
Maybe you'd want to...
I think it's the first year of a decade in some sort.
He's a trouble buddy.
He's out in the movie.
He's a little bit of a crowd finder.
He's a little bit more of a person.
He's a little bit more of a person.