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Conversation 285-039

TapeTape 285StartThursday, October 7, 1971 at 3:25 PMEndThursday, October 7, 1971 at 3:32 PMTape start time03:58:23Tape end time04:01:55ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Safire, William L.Recording deviceOld Executive Office Building
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On October 7, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and William L. Safire met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:25 pm to 3:32 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 285-039 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 285-039

Date: October 7, 1971
Time: 3:25 pm - 3:32 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

William L. Safire talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 10-136]
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Yeah.
All right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
Yeah.
It's the second one.
Page two.
Yeah.
Post-it price in September goes through the button.
All right.
Where are we?
Do you have my company?
All right, I'll find it in a minute.
This is on the, on the problem thing.
By cutting prices.
I think by cutting prices is better than, say, an affordable price.
Hold, hold.
By cutting prices.
Yeah.
No, I think I've got everything I need.
We're...
15 minutes.
About 17 out of 8 words.
That's fine.
Although, some of them take a little longer to read, you know, those letters.
I don't want to rush them.
This is too long.
People get so bored.
I think we've got a good thing here.
We just don't know how people are going to take the, you know, the squealing world or something when they see a little of a curtain dam on the property and they're likely to go right up and down that wall and be interested and so forth.
But that's fine.
I mean, if this is going to work, we've got to let it apply to everybody.
Yeah, yeah.
That's right.
But I think we're doing it right now.
I don't care if it's only temporary.
The market is what happens.
The inflation is down.
Jobs go up gradually.
The market's got to go up.
That's what's going to happen.
The market is basically just going to show us that we're up.
That's what's going to happen.
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