Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 285-039
Date: Thursday, October 7, 1971 at 3:25 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Safire, William L.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/285-039

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[0:01] Yeah.
[0:19] All right.
[0:19] Yeah.
[0:21] Yeah.
[0:21] All right.
[0:26] Yeah.
[0:26] It's the second one.
[0:26] Page two.
[0:27] Yeah.
[0:27] Post-it price in September goes through the button.
[0:28] All right.
[0:31] Where are we?
[0:58] Do you have my company?
[1:03] All right, I'll find it in a minute.
[1:27] This is on the, on the problem thing.
[1:29] By cutting prices.
[1:32] I think by cutting prices is better than, say, an affordable price.
[1:53] Hold, hold.
[1:55] By cutting prices.
[1:55] Yeah.
[1:56] No, I think I've got everything I need.
[1:58] We're...
[2:00] 15 minutes.
[2:25] About 17 out of 8 words.
[2:27] That's fine.
[2:27] Although, some of them take a little longer to read, you know, those letters.
[2:28] I don't want to rush them.
[2:31] This is too long.
[2:44] People get so bored.
[2:48] I think we've got a good thing here.
[2:50] 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.
[2:56] But that's fine.
[2:57] I mean, if this is going to work, we've got to let it apply to everybody.
[2:58] Yeah, yeah.
[2:58] That's right.
[3:00] But I think we're doing it right now.
[3:15] I don't care if it's only temporary.
[3:18] The market is what happens.
[3:23] The inflation is down.
[3:24] Jobs go up gradually.
[3:24] The market's got to go up.
[3:25] That's what's going to happen.
[3:26] The market is basically just going to show us that we're up.
[3:27] That's what's going to happen.