Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 285-045
Date: Thursday, October 7, 1971 at 4:12 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/285-045

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[0:00] Hello.
[0:01] Hello.
[0:03] Well, they sure did well in the Senate, didn't they?
[0:07] I just called McGregor.
[0:09] And McGregor's done a fantastic job.
[0:15] Thank you.
[0:20] Thank you.
[0:20] Thank you.
[0:20] Thank you.
[0:24] A quote from a couple of letters from the workers tonight, supporting the way the state sets it up.
[0:43] I just wanted to be a nice needle.
[0:43] What?
[0:43] Sure.
[0:44] I think a lot of this stuff, believe me, is going to interrupt the touch.
[0:45] And I'm correct in not picking him up.
[0:51] I won't do it.
[0:54] They have to.
[1:17] Yeah.
[1:17] Yeah.
[1:17] When we do, we all make an open answer.
[1:18] Yeah.
[1:18] Picked up.
[1:18] Picked up.
[1:23] Yeah.
[1:24] How?
[1:30] I'm not concerned about where it is.
[1:51] It just starts creeping down.
[2:05] Yeah.
[2:16] They have to compensate.
[2:18] They won't just leave it up there.
[2:19] They can play it and leave it there.
[2:21] What about the airplane truck to the States?
[2:22] A lot of that maybe you have to deal with that.
[2:23] Damn it, I could deal with that across the country.
[2:29] I was speaking on the labor front while I was microberting at a settlement.
[2:49] I think the fact that I had to crack them on tap hardly allowed people to walk.
[2:51] Because they think I'm getting labored.
[2:52] Yeah.
[2:52] Yeah, wow.
[2:52] Yeah.
[2:52] Yeah.
[2:56] You don't care about that?
[3:19] Yeah.
[3:19] No.
[3:19] Closer.
[3:19] No.
[3:20] Sure.
[3:20] He's doing fine.
[3:21] And the muskie is really drunk.
[3:27] Well, that confirms Gallop.
[3:32] Remember, Gallop had the muskie doing no better than the other two last time.
[3:35] In fact, both Gallop and Harris now showed the cannabinoid in the shade better than anybody else.
[3:39] 4,739.
[3:39] He got the muskie back on.
[3:48] He said they have no reason.
[3:48] He just thinks he's not at the point.
[3:50] They're going to have it.
[4:17] They're going to have it.
[4:17] They're going to have it.
[4:18] They're going to have it.
[4:18] They're going to have it.
[4:19] They're going to have it.
[4:22] Prove the idea that he was dumb to say.
[4:29] You know, as a matter of fact, many probably would prove it, except for Frank Washington.
[4:41] You know, he was dumb to say.
[4:41] And he just said something too honest.
[4:42] I'll tell you what happened when he got in there.
[4:43] He got in there and he just talked to these people.
[4:44] And he said, get out.
[4:45] He got them.
[4:54] You've got a good campaign to get them crawling way out.
[5:20] And mail to the people.
[5:20] We had to put something in on Trump.
[5:21] I tried to keep it out, but they all agreed they had to because of the Congress.
[5:23] They all pissed on us.
[5:24] But I put it, I described it as with all profits instead of only a few.
[5:42] So if the market people squeal about it, they'll squeal about it.
[5:43] Excellent idea.
[5:43] How do they like, care about it?
[5:44] Right.
[5:44] And who's doing it?
[5:47] Well, they're all doing it.
[5:49] And really this is, if you've got to have control, it's a man-villain.
[6:12] It's a high degree of responsibility.
[6:13] You've got to have the leadership.
[6:14] You've got to have the flexibility.
[6:14] You're in the labor people's role.
[6:15] It's pretty good.
[6:15] The other thing I have in here, when we no longer need everybody to get rid of it, I'm just putting it in that straight state.
[6:18] That's it in here.
[6:20] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[6:41] I've got something in this speech, which I just, I had an hour ago.
[6:43] It's only been, the speech will be only 14 minutes long, which I think is an awfully good line, but I quote from people all over the country.
[6:46] I have four excellent letters.
[6:47] paragraph each, which is good.
[6:57] These are all people that were at wage increases and had to give them up.
[6:58] That's a great quote, you know.
[7:00] Yeah.
[7:00] Now, oh yeah, I'll just say that.
[7:08] For example, here's what I read.
[7:23] After I read the letters, I said there, this is sort of my talk, I said I want to thank thousands of people who've written similar letters.
[7:26] I know how much it means to me here in the post-American to put their contribution about their personal life value into question.
[7:29] I want to thank you too.
[7:29] Thank you.
[7:30] We began this battle against inflation for the purpose of winning.
[7:56] We are going to stay in it until we do win.
[7:59] Yeah.
[8:07] That's me.
[8:07] Take care, Richard.
[8:30] He's going to have to hedge his bet a little.
[8:53] Maybe he's going to try to screw us on the counter.
[8:54] Quite a chance.
[8:54] The Harris thing, frankly, to go over 50%, even if it's only 51-48 or something like that, approval is bad.
[8:59] Ralph, I've got to go over to greet the press.
[9:05] I mean, the Congress.
[9:06] Right, right.
[9:06] Yeah, thank you.