On November 17, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Stephen B. Bull, Manolo Sanchez, White House operator, and Clark MacGregor met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 1:43 pm to 2:30 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 293-030 of the White House Tapes.
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I was going to wrap up on Conley's commentary afterwards.
And NBC said, he emphasized three things.
First, he spent six minutes describing improvement in the economy.
He felt confident to instill the worries about the energy.
Secondly, he issued a counter-chance to be in the community.
Thirdly, he stated his personal disappointment, perhaps even disagreement, with the pay board's acquiescence on the coal tax.
I think that's good to hear.
Kuyper called the performance amazing, saying it was as important politically as it was economically.
The secretary wrote off Meany and probably labored for 72.
Kuyper said the secretary may still call himself a Democrat, but if he ever wants to run for president, he'll have to find a new party because he'll never get labor support.
Honestly, he never put that many on the line, you know that?
Kuyper?
Yeah.
That's poor analysis.
You knew, of course, that John Connelly had the unalterable hatred of the legislature before he ever came here.
Bill Monroe said the secretary, in effect, left the Democrats, and Nixon has decided to run without me, and not be able to go to Seattle.
Hector concluded the secretary gave strong words, stronger than he remembers hearing the administration.
CBS, George Herman called the pep talk to show how the game plan is working.
Severide said, Connie is absolutely fascinating to watch, an extraordinary performer.
The administration's greatest public breather in public analogous to Kissinger in private.
Eric saw this as a critical time for Tommy's pet dog.
Something like the credibility gap, the confidence gap, uncertainty, and knowledge gap.
People just aren't sure where we're going.
He's a great psychological problem caller with a will.
And something had to be done to promise the best man to do it.
He's convincing and exudes confidence.
His entire personality is this lady's tremendous asset to the administration.
George Nerman felt the hard sell of performance and fascinated for a year of performance.
Nerman noted there wasn't much hard-natured slots of personal attitude to that comment.
Severide viewed the full-fledged arcade as likely to be a precedent of a big race to be coming soon, raising great problems for the champions.
Severide said comment was put up today to take on meaning personally and directly.
The administration sees meaning as vulnerable for his comment, writing,
Eric knows the sympathetic wires to the White House and clearly expects more trouble with George, so he's seeking to get him down to the side pocket as far as possible now.
Any coach has to have a villain, and he is the administration's.
The CBS man ran the clip of the secretary's criticism of the media's business on the midday CBS news.
The census economy was out of all the good news.
The rival city banks knew this weather was total uncertainty.
The census is subject to the development of the code and the reduction in unemployment.
I would hear of rapid growth and a reduction in unemployment.
The Citibank, I didn't get the first one, Citibank's newsletter today, which tells both of uncertainty and the still wide consensus that 72 will be, I would hear of.
As ever, I know that the environment and economic indicators look very good, yet there's widespread psychological issues.
by the Administration of Political Affairs.
It was also done by the Foundation of Markets and Campaign Funds of the Administration of the Dilemma on a move to upset the power of the leadership of the parties.
Herman found no straight thing of good line on this issue.
Eric called it a property.
Most of it is interesting.
The left wing in lies are all against this, too.
Why?
Why?
I can't figure it out.
I don't know.
I'm so wrong, but I don't know why they see it.
I don't know.
That's where they've been distanced on it.
It must be something that we understood.
In any scheme, Bill Gill, and other than Secretary, was harsh toward Meany as he said his behavior toward Nixon encouraged his courteous and ill-becoming version of his position.
Brockhiser said that, as usual, a secretary was impelled by an invigorating motion for the administration, which wonders how much good optimism or approach he stood with.
At this point on the paper, it's a cold decision for you to say what was intended.
It's the uncertainty of the country, though, it is.
The ruckracker was pleased by Commie's remarks that the surcharge might end in weeks rather than months or years, but the administration seems to be hanging in the dark.
But his most startling comment, according to the ruckracker, was on the stock market.
At its lowest point in 12 months, Commie didn't think of that.
Convicting the Secretary of the Union, he said, in question, never greatly affected the U.S. economy.
Closed by noting the air of suspicion and disrespect that exists between Nixon and Meany, and the latter believes the White House interceded to get the 5.5-way zone.
The other concludes that no communication outside the hype verbally in the midst of an ingenious policy would go down later than it actually would later.
Just off the good.
It's ideal for him outpatient abuse.
And it would be ideal for agonism.
When a person's not on the line of fire, you know, you need to get in there and just breathe easy and kick that coward down.
You don't have to worry about everything else.
And a comic does love to do that.
It's free of the burden.
That's why you need a consulate.
You've got to have some people who will.
And he can't leave.
If we can get him to lay off, or they get off, and they've lost his way to the road.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's the plan.
I'm hopeful that I'm going to close McCloskey up this week, which is a mistake.
I could not know if the city should attack McCloskey.
The city was having so much trouble raising the campaign funds that he had sold his favorite thing, the picture of Leonard McDonald across the middle of the land.
McCloskey came out and said, I'm going to be in the trigger.
I'm going to thank the vice president and say that he was the best fundraiser that his interest was liking.
The vice president stirred it up.
Yeah.
It's strange that we ask, you know, since Roper asked, nothing happens.
Nothing happens at all.
It's no matter who asks the question, and Roper asked it,
Roper asked it in January.
He said, you know, do you feel things in this country are going in the right direction today, or do you feel things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track?
We kept the same wording.
Roper got 23% right direction, 64% wrong in January.
That's the problem we have now.
We asked it in August.
We got 29.63% in the same country.
A little higher on the wrong and a little less undecided.
We asked it again in September and got 2764 at the same time.
We didn't, we didn't pull it.
September 7th and 8th.
We pulled approval and approved it.
We didn't have anything.
But it was about, June was about, none of that was a trial.
We had an approval poll in October, May 1st, and September.
And what did they show?
May 1st, August, and May 1st, July.
In September we had 5634 and that's where we had the 56.
5634 was after the September 7th.
Yeah.
5634.
You could put out the undecided there and we could come up with... That's a perfect trend with the 62.
6238.
Right.
So...
About the same as my own program.
Okay.
Anyway, September it was 2764.
Harris folded the latter part of September and he had 2466.
We put it on this fold and it hit 2564.
The interesting thing is that each pollster asks the same question, gets exactly the same, or within a couple of months, the same answer, and consistently through this entire year.
What does this mean to you?
It means there's something.
People have been convinced by media, I think, that things have gotten off on the wrong track in this country, that things were not generally going in the right direction.
Well, that, of course, is the danger, too, so you can't lie.
I think that's, that's up in approval because I think the president, in a way it's remarkable that only 25%, 25% think things are right, yet 50% approve the president.
Obviously it's because they think if they're going to fight it, the same happens.
Yeah.
But it can't help but have a rough effect, I would think, on the president.
In fact, you are the chief guy responsible for getting things regulated.
How was it in the Icon?
I don't know.
It's kind of interesting to know what it was in Icon, or what it was in Johnson.
I'm not sure if it was reported or not, but it did.
What do you think this, once the war has been decided,
That'll jolt that up a bit, don't you think so?
I wouldn't think so.
No draftees, and that sort of thing.
I think people, again, maybe a little better.
That would help.
We make the speech open, and the economy.
And the economy, and the Internet.
I don't think the fact that you're starting to get things moving there, it's all an announcement.
Now, on your next poll, I want you to give a question, though, on these programs.
What do you approve or disapprove of?
which I don't think he needed to spell it out.
And then he was approved and disapproved.
So perhaps they don't know much about it.
I did it the same way.
I know what we have to do in terms of
I wonder if that just tripped someone just in a good way.
Presence of... Plans of Eden became... For the purpose of...
I put my word up there.
For the purpose of... For the purpose of...
I don't know what to say.
I'll leave it at that.
This one, you really want, you don't want to release it, you just want to know.
No, no, I want to know what they feel, but in order to know what they feel, we've got to have them know how we will posture the trip with the cake, and the blockers will.
Maybe there's something.
I think they must know what you're overestimating.
President Nixon's announced a journey for peace and his friends.
No, that blows it.
That blows it.
That's something we'll find out.
Well, he did say, he said to, uh,
uh... intentions.
That would be a very good word.
That would be a very good word.
Listen, Carson.
Girls are good.
That's all I'm going to say.
Did we, when we pulled right after China, did we have a very strong response that we should have?
Yeah.
I picked up over for about an hour or so.
It was like 86 or something like that.
It wasn't very high.
Lost it.
I wouldn't put it on as Chinese.
They all know what Chinese is, you know.
He came to me with a couple of Chinese leaders, just in order to associate with Chinese and all of that.
I mean, he can't stay on this board.
As he said in his own speech, he knows he's got a problem getting off.
The board's pretty hard by saying he's going to stay off but won't cooperate.
It won't be balanced as if you don't like it on his terms.
He's still in a position of staying on under his own terms.
The last, the October poll was taken, plus 54 out of 38 when he had a high music group.
So it was 15 in the week.
Nine, 10.
The one meeting we reported on was September 5th, 7th and 8th.
7th and 8th.
Yeah, okay.
Now let's see, 56, 34, 36, 34.
We had a shift from September to the 9th.
September 4th to October 5th.
We had a shift.
52, 38, yeah, downward shift.
Now, this one is 52 still.
33 is the downward shift.
Which is incidentally, one thing you have to figure is the downward shift of five is like an upward shift of eight.
Keep going down there.
The other hand, you start to think, from the time we've done that one on foot, we've had to turn to the back side.
We've had to still get an officer on the front.
We have to show them.
We have to show them.
We have to show them.
We have to show them.
We have to show them.
We have to show them.
We have to show them.
On the negative side, we have the, uh, Donald Trump, which was, uh, was in the U.S. at the time.
I'm not going to remember.
All we did there was rush him out of the area and ask him to go to the U.S. and talk to him.
My guess is that what really happens here
The AFL-CIO balanced out the, in terms of the general situation, balanced out the U.N. thing.
I think you might be sort of the same, or would you agree, that there's something that's balanced out?
The economic drag increased, correct?
Probably, yeah.
See, your Easter comfort is an indication of our very function as counselors.
What really does it touch us?
But we also have to realize the political tempo has very substantially increased in this period.
Right.
We've been under pretty rough political events.
That's right.
The old U.N. period.
Exactly the point.
We've been under very, very, very, very tough attacks.
I noticed, you know, in the Eisenhower popularity, even in 56, in 54, he went down.
In 56, he went down.
In 58, he went down.
In 54, he resisted.
Basically...
During the campaigns, popularized about eight, ten points.
A lot here.
A lot here in election year, too.
It tends to be more polarization.
More people think of themselves.
And also, when they're attacked, they're going to hurt you.
Correct.
They're going to hurt you.
They're going to hurt you.
What I'm getting at is, I wonder what we do that tells you to be effective on the new type of human that the new cryptid world can have on its own.
I'm not so damn sure, but I'm pretty sure that's what it's about to do, and it's about to happen.
Anyway, we don't think there's anything else that can happen, so that's that.
What we have found, too,
that the, that the big, the big exposure we get around the state of the union is not more than a two-factor.
The fact that perhaps we need to use more, now we've been on prime time, I think it would be really about that, we need to use more prime time to probably improve it to an end.
It could be that we have not found in the press conference that members saw
The other point though that I do want to raise, remember we analyzed this once before and we said that while we were mystified by the fact that China
and economically did not change the previous three months, instead they changed the next.
Sure did.
And the next one, so it may be that that next is still open, but we're getting covered, we're getting more back to our constituency, and then labor has to move away from this country, which is again,
How about Republican-Democrat?
I don't have the phrase, but I'll have that in a second.
It's interesting on the region.
Again, versus October, where there's no change in approval on the national basis.
It's a drop of five points in the district.
In the east, it was 47-41, now it's 50-39.
the Midwest was 46-42, now it's 51-35, a very big game in the Midwest.
After the fight with Colton, there were five elements.
South lost 59-33, 54-17.
Wow.
A loss in approval, but an even bigger loss in disapproval.
So a big move to undecided in the South in 19, undecided in the South.
Very high.
Which, I think, definitely, if you do your poll over again, if you do the undecided, maybe that could reflect that.
That's a lot of stuff.
In 19, 19.
It's 2 to 1, so you have to take it from here.
You cannot do it from 65 to 35.
Get that dope buggy.
It probably won't be any of us at the practice class.
over there yeah
Watch a little practice.
Wish him well.
Do me a favor.
I think it would be a nice touch to have just lost.
That would be really encouraging.
He'd go out to the field.
Go by.
You know, he'd be in pretty good shape at midway.
This was when the Rams went 7-0.
The Rams went 30.
Thursday.
The Braves beat the Cowboys.
Which is a fantastic possibility.
I just think that's a nice thing to do.
You told John, you know, you wanted to meet with Conway Shelton and him on the budget and the political decisions and whether you wanted to do that Wednesday morning.
Sure.
John said it was a good idea.
You also found your opponents in general image things.
You know, the boldness and all that stuff.
That, of course, has come to sharply up the leadership that we should have had for a while.
And that's one advantage of the hate thing, and really important is that.
But our dread, we have to realize, this is very important, are not so much the war.
I've always felt that the war is going to figure out how to be for everything else.
You're right.
Yeah, which I can't believe you're on it.
I can't believe you're on it.
All we have to do here is fight it.
We must cut and we have that in the public mind.
That's why the international events are extremely important.
But we have one throughout the month.
We have a
You can't just let it up and don't keep breathing.
The people that are trying to undo the English thing never quit.
Sure.
As you can see on his knee, I think he tried it.
He's doing damn true, but I'm trying to say he was nervous.
I'm talking to him all the time.
He tried it.
He's smart.
He's smart.
He's got it right with him.
He's got it.
He's got it.
He's got it.
He's got it.
He's got it.
He's got it.
Everybody do it.
One day, you're going to be set.
Yeah.
Right there.
You gotta do it in one day
You're upset by the fact that I'm here.
Yeah.
We just got to be very, very careful.
They're going to put on a terrible movie.
So they put it down, and it's still going to go by the house.
Well, the house will take that.
Come on, they thought they could let the house kill it, but then they decided they'd better kill it instead.
The house killed it, but they thought we would know if we see the killer.
Come on.
But I'm determined now that because of the enormous consequences of this action, it's a great privilege to let these people go.
We just better put it right to them, call back to the session, and let them take responsibility for what they've done.
They have to pass the tax bill, some tax bill, because there's, you know, they can't let it go, I think.
And once they know you can be together, and they know you can be together, they won't try to do it.
They won't try to override it.
They don't have a chance to do it.
They won't try to do it.
They won't try to do it.
They won't try to do it.
Mr. McGregor, please.
Alright.
But, it's fine.
It feels good to be there.
It's been fine.
There's already plenty of the I.A.P.
who slept tonight.
It's about this idea of making the story even better.
There's no more.
I know it's the best thing that we need to do.
But not until I go to California.
Then when I get back here, of course,
That's, we've always felt you could.
Well, you could get into here and it wouldn't get any better.
That's the idea.
It depends on whether I'm on vacation or if I'm working.
We figure the Senate and House will be back and the Congress will be back.
Depends on when they go.
We've given a lot of interest to this, you know, figuring out this only very quickly, you know, a week before.
When we heard the idea that Congress doesn't come back, you know, we're not going to say that.
We're going to try to get it going forward.
You know, we've had it here for a long time.
You know, we've just...
Are they meeting with the
It was actually around 3 o'clock.
Okay.