On November 12, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 12:10 pm to 12:29 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 297-026 of the White House Tapes.
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Watch the late report before... How far off is it today?
There may not be, I think, the other possibility of this business about the reaction to the investment and the pricing, which is shocking.
They're squealing about the profits, and when they come to Christ, they're like, whatever they want, they want labor to be responsible, and they're not going to be.
And, oh, this business is a bad one for them, and they really are going to pay for it.
What is Planet doing?
He's very influential with these people, you know.
And what's he saying?
Why don't you get out the little, you know, I don't know what you've done this recently, but if your office gets something out, or something to do with congressmen, congressmen, chairmen, people, positive, positive, positive, you know, always jacking this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this,
unemployment is down, and not only that, interest rates are down, prices, not only wholesale prices, but retail prices are down, and a lot of that stuff should just be done, of course.
But put it on the basis, I break it down on the inflation front, this is what is happening, on the investment end, and then on the job front, this is what is happening, and then on the
I know, that's fine.
I meant to do it with more saying, I understand this perfectly right for me, but these average guys aren't going to get it.
We're going to stick in the big town.
Well, the big has been better, God damn.
I'll start acting like, like men for a change down there.
There are days when you have chances, but you know, there's always, there's always a difference.
And it's manual, isn't it?
And the economy isn't that bad.
And then the thing is quite interesting, that 1.7 isn't the highest number for a long time.
But the market is still going on.
And when Connolly gets back, he'll be working on that number.
You know, he's had to take his heart line and deal with it from abroad.
And these people don't realize it.
They don't want to run right away and go right back to the same old system and be back in the same slump hole we were before.
And if you talk positively, they'll come.
Yeah.
I don't want you to get that reputation.
You want me to be hard on you privately, that's all I'm talking about.
You're a passing thing.
I mean, basically all of our people around here, we are trying to fix this up.
But in all these events that I've been listening to,
the market goes up and down, and it's better now than it was, and it's going to be better later, so what the hell.
With regard to short-term spending, you have to realize, I noticed the evidence of Novak people now, basically, political reasons, and all that bullshit, but I think a lot of it is
could be the left-wing businessmen too, you know.
I mean, don't you agree?
Reacting also to their left-wing staff members, you know, economists and the rest.
Sure, sure.
But, you know, you can be sure that the other people are just quite, quite deliberate.
I mean, it's wishful writing.
Right?
Wishful writing.
Maybe I'll strip it in.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Oh.
I tried hard, but I can't get much better at that.
Sure, yeah.
Be sure to fight against that guard.
Like, don't you go fighting in the city.
That's the way to do it, man.
So you go over there and run around.
There's a bunch of people behind you.
What is that?
All they gotta do is to make some more singles get off their ass
On a very confidential baseline, you know.
Yeah.
Sure, sure, well I am.
It's a good copy.
It's a picture that doesn't come across at all.