Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 299-009
Date: Wednesday, November 10, 1971 at 2:34 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/299-009

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[14:14] You were talking about Cylinders, uh, Cull and so on.
[14:21] Barrett is people's mentor.
[14:34] I'm not saying those are there.
[15:00] What the hell do they want?
[15:02] They're panicking.
[15:04] Phase two.
[15:06] What?
[15:36] The retail sales seem to be bouncing pretty good, would you say?
[15:43] I don't know what the hell we can do to end this, fellas.
[15:47] My God, Chuck, we've held their hand.
[15:49] We've go to their meetings.
[15:50] We've had them in the White House.
[15:52] We've had them in the Blair House.
[15:54] What in the name of God are we supposed to do?
[15:59] Now, the Chamber of Commerce isn't so bad.
[16:02] It's the big business guys.
[16:05] It's frankly, let's face it, the Harvard School of Business, the Wharton School, the Stanford School of Business, right?
[16:21] Computer types basically are just gone.
[16:24] I don't think there is.
[16:30] It doesn't change.
[16:35] Well, certainly, I don't know, but maybe the tax bill would get passed one day, I suppose.
[16:39] It's Christmas soon, despite what somebody said we weren't going to do.
[16:45] It's definitely going to be.
[16:57] Two and a half to three or something like that.
[17:06] I didn't make one part of the comment.
[17:18] I had to.
[17:19] But the whole point is, you know, all these goddamn people said I was going to go out and start a campaign to build how many hustlers they didn't think I am.
[17:33] But, uh,
[17:36] We weren't much of a do-it-it, but I was the most important thing is to keep it non-partisan.
[17:49] And we'd just drive our enemies up the wall.
[17:51] The bigger we'd just circle, so we were all digging.
[17:55] They wanted me to get in there and sit down with the others, you know, thinking about partnership and other stuff.
[18:06] We'll be right back.