Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 344-003
Date: Tuesday, June 20, 1972 at 4:09 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Buchanan, Patrick J.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/344-003

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[1:51] If you could get one line, I don't know if you could get one line out of Novak's piece for the show.
[1:57] I may not do it, but I just thought it would be wonderful if you could put it on somewhere.
[2:10] The second thing is that I don't intend to get into the state at this point, but the second thing is that when you refer to that vote, was that the vote on pre-15?
[2:21] Was that a vote on pre-15 at all?
[2:23] Yeah, well, just for the future, it seemed to me that the first one, I don't know what that vote was.
[2:33] I think it was a vote on pre-15, but I think
[2:40] It's also very scary to know that it's going to happen.
[2:44] It's also important.
[2:46] But, I mean, we can't suspend it and allow it.
[2:49] It might have gone forever.
[2:53] But beyond that, the question is whether or not, in their speeches, they might be able to...
[3:06] I just got the call.
[3:08] I said, I would rather that.
[3:09] But my guess is that it was probably one of those, probably a pre-missing extension.
[3:14] It's all right.
[3:16] But my general feeling about the debate question is that it was a very wrong question.
[3:31] I just say, look, I have some ideas.
[3:32] Well, I'm going to say I wasn't questioning it.
[3:39] Right.
[3:40] Yeah.
[3:41] Yeah.
[3:41] And we'll see.
[3:42] The answer is, of course, a very good one.
[3:45] And, of course, it's a very good one.
[3:48] You can start off by saying the other four accountants took that belief.
[3:59] The other point is that
[4:04] Uh, I wondered if checking on the, uh, you know, on the tax thing, that tax question, whether we ought to have unveiled this kind of thing.
[4:09] It's a little hard for me.
[4:11] Of course, you're referring to that as your last paragraph, aren't you?
[4:15] You know, we're, that's the bill that, you know, provides for the, I don't know, what we're doing.
[4:24] And maybe it's, it, it, it, it, it allows, uh, really, I mean, makes the Congress vote on it, you know, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on,
[4:33] Is that, is that, you talked to the Shultz guy the other day?
[4:36] Yeah.
[4:36] Yeah, I see.
[4:37] Well, uh, uh, you might just give him a call and say that, that I was just being stupid.
[4:47] That's what I'm doing.
[4:48] He's got a, he's got a general view about it.
[4:53] But, uh, that's what I am.
[4:57] He hasn't been bumped, you know.
[5:04] What?
[5:04] They're done.
[5:51] You can have them.
[5:55] As a matter of fact, I'm going to come back to you here.
[5:59] Okay.