Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 353-010
Date: Thursday, August 3, 1972 at 12:40 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/353-010

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[0:03] He likes to spend his mornings there.
[0:10] They're riding on horses that are in his range.
[0:12] He goes in and talks to people.
[0:14] He sits in the drugstore.
[0:16] Huh?
[0:16] He sits in the drugstore.
[0:18] Yeah.
[0:18] Sorry?
[0:19] He sits in the drugstore.
[0:32] You're coming tonight to do this and that.
[0:47] It's not I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I,
[1:02] I don't know, I don't want to get, I've got a skeleton person.
[1:14] That's right.
[1:15] You've got to sort of separate out.
[1:20] He is the head of the church.
[1:24] What about Blackford?
[1:31] Blackford is...
[1:31] I wonder if it's great to look at how much of a way it creates that.
[1:47] I like that.
[1:50] Let me go wonder here at the end of the piece.
[1:55] I will see.
[1:55] Right around the end.
[1:56] I should be able to see.
[1:57] What?
[1:58] I forgot about that.
[1:58] I should be able to see.
[2:00] Yeah.
[2:00] I almost forgot about that.
[2:02] I think we should have one next time.
[2:12] Personally, I have a feeling
[2:32] I thought we were going to have both.
[2:39] I think that's what I thought about it.
[2:48] I nailed maybe 10 minutes at this point.
[2:49] It was just good.
[2:49] I'd say 10 minutes, obviously, if they went through.
[3:11] But it would be five and a half.
[3:40] The main part I had to see implicitly last year, between June and July, when I was in the private sector, this year we came down and paid $5,000, $5,500 in June, $5,500 in July.
[4:12] You know, we would, when you, right, we know, you know, I don't want to say, you know, the numbers, a lot of things to deal with, and all that stuff.
[4:26] We were doing twice as much inflation, we were twice as bad, you know, because of food prices.
[4:31] We kicked that around very extensively, you know, over the summer.
[4:34] We didn't.
[4:41] I think there are ways to do that.
[4:56] Whatever it is, it's raised.
[5:01] But there is a, I don't know if the company is doing it,
[5:10] because we all want to know how much it is worth.
[5:21] But there is a, there's several options.
[5:25] The temple of Greece, and we're not certain, but there's eight.
[5:29] And it's staples, so those people have to have the will.
[5:32] And the hell with the prescriptions, which are so long, it doesn't matter.
[5:36] But that's what upsets the housewife, because she doesn't have to buy it.
[5:38] If she has to buy it, she has to buy it.
[5:42] The other best way to do it is to please a whole lot of them.
[5:50] But we're considering a lot of options there.
[5:56] Anyway, and when you said the economy is moving up, I remember you asking out of California, I thought it was a paper of law.
[6:04] I didn't say that I was going to be concerned.
[6:06] But what concerned me was the leading business indicators
[6:12] The baby had been down.
[6:13] We got the doctor.
[6:16] We don't want to revise the figures.
[6:19] It wasn't defense one percent.
[6:21] It was 1.4.
[6:23] They revised the figures from two tenths up to 1.4.
[6:28] And then in June, I was up at half a point.
[6:31] We were getting misled a little bit there by our own dispassion.
[6:35] You know, the girl in the
[6:44] All right, thank you.