On February 1, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Sir Burke Trend, Henry A. Kissinger, George P. Shultz, and Edward R. G. Heath met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:08 pm to 6:05 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 409-001 of the White House Tapes.
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Actually, it takes a long time to make that decision.
That's right.
It's a very difficult task.
It's a very...
It takes some time.
It just takes time.
But, uh...
It's quite a good solution.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Well, let me say I'm in a more reactive situation.
I would like to have a situation where I crash and hurt myself.
I would like to have a situation where I crash and hurt myself.
We've got a plan for what we're going to do.
And what I'm going to do is I'm going to ask the gardener first.
I'm going to ask the gardener first.
What do you think?
What do you think we should do?
And here's where I started.
I'll tell you what I think.
I think we've probably got to put the tray on it.
We must give it to the types of water that we're going to use.
The only question, I'm not going to do the, I'm not going to do that, but I think it's all possible.
I do appreciate that, yeah.
I think that is just what, that is what I'm going to do.
The only question, I'm not going to do that, but I think it's all possible.
I think that is what, that is what I'm going to do.
We're over here talking.
I'd love to have you present over there.
You know, we're always together.
Well, thank you.
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expected rather than an emergency kind of trip.
I don't like to be on an emergency trip.
I'm rushing around in the back of the road.
And then you can sit down and have a good talk with friends.
And then you can sit down and have a good talk with friends.
And then you can sit down and have a good talk with friends.
I think they're all
You know, by the way, I actually met that guy a long time ago.
He was kind of coming around.
That's got to be, that's got to be, I, uh, instead of, uh, they just, uh, just one, uh, who had done an apology this week, going down to the Congress plate, and I was just going along and just, uh, just, uh, didn't talk to him, uh, just laid out the kind of, uh, I thought I could do, you know, uh,
So I referred to the written message six times.
I'm sure we've got to have this flyer, but I was told to push it further back.
We don't have to.
We don't have time to pay the money.
No problem.
Thank you.
Thank you.
That's my idea.
I mean, I see it coming.
They're moving around.
I mean, the later people will see what might be possible.
I mean, one thing we have to do is we have to show the truth.
That's it.
but uh i think this is very often i think
It's always up to the city, but I don't think any of us have that kind of responsibility.
It's one of those things that I'm very concerned about.
We're working on it very, very hard.
We're pushing for it.
It's not a great thing to do.
I don't understand what you're doing.
I don't understand what you're doing.
But you take the agricultural thing.
I want to raise that to a concrete level.
I know you have people who have to, like most people, who have to live in the area.
Why is, why is, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
You see, the agricultural knowledge is essential to us on the trade.
We've lost weight.
We've got to have agriculture.
And those people have to be the farmers.
And I say the firemen, they're not identified with our population, but in the Congress, they're about 30 percent, 40 percent less.
That goes in terms of senators.
Senators, we are going to make sure we're lucky and we control the Senate board through the way it works.
It's an issue that I don't think that your firemen are going to support it.
They're going to support it, and we're going to support it in general.
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But what they wanted, whereas you look at, let's say, the antitrust will work, and the law is the pressure, and they can fight, and they can issue, and they've got to have themselves, and that's the way it's reported, it's the status quo.
But they want people to be affected, so they've got to accept that they're going to have to do it, and that is what we can't get rid of, so that's a very big problem.
caused trouble with a farmer on my side, you know, who was basically working without pay, that is, because he was working for me.
But, I, uh, had the wind blowing through my window, you know, so, you know, that made it hard for me to, you know, see what was going on.
So, you know, she had a lot of bad faith in me, you know.
Of course they have to be afraid to make eyes and hear about us as a population, and that is the reason why we're not doing that job.
Has the, uh, has this been watched on TV?
Considering that, uh, three of the, uh, one of the, uh, uh, Yes, uh, first of all, it's a great word, in fact, it's a great word, in fact, it's a great word, in fact, it's a great word,
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Most of the restaurants are students, right?
I don't know about it.
I don't know what he's complaining about.
I think the wages are held down.
The other people took their wages up.
They're going to take the wages to the workers.
He's having a hard time.
He said he didn't want us to get out.
The others said, hey, I have a little bit more.
I guess I could do more pizza.
And you can say to yourself, well, that's a marker that the unemployment is not so bad.
I think that means that in January 2020, we had a 50% reduction and a 5%.
We used to have a 20% 5% reduction, and now we're at a 5% right now.
Now, that's a lot of confidence that we're going to hold for an hour and a half.
That's a very good point.
Oh, I agree with you.
We hear it all the time, but seeing it patiently, it's, uh, it's, uh, it's, uh, it's, uh, it's, uh, it's, uh, it's, uh, it's, uh, it's, uh, it's, uh, it's, uh,
The numbers on this board, I'll get there on the 21st.
Those numbers, 5.5% in August.
The basis came out in the 7th century.
It was again 5.5% in the 9th century.
And the one that came out in the 8th century was 4.5% in the 9th century.
And the one that came out in the 4th century was 5.5% in the 9th century.
Now, you can't tell me that anyone can do this now.
There's been a great purge in the 9th century.
about five five inches and it's three months on five percent quite a bit of the bureaucrats when they were off to do something very complete about your attack this can't be true do you think there was a five percent drop five
I don't think that we probably have the same power.
We don't charge for that, but anyway, I'm glad you have the 5% that we didn't need it before.
Well, I think we're going to make this 100% Yeah, that's it.
In fact, the reason they're going to put things on that 5% issue is that when people look around, they say, well, aren't you going to plug it?
Basically, they're not going to plug it.
But, you know, it's great to have a better life.
Our operation is very fast.
or whatever that is, just like in West Virginia.
So it just means that we have to allow this to do with the people that's coming in, or women, who are in and out of the market.
And those are the questions we should be asking.
How are the blacks going out in the orchard?
And I'm here.
They are about to do what they feel is necessary.
See, there's where our welfare is going.
that we bring to the world by the welfare of the people and the children of the world as well.
It doesn't mean that at all, but in this reporting, Dr. and her grades were so poor that it was much higher than how it is now.
But it is what it is.
And there's a lot of whites that are going to Chicago to see folks that are wearing buttons, and they have to spend a lot of money to actually look at the button shop
The black shot is 12.
You know, the more they have, the more they go.
You know, they'll be able to get through it there.
They're right.
They're right.
Well, that's one of the certain things that we were trying to do.
We were trying to figure out how to catch animals.
We, uh, we have done that.
We, uh, we'll report it to our college university.
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So, this is what we actually do.
We're going to have to take another crash.
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I don't know what it was all about, but he never took himself or his wife or anything like that.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I reckon he was with the, uh, post-1950s or something like that.
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I think we want you to know that our purpose, where I go, is just to walk with you and not to distract you and not to terrify you when we're in some difficult situation, whether it's recent, whether we're not.
Our goal can't be anything better than that.
I would think that you would do it without your Native American students.
You must not do it without your Native Americans.
On the other hand, you would see more ability to do it without your Native Americans.
You would do it with all your Native Americans.
Instead, you would do it with a lot of Native Americans.
I think that's a good thing.
I think that's a good thing.
I think that's a good thing.
I think that's a good thing.
and get them together to understand that it's probably a very short-lived policy, and even obviously a disastrous long-term policy, and even obviously for us to get to a competition in the United States, which is the leverage of the old government.
Now, on the Japanese, I think there is a question, I think we've got it somewhere, I don't know.
They are.
They are.
And good cameras, and good television sets, and good cell phones I have over there.
And the thing is, you've got to hear it.
It's a little subtle.
But here's my IBM.
That thing, I think, costs $400.
And it'll take about 10 minutes.
Here's something down here, which costs $150 an hour on each side.
Now, what you ain't gonna find, this is better quality.
but I just can't justify it.
Of course, I keep both here and she's up.
That one's down here.
That one's down there.
Not done.
Anyway, anyway.
But I've heard it's the opposite.
This is also.
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Well, we, uh,
We will continue tomorrow.
We will watch.
So if you've got the mind, please do your television for us.
I swear I've never seen him before.
I'm going to have a meeting with him.
And then we will move to our factory.
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All right.
Thank you.