On May 14, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Raymond K. Price, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 6:57 pm to 7:01 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 435-042 of the White House Tapes.
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So, Ray, I've got to get busy now on this dinner for the night, but I've been rubbing over this final draft, and it's fine.
I just, I mean, a couple more things.
The one point that I want you to, that I want you to really have is the matter of the, which I think is rather unique, I think, here, and perhaps raise more questions.
because I don't have a view about it, that if they do leave six years or eight years for the present, that the fight is on the four years for the house is the pattern where I have a strong view that something or the other, where I can express the view and where I do express
uh at least the guy that i don't have a problem with you on that and so forth and so on but there are people that say this or that so what i'm saying is this uh i would rather i would rather you perhaps say there's another guy who's really important to our election president and all of us can be concerned whether we can't do anything to change the life of the tribes of office and the members of the house
I would say, for example, that they are strong.
There are many proponents, many political scientists who believe that the president should be given the six-year term, one single six-year term.
We all consider the merits of this proposal.
And then go in directly and what we have as far as the House is concerned, the state of it, my question.
You got my question?
We don't touch the Senate at all.
I think with the president, I don't want to put in which I think will play much bigger than the whole thing.
And it's really much less possible.
It's less than it's likely.
By the way, the Secretary of State has not discussed the term of office with the President of the Senate, although we did mention it to the leader today.
They probably went, all right, then the thing to do then is you would just change the language to read along those lines so that we don't put it in the air.
For example, we're going to pay for their proposals.
We're going to pay for both of these.
I don't know very much, but she is a real thing.
So as opposed to the fact that I have this final house and that I would not be able to borrow it, but I don't know what I'd do with it.
I'd have to buy it.
Or I'd have it around 11 o'clock.
All right, that's it.
Thank you.