Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 443-027
Date: Wednesday, June 6, 1973 at 4:56 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ford, Gerald R.; Scott, Hugh
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/443-027

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[0:00] Well, I understand you're tied up down there.
[0:26] I was, uh, had the parenting policy.
[0:27] Then you go to Congress.
[0:28] Let's be friends with the, uh, proceeds from Pearl Liquor and, uh, the quiet, just, uh, just the bad, you know,
[0:55] Yeah, so you can pass that.
[1:07] We were going to have it tomorrow, but I decided that I wanted to wrap it up so that I could take Vietnam.
[1:23] and the freshman summit all at one meeting, so Tuesday is a better day for it.
[1:49] Yeah, you probably should have a call by now, but we're changing it from tomorrow, Thursday, to Tuesday at the same time.
[1:51] Great.
[1:51] Would you like to do that?
[1:53] Great.
[1:55] You're invited.
[1:57] 10 o'clock.
[1:58] Yeah, that's a good idea.
[1:59] It'll be Mel's first one.
[2:04] Yeah.
[2:04] You're invited.
[2:05] You're invited.
[2:05] Great.
[2:06] We'll tell you, you know.
[2:12] Sure.
[2:13] But wait a second.
[2:14] Wait a second.
[2:15] How'd you do with our friend, uh, McCluskey?
[2:53] We're going to, I'm just so sure if you'd like to use him to attempt to catch me and things like that.
[3:03] We're putting the bipartisan two-street so that I can wrap the Soviet summit, the Vietnam in the one view.
[3:09] No, no.
[3:09] That is off.
[3:10] We put that off the two-street.
[3:14] But if I use your vote to attempt to catch me, you must do it, Gary.
[3:19] Yeah.
[3:20] Yeah, a little.
[3:35] But as of this moment, it doesn't have any disrupting effect.
[4:03] I don't want to go to that joint session.
[4:03] It was nice.
[4:04] But I'll talk to John about it.
[4:04] I'm following.
[4:05] We know that.
[4:05] Sure, sure, sure.
[4:05] We know.
[4:25] On labor, too.
[4:39] Well, I'll tell you, that would bring it off as a good thing to do.
[4:43] It would ruin the economy, of course, wouldn't it?
[4:46] And we've definitely spent the days with the labor and management group, and both labor.
[4:48] Labor is a strength as you replace real estate.
[4:49] And management, a little less strength as you, but also.
[4:50] So that's interesting, too.
[5:00] That's what we've been thinking about.
[5:03] Well, you had a fine job yesterday.
[5:05] That's a good shot across the box.
[5:35] Ready, set, go.