On June 12, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Raymond K. Price, Jr., and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 8:17 pm and 9:30 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 444-024 of the White House Tapes.
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Go to y'all.
Oh, good, buddy.
I just want to say hello to y'all and everything.
All your programs, everybody's just delighted.
Great mail and everything.
Yeah, I went out with John.
I hate mail.
No, no, it was great.
The both of you did great.
All right.
I mean, under the show run.
Great.
I'm Ohio.
Great.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yes, sir.
Well, great.
Yeah, Michael.
See you tomorrow at night, sir.
Bye.
I don't smoke enough of them, all right?
I have more.
I spoke greater than you.
I had no scoff for it.
I spoke like a tree.
Well, anyway.
You're being terrified.
It was.
In August, I was.
I was terrified.
We have to spend every text in every station, but each person has to pay.
If your money won't actually buy, you are getting purely from the election on stage, and it's just as simple money for the American economy on the field.
That's right, all that.
But now the price of debt is particularly moving.
They're going up at unacceptable high rates.
And now the price infections again are going up.
The price infections are going up.
And I just hope we have a great party.
We have six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
Every American family is in front of the rear of the Red Cross.
We cover all parts of the church, not the cross cells.
We are the best actors in this country today.
We will distract that silence, and let that cover everybody.
I have a question.
I'm actually going to put your page in there, but I'm going to tell it in detail.
I've directed it more than you need, and that's what I'm going to do.
Because most people will see the TV page from above, because I'm a speaker, so maybe a lot of people have questions, and I'm going to ask the farmers, and I'm going to give you the answer to that.
I guess I'm going to show you.
I'd like to get the point that the average guy
I'm trying to work it in so that we are covering the thing that they're all worried about.
So it doesn't appear that we're not covering food prices.
We'll cover all prices.
We'll understand what you mean by prices.
Agricultural prices.
We'll cover prices day to day.
We'll cover all prices.
This will cover all prices.
As long as
continue to be responsible and non inflationary I don't think I would say that of course it would not be possible for the president to support the short period of time but I don't think they would do that
Okay.
Our primary, I'd say that our primary
Our primary objective must be to rule out the dependence.
Our partner, beyond being our partner, must be to, uh, to our need to help.
Something like that.
You may as well say it.
It's all about being true to yourself in any way.
We just want to make sure that we're taking the background as before.
Another system of export licensing may be required, and I want to say it is.
This is a, I think we had in the city, it was a little less of a change than we were thinking it was going to be.
That's a new system of export licensing.
Next part, the licensing, I would say next part of the control, I'm not going to say that right now, licensing, is required to run the control for the licensing system.
It's pretty code word, it can't be used.
That means the same expert control is required.
And we've been doing that for three years, and we've been doing it for three and a half years.
So, it makes sense to put a, this fits well with the essence of their system,
And I would say, starting with those as far as the rhythm is concerned, that's the right thing to do.
I want to see if anybody wants to go to the next one.
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Gasoline prices.
Is that the only reference you make for energy?
Uh, the energy, I don't know.
The energy, I don't know.
What I meant is the reactions.
I will move tomorrow, I will set up a conference on the question of energy, move it down.
There's all, there's a, the battle against inflation and everything is happening.
He said, I have spoken of the administration.
There is also a revival of the Congress.
Tomorrow, I think I'm going to be focusing on the energy thing now.
I'm going to be working on it.
I'm going to be working on it.
I'm going to be working on it.
I'm going to be working on it.
Thank you.
I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't want to,
but we've got it all going on.
So we don't know what we really need.
We're probably going to have to find out what it really was.
It's a leader or a sub-union, or a leader-senior, or a...
I don't know what you're saying.
A church.
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 don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
It doesn't matter all that much, you know, if you're going through the agonies of December.
Well, the end of October, December, December, January, December, December.
It's a terrible thing.
But then, when people come here, you know, and still do, you know, that's all.
More people are going to be worried about December than we believe.
I don't believe that the business about gasoline and food is as sharp as it is.
You can see, as you know, we have a great income from the show.
The ledger's on the other side.
All right.
It's probably the ledger's on the other side.
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The increase in prices of homes in the ERA.
The wage in the ERA.
We have an unprecedented demand abroad.
Generally, this is in our interest.
Thank you so much.
I've done a lot of this here.
I call it the interest of the Americans.
That's going to come first.
That's what we thought it.
I heard the shot being fired on the second guy.
I heard the shot being fired on the second guy.
I heard the shot being fired on the second guy.
I heard the shot being fired on the second guy.
I heard the shot being fired on the second guy.
I heard the shot being fired on the second guy.
I heard the shot being fired on the second guy.
I shall not ask you for authority to do better, but I shall be moved down after the Australian problem.
The reasons for the recent food crisis is that unprecedented demand abroad.
But in the long run, at least we've actually worked with you a lot of times.
Because you go through all that, and pull that card that has the key to the turkey hat.
That's why I'm going to ask the conference to deliver it to each one of your hydroponics.
Thank you.
I'm excited to show you the next four places.
I'm excited to see you.
I will soon be signing an accomplishment.
You better see it, Tyler.
I don't think we're going to be ready for the shoot.
Unless we get our man, I may not be ready for it.
That's not me.
I'm ready because I'm ready.
Harris.
I would specifically buy a three-shed of pound drive on me.
It should be repeated.
I really think that's really ridiculous.
Look at that.
One, two, three-loader.
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These are better requests.
I shall ask the Congress to act on the request I made on the Alaska pipe.
When you say no fire hydrostation,
I'm not going to present a farm bill about the share of hay that I'm saving.
I can ask the farmers, the Congress, in its consideration of farm legislation, to put high production ahead of high price.
I don't get so many strikes out of those things, but...
I think he got scraped back in another place.
But, uh... We were, uh...
It was a permanent system.
I don't know what you're talking about.
I don't know what you're talking about.
I don't know what you're talking about.
I don't know what you're talking about.
I don't know what you're talking about.
I can confidently, confidently predict, based on the months of preparation, complications that I have, correspondence, and so forth, I already have, apparently, I can confidently say that, and I would be, maybe a new practitioner, maybe a new person, maybe a new one.
I would go further.
you know, the idea of, see, we're going to have a lot of agreement trade, trade, and, you know, not trade, but distribution of things that people want.
You know, if it isn't distribution of birthrights and things, you're born, but it's kind of a better relationship between
The world's two superpowers.
I think you got it.
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I don't want to emphasize temporary so much, but I think it is an action.
Three, that there will follow on a program that would work in strong vigor.
Four, that there might particularly zero in on the things that really concern people.
Book prices, gas prices, and other things.
I don't know.
Here's what Iowa will do.
Here's what the Congress will do.
Take place in everybody's business.
Here's what Iowa will do.
Here's what the Congress will do.
Here's what you will do.
We're going together to win this battle.
We're going together to win this battle.
Okay, cut to this point.
Why don't we say 10 o'clock, just to get a little bit of time there, because I've got so many things to do in the morning.
I've got a lot of work to do in the morning, but I really got to spend the first two hours in there.
10 o'clock a little bit.
For that time of year, that time you've been running around in the shelter, you know.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
So we have no choice but to accomplish what we have to do.
We're only 90 days away from everything.
With mandatory equipment and everything that we have to do.
We have to do it in the proper way.
We have unprecedented movement.
question, how do we start with the easy answers of the controlled inflation, the micro-controlled inflation.
But the problem with all the easy answers today is that it's dangerous for us to break the recession.
That's all.
Right.
Right.
Right.
Right.
All right
That's what I should write.
This would be a good talk.
In connection with that.
I agree.
I agree with that.
It's better.
It's better.
It's better.
It's better.
The rest of the picture, I don't know if you can see it, but it's a good guy with his parents and children.
And they are, and they are in the gold ring.
And there's slugs.
Right, the gold ring's in the slugs.
Never before was it here before.
The picture's totally gone.
It's got to be up here in the middle.
The interest is to hear what people are like today.
Shut up and go.
There's no way.
How the devil do you control them?
Strawberries at one time a year were maybe $0.50 a basket.
Another time a year, they were $3 a basket.
How the hell do you control them?
It's all seasonal.
It's not just seasonal.
and then they kind of ended up in the chemical industry and you can't produce all this stuff.
No way.
The bulk, even meat, goes up and down into the market, even if it's a stock market.
They've done this stuff.
It's great people come in here and control the damn farmers.
Uh-huh.
The farmers can plant or not.
You can sell or not sell.
And that's the issue.
That's why we should trust them.
We still eat often in L.A. At the present time, even with all of our problems, you know, a smaller percentage of your dollars goes to Europe, goes to food.
And in any country, not in any agricultural country, but any country in the world, there is no place in the world where a smaller percentage of the person's money goes to food than in America.
The second reason is that they're changing expectations.
They all look like they're possessive of the structure of the enemy.
You know, the Russian regime, I haven't heard of it.
They can't be unpopular, but they assume that they're 75% of the people.
I don't know if it's important, but I guess it's not.
I don't know if it's important, but I guess it's not.
That's another thing.
In the supermarket, you know, you've got a cost of bread.
A bread jack for as far as a million dollars.
It's a cost of food.
It's a cost of food.
That would reduce the cost of bread by one-tenth of a cent or lower.
And finally, we call it wheat, or in its company, the raffia, because it's liser.
It's the pocket of the bread that costs the most.
Well, that doesn't mean we should be pessimistic, because we need to be optimistic.
One of the great things about living in this country is that we have a lot of money.
I don't mean to live in a place that's a lot better than this, but that's what we're paying for it.
And we're paying for things from all over the country and all over the world these days and they're out there.
I'll say it again.
We'll go to the supermarket in December and get some response.
All right.
Do you expect to go to the supermarket in December and get some response?
I'm not sure.
Look at that map.
Look at the United States, how small it is compared to the United States in the world.
Pretty much.
I think that we're alert for those 50 years that we've been here.
Again, if they don't produce twice as much as they have all the time, I think that that's how we do it.
We're all going to have to make a move.
We can't just rush it.
We're all going to have to make a move.
We've got to make a move.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
uh we want to go ahead with those uh seven radio speeches
You can plan your schedule if you'd like to come to California.
Pressure may not go to security.
We're back here.
We're back here.
See out there again.
If you didn't plan to be there, wherever I am at that period of time, I'm sure you're still going to hate yourself for it.
I'm going to have to work for you every single day.
It's a lot of work that you're doing.
Thank you.
I wouldn't say temporary or increase the value of scares, but I should ask for a repeal if the jury's out of town, you know, if the court cares.
But I would specifically point out if the jury's out of town, uh, would have on, uh, on me, you know.
It should be repealed.
I really think that, really particularly the jury's out of town.
So that's one, two, three orders.
Down there, please.
I just have a question.
I shall ask for a repair.
Selective cases.
I wouldn't say temporary.
I would increase the value of the air support.
I shall ask for a repeal of the three-cent amount.
I already exposed it.
I shall question that.
I already exposed it.
I shall question that.
I shall ask for a repair.
I shall ask the party.
I shall ask the party.
I shall ask the party.
I shall ask the party.
I shall ask the party.
I shall ask the party.
When you say new fire legislation,
I'm not going to present a farm bill about the share of hay that was sold to me.
You can ask something on the request I made in Alaska.
On the request I made in Alaska, I could ask the farm, the Congress, in its consideration, the farm to be treated.
When you say no farm legislation, you put high production ahead of high price.
I am not going to present a farm bill not to share a hay dump situation.
I can last a farm.
And it's consideration of farm...
I don't get so much .
It's like high production.
I have a high price.
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I think he got scraped back in the first place, too.
But, uh, we were, uh, we were, uh, trying to get a second step.
I don't think he's on the system.
I don't get so many strikes out of those things.
Help me again.
I'm sorry.
I can say that again.
You know, it was a permanent system for me.
based on the months of preparation, a very, I can say that in constipation, corresponding to the flow.
I already have, apparently, I can copy things on the media.
We, uh, I shall meet with Senator, not the Secretary-General of Russia.
And, uh, I know that we have a major hoopla, which could be the first person on our agenda in the world.
So, let's not, you know, rather go further than bring anything to the table.
And, you know, the idea of... See, we're going to have a lot of...
I can confidently... Based on the months of...
Preparation... Consecration...
Correspondence...
I've already had...
I can confidently say that...
We're going to have a lot of agreement trade, agreement trade, trade.
I think you got it.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
I don't want to emphasize temporary so much, but I think it is the name of the tree that will follow on a program that has worked strong.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure.
I don't want to emphasize temporary so much, but I think it is an issue that the Congress can do.
I appreciate everybody's interest.
Follow-up on a program that works strong.
Here's what I would do.
We've got the paper.
I would do this.
I hear from you.
We're going to get a better approach to this.
Before we're going to particularly zero in on the main three, we're going to get a better approach to this.
Okay, both guys, step to this way.
Yes, yes.
And we'll fiddle around.
Here's what I have to do.
Here's what the Congress can do.
Okay.
I think inflation is everybody's business.
Because I've got so many things to do in my life.
I don't know what I'm going to do because the car is a crazy problem.
But I really got to spend the first two hours of the day in the car to do it.
I hear from people too.
I'm going to get a witness at 5 o'clock in the morning.
By that time, if I will, I'll be done having to run around with a shelter.
And we'll fiddle around.
This is like August 15th, which is a very different day.
Why don't we say 10?
There's one that may not be.
Just to kind of show you a little bit of time there, because I got stuff done for a 90-day group, 90-day school, everything.
I mean, I spent the first two hours of the day kind of clocking in for that time that I was.
That happened to be running around in the shelter.
So, yeah.
I'm here again.
I'm here again.
I'm here again.
I'm here again.
I'm here again.
I'm here again.
I'm here again.
We have unprecedented movement
But the problem with all the easy answers
That's a good question.
How do we .
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But the problem with all of these candidates is that they are dangerous to us right now.
We're in a recession.
We're not going to solve the problem.
The right thing to do is to keep the group going.
Thank you.
That's a good one.
That's a good one.
That's a good one.
That's a good one.
That's a good one.
Thank you.
And they're slugs.
They're good, right?
They're good.
They're slugs.
There's no way.
I'm the devil's controller.
And there's slugs.
Red gold is the slugs.
My interest is to hear what people are willing to pay.
Shut up.
There's no way.
I'm a devil in control.
Strawberries at one time of the year at one time of the year at one time of the year at one time of the year at one time of the year
Bastard.
$0.50 a year.
You're a $3.00.
Bastard.
You're a $3.00 a year.
You're a $3.00 a year.
You're a $3.00 a year.
You're a $3.00 a year.
You're a $3.00 a year.
You're a $3.00 a year.
You're a $3.00 a year.
You can't do this old stuff.
Nobody goes up and down here in the market.
You've got to have a strong market.
You've got to have a strong market.
It goes up and down here in the market.
It's a great team of people.
Strong people come here.
You've got to have a strong market.
You've got to have a strong market.
You've got to have a strong market.
You've got to have a strong market.
You've got to have a strong market.
sell or not sell.
Farmers and plants are not as likely to sell as they should, that's what I wish they would tell us, but not sell.
And the problem is prices have gone up as they should, that's what I wish they would tell us.
We still eat all the food in LA at the present time, even with all of our problems.
There's no place in the world like those in Honduras.
goes to food, and for a smaller percentage of persons, it goes to food.
And in our country, we don't have any agriculture, but any country in the world, there is no way it's a case of deciding who is the best in the world, for a smaller percentage of people, it goes to food.
And we all think that it's a little bit of a country game in America.
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That's another thing.
The supermarket.
That's another thing.
In the supermarket, you know, a group of people who cover the cost of bread, a bread company, that would reduce the cost of bread, actually, as far as you can count, by one tenth of a cent.
You know, a group of people who cover the cost of bread, a bread company, that would reduce the cost of bread by one tenth of a cent.
You know, a group of people who cover the cost of bread,
Thank you.
All right.
I wouldn't think of it.
I wouldn't think of it.
I wouldn't think of it.
It was a hell of a hell.
It was a hell of a hell.
It was a lie.
It was a lie.
It was a lie.
I don't mean it.
I don't mean it.
I don't mean it.
I don't mean it.
That's what we're paying for.
That's what we're paying for.
And we're paying for things from all over the country and all over.
And we're paying for things from all over the country and all over the world.
These things are out there.
We're paying for things from all over the country and all over the world.
These things are out there.
We're paying for things from all over the country and all over the world.
These things are out there.
We're paying for things from all over the country and all over the world.
These things are out there.
Do you expect to go to the supermarket in December and get summer squash?
Do you expect to go to the supermarket in December and get summer squash?
All right.
Do you expect to ship?
Do you go to the supermarket in December and get summer squash?
Oh, shit.
Look at that map.
Look at the United States, how small it is.
Look at the map.
Look at the United States, how small it is.
Look at the United States, how small it is.
Look at the United States, how small it is.
I'm sorry.
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This is like the 3-0 value.
It's going to float like the net, kind of like a rope.
This is like the 3-0 value.
This is like the 3-0 value.
Thank you.
We want to go ahead with those.
We want to go ahead with those seven radio speeches.
Seven radio speeches.
I'm going to do it in a second.
I'm going to do it in a second.
One should be in the air.
One should be in the air.
One should be in the air.
Things like Christ, et cetera.
Things like Christ, et cetera.
There you go.
There you go.
There you go.
There you go.
There you go.
Where do you plan your schedule?
Impressions may not go as scary as security.
Impressions may not go as scary as security.
3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11,
See you out there again.
See you out there again.
You should plan to be there wherever I am.
You should plan to be there.
Wherever I am, that's where you're coming from.
Thank you.
I love it.
I love it.
I love it.
No, we're going to do, uh, I think we said Sacramento, and we started on it, but, uh, most of us, when we had the apartments, uh, we decided we wanted to stay there.
Yeah.
Sacramento is bad, I think, because of the people, uh, they love us.
Yeah.
They're close, yeah.
But if you're wrong, you're wrong.
We were, wasn't it?
We had those apartments in the south, didn't we?
Yeah.
We had a partnership.
Yeah.
Well, we'll see what happens, uh, but, uh, we're having to work on combinations out there.
We'll see what happens.
Uh, we'll see what happens.
We'll see what happens.
We'll see what happens.
Uh, we, we, we used to have only one diaper, and we used to have three.
Good night.
Good morning.
Well, of course.
July.
July, August, September.
Good night.
Good night.
Good night.
Good night.
Good night.
Good night.
I don't want to get into too much talk today.
I don't want to get into too much talk today.
I don't want to get into too much talk today.
I don't want to get into too much talk today.
I think the bird is doing a lot of work.
First, that's what we need to do.
I guess you probably want to see yourself a little...
I don't want to be tied in on this at all, but I might have to do something very important for the policy here.
But we need this energy.
I don't want to be a situation where I don't need the energy.
Then we'll be silent because there's an island shot.
Don't get it.
Don't get it.
You're asking me that.
Don't get it.
I'm not ready.
I'm not ready.
I'm not ready.
I'm not ready.
I'm not ready.
I'm not ready.
I'm not ready.
I'm not ready.
Yeah.
He, as you know, was totally unscripturalist.
Basically, he didn't know what to do.
He was right.
He was right.
He was right.
He was right.
He was right.
He was right.
Yeah, I worked it out today.
I never was.
Hello.
And he never comes into the office except that.
Why am I asking for some bad things?
You know, you must work on listening, or you want to make us play a bigger role.
Listen to that, but you never want to just work at it.
And, uh, you never come home and say, what can I do?
You know, really, what do you mean?
The whole thing is all head over heels.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know what he was doing, but I'm afraid, actually, he was really bad on purpose.
I mean, he was really bad on purpose.
I mean, he was really bad on purpose.
I mean, he was really bad on purpose.
I mean, he was really bad on purpose.
The way you do it is to just work with K-1, Federal Street, and John Brown, and eventually it comes out.
Wow, isn't that lovely?
That's what it is.
That's what it is.
We're an energy man, we're a virus man, we're a human being, we're a human being.
We're a human being.
We're a human being.
We're a human being.
We're a human being.
We're a human being.
We're a human being.
We're a human being.
We're a human being.
We're a human being.
We're a human being.
There's a lot of good people.
Tate, Blair, Harvey.
There's a lot of good people.
There's a lot of good people.
All right.
He doesn't have any oil on his hands.
He's wearing oil where it's living.
See, he's considered to be so impeccably hot.
So he has long hair, but not long hair.
Hello.
I guess, uh, I'm sitting here talking to Ray.
It's coming off very well.
Uh, he threw out a name here that, uh, Wade must be able to, uh, to, uh,
You know, it might take a little bit of strength on the energy thing.
I just think about that a lot.
Strength is a very capable electrician if you put in something called ideology on the car.
But, you know, he knows all the big shots.
He's a very good electrician.
He's only 10 pounds.
Well, you see, the point is that if we bring
It would be a great thing for the administration.
But he'd be willing, because as governor, he was a superb governor.
You know, a tough administrator than anything else in the United States.
He was a strong old wife who practically wrote them.
It was a disaster.
So, but why don't you think about that a little bit, because, you know, it's difficult.
Sometimes rather than thinking of being an oil man, electrician man, something like that, getting a man who's from the outside who comes in, and then he can take it to bone and leather and see if it works.
Yeah.
All right.
This is an enormous challenge.
A great challenge.
Yeah.
Why don't you give him a call?
All right.
The way great decisions are made, now is the time to work on it and make the right decisions.
So you ought to be in a good position.
You can't sit up there.
I think he could be able to do the right thing.
But, beyond that, I'm worried that he can't have a great, a real positive illustration for all of us.
He's a good man to have around.
And he's known as a Mr. Thing.
He's a good man to have around the place.
But for other things too, we don't know.
Impressive, isn't it?
Steel and oil companies and nuclear companies and coal companies.
That's the problem, right?
It envelopes all the big shots, basically, you know, the oil, the ground, the earth, the ground, the earth, the ground.
And there is, you know, the cool ground, of course, where it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know,
This is almost any text from the system.
Oh.
Good luck.
Don't work too late.
So we'll do our thing, huh?
We'll do here.
Oh, I just got the line.
Just a couple hours.
Could have asked you to be at 9 o'clock.
Good.
Thank you.
Thank you.
At least it isn't as hard as April 30th.
Not really.
We've got it.
This is positive.
This is positive.
This is positive.
It's probably harder than I thought it would be.