Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 445-020
Date: Wednesday, June 13, 1973 at 3:22 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Price, Raymond K., Jr.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/445-020

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[0:01] I command it.
[0:25] Well, how's it going?
[0:25] Well, that's all right, sir.
[0:26] I'm sorry, I'm supposed to sign off, don't I?
[0:27] Sign off.
[0:27] Is that me?
[0:27] Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
[0:46] Did not find it.
[1:08] On page two.
[1:08] And then they described the app.
[1:09] And then, translate your money right from your email address.
[1:10] You're supposed to throw in the four extra weeks paid.
[1:11] Did we say expense-wise?
[1:23] In the past year.
[1:45] In the past year?
[1:46] In the past year, 18 months.
[1:46] In the past year and a half.
[1:47] You see what I want to do is to nail it down.
[2:48] Right.
[3:15] Paid at the supermarket today.
[3:15] I don't know what that is.
[3:16] Paracetamol.
[3:16] Paracetamol.
[3:23] Back row.
[3:51] Back row.
[3:51] Very good job, Ray.
[3:52] I don't need anything now until approximately 5.
[4:18] Or, 5 in terms of the, this is 330.
[4:20] Even if you could get a few pages typed and re-copied by, say, four of them, it would be helpful, you know, like that.
[4:40] Then it would spend a half hour before you can get the party done.
[4:42] Just, you know, several of those over here.
[4:43] Whack off, you know, half of those pages for re-copying.
[4:44] And then the whole re-copy by five, you know, sort of like, you know, five to five.
[4:52] But I'd better have my, I'd certainly better, because I kind of mark up the rest of it when I get through the correctional, which is an hour, I'm afraid.
[5:13] And I'll only really have an hour, because I'm going to work my way through it, and I'm going to get a few days over, and I can have an hour to help my life and change my situation a little bit.
[5:21] I want you to go down the line and see if there is something required.
[5:48] Oh, just forget that.
[6:07] Just have her, or if you have her, type that darn thing off, you know, after there's so few changes.
[6:09] Have her type it off, and then send in the extra pages as changes, you know.
[6:11] Fair enough.
[6:11] I'm coming to whack it off the other years when she can.
[6:12] All right.
[6:13] So just in case you're not looking at all that furniture here in the red, would you just forward it to me?
[6:15] We can't support that technically because in every Kelvin year there was a period of three years, the draft was held for all except one year.
[6:38] We're going to save for a generation.
[6:39] Good, good, good.
[6:39] Somebody told me to save for a generation.
[6:40] That sounds good.
[6:41] We've got making progress with Scranton coming down tomorrow.
[6:58] Good, good.
[6:58] We'll see Dave.
[6:58] We're going to wrestle with him a little bit.
[6:59] I'll work on his apartment.
[7:00] We're going to announce Carlos tomorrow.
[7:01] We'll be getting him.
[7:01] Carlos is on Scranton Saturday.
[7:02] We'll have the team finished.
[7:02] It's going to be a good game.
[7:04] The one guy who would do a marvelous job.
[7:19] I think he would.
[7:19] I would.
[7:19] He would put his team, you know, away for a long time.
[7:20] He just worked like they did.
[7:21] Everybody would trust him.
[7:22] And he also had the plus of all the other people who have grown up, of course, have been former insiders.
[7:24] He'll be the outsider.
[7:24] That's right.
[7:26] Good.
[7:28] That's a very good job.
[7:33] It's a lousy program and a darn good speech.
[7:36] Okay?
[7:36] It's not a bad program, actually.
[7:38] It had to be done, you know.
[7:40] And you know, I ran two eggs on the thing because Schultz and Stein got awkward.
[7:46] Just wanted to go ahead with the way things were, but you just can't allow 2% increase in the cost of living in one month and not do something about it.
[7:53] Don't you think so?
[7:54] I mean, clearly apart from the economic consequences, the country, this government, they don't let you care.
[8:14] The 60 days, man, basically is a way to say, well, we care.
[8:15] It's a way to, the old story, you know, they said, well, we're just going to sell our president for a better, you know, nothing.
[8:18] This old story, the Quakers, you know, everybody's talking about, you know, about, you know, a man out there beating the hell out of a jackass in a great big club over their head.
[8:21] Why doesn't he talk to him?
[8:22] Man, I'm trying to get his attention.
[8:23] Well, the Congress is going to pass this cup hell or high water.
[8:47] They would put us in a much worse program.
[9:02] And what is this?
[9:19] We shall consult with other countries.
[9:21] See?
[9:21] Their cooperation.
[9:21] All right.
[9:21] That's all right.
[9:22] I don't mind the consequences.
[9:22] It'll make them happy if we won't do it.
[9:23] Well, of course it will, but you know what I mean.
[9:24] The country's got to hear the word on something.
[9:25] All right.
[9:26] Make the second shift.