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Conversation 450-024

TapeTape 450StartWednesday, February 17, 1971 at 5:53 PMEndWednesday, February 17, 1971 at 5:59 PMTape start time04:18:09Tape end time04:21:46ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Chapin, Dwight L.Recording deviceOval Office
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On February 17, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Dwight L. Chapin met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:53 pm to 5:59 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 450-024 of the White House Tapes.

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Conversation No. 450-24

Date: February 17, 1971
Time: 5:53 pm - 5:59 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Dwight L. Chapin
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Chapin left at 5:59 pm
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They all play in the farm mode, and it has a hell of an effect in Ohio, and Indiana, and Illinois, and the rest of Minnesota, you know.
Staff-wise, I think the thing we should do is take quicker, with the devoid of an inordinate amount of his time in the environmental thing, and ask him to put at least half his time on the problems of rural, state, and central demand, and understand that he's done things for the outcome here.
So that he will work with Dole on developing a program.
And hopefully by the time you're ready to drive, I can read four weeks.
Four weeks.
I want to be sure that that business is on a waiting price.
Of course, yep.
I'm sure that's getting around.
Oh yeah, that's very thorough, that's what it is to me, because I know a lot of the houses building here.
I think.
They're reacting to the enormous pressures for wasting price controls for businessmen.
They're not very strong men, except for Stein.
Stein has to see for this.
I don't know.
I have no idea.
My thought is that... John?
High-density work.
I really don't know how that, although they, they, we've got the construction thing right out there, and I think it was Fidderi Virtual Sustainability Center.
Do you hear what I said?
Yeah.
There's high wages, low cost.
We're going to do something.
Those guys get scared.
Well, they're scared already because of the scary one.
Leaking down there, you know, with this harder dog that went down.
But the only reason that I approached them is, the reason we did the research on it, is that we want to be able to look at every possible accident.
Everything from doing nothing to doing the most extreme thing.
And so it's somewhere in that spectrum.
But as I say, it just came in today.
Okay.
And we haven't had a chance to vet it out at any point.
And you may not ever hear any more about it.
George doesn't think well of it, and Jim Hodges doesn't think well of it.
Why?
I don't know if I can talk to them when I get through here.
We've got to figure out our way.
The nation problem is that
If you realize that, we just have to, and if you don't like it, we just have to keep the... Oh, sure.
What about with the need from the mayors of the county people, we'll begin to leave the town in a matter of three or four weeks, and it's pretty mean, you know.
So we just have to keep everybody fluid, right?
That's right.
They're going to look around.
They're going to look around.
So you've got a spoke briefly, and then you hit the way out, and then you go to this side, and you know, the trick there is just to get on and get off at this point, and then you start to stammer, and then you turn to the right, and then you want to pull it from the side.
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