Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 469-004
Date: Thursday, March 18, 1971 at 4:46 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Shultz, George P.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/469-004
National Archives Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417176223 (NAID 417176223)

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[0:00] Yeah.
[0:05] Yeah.
[0:09] Hello.
[0:11] Hi, Charlie.
[0:11] I thought you should know I'm going to see John Connolly at quarter to five.
[0:16] He's sitting at the top of the bar every day.
[0:19] So we'll do a little conniving, and then we'll talk in the morning about where we're going from there.
[0:21] But we won't make any decisions, but I just... John is pretty clever, if I heard what he's thinking.
[0:28] I called on the phone just now.
[0:46] I found that he was in a meeting.
[0:47] He couldn't talk, so maybe it was the meeting, too.
[0:48] And who's having it?
[0:48] Oh, boy.
[0:49] Oh, we're cracking it.
[0:57] It's a part of the problem, George, is there, you know, some of those folks are very best of intentions, you know.
[1:19] One of the part of things they don't know a hell of a lot about yet, you know what I mean?
[1:21] They know only bits and pieces of it.
[1:22] But, you know, around the end, around people, it's the same as part of the reason that Maury is sort of frustrated there in Congress.
[1:27] But at meetings held by loose investigation officers.
[1:40] Well, the best thing to do is to just find out directly from Sam what the codeine is on.
[1:48] That's the situation for the board of a crack.
[1:52] One last.
[1:55] I'll get a hold of him and ask Sam.
[2:05] That's the way to go.
[2:08] Yeah.
[2:09] Yeah, yeah.
[2:09] Well, one thing, of course, as you know, we've had before, now we're down pretty much in the quadrant, but we haven't been.
[2:13] That meeting of the Domestic Council was supposed to have a subcommittee on the, you know, on economics, but it has yet to meet, maybe for a while.
[2:23] Maybe that's what they're talking about now.
[2:24] Of course, that didn't include Arthur.
[2:31] Yeah, that's the way it, on the other hand, on the other hand, too, Hodgson should be in such a way.
[2:39] Remember, we had Hodgson's in the stands, we brought them home.
[2:42] Yeah.
[2:42] And Robinson said, what, that there were several meetings or one of these.
[2:59] Indeed.
[3:02] Power.
[3:06] Yeah.
[3:12] Yeah.
[3:14] We'll have to find out.
[3:14] We'll have to find out.
[3:16] Well, anyway, who's got his abridging on Samaritan crisis next tomorrow?
[3:28] I see.
[3:35] I see.
[3:35] Then have Hodgson ask, answer questions.
[3:38] No, I know him.
[3:38] Our friend over there.
[3:47] Gold sign.
[3:48] I think so.
[3:48] Put a statement out and then come over here.
[3:57] Well, this is also interesting.
[4:10] There.
[4:13] Well... Actually, you only have a couple of months.
[4:20] My view is in a couple of months, when I say that, March, April, by April 15, it will take a harder look at the money.
[4:32] If it should start to move, which it very well could, it could gallop ahead pretty good, couldn't it?
[4:44] That's right.
[4:44] Well, I have a concern, of course, that the economists quack, quack all they want to it.
[4:48] just so things continue to move upwards some.
[4:55] Now, we don't want to throw away the game plan just because of, let's say, one month, the month of February, right?
[5:09] I'm referring to the growth side.
[5:11] February's going to be down, and March is still out.
[5:14] The jury's still out on it.
[5:17] So about the 15th of April will be the time to do it.
[5:23] Okay.