Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 500-008
Date: Tuesday, May 18, 1971 at 9:34 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Rogers, William P.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/500-008

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[0:10] The way we work, you know, I just had, I hope you probably assumed you get the same question, but they brought up a bias amendment this morning.
[0:28] And I said, oh, the whole idea of reporting every six months and so forth, I said, we just can't take it.
[0:30] But of course, these guys are all looking for something to vote for.
[0:33] And there really isn't anything we can give them, is there?
[1:04] The other thing is that we report all the negotiations every six months to the Congress.
[1:08] If you're going to have successful negotiations, you can't report to anybody.
[1:13] You're reporting, you know, well, we've negotiated and so forth.
[1:16] We lay all the negotiations out.
[1:17] Who the hell's going to negotiate with us if they know everything's going to be out on the table?
[1:31] At least... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[1:34] I've got to go over now to do some legislators.
[1:46] That's about it.
[1:47] I'm about to postpone our meeting tomorrow because I've got to...
[1:52] They have 150 state legislators in here for purposes of revenue sharing.
[1:55] I've got to go over it again.
[1:56] So I'll probably get touchy around them.
[1:56] We'll work out a time tomorrow to get together.
[1:57] Or maybe later this afternoon.
[2:00] Yeah, fine, fine.
[2:02] tomorrow morning at around 10, 30, or 11, probably be a good time, but I'll let you know.
[2:09] But on this thing, I think the line, can we, the line I took was that I have yet to see any compromise we could accept.
[2:14] Is that the line you took with these people?
[2:21] And that we can't take.
[2:23] Do you agree on that?
[2:26] The question is what the last minute
[2:29] I don't know what it is, but the sense of the sun.
[2:46] He's really going now.
[2:47] All right, okay.