Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 509-004
Date: Thursday, June 3, 1971 at 9:54 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Bull, Stephen B.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/509-004

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[0:00] Military command lined up.
[0:20] Corinne Griffith is in town.
[0:21] Do you want her to come by for a second before you go out to them boys' choir business this morning?
[0:27] No, it's no big deal.
[0:45] You asked about whether there were any news coming.
[0:50] The employment and wholesale price index is a book we have tomorrow.
[0:54] And the unemployment will be bad.
[0:56] of being increased because of the increase in the labor market.
[1:02] And the number of employees will go up by a quarter of a million.
[1:04] But the number in the labor market goes up by more than that.
[1:08] So the percent is 6.1 or 2.
[1:10] I'm not sure.
[1:11] They don't have the figure for sure.
[1:13] Wholesale price index, I don't know whether it would be good or bad for that reason.
[1:19] Being able to do that afterwards, it might be a good idea to have the .
[1:38] President Morton has his press conference scheduled on national energy policy, which he will have .
[1:42] I'm going to fly right in the face of it.
[1:44] I mean, I'm after your news conference.
[1:46] You ought to do the year 10 and 11.
[1:51] idea going on in this conference.
[2:02] And then they ask about the economy.
[2:14] And this bill, you see there's just a vetoed bill.
[2:15] And the final figure comes out.
[2:15] I'm just thinking of the parlay.
[2:16] Yeah.
[2:16] Well, then the final figure is going to be the final one tonight.
[2:18] For me to override that in my vision.
[2:19] Yeah, that's the problem.
[2:25] That's the very thing.
[2:33] The president talking about bad news is a good thing.
[2:36] That's my real point.
[2:39] That hypers it even more and that commentators talk about bad news.
[2:42] That's really what I'm getting at.
[2:43] And I don't see any way that they will play that except
[2:46] I mean, they're going to give that the lead.
[2:53] I don't care what other damn issue they cover.
[2:55] I mean, it has to have a lot of revenue sharing.
[2:59] Unless they don't announce that until afterwards, then it has to run as a different story than the press conference, sir.
[3:02] Well, they usually announce it, sir.
[3:02] I guess so.
[3:03] That's the problem I see with it, sir.