Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 569-004
Date: Friday, September 10, 1971 at 12:14 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Connally, John B.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/569-004

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[51:24] Is this a new instruction?
[51:25] You can bring the lights all the way up.
[51:26] Is that a new instruction?
[51:26] I don't know.
[52:39] Yes, sir.
[52:39] I may be dreaming, but I just got the order to reset my screen.
[52:40] Let me ask you this.
[53:35] I'm thinking it's a political term.
[53:58] and that gives you the rights and the freedom to act.
[54:00] Now, on the other hand, the problem we've got is we've got the political problem that a lot of guys can build up a phony issue and just go right back.
[54:05] And we aren't thinking about it.
[54:06] We don't know what we're doing.
[54:07] Why did we announce that we're not going to go forward with it?
[54:10] Yes, sir.
[54:10] And even more of a lot of particular things.
[54:12] A lot of you are announcing yesterday that the Supreme Court is going to call that we've got to
[54:37] The building is now sufficiently advanced for the exploration waiting for us.
[54:39] And I think it's sufficiently advanced for us.
[54:40] And since it's sufficiently advanced, we've got to set a date.
[54:42] That's why I'm asking.
[54:42] I think you really have to set a time.
[54:43] I don't know.
[54:43] I don't know.
[54:44] I don't know.
[54:44] I don't know.
[55:17] We don't want to leave these people now.
[55:18] It's rude to raise prices, raise wages, make all these kinds of prices.
[55:55] But it's also to keep the American people convinced.
[55:56] The American people are, as I said at the last meeting, hell, their wage and price controls, period.
[55:59] And we've got to keep
[56:32] But it's got to be set again, and I think setting the date, that is a way of convincing people that there is something, and that's what I think.
[56:35] There's a magic in saying, on October 7th, we will announce it.
[56:37] I don't see anything wrong with it.
[56:38] I think we ought to put ourselves right on the hostage.
[56:39] I don't see anything wrong with it.
[56:40] We can certainly do it in time, and it has three advantages to announcing it precisely.
[56:43] The only thing I was able to think of, and that was, if we don't want to give these people who we're consulting next week,
[57:01] The idea that their future...
[57:27] All right.
[57:27] Thank you.