On December 2, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Earl L. Butz, Harry A. Blackmun, William P. Rogers, George D. Aiken, Lawton M. Chiles, Jr., Robert J. Dole, James O. Eastland, Robert P. Griffin, Jack R. Miller, Wiley Mayne, Graham Purcell, Martin Sorkin, J. Philip Campbell, Clarence D. Palmby, Richard E. Lyng, Thomas K. Cowden, Ned Bayley, Frank Elliott, Claude W. Gifford, Fritz Behren, James E. Smith, David A. Hamil, Ervin Peterson, Don Brock, Sally Bloom, Martha Lord, Frederic V. Malek, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Clark MacGregor, John E. Nidecker, William E. Timmons, John C. Whitaker, Alexander P. Butterfield, White House photographer, and members of the press met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:15 pm to 5:35 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 628-019 of the White House Tapes.
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Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, it has been an honor to be with all the guys here today for the first time in a long time.
Thank you very much.
I look forward to working with you all in the future.
I don't have the opportunity to report it to you.
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I was there a few days, and then I was asked to say, you know, did I take this opportunity to speak to the CIA, you know, without any kind of a reservation, without any matter of what I did, more than perfect, I say, or better, I say,
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I can always say, however, a man who goes before the Senate has a number of senators who are strong before him and others who, with conviction, are against him.
As a man, he has to provide for those people who come down to be called to the president.
Well, uh, I mentioned this the other night.
I believe he is as well qualified for this position as any man who's ever helped.
But there's another reason why he's here.
And that is,
As a matter of fact, I think he has something to say tomorrow.
I believe that you deserve not only agriculture, but well-being.
And for most years, you've accomplished that.
And I believe that you deserve the same.
where we realize that there is a very useful purpose to pick up the breathing food for a man's hand.
A man, a girl, a husband, could have saved his life, could have had a stronger life, could have had a second marriage, could have had a husband, could have had a wife, could have had a husband, could have had a child.
Well, you did not make a good choice.
Now I'd like to have a senior member of the...
And this is Secretary of State at East Bay over at 2 o'clock.
Your new columnist, Bill.
So on your way, please.
You're going to be welcome.
That's very nice of you.
I don't know what you want to say to people who are watching.
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I don't know what you want to say.
I don't know what you want to say.
And, uh, I know you don't see it in any way, but, uh, I know that, uh, you know, the presence, uh, the presence of, you know, and those of us who have spent the night and hour working with you, we've got a very positive experience with that.
Now, if I might intrude on any doubt that all of you have gathered, let me say to you with surprise, I'm way beyond your imagination.
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It's a real great system of excellence in America.
It is first of all a place of food.
We produce our food in a country that is only 5% of our working population on the farms of America.
Better than the 99% that makes everything else in this place so wonderful in America.
and we are moving to the American consumer for only 16 and a half percent of its exploitable income.
We don't like to tell it, only to tell the truth.
People get their food from the United States, but that's not a quality, and that's not a low price.
So all that's present in our farmers don't need to make it up for us.
Our greatest benefit to us is that we already know that climate is not a bad thing for people to get food from.
So how do we do that?
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We want to use our agricultural plants to serve the well-being of our people.
Eat well, and do well, and live well, and we have a generation to thank you.
I just met with a group of farm editors and I said, I take part in prizes with you all.
And then I said, man, all the partners came through.
One of them came through, and he said, he was an officer.
He said, I like low cars.
He raised the price of cars, and he said, I'm going to go with an expensive car.
He said, I don't know.
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