Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 628-019
Date: Thursday, December 2, 1971 at 5:15 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butz, Earl L.; Blackmun, Harry A.; Rogers, William P.; Aiken, George D.; Chiles, Lawton M., Jr.; Dole, Robert J.; Eastland, James O.; Griffin, Robert P.; Miller, Jack R.; Mayne, Wiley; Purcell, Graham; Sorkin, Martin; Campbell, J. Philip; Palmby, Clarence D.; Lyng, Richard E.; Cowden, Thomas K.; Bayley, Ned; Elliott, Frank; Gifford, Claude W.; Behren, Fritz; Smith, James E.; Hamil, David A.; Peterson, Ervin; Brock, Don; Bloom, Sally; Lord, Martha; Malek, Frederic V.; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); MacGregor, Clark; Nidecker, John E.; Timmons, William E.; Whitaker, John C.; Butterfield, Alexander P.; White House photographer
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/628-019

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[0:01] Thank you for watching.
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[3:43] the the the
[4:50] I don't know.
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[5:06] 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.
[5:16] Thank you very much.
[5:17] I look forward to working with you all in the future.
[5:22] I don't have the opportunity to report it to you.
[5:38] I'm
[6:05] 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,
[6:29] Well,
[7:13] Thank you for watching.
[7:34] 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.
[7:47] As a man, he has to provide for those people who come down to be called to the president.
[7:56] Well, uh, I mentioned this the other night.
[8:19] I believe he is as well qualified for this position as any man who's ever helped.
[8:27] But there's another reason why he's here.
[8:33] And that is,
[8:40] As a matter of fact, I think he has something to say tomorrow.
[9:01] I believe that you deserve not only agriculture, but well-being.
[9:06] And for most years, you've accomplished that.
[9:10] And I believe that you deserve the same.
[9:22] where we realize that there is a very useful purpose to pick up the breathing food for a man's hand.
[9:30] 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.
[9:58] Well, you did not make a good choice.
[10:28] Now I'd like to have a senior member of the...
[10:44] And this is Secretary of State at East Bay over at 2 o'clock.
[10:48] Your new columnist, Bill.
[10:50] So on your way, please.
[10:52] You're going to be welcome.
[10:53] That's very nice of you.
[10:54] I don't know what you want to say to people who are watching.
[10:58] Sorry.
[10:58] I don't know what you want to say.
[11:01] I don't know what you want to say.
[11:06] 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.
[11:31] 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.
[12:14] Thank you.
[12:35] uh...
[13:27] All right, we got you.
[13:55] It's a real great system of excellence in America.
[13:59] It is first of all a place of food.
[14:01] We produce our food in a country that is only 5% of our working population on the farms of America.
[14:07] Better than the 99% that makes everything else in this place so wonderful in America.
[14:14] and we are moving to the American consumer for only 16 and a half percent of its exploitable income.
[14:20] We don't like to tell it, only to tell the truth.
[14:23] People get their food from the United States, but that's not a quality, and that's not a low price.
[14:28] So all that's present in our farmers don't need to make it up for us.
[14:32] Our greatest benefit to us is that we already know that climate is not a bad thing for people to get food from.
[14:37] So how do we do that?
[14:39] and i'm going to press papers
[15:00] friends all right
[15:27] We want to use our agricultural plants to serve the well-being of our people.
[15:36] Eat well, and do well, and live well, and we have a generation to thank you.
[15:53] I just met with a group of farm editors and I said, I take part in prizes with you all.
[16:12] And then I said, man, all the partners came through.
[16:14] One of them came through, and he said, he was an officer.
[16:19] He said, I like low cars.
[16:21] He raised the price of cars, and he said, I'm going to go with an expensive car.
[16:26] He said, I don't know.
[16:57] Thank you.
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[17:54] Thank you for watching.