Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 659-007
Date: Friday, January 28, 1972 at 1:21 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/659-007

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[2:48:58] They're going to do a lot of that.
[2:49:01] Thanks.
[2:49:01] You're going to be seeing a lot of magazine people tonight.
[2:49:05] We have Ted Klassen and the Post Office aboard on the postal subsidy for magazine postage.
[2:49:13] And that was going to be the hard place.
[2:49:16] So if Hope or
[2:49:19] or some of them raise the question with you.
[2:49:23] We think we've cleaned out the underbrush now.
[2:49:25] They will not oppose it.
[2:49:28] Hope and the magazine people should get their bill in, and we'll support it.
[2:49:34] And the post office is wheeled, and so it's... About the only people that I really want to pull back to the board is for Hope.
[2:49:43] Yeah, well, he's got a lot of company in this one.
[2:49:50] Then one small weekend was SST.
[2:49:53] You asked us to look into the possibility of getting some enthusiasm for SST on the Hill.
[2:49:59] And so I've had Magruder and some other people looking into it.
[2:50:03] Their advice is we not touch it until after the election.
[2:50:08] There's too many negatives in it right now, and probably not enough Congressmen to be willing to get behind it at this point, because they're all up this time.
[2:50:18] We're going to put Magruder to work selling their airplanes abroad.
[2:50:22] I remember Foy coming in and talking about how the State Department could block your stuff.
[2:50:34] The trick here is to crack the State Department.
[2:50:45] is pretty resourceful, and he's got a PR sense, and he'll surround them with league stories and all that kind of stuff.
[2:50:52] They don't think they should do it, but I agree.
[2:50:53] SSC has been a political issue.
[2:50:57] And I'll tell you one thing, it's got to be included the next time around.
[2:51:02] That's a prime second-term project.
[2:51:04] We've got to build it.
[2:51:06] We'll do it just like you wanted to move.
[2:51:08] Build the SSC.
[2:51:10] But...
[2:51:11] can still be done.
[2:51:12] I think so, because all the tools are there, the know-how is still there, and we own it, you know, so it can be done.
[2:51:24] Well, I have a good memory of my speech in St. Joe.
[2:51:27] You know, I'm out of Denver.
[2:51:28] I'm on the board of a charity that I've stayed on.
[2:51:31] It runs kids' camps.
[2:51:33] And once a year, I have to go there for a meeting in Rio.
[2:51:37] It was an awesome private errand.
[2:51:39] Denver's a nice place.
[2:51:41] It's snowing as the devil right now, I'm afraid.
[2:51:45] It really had a lot of snow on the West Coast.
[2:51:47] And Seattle had six-foot grits in their downtown area.
[2:51:51] This is all our other problems.
[2:51:52] It's horrifically unusual.
[2:51:54] Yeah, there's no place for the red lines.
[2:51:57] Well, good.
[2:51:57] I'll see you later, Ron.
[2:52:00] Ron, if you want to go to the canteen, we'll just go.
[2:52:02] Okay.
[2:52:02] Thank you.