Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 706-006
Date: Tuesday, April 11, 1972 at 5:05 PM
Participants: United States Secret Service agents; Sanchez, Manolo
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/706-006

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[5:14:01] Now, I leave the impression that that's a bunch of welfare workers.
[5:14:04] But that's not completely true either.
[5:14:08] I said, many of them were entering the labor force for the first time.
[5:14:11] Let's take the other side of the picture.
[5:14:12] Last month, we had found jobs for 620,000 new people.
[5:14:18] That's the second biggest month since 1900.
[5:14:21] That is the biggest month since 1967.
[5:14:25] We employed more people last month than we have in any month since 1967.
[5:14:30] There's a total of 81,200,000 people employed in the United States.
[5:14:35] I said, yes, we're not happy with the unemployed, but let's look at it in the perspective of where we are.
[5:14:40] The truth of the matter is that more young people want to work, more lives want to work, and we're going to have it.
[5:14:45] We're having a great social change in this country.
[5:14:47] That's right.