Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 781-026
Date: Monday, September 18, 1972 at 1:12 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ehrlichman, John D.
Recording device: Oval Office
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/781-026

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[0:01] I don't see it in the game.
[0:31] I think most people in the welfare period, anything that seems to offer more, 24 to 26 years, that even sounds like
[1:10] I couldn't agree more.
[1:13] In fact, if I had been asked earlier, I would have said, why the hell are we trying to get them in?
[1:21] Anyway, this idea that Republicans have a record
[1:40] He ran behind the Congress.
[1:42] He was.
[1:43] But now my situation is running far ahead of the Congress.
[1:48] The longer it stays in, the lighter it will be.
[2:02] Yeah.
[2:03] Well, I'll tell you what I'm for.
[2:04] I can't get the right kind of a bill out of this Congress.
[2:13] I need to know what our public, what we want to tell the public.
[2:21] That's what I need to tell Scott Leake, what we say privately.
[2:25] So what do you, do you want to repeat it at 8 o'clock?
[2:31] Perhaps you want to, you can tell me sometime this afternoon.
[2:36] Maybe after we meet with Elliot, you stay on.
[2:44] Yes, I ran a problem device so that you could get the feel for what these people really thought about what they should know.
[2:51] And we can go to that time.
[2:54] As a matter of fact, what I'll try to do, what I think I'd rather do, since I can't vote least directly, is to throw the ball to you and you rule over the damn things.
[3:05] Could you do that for me?
[3:07] Now, the only other thing is that we have nine.
[3:10] I've already talked to Alex about this.
[3:13] And I was wondering if it might be useful to have, hey, I don't know, is the LaBelle hearing or something, is there anything affordable to see people coming out there?
[3:25] Yeah.
[3:26] Yeah.
[3:27] What do you want to do with the records?