Watergate Trial Conversations Page #4

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that's the way they'll cut the liberals off.

They'll say: No, they're going to -- we

guarantee, we won't -- like they told us

this morning, we won't raise the price;

we'll cut back on production -- we'll have a

voluntary --

HARDIN:
Uh, I spoke, I spoke a little bit with them,

this morning, uh, but 1 just don't quite know --

UNIDENTIFIED:
[Unintelligible]

CONNALLY:
Now they've already figured out and how --

They're circulating -- I've had it for days

they're circulating how they're going to cut

you up this year. And that's what they're

going to do. They got it all figured out.

They're passing this out on the Hill, just

exactly how many electoral votes they're

going to cost you if you veto the 85% bill -

- which they think they're going to pass.

And I think they're going to pass it. And

they say that it'll cost you Missouri,

Wisconsin, South Dakota for sure. Veto will

probably cost you Ohio, Kentucky and Iowa.

And, then they go on down and they take the

states and they figure what percentage of

the states it's going to cost you and

they're going to [unintelligible]

HARDIN:
Well, if it does pass, I don't think the

President has any choice but to sign it.

PRESIDENT:
Well-, all right.

CONNALLY:
Well, then, what do you do? If you do,

you've cost yourself the money -- you've

lost your political advantage. You, you're,

you're infinitely worse off.

PRESIDENT:
Probably.

CONNALLY:
That's where you are.

HARDIN:
I think so.

PRESIDENT:
What's the cost?

HARDIN:
Oh, it's just a wild guess. They said

thirty-five million and I would suggest that

it's, uh, nearer a hundred.

PRESIDENT:
You would?

HARDIN:
Now if they could get, if they need to we

had a little talk after you left and

UNIDENTIFIED:
Right.

HARDIN:
uh, about whether they really could

influence production. And they could, if

they went all out to do it. And what they

would do, a year from now, would be end up

with a hundred and twenty million -- billion

pounds of milk produced. Uh, they'd be a

mature enough organization that they could,

uh, recognize that they had made a mistake

and could go out and tell their members they

had to survive. Uh, well, they're -- maybe

we won't talk about that. Uh, it's a fact

of life. Uh

PRESIDENT:
Uh, it seems to me that the problem we have,

Cliff, is this. That, uh, and as you know

we have decided on a different course of

action in the cheese business and all the

other --

HARDIN:
Well that has to be done. That has, has to

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