Watergate Trial Conversations Page #5

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be done anyhow.

PRESIDENT:
Oh, what I mean isn't that what we decided

that, and that was all we could do.

UNIDENTIFIED:
Yeah.

SHULTZ:
The higher you raise the price, the more

certain it is that you have to be strict

about the imports, otherwise, all we're

doing is paying the money to the foreigners.

UNIDENTIFIED:
Yeah.

SHULTZ:
You have to make a judgment on the import

business.

UNIDENTIFIED:
Yeah.

PRESIDENT:
Uh, I see your

SHULTZ:
See that high price here throughout the

PRESIDENT:
Uh, uh

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voices]

UNIDENTIFIED:
Yeah. Uh.

UNIDENTIFIED:
[Unintelligible]

PRESIDENT:
like high interest rates.

UNIDENTIFIED:
That's right.

UNIDENTIFIED:
[Unintelligible]. Yeah.

PRESIDENT:
Well, it's one of those things where with

all you experts sitting around where you

have to make a political judgment. My

political judgment is that the Congress is

going to pass it. I could not veto it. Not

because they're milk producers, but because

they're farmers. And it would be just

turning down the whole damn middle America.

Uh, where, uh, we, uh, where we, uh, need

support. And under the circumstances, I

think the best thing to do is to just, uh,

relax and enjoy it.

UNIDENTIFIED:
The legal --

CONNALLY:
Mr. President, trade for both years, if you

do it. Trade for this year and next year,

if you possibly can.

PRESIDENT:
With these people?

CONNALLY:
Yes, sir.

PRESIDENT:
Well,

CONNALLY:
Yes, sir.

PRESIDENT:
can that be done? I, uh, that's what I, uh

CONNALLY:
Yes, sir.

PRESIDENT:
That would be great.

CONNALLY:
Yes, sir.

EHRLICHMAN:
If you could make a deal for the two years

CONNALLY:
Yes, sir. It can be done.

HARDIN:
They will do that.

UNIDENTIFIED:
You bet.

CONNALLY:
Won't they Phil?

CAMPBELL:
Yes.

UNIDENTIFIED:
Yeah, I would

UNIDENTIFIED:
Well, I would say the price is stable.

PRESIDENT:
Yes, that's correct.

UNIDENTIFIED:
Yeah.

HARDIN:
The other thing Mr. President, so they're

not asking

UNIDENTIFIED:
And, uh

HARDIN:
that, uh, on grounds that it would be just

hard to answer. These fellows have a

tendency to say, "Well, now look, uh, look

at the construction industry. Look at

Labor. Uh, and then why be so chintzy with

us? Uh, all, all evidence is our costs keep

rising, and that we're under the freeze,

and, uh, you take it out on us not, not the

people who are really causing the problem."

And, this is hard to answer, uh, when it's a

challenge put that way --

CAMPBELL:
Well I think we can settle for a

UNIDENTIFIED:
We've got this other considPRESIDENT:

All right, make the best deal you can.

UNIDENTIFIED:
Yeah.

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