
Watergate Trial Conversations
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- 1971
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(2.50 / 2 votes)MEETING AMONG PRESIDENT RICHARD M. NIXON,
JOHN B. CONNALLY, JOHN D. EHRLICHMAN, CLIFFORD
M. HARDIN, JOHN WHITAKER, GEORGE P. SHULTZ,
J. PHIL CAMPBELL, DONALD B. RICE ON MARCH 23,
1971 FROM 5:
05 TO 5:38 P.M. IN THE OVAL OFFICEPRESIDENT:
Hi, Phil, how are you?CAMPBELL:
Mr. President.PRESIDENT:
Sorry to keep you waiting.CAMPBELL:
That's all right.PRESIDENT:
I suggest that we sit over here everybody.More room and, uh -- [coughing] Sit down.
UNIDENTIFIED:
Yeah, this --UNIDENTIFIED:
But --UNIDENTIFIED:
Oh, that's all right.UNIDENTIFIED:
I had that Senator [unintelligible]UNIDENTIFIED:
Came in and got me nervous, uh, he --UNIDENTIFIED:
If he'll go with you, well, that's great.UNIDENTIFIED:
Very clever.UNIDENTIFIED:
Phil, uh, [unintelligible]PRESIDENT:
They're counting on Hubert.UNIDENTIFIED:
Concentrate on Hubert.PRESIDENT:
Hubert is supposed to have told Meany thatI, uh --
SHULTZ:
I don't know that you've met Don Rice, fromthe Office of Management and Budget.
PRESIDENT:
Yes.SHULTZ:
Don Rice.[Several [Unintelligible]
voices]
RICE:
How are you?SHULTZ:
I talked with Meany this afternoon about theSST.
PRESIDENT:
What'd he say?SHULTZ:
He said he was all out on it. If there wasanything we wanted him to do, he wanted to
do it. He'd be ready to do it. They --
PRESIDENT:
Well, could you ask him to, could you askhim, could you phone him back after this
meeting and ask him to call Hubert Humphrey,
with the understanding he, uh --
SHULTZ:
Yeah.PRESIDENT:
Hubert Humphrey has told everybody that hewas going to be for it. And he understood -
- only because Meany was for it.
SHULTZ:
That's right.PRESIDENT:
Because Labor was for it. And, now that weunderstand he's wavering in it, he 's
breaking. And that Hubert Humphrey's vote
may make the difference.
SHULTZ:
All right. I'll call him. He said he -- hehad been calling me and that he had quite a
few disappointments, he said. But, anyway,
I think we're working on it and we will
continue to work on it.
PRESIDENT:
And he, however, is apparently not doingmuch.
SHULTZ:
That's right.PRESIDENT:
Uh, uh, uh, well, we ought to review this,this situation with regard to milk. Now,
uh, John, would you express your views, uh,
to us all -- you expressed them to me this
morning. [Coughs] I had a [unintelligible]
you fellows heard their story today.
EHRLICHMAN:
It's dead. It's --CONNALLY:
Well, Mr. President, I don't -- I understandyou did meet with 'em -- But I don't want to
try to go back over the economics of it, uh,
I'm not --
PRESIDENT:
How about the politics? Can you --CONNALLY:
Uh, I'm not trying to talk about it ordiscuss at any great length the, the
economics of it, but as far as the politics
are concerned -- looking to 1972, it, uh, it
appears very clear to me that you're going
to have to move, uh, strong in the Midwest.
You're going to have to be strong in rural
America, uh, and particularly that part of
the country. Now, there are a lot of things
that you can't do, uh, with respect to
farmers. They're almost, uh, beyond help at
this point. Uh, they feel like they are.
They don't feel like anybody's trying to
help them. Uh, every time they turn around,
they hear somebody talking about, wanting to
increase imports on beef from Australia to,
to -- in behalf of the consumer. Hog prices
are down what, uh, fif--seventeen dollars
HARDIN:
[Unintelligible] dollars from twenty-nine.
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