Watergate Trial Conversations Page #6

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UNIDENTIFIED:
But, uh --

HARDIN:
They're not so high, and so forth.

CONNALLY:
No, they're not their highest.

SHULTZ:
Same statement.

HARDIN:
There is kind of --

CONNALLY:
Oh, if they're falling some, George, my

[unintelligible] two or three

[unintelligible] do a study Agriculture

[unintelligible] study [unintelligible]

[Several

voices] [Unintelligible]

CONNALLY:
Um hm, cattle prices. It'll shock you. And

just remember when you talk about food

prices, now, and, and bleed for the

consumer, that today, food prices in the

United States are cheaper than they've ever

been in the history of this nation. In

terms of what it takes for, well, uh, hours

of work to feed a family. Sixteen percent.

That's the lowest in the history of the

world. And --

SHULTZ:
So that --

UNIDENTIFIED:
He's my favorite secretary [unintelligible]

[Laughter]

[Several

voices] [Unintelligible]

SHULTZ:
You might study the [unintelligible] crises

awhile. [Unintelligible] of all the things

that --

UNIDENTIFIED:
Where are they?

UNIDENTIFIED:
[Unintelligible]

PRESIDENT:
Well, we'll try to keep the cattlemen from

getting on our necks for the moment.

RICE:
We've got a, one loose end left on the, uh,

PRESIDENT:
Yeah.

RICE:
the rate,

PRESIDENT:
Uh huh.

RICE:
and it seems to be one other thing we are

going to have to do is coordinate the timing

of the announcement -- which we have to

make, uh, very closely with these contacts.

And ---

EHRLICHMAN:
Yeah. Well, right after this ---

RICE:
So that someone who is contacted doesn't---

EHRLICHMAN:
We'll coordinate that, Don. Uh, I think

we'll have to get the group together. Uh,

we'll have to get Colson and Bob Dole in

this, too. And, uh, so --

PRESIDENT:
Well, because Colson dealing with the, uh --

Well, in any event, I think you got a good

game plan. You, you'd, uh, you know that to

commit your, your friends and our friends

and so on, For political reasons you do, uh,

Mr. Mills and Mr., uh, [sigh] Albert. And

then, uh, I, uh, I understand Phil will get

the dairy people and make the -- and say,

"All right, you don't bug us next year."

UNIDENTIFIED:
That's right.

CAMPBELL- And you are going to do the same thing,

George, with the Speaker.

SHULTZ:
Yeah.

PRESIDENT:
All right.

SHULTZ:
What we're going to, is --

UNIDENTIFIED:
We're going to pressure this thing.

SHULTZ:
eighty-five percent of parity.

UNIDENTIFIED:
Pardon?

UNIDENTIFIED:
Is that right?

PRESIDENT:
It's eighty-five.

SHULTZ:
We're not suddenly going for 505, and I

would guess 498.

CONNALLY:
No, we're going for 492.

SHULTZ:
492. That's 85% of parity that's right

PRESIDENT:
Fair enough.

UNIDENTIFIED:
All right.

EHRLICHMAN:
Better go get a glass of milk.

[Laughter]

EHRLICHMAN:
Drink it while it's cheap.

UNIDENTIFIED:
But you know --

UNIDENTIFIED:
That's really --

UNIDENTIFIED:
[Unintelligible] might work.

PRESIDENT:
[Unintelligible] Yeah, I told them. I said,

milk is a sedative. Milk is a sedative.

HARDIN:
Say, I told the President this morning that

on that T.V. show last night --- Uh, uh,

that, that few times when he looked right

into the lens --

UNIDENTIFIED:
Great.

HARDIN:
Uh, that one ... just magnetic.

CONNALLY:
May I have, may I have two minutes with you

on another matter?

PRESIDENT:
Sure, sure, sure. Sit down. Absolutely.

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