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davis/bacon, but also concern about construction industry wage rates which were so high led to the white house conclusion that wage and price controls might work nationally. of course, they didn t. and shortly after wage and price controls were invoked, i was put on a committee with herb stein and jim lin to plan our exit of wage and price control. in the meantime, jim hodgson and other cabinet members seemed to spend and i occasionally replacing jim spent almost every day at the white house in cabinet-level meetings trying to ameliorate wage and price increases or come up with decisions on various wage and prices across the country which was bizarre. in remember, george schultz was john connolly and george schultz both had a role in administering that program and arnie weber was the executive director. and then don rumsfeld was, too. well, in an interview with secretary schultz said he was against wage and price control. i think it s true. it was connolly ....
the wine industry. it was truly bizarre. it was a nightmare. but one funny incident. the television networks came in to see me. i don t know why i was designated as the person to see on this, but the office of the legal counsel assistant attorney general, he had not yet been appointed to the supreme court, came in my office as well because the network ceos and their general counsels were asserting it was unconstitutional to impose price controls on the network. the first amendment protected their right to set prices. bill and i had a short conference in which we agreed that this was ridiculous. as a legal matter. but i told bill, let me handle it a different way. i said, you know, gentlemen, if we conclude that price controls on the networks are constitutionally dubious, it would follow that we would have to suspend any wage controls on the network. oh, well, we don t want that. that was the end of that. but if you would have used that argument, you could have also ....
but these things could be awfully ponderous things. if you had to listen to one, you might fall asleep several times. it would be good if you were trying to sleep at night, trying to read it. and so, nixon decided to have the best of both worlds. he started this practice of having two versions, a spoken version and a written version. they would the spoken version would be covered by stuff in the written version. the written version would be much more spelled out in detail. and it would be sort of a significant a sophisticated analysis of why the things he was asking for in the spoken message should be done. it worked well. he would take two written copies, hand one to the speaker of the house, one to the president of the senate. then he would deliver the address. it was i think a very helpful innovation. lee, i worked on one earlier. i was going to mention this but 20,000 words? it s a little overdone. i worked on one myself, one of the speeches delivered by the p ....