Date: August 8, 1972
Time: 10:11 am - 10:25 am
Location: Oval Office
Hugh Scott, Gerald R. Ford, Richard K. Cook, Herbert G. Klein, and Thomas C. Korologos met.
Greetings
Ford's operation
-Forthcoming visit to doctor
The President entered at 10:11 am.
-Recovery
Economy
-Taxes
-Defense of Republican program
-Attacks on George S. McGovern’s program
-Tax increases
-$1000 per person welfare proposal
-Defense cuts
-Increase in spending
-Tax increases
-Use of term “wreckonomics”
-Use of phrase “one thousand”
-Example of McGovern jokes in circulation
-Imaginary message from McGovern to Israeli cabinet
-Taxes
-Report on growth of economy
-Employment
-Increases in peacetime jobs
-Decrease in jobs related to war
-Food prices
-Inflation
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Budget
-Costs of McGovern's proposals
-$1000 per person welfare proposal
-Amount
-$1000 per person welfare proposal
-Spending ceiling
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Democratic platform
-$1000 per person welfare proposal
-Growth of economy
-Spending ceiling
-Cost of Democratic platform
-Cost of $1000 per person welfare proposal
-McGovern's proposals
-Costs to taxpayer
-Spending ceiling
-The President’s view
-Possible tax increases
-Issues
-Daycare
-Poverty
-Children
-Senior citizens
-Tax increases
-Inflation
-Unemployment
-Impact of proposed Democratic budget on US economy
-Welfare costs
-$1,000 per person welfare proposal
-Increase of number on welfare
-Tone of public statements by both parties
-R. Sargent Shriver
-Scott’s view
-Budget
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW] and Labor
appropriations bill
-Possible veto by the President
-Spending ceiling
-Possible veto
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Legal services
-Jacob K. Javits
-Spending ceiling
-Taxes
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Support of spending ceiling
-Debt limitation
Scott
-Situation in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
-George W. Romney’s forthcoming trip to Wilkes-Barre
-Milton J. Shapp