Secret White House Tapes

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471–10
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Jack Miller
  • Clark MacGregor
March 24, 1971
Conversation No. 471-10

Date: March 24, 1971
Time: 10:56 am - 11:15 am
Location: Oval Office

Jack Miller met with Clark MacGregor

President’s location
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Miller’s schedule
-A meeting on trade and European Economic Community [EEC]
-Citrus issue
-Pesticides
-A meeting with Henry A. Kissinger
-A meeting with the President

Supersonic Transport [SST] Conv. No. 471-10 (cont.)
-President’s position
-Economy, jobs

The President entered at an unknown time after 10:56 am

President’s schedule

Taxes

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 10:56 am

Refreshments

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:15 am

SST
-March 24, 1971 vote
-Tally
-Miller’s statement to press
-Margaret Chase Smith
-David H. Gambrell
-Richard B. Russell’s successor
-Herman E. Talmadge
-Position
-Gambrell
-Meeting with Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Relation with John Sherman Cooper
-Position
-Meeting with Jackson
-President’s position
-Environmental concerns
-Economy
-DC-6 production in Great Britain
-Boeing
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-Government role
-Subsidy
-Importance
-President’s view
-Exploring the unknown
-Space program
-President’s position
-Satellites Conv. No. 471-10 (cont.)
-Computer technology
-US prestige
-National interest
-Communists
-Miller’s view
-History
-French, British, Spanish empires
-US leadership
-President’s position
-Miller’s view
-Effect on economy or ecology
-Development of prototypes
-Miller’s view
-John A. Volpe’s statement
-Government and private sector role
-Investment
-Benefits
-London-to-Paris flights
-Tokyo
-Compared to costs
-Economic issues
-Future
-Use
-Military and commercial aviation
-US position in aviation
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Political considerations
-Miller
-George S. McGovern
-Miller’s opponent, John C. Culver
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy connection
-Possible effects of Miller’s SST vote
-Culver
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-American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
[AFL-CIO] support
-Kennedy
-Miller’s previous SST vote
-Constituent response
-Miller’s position
-Opposition
-Compared with President’s votes while Congressman Conv. No. 471-10 (cont.)
-Cost and benefit analysis
-Soviet Union
-Cost and benefit analysis
-An unnamed Miami friend of Miller’s
-Possible alternative use of money
-Education
-Iowa constituents
-State government experiences
-Political considerations
-Pairing
-Karl E. Mundt
-Iowa constituent reactions
-Effect on Miller
-Culver
-Miller’s previous statements
-Opposition
-Clifford P. Hansen
-Possible 1972 opponent
-Voting record
-Pairing
-B. Everett Jordan
-Health
-Procedures
-Absences
-Jordan
-Mundt, Hansen
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 39s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 Conv. No. 471-10 (cont.)

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1972 issues
-Economy
-Vietnam War

SST vote
-Miller’s position
-President

Miller and MacGregor left at 11:15 am
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