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Conversation No. 111-1

Date: December 20, 1972
Time: Unknown after 11:24 am until 11:32 am
Location: Cabinet Room

The President met with George Meany, John H. (“Jack”) Lyons, C. L. Dennis, Paul Hall,
I[lorwith] W. Abel, Frank E. Fitzsimmons, Pat Greathouse, Peter J. Brennan, George P. Shultz,
Herbert Stein, and Donald H. Rumsfeld
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

Greetings

Productivity Commission
-Members
-Appreciation
-Productivity
-Labor-management cooperation
-Member’s views
-Department of Labor
-Brennan
-Shultz
-James P. Mitchell
-James D. Hodgson
-George Shultz
-Relations with the President
-Committee members’ recommendations
-Personnel
-Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
-Role
-Influence
-President’s decision in national economy
-Commission members’ compensation
-Presentation of gifts by the President

The President left at 11:32 am

Transportation unions
-Administration’s goals
-Railroads
-Grain exports
-National maritime program
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-Shultz’s comments
-Hall’s comments
-Labor leaders’ perspectives
-Cooperation

Recording ends at an unknown time after 11:32 am