Secret White House Tapes

17–5

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17–5
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • George P. Shultz
December 24, 1971
Conversation No. 17-5

Date: December 24,1971
Time: 1:37 pm - 1:46 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President talked with George P. Shultz.

[See Conversation No. 309-3]
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Tape Subject Log
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Shultz's schedule

President's meeting with John D. Ehrlichman and Henry A. Kissinger

Defense budget
-Numbers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Right wingers
-Arthur F. Burns
-Defending the budget
-Kissinger
-Laird will defend the budget
-$82 billion outlay
-$78.6 billion
-Defense spending in fiscal '72
-75.8
-Monthly rate of expenditure
-Approximately $1 billion more
-Effect on economy
-Laird
-Meeting with the President

Water Bill
-Ehrlichman
-Shultz
-Budgetary implications
-Amount
-Appropriations
-Congress
-Override
-Budgetary implications
-Political implications
-Veto
-Edmund S. Muskie

Environment
-Cleaning up the air
-Political issue
-Future discussions

Water Bill
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-Shultz to meet with Ehrlichman
-Signature
-Appropriations

Budgetary issues
-Unknown issues to be discussed later

Money supply
-Burns
-President's influence on Burns
-Burns
-Voted to increase money supply
-Burns's trip to Virgin Islands

Federal Reserve Board of Governors
-Procedures for appointment
-Burns
-Warren E. Burger
-\"Fed\" compared to Supreme Court
-Burns

Foreign policy
-Kissinger
-India
-Pakistan
-US neutrality
-Relief
-Public reaction to possible US involvement in India-Pakistan War
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Shultz’s view
-War
-India

Kissinger
-Forthcoming call to Kissinger from Shultz

Public reaction to India-Pakistan War
-Kissinger's reaction to press
-Moral support for Kissinger
-Joseph S. Kraft
-Marquis W. Childs
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Tape Subject Log
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-Kissinger
-Middle East
-Wall Street Journal
-Editorial
-US foreign policy

Christmas greetings


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President's signing of the National Cancer Act of 1971 on December 23, 1971
-Shultz's and daughters' attendance
-Ceremony

Movie \"Brian's Song\"
-Ehrlichman
-Monday night in White House theatre
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC] movie
-Brian Piccolo
-Gale E. Sayers
-Race relations
-Shultz and family invited
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