274–34

Conversation No. 274-34

Date: September 8, 1971
Time: 1:34 pm - unknown before 3:03 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Raymond K. Price, Jr.

President’s address to Congress on economic stabilization, September 9, 1971
-George P. Shultz
-Talk with Price
-Meetings with the President
-John B. Connally
-Phase II
-Meetings
-Business
-Labor
-Farmers
-Congress
-Paragraph re-write
-Wording
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Price's memorandum
-Tax cuts
-Research
-Ehrlichman
-Tax cuts
-Shultz
-Connally
-Congress
-The President's reading of draft

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:34 pm.

Economic speech
-Sanchez
-Delivery of retyped pages

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:46 pm.

The President talked with Ehrlichman between 1:46 pm and 1:47 pm.
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[Conversation No. 274-34A]
[See Conversation No. 8-49]

Economic speech
-The President's talk with Price
-Research
-Taxes
-Shultz

[End of telephone conversation]

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Delivery of retyped pages of the President's economic speech

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:24 pm.

Economic speech
-The President's reading of draft
-Price's suggestions
-Wording
-Woodrow Wilson
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Delivery of page 4 of economic speech

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:24 pm.

Economic speech
-Page 4
-The President's reading of draft
-Wording
-Democrats in Congress
-Acceptance
-Page 5
-Congress

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Economic speech
-Page 5

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Economic speech
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Bipartisan leadership meeting
-Russell Long

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Delivery of page 5 of economic speech

Pipe and matches

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:24 pm.


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Economic speech
-Tax cuts
-Page 6
-Wording
-The President's reading of draft
-Edmund S. Muskie and Long
-Price's suggestions on wording
-Cost of living
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-Tax cut language
-Federal budget

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Shultz
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Economic speech
-Page 7
-Price's material
-Page 8
-Wording

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Page 9 of economic speech

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:24 pm.

Economic speech
-Wording
-Inflation
-The President's reading of draft
-Technology
-Congress
-Welfare reform
-Revenue sharing
-Welfare
-Funding
-Postponements
-Page 16

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Economic speech
-Delivery of draft
-Request

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Economic speech
-The President's reading of draft
-Competition
-Health, housing, education, environment, opportunity
-Page 9
-Tax reform
-Employment
-Goals
-Meeting language
-Copy
-Meeting
-Earlier draft
-Credit
-Wording
-Credit
-Peace
-Credit
-Congress

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 2:24 pm.

Price left at 2:24 pm.

President’s schedule
-George E. Allen

-Japanese dinner
-Speech
-Questions
-Takeo Fukuda meeting
-Time
-Location
-Yellow Room
-Guests
-Peter G. Peterson
-William P. Rogers
-Wives
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew and Elinor I. (Judefind) Agnew
-Press
-Toast
-Cabinet members
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-George P. Shultz
-Peterson
-George W. Romney
-Photograph opportunity
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Fukuda
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-White House worship service, September 12, 1971
-Guests
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham’s family
-Soloist
-Paul Yu Pin
-Taiwan
-John Cardinal Krol


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