Date: October 6, 1971
Time: 10:32 am - 11:10 am
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with William L. Safire.
Draft of October 7, 1971 speech announcing Phase II of Economic Stabilization Program
-International front
-Domestic front
-Wholesale price index
-Wage stabilization
-Price Board
-Herbert Stein
-Cooperation
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/10)
-Business, labor, Congress, American people
-Inflation
-Rate
-John B. Connally
-Wage Board
-Appointees
-Agreement for establishment
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Arthur F. Burns
-Price Board
-Rent Board
-Profit Board
-Employment
-Wages
-Ceiling on prices
-Profits
-Productivity
-Windfall profits
-Re-wording of themes of speech
-Stabilization
-Bureaucracy
-Efforts to fight inflation
-Use of a good sentence
-Adjustments
-Great year
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:32 am.
Refreshment
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:10 am.
The President's forthcoming Phase II speech
-Great year
-Foreign policy
-International monetary situation
-Year
-Prosperity
-Assignment for Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Samples from incoming letters
-Use of anecdotal material
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-Impact on average listener
-Impact of images compared to technical terms
-Great events
-Henry A. Kissinger's forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Berlin
-Persons working for background on speech
-Price
-John A. Scali
-Great Year
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Price Board
-Jurisdiction
-Pay Board
-Profits
-Price Board
-Jurisdiction
-Profits
-Inflation
-Restraints on wages and prices
-Profits
-Windfall
-Inflation psychology
-US history
-American spirit
-Competitive ethic
-Wage and price reduction emphasis
-Replacement of inflation psychology
-Chain stores
-The President's timetable for work on speech draft
-Safire's schedule
-Showing text to others
-Stein
-Briefing orientation
-George P. Shultz
-Budget
-Recommendations