Secret White House Tapes

39–120

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39–120
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Gerald R. Ford
June 6, 1973
Conversation No. 39-120

Date: June 6, 1973
Time: Unknown between 4:56 pm and 5:02 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Gerald R. Ford.

[See also Conversation No. 443-27]

Congressional relations

-President’s schedule

-Policy Committee

-Minimum Wage Bill

-Substitute

-Amendments

-Conference

-Possible need for veto

-Peter J. Brennan

-Support for labor
-Youth differential
-Veto
-Committee bill
-President’s recommendations
-Veto
-Brennan’s reaction

President’s schedule

-Cabinet meeting

-Bipartisan Congressional leadership meeting

-Postponement
-Vietnam and Leonid I. Brezhnev summit
-Timing
-Cabinet meeting

-Ford and Hugh Scott

-Timing

-Melvin R. Laird

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Tape Subject Log

(rev. February-2011)

Conversation No. 39-120 (cont’d)

Watergate
-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
-Forthcoming speech
-Impeachment
-Content
-Possible White House reaction

The President talked with Hugh Scott at an unknown time.

President’s schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-Bipartisan Congressional leaders meeting
-Vietnam and Soviet summit
-Postponement
-Cabinet meeting
-Ford and Scott

President’s forthcoming economic package
-Scott’s conversation with John B. Connally
-Possible presentation to joint session of Congress
-Difficulty
-President’s forthcoming conversation with Connally
-Readiness
-Possible presentation to Congress

National economy
-Unknown economist’s statement in US News and World Report
-Effect on consumers
-Food prices
-Wage and price freeze
-Duration
-Debt limitation bill
-Possible effects on labor, economy
-John T. Dunlop’s meeting with labor and management
-Opposition

Watergate

-Scott’s statement, June 5

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. February-2011)

Conversation No. 39-120 (cont’d)

-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield

President’s schedule

-Cabinet meeting

-Scott, Ford
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