Secret White House Tapes

499–18

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499–18
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Max M. Fisher
  • Paul W. McCracken
  • Stephen B. Bull
May 14, 1971
Conversation No. 499-18

Date: May 14, 1971
Time: 11:50 am - 12:03 pm
Location: Oval Office
Conv. No. 499-16 (cont.)
The President met with Max M. Fisher and Paul W. McCracken.

President's schedule
-Charles H. Percy

National economy
-Fisher's conversations
-President’s meeting with Maurice H. Stans
-Fisher's conversations
-Antitrust
-Environment
-Consumerism
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Businessmen
-Relationship with administration
-Views on antitrust, environment
-Meetings
-Detroit
-Toledo
-Chrysler's complaint department
-Byron John Nichols
-Public opinion
-Investments for productivity
-Investment tax credits, wages
-Relationship with administration

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:50 am.

President's schedule
-Percy
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Landrum Rolling
-Meeting with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] visit
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
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-M. Jean Robb
-Retirement
Bull left at an unknown time before 12:03 pm.

National economy
-Housing industry
-Importance
-John B. Connally meeting, May 14, 1971
-Position of the dollar
-Paul A. Volcker's prediction
-Interest rates
-Housing industry
-Fisher's forthcoming conversation with Connally
-President's conversation with Connally, May 14, 1971
-Importance
-Federal Reserve actions
-President's schedule
-Meetings with businessmen
-Fisher's and McCracken's meetings
-Business Council
-James M. Roche
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Meetings with businessmen
-Timing
-Fisher's and McCracken's schedules
-Pittsburgh, Cleveland, California, Chicago
-President's meetings
-Fisher's letter to President, May 1970
-Congressional actions
-Consumerism
-Environment
-Air bags, seat belts
-President's actions
-Environment and safety
-White House policy
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-White House policy towards business
-Congress
-Fisher's meeting, April 1971
-Henry E. Ford II
-John Carlin
-Lynn A. Townsend
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)



-Effect
-President's meetings with Roche [May 13, 1971] and Henry Ford, II [April 27, 1971]
-President's schedule
-Oil, copper, and steel industries
-Environmentalism and consumerism
-Purpose
-White House policy
-Edmund S. Muskie, Hubert H. Humphrey, Edward M. Conv.
(“Ted”)
No.Kennedy
499-18 (cont.)
-White House policy
-President's schedule
-Meetings with businessmen

Presentation of gifts by the President


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President's schedule
-Percy

McCracken and Fisher left at 12:03 pm.
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