690–7

Conversation No. 690-7

Date: March 21, 1972
Time: 10:07 am - 10:34 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with George P. Shultz.

Economy
-Pay Board
-Labor members
-Newspapers
-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations
[AFL-CIO]
-George Meany
-John B. Connally, Herbert Stein, Donald H. Rumsfeld and Shultz
-Discussion
-Meany
-Recent breakfast
-Ehrlichman
-Advice
-Call from the President
-The President’s schedule
-Call from Shultz
-Strategy
-Meeting with Shultz
-Organized labor
-Leonard Woodcock
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Public membership
-Policy
-Case-by-case basis
-Meany
-Meeting with the President
-Meeting with Shultz
-Newspapers
-Reasons for actions
-Longshoremen strike
-Settlement
-Meeting with Shultz
-Instructions from the President
-Connally
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)

Conv. No. 690-7 (cont.)
-Recommended call from the President
-Reasons
-Call from Shultz
-Possible meeting with the President
-Recent breakfast
-Small businesses
-Possible exemption from controls
-Low income exemption
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Meeting with Shultz

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 10:17 am.

-Call from Shultz
-The President's instructions
-Small businesses
-Shultz's forthcoming meeting with the President
-Democratic efforts
-Joint Economic Committee
-Organized labor
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Reasons for actions
-Wage and price controls
-The President's press conference

Shultz left at 10:19 am.

The President’s forthcoming Soviet trip
-Possible trip to Poland
-William P. Rogers
-Meeting with Haldeman
-Haldeman's talk with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Polish government
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Soviets
-Iran
-Poland
-US-Soviet Summit
-Polish government
-Haig
-Rogers
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)

Conv. No. 690-7 (cont.)
-Poland
-Foreign policy
-Relations with the US
-Kissinger
-The People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Television coverage
-Shanghai Communiqué
-Compared to Soviet trip

European trip
-Rogers
-Haldeman's talk with Haig

The PRC trip
-Marshall Green
-Press
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Television appearances
-Meet the Press
-Haldeman
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Meeting with the President
-News
-Possible labor walkout from Pay Board
-Trip to Florida
-Press briefing
-Timing
-Rogers
-Haldeman
-Arrangements
-Timing
-Meeting with the President
-Timing
-Press briefing

Issues

Proper attire
-Military aide

[No conversation]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)

Conv. No. 690-7 (cont.)
International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Typewriters

[C. Arnholdt Smith and political fundraising story]
-News coverage
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Remarks
-Life magazine
-Clifford Irving case
-Look magazine

Haldeman left and Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon entered at 10:29 am.


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[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 3m 26s ]


MANOLO SANCHEZ AND STEPHEN B. BULL ENTERED AT AN UNKNOWN TIME
AFTER 10:29 AM.

SANCHEZ AND BULL LEFT AT AN UNKNOWN TIME BEFORE 10:34 AM.

[NO CONVERSATION]


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An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 10:29 am.

[Nihat Erim]
-National anthem
-Coat
-Bull

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:29 am.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)

Conv. No. 690-7 (cont.)

Coat

The President, Mrs. Nixon, the unknown man and Sanchez left at 10:34 am.