Secret White House Tapes

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October 22, 1971
Conversation No. 81-1

Date: October 22, 1971
Time: Unknown between 10:38 am and 11:59 pm
Location: Cabinet Room

George H. Boldt met with Arnold R. Weber, Dr. Neil H. Jacoby, William G. Caples, Kermit
Gordon, Rocco C. Siciliano, Virgil B. Day, Robert Bassett, Leonard F. McCollum, Benjamin F.
Biaggini, George Meany, I[lorwith] W. Abel, Leonard Woodcock, Floyd E. (“Red”) Smith,
Frank E. Fitzsimmons, Dr. C. Jackson (“Dan”) Grayson, Jr., William W. Scranton, John William
Queenan, William T. Colman, Jr., Marina von N. Whitman, J. Wilson Newman, and Robert F.
Lanzillotti
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

National economy
-Pay Board
-Price Commission
-Inflation
-Price Index
-Wage-price freeze
-Weber

[Breaks in conversation]

The President entered at 10:52 am

Greetings

National economy
-Government regulation
-Office of Price Administration [OPA]
-Initiation of Pay Board and Price Commission
-Voluntary support
-Effect of controls
-Public support for wage-price freeze
-Controls and sanctions
-Success or failure
-White House support

The President’s previous meeting with Republican women
-End of Vietnam War
-Comparisons
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-Long-term peace initiatives
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson and League of Nations
-United Nations [UN]
-Importance of United States’ relations with Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
[USSR] and People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Foreign policy
-Threat of nuclear war
-Challenge of peace
-Paavo Nurmi
-Running strategy

World situation
-Germany, Japan
-Europe
-PRC
-Taiwan
-Singapore
-Hong Kong
-USSR
-US, Western Europe, Eastern Europe/USSR, PRC, China
-Latin America, Africa
-US government
-Competitiveness
-Economy

National economy
-The President’s August 15, 1971 speech
-High tariffs
-Roles of Pay Board and Price Commission

The President left at 11:09 pm

Conclusion of the meeting

[Recording is cut off while the conversation is in progress]

Boldt, et al. left at an unknown time before 11:59 pm
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