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827–22
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Ronald L. Ziegler
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • UNKNOWN
  • Stephen B. Bull
  • George P. Shultz
December 20, 1972
Conversation No. 827-22

Date: December 20, 1972
Time: 3:51 pm - 4:24 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Saul Pett
-Pett’s writing style
-New York Times, Washington Post
-Associated Press [AP]
-Henry Burroughs
-Photograph session

Ziegler left and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 3:52 pm.

Haldeman’s schedule
-Trip to Florida

The President’s schedule
-Vacation
-White House staff
-Charles W. Colson
-Timing
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-08)

Conversation No. 827-22 (cont’d)

-Congressional relations
-Reconvention
-Vietnam negotiations
-Settlement agreement

Vietnam negotiations
-Settlement agreement
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-US military action
-US-North Vietnam bilateral deal
-Peace with honor
-US terms
-South Vietnam
-Army

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time before 3:59 pm

Public relations [PR]
-Memorandum from Patrick J. Buchanan to the President
-Possible book by Buchanan
-Girard Company, Pennsylvania bank
-Length
-Subject
-National interest
-James A. Michener
-Barbara Ward
-First term
-Policies and decisions
-Philosophical foundations
-Richard M. Nixon Doctrine
-Vietnam War
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Soviet Union
-Supreme Court
-Bureaucracy
-New American Majority
-Photographs
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Duration
-The President’s interview with Garnett D. (“Jack”) Horner
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Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 827-22 (cont’d)

-Bias
-Distribution
-Second term
-Stance vis-a-vis administration, White House
-Michener
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Presentation of the President
-Tone

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Saul Pett
-Decision making
-Press relations
-The President’s demeanor
-Coolness
-Analyses

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:52 pm.

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with George P. Shultz
-Trip to Florida
-Helicopter
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Meeting with Shultz
-Haldeman’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:59 pm.

Press relations
-Decision making

Shultz entered at 3:59 pm.

Greetings

Press relations
-Pett

Economy
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Conversation No. 827-22 (cont’d)

-Pre-January 1973
-Wage and price control system
-Trade bill

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with the Productivity Commission
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons, I[lorwith] W[ilbur] Abel, George Meany, Paul Hall,
United Auto Workers [Pat Greathouse], John H. Lyons, railroads [C. L.
Dennis]
-Quality
-Business Council
-Meany
-Access to the White House
-Peter J. Brennan
-Meany, Fitzsimmons
-Business Council

Second term reorganization
-Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]
-Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
-Dr. James R. Schlesinger message to Shultz
-Dixy Lee Ray
-Promise
-Women
-Energy Research and Development [R & D]
-National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
-Interior Department
-Schlesinger
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Possible conversation with Schlesinger
-Schedule
-California
-Sun Valley
-Conversation with Shultz
-NASA
-James C. Fletcher
-Scientists
-National Science Foundation
-Operational job
-Conversation with Shultz
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-08)

Conversation No. 827-22 (cont’d)

-Energy
-Interior Department
-John C. Whitaker
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Shale, coal, gas
-Canada, Soviet Union
-R & D
-Conversation with Shultz

Economic policy
-Wage and price controls
-Duration, continuation
-PR
-Labor relations
-Food prices
-Construction, state and local government wages
-Freezes
-Medical costs
-Memorandum
-Advisory Committee to Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Wage standard
-Food prices
-Congressional relations
-Timing
-January 1973 messages
-Christmas-New Year’s Day
-Congressional relations
-Consultations
-Cabinet Room meeting
-Timing
-Bipartisanship
-William E. Timmons
-Series of meetings
-Vietnam War
-Decisions
-Announcement
-Timing
-The President’s philosophy
-Free trade
-Food prices
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Conversation No. 827-22 (cont’d)

-Earl L. Butz
-Politics
-Extension of Economic Stabilization Act [?]
-Announcement
-Timing
-Meat
-Congressional relations
-Cabinet Room meeting
-Timmons
-Committee structure
-Announcements
-Leaks
-Trade negotiations
-Shultz’s previous conversation with the President
-Europeans
-1973
-Authority
-Congressional relations
-John F. Kennedy round
-Nixon round
-Authority
-Adjustment assistance
-Escape clause
-Adjustment assistance
-Labor relations
-1962 compared to 1972
-Job loss
-Benefit levels of unemployment insurance
-Pension rights
-Authority
-Multilateral agreements
-General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade [GATT]
-Mutual tariff reductions
-US jobs, business
-Sanctions
-Multilateral agreements
-Bilateral agreements
-Japan, Canada
-Voluntary quotas
-State Department
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Conversation No. 827-22 (cont’d)

-Congressional relations
-Shultz’s meetings with Russell B. Long and Wilbur D. Mills
-US interests
-Reduction of trade barriers
-Congressional relations
-Congressional relations
-Long, Mills
-Politics
-Monetary negotiations
-Japan
-Reduction and imposition of trade barriers
-Taxes
-Congressional relations
-Mills
-Hearings
-Timing
-January 1973
-Duration
-Panel discussions
-Administration participation
-Administration proposals
-1972 campaign
-Statements
-Shultz’s memoranda
-Tax simplification
-Possible meeting with Edwin S. Cohen
-Long
-Meeting with Shultz
-Mills
-Support for the President’s policies
-Republicans
-1972 election
-1974 election
-Consultations

Arthur F. Burn’s schedule
-Trip to Bonn, West Germany, January 1973
-Monetary
-Possible meeting with the President
-Purpose
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-08)

Conversation No. 827-22 (cont’d)

-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-John E. Sheehan

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:59 pm.

The President’s schedule
-Helicopter
-Signing letters

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:29 pm.

Second term reorganization
-Sheehan
-Sub-Cabinet
-Shultz’s forthcoming conversation with Burns
-The President’s conversation with Burns
-FRB
-Sub-Cabinet
-Under Secretary
-Shultz’s forthcoming conversation with Burns

Burn’s schedule
-Trips to France, Britain
-Trip to Bonn

1972 campaign
-Burns
-Conversation with Shultz

Burn’s schedule
-Possible meeting with the President
-Trip to Japan
-Shultz’s conversation with Burns
-Timing
-Spring 1973
-Sheehan
-FRB

Second term reorganization
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-08)

Conversation No. 827-22 (cont’d)

-Alternate governor
-Sheehan
-William P. Rogers
-Shultz’s conversation with Burns

Economic policy
-Trade negotiations
-Politics
-Congressional relations
-Timmons
-Domestic Council
-Politics

Shultz and Haldeman left at 4:24 pm.
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