836–7

Conversation No. 836-7

Date: January 9, 1973
Time: Unknown between 10:06 am and 10:45 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with George P. Shultz, Herbert Stein, and John D. Ehrlichman; the White
House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

National economy
-Wage and price controls
-Labor, management, Congress
-Labor-Management Committee
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-Labor leaders
-George Meany
-I. W. Abel
-Paul Hall
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Leonard Woodcock
-Teamsters
-Rules of operation
-Meany
-Industry leaders
-Stephen Bechtel
-Ed Carter
-Walt Wriston
-James M. Roche
-General Motors
-Keith Flaherty [?]
-US Steel
-Purpose
-Cost of Living Council
-Wages
-John T. Dunlop
-Meany
-Abel, Fitzsimmons
-Food prices
-Effect of labor
-Stein
-Book
-Announcements
-List of steps
-Broilers export subsidy
-Soybeans, grains
-Farm commodities sales
-Stockpiles
-National security issue
-Congressional relations
-Grain
-Loans
-Agriculture Department
-Real estate prices
-Iowa
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-Georgia
-Tax laws
-Cheese
-Import quotas
-Broilers
-Farmers' interest
-Income
-PL 480
-Foreign food aid
-Emergency relief
-“Boondoggle”
-Food for Peace
-Surpluses
-Earl L. Butz
-Congressional relations
-Food prices
-Presentation
-Timing
-Preparation
-Executive orders
-Press relations
-Congressional relations
-Press questions
-Meet the Press
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Second-term reorganization
-Format
-Stein’s answers
-Congressional preview
-Stein’s and Ehrlichman’s role
-Congressional breakfast
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Gerald R. Ford
-Hugh Scott
-William E. Timmons
-Agriculture Committees
-Butz
-Enlistment
-Stockpiles
-National security issue
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-Presidential statement
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Drafting
-Food prices
-Economic forecast
-1972, 1973, 1974
-Threats to prosperity
-Food prices
-Congressional overspending
-Full employment budget
-Tax increases
-Impoundment
-Economic forecast
-1973, 1974
-Unemployment
-Congressional overspending
-Consumer spending
-Taxes
-Full employment
-Deficit
-Inflation
-Pierre Rinfret
-Economist
-Letter
-Controls
-1973, 1974
-Federal Reserve System
-Paul W. McCracken
-Mills
-Arthur F. Burns
-1972 election
-Discount rate
-William McChesney Martin, Jr. syndrome
-Bragging
-Charles W. Colson
-New York Times financial section
-1972 election
-Republicans in Congress
-Donald McL. Kendall
-Business Council
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-Businessmen for Nixon
-Labor supporters
-Stein’s economic report
-Unemployment
-Joseph Barr
-Former Treasury Secretary
-Predictions
-1974 budget
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Deficits
-Figures
-Prediction
-Revenues
-Press briefings
-Herbert G. Klein
-Economic writers
-Luncheon
-Chicago
-Detroit
-Los Angeles
-Houston
-Atlanta
-St. Louis
-Cleveland
-Cincinnati
-Columbus
-Philadelphia
-New York
-Economic reports
-Letter
-Klein
-Burns
-Kendall
-Peter J. Brennan
-Labor
-Economic report
-Tape for broadcast
-Public Relations [PR] effort
-Colson
-Congressional relations
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-Impoundment
-Overspending
-Spending programs
-Home for disabled veteran
-Roy L. Ash
-Generalities
-Spending
-Taxes
-Prices
-Economic forecast
-1973

The President's birthday
-Gift

Commendations
-Shultz

Milton Friedman [?]
-Health
-Telephone call
-The President’s conversation

Stein and Ehrlichman left at 10:43 am.

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:43 am.

The President's schedule
-Helmut Schmidt
-Finance Minister
-West Germany
-Vietnam settlement
-Europe
-Trade
-Congressional leaders meeting

Shultz left at 10:44 am.

-Maurice J. Williams
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
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-Photograph session

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:45 am.