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938-003a
- President Richard M. Nixon
- Alexander M. Haig
- UNKNOWN
- George P. Shultz
- Roy L. Ash
- Herbert Stein
- John B. Connally
- John T. Dunlop
June 12, 1973
Conversation No. 938-3
Date: June 12, 1973
Time: 3:05 pm - 4:49 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Spiro T. Agnew’s schedule
Flowers John D. Ehrlichman’s letter to President, June 11, 1973
-Contents
-Reference to Haig
-Confidentiality
-Watergate
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Possible resignation
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 3:05 pm.
Vietnam negotiations
-Message to Saigon
-Timing
-Translation
-Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 3:15 pm.
[Pause]
Watergate
-Leonard Garment
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s views
-Possible leaks
-3-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 938-3 (cont’d)
-White House
-Judgment
-Haig’s views
-Loyalty
White House staff
-Agnew
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Criticism of Agnew
-George P. Shultz
-William E. Simon
-Roy L. Ash
-Future of Administration
-Cole
-Possible resignation
-Melvin R. Laird
-Haig’s role
-President’s schedule
-President’s role
-Ehrlichman
-Possible motivation
-Institutions
-Change
-Energy policy
-John B. Connally
-Laird
-Elliot L. Richardson
-White House staff morale
-Haig’s staff
-Laird
-Harlow
-Ash
-Shultz
-Duties
-Possible resignation
-Connally
-Laird
-4-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 938-3 (cont’d)
-Connally
-Briefings
-Relationship with President
-William P. Clements, Jr.
-Conversation with Haig, June 12, 1973
-Conversation with Connally, June 11, 1973
-Connally
-Role in administration
-Reorganization
-Institutions
-Change
-Energy
-[Charles J. DiBona]
-Staff
-Relations with Simon
-Simon
-Ehrlichman’s letter
-President’s assessment
-Laird
-Staff roles
-Recent press conference
-Haig’s conversation with Laird
-Tone
-Team building
-Richardson
-Conversation with Haig
-Tone
-Garment
-Contacts with press
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Unknown source
-Judgment
-Haig’s view
-Loyalty
-Richardson
-Haig’s forthcoming conversation with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-5-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 938-3 (cont’d)
Shultz, Ash, Herbert Stein, Connally, and John T. Dunlop entered at 3:15 pm.
Vietnam negotiations
-Communiqué
-Saigon
-Timing
-June 13, 1973
-Saigon
-December 1972
-January 1973
-Henry A. Kissinger’s schedule
-Paris
-Saigon
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Message from President
-Number
-Terms
-January 27, 1973 agreement
-Strengthening
-Infiltration
-Loas, Cambodia
-Kissinger’s efforts
-North Vietnam
-Thieu
-North Vietnam’s position
-US position
-Scowcroft
-Bilateralism
-US public opinion
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-End of war
Cambodia
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] negotiations
-Timing
-Bombing
-Haig’s conversation with Gen. John W. Vogt, Jr. June 12, 1973
-6-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 938-3 (cont’d)
-Military situation
-Compared to 90 and 60 days ago
-Political aspects
-Funding
-Duration
-Communiqué
-Effect on congressional leaders
Laos
-Military situation
-Infiltration
South Vietnam
Vietnam negotiations
-Communiqué
-North Vietnamese, South Vietnamese positions
-Leonid I. Brezhnev visit
-Congress
-Aid to South Vietnamese, North Vietnamese
-Thieu
-President’s efforts
-Missing in Action [MIA]
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Paris
-Time difference
-US Response
-Effect of congressional action
-Cambodian bombing
-Progress
-Peace with honor
-South Vietnamese position
-Trade
-North Vietnamese position
-Soviet Union, PRC relations with US
President’s schedule
-7-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 938-3 (cont’d)
-Brezhnev visit
-Agreements
-Sensitivity
-Trade
-Outlook
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] II
-Principles
-Offensive weapons
National economy
-Presidential address
-Price freezes
-Possible freeze
-Post freeze program
-President’s forthcoming speech
-President’s recent conversation with Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Possible price freeze
-Wages
-Exclusion from rigid controls
-Condition
-Settlements
-Phase III
-Export license regulations
-Possible congressional action
-Public law [PL] 480
-Agricultural products
-Trading with the enemy act
-Deletion
-Phase IV
-Standards
-Possible price freeze
-Gasoline, food prices
-Ceilings
-Enforcement
-Briefings
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Meat
-8-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 938-3 (cont’d)
-Recent letter from William D. Farr
-September 1973
-1974
-Meat
-Worcestershire sauce, mustard
-Price ceilings
-Post freeze action
-60 days
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-President’s experience with Office of Price Administration [OPA]
-P-3, P-5 wage scale
-Price controls
-Grocery stores
-Bureaucracy
-Food
-Lettuce
-Current status
-Strawberries, produce, meats, butter, eggs
-Nutmeg, spices
-Implementation
-Connally’s view
-Companies
-Number
-Sears-Roebuck
-Butter
-Ceilings
-Adjustments
-Duration
-Food czar
-Post freeze action
-Butter surplus
-Secretary of Agriculture
-Price support
-Pending agricultural legislation
-Farm Bill
-Food and gasoline prices
-Tone
-9-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 938-3 (cont’d)
-Farm legislation
-Export controls
-Future policy
-Political difficulty
-Agricultural legislation
-Possible changes
-Farm organizations
-Milk producers
-Co-operatives [Co-ops], associations
-Meat, vegetables
-General Motors Corporation [GM], American
Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial
Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-Price controls
-Senate bill
-House Committee
-Possible veto
-President’s recent meeting with Congressional leaders
-Gerald R. Ford
-Milton R. Young
-Henry L. Bellmon
-Possible price freeze
-Food and gasoline prices
-Stabilization
-Administration spokesman
-Inflation
-Control
-Supply and production
-Export controls
-Price ceilings
-Farm legislation
-Foreign exports
-Bread
-Tax on wheat
-Pending legislation
-Administration’s position
-Cost
-10-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 938-3 (cont’d)
-Four year period
-Department of Agriculture
-Announcement
-Effect on budget
-Full employment
-Donald H. Rumsfeld quote
-Bread
-Symbolic importance
-Price
-Tax on wheat
-Pending farm legislation
-President’s program
-Public support
-Possible price freeze
-Food and gasoline prices
-Stabilization
-Possible Congressional support
-John L. McClellan, John Young, John C. Stennis, George H. Mahon,
William R. Poage, James O. Eastland, J. William Fulbright, Wilbur D.
Mills, Robert J. Dole
-Timing
-Farm legislation
-Dairies
-Congressional vote
-60-day freeze
-Possible veto
-Possible changes
-Earl L. Butz
-Dairy price support
-Butter
-Possible veto
-Re-evaluation of existing legislation
-Surpluses compared to shortages
-Possible veto
-Democrats in House of Representatives
-President’s recent leadership meeting
-Poage
-11-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 938-3 (cont’d)
-City Democrats
-Minimum wage bill
Vetoes
-Congressional relations
-Strategies in face of possible override
-President’s recent conversation with Ash
-Spending
-1969 tax bill
-Media interpretation
-Harlow, Timmons, Laird
-Congressional leaders
-Ford, Hugh Scott
-Connally’s view
-Compromise
-Veterans’ bill
-Education bill
-Agriculture bills
-Minimum wage bill
-Possible vetoes
National economy
-Possible freeze
-Phase IV
-Food and gasoline price stabilization, ceiling
-Necessity
-Use of term “stabilize”
-President’s recent conversation with Price
-Price controls
-Purpose
-Management
-Duration
-Points
-Briefing paper
-Price
-President’s and Frank Nixon’s experience
-Property
-12-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 938-3 (cont’d)
-Compared to Connally’s ranch
-Lemon orchard
-Southern California
-Oil fields
-Grocery store
-Donkey allusion
-Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals [SPCA]
-Quaker
-President’s program
-Public attention
-Goal
-Post freeze program
-Phase III
-Gasoline
-60-day price freeze
-President’s activities
-President’s conversation with Price
-Public appearances
-Campaign
-Timing
-Radio talks
-Newspapers
-Possible Cabinet speeches
-Public relations
-Government action
-Post freeze program
-Least permanent program
-Possible Congressional action
-Television [TV] [Watergate hearings]
-Spending, trade bill, tariff
-Goals
-Farm legislation
-Pending minimum wage legislation
-Possible veto
-Possible Congressional actions
-George Meany’s views
-Timmons
-13-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 938-3 (cont’d)
-90-day price freeze
-Phase II
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield’s statement
-Agriculture and minimum wage bills
-Effect on prices
-Budget
-President’s program
-Leadership
-Possible Congressional response
Congressional relations
-Farm legislation
-Prospects
-Approach
-Peanut lobby
-Effect on southern supporters
-Butz’s views
Connally’s schedule
-Departure
National economy
-President’s program
-Connally’s assessment
-Food prices
-John B. Connally and Idanell (Brill) (“Nellie”) Connally
Connally’s schedule
-Cabinet and leadership meetings
National economy
-President’s program
-Public relations
-Leaks
-Shultz and Connally
-Compared to advisors program
-Options
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 938-3 (cont’d)
Connally
-Schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-Role in administration
-Cabinet, leadership meetings
-Brezhnev dinner
-Advisement
-Shultz’s, Stein’s, and Laird’s roles
-Laird
-Military
-Schedule
-Preferences
Connally left at 4:26 pm.
National economy
-Farm legislation
-Administration position
-Lack of statement
-Effect of possible veto
-Sustenance
-Prior legislation
-Cotton
-Cotton
-Butz’s views
-Working style
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Previous bill
-President’s telephone call to Allen J. Ellender
-Possible Domestic Council action
-Stein
-Laird’s role
-Congressional experience
-Butz
-Possible veto
-Compared to minimum wage legislation
-15-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 938-3 (cont’d)
-Peter J. Brennan
-Views of Food Advisory Committee
-Dissemination
-Post freeze program
-Phase III
-Compared to gasoline, food
-Companies
-Number
-Pre-notification
-Implementation
-Possible price freeze
-Duration
-January 10, 1974
-Expansion of number of companies
-Price standards
-Tier 1 and Tier 2 companies
-Mandatory nature
-Accounting and legal aspects
-Briefing
-Duration
-Post freeze program
-Congressional relations
-Wages
-Pre-notification
-President’s conversation with Frank E. Fitzsimmons, June 11, 1973
-Fitzsimmons
-Brennan
-Meany
-Contract
-President’s meeting with Labor-Management Committee, June 11, 1973
-Value
-Possible responses
-Paul Hall
-Fitzsimmons
-Possible price freeze
-Labor leaders
-Wages
-16-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 938-3 (cont’d)
-Businessmen
-Phase II
-Fitzsimmons
-Hall
-Seafarers union
-Phase II
-Compared to post freeze program
-Price commission
-Food and gasoline prices
-Compared to Phase III
-Pre-notification
-Business community
-Labor
-Wages
-Phase III
-Possible price freeze
-Food and gasoline prices
-Scott’s poll of Republicans, June 12, 1973
-Democrats’ position
-Public relations [PR]
-President’s forthcoming radio talks
-Timing
-Media coverage
-Topics
-Budget, trade, taxes, food prices, energy
-Aid to Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT], and Harvard
Shultz’s schedule
-Honorary degree
-Princeton University
-Controversy
-Shultz’s reception
-Standing ovation
-Campus situation compared to Cambodia invasion and May 8 bombings
Stein
-Education
-17-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 938-3 (cont’d)
-Williams College, University of Chicago
Dunlop
-Education
-University of California, Berkeley
Edward W. Carter
-Broadway-Hale stores
-Possible conversation with Shultz
-University of California chancellor
-Shrewdness
National economy
-President’s program
-President’s conversation with Leslie C. Arends on debt limits, budget deficits
-Media criticism concerning administration’s policies
-Hobart Rowen, Washington Post
-1972
-Inflation
-Spending
-Pace
-Public sector
-President’s program
President’s schedule
-Brezhnev
Camp David
-President’s trip to California
-Invitations to staff
-Shultz’s schedule
-Pool
-Pool and sauna
-Aspen Lodge
-Brezhnev
-Red Oak, Birch, Dogwood, and Maple Lodges
-Birch Lodge
-18-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 938-3 (cont’d)
-Brezhnev
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Bugging
Secret Service
-Hotel
-Bugs
-Discovery
Stein, Ash, and Dunlop left at 4:48 pm.
Forthcoming Brezhnev visit
-Dinners
-Cabinet
-Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense
-Embassy
-Van Cliburn
-Cabinet
-Blair House reception
-Attorney General [?]’s request
-Businessmen
-Cabinet
-Harry S. Dent
-Butz
-State Department
Shultz and Haig left at 4:49 pm.
Date: June 12, 1973
Time: 3:05 pm - 4:49 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Spiro T. Agnew’s schedule
Flowers John D. Ehrlichman’s letter to President, June 11, 1973
-Contents
-Reference to Haig
-Confidentiality
-Watergate
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Possible resignation
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 3:05 pm.
Vietnam negotiations
-Message to Saigon
-Timing
-Translation
-Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 3:15 pm.
[Pause]
Watergate
-Leonard Garment
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s views
-Possible leaks
-3-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 938-3 (cont’d)
-White House
-Judgment
-Haig’s views
-Loyalty
White House staff
-Agnew
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Criticism of Agnew
-George P. Shultz
-William E. Simon
-Roy L. Ash
-Future of Administration
-Cole
-Possible resignation
-Melvin R. Laird
-Haig’s role
-President’s schedule
-President’s role
-Ehrlichman
-Possible motivation
-Institutions
-Change
-Energy policy
-John B. Connally
-Laird
-Elliot L. Richardson
-White House staff morale
-Haig’s staff
-Laird
-Harlow
-Ash
-Shultz
-Duties
-Possible resignation
-Connally
-Laird
-4-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 938-3 (cont’d)
-Connally
-Briefings
-Relationship with President
-William P. Clements, Jr.
-Conversation with Haig, June 12, 1973
-Conversation with Connally, June 11, 1973
-Connally
-Role in administration
-Reorganization
-Institutions
-Change
-Energy
-[Charles J. DiBona]
-Staff
-Relations with Simon
-Simon
-Ehrlichman’s letter
-President’s assessment
-Laird
-Staff roles
-Recent press conference
-Haig’s conversation with Laird
-Tone
-Team building
-Richardson
-Conversation with Haig
-Tone
-Garment
-Contacts with press
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Unknown source
-Judgment
-Haig’s view
-Loyalty
-Richardson
-Haig’s forthcoming conversation with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-5-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 938-3 (cont’d)
Shultz, Ash, Herbert Stein, Connally, and John T. Dunlop entered at 3:15 pm.
Vietnam negotiations
-Communiqué
-Saigon
-Timing
-June 13, 1973
-Saigon
-December 1972
-January 1973
-Henry A. Kissinger’s schedule
-Paris
-Saigon
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Message from President
-Number
-Terms
-January 27, 1973 agreement
-Strengthening
-Infiltration
-Loas, Cambodia
-Kissinger’s efforts
-North Vietnam
-Thieu
-North Vietnam’s position
-US position
-Scowcroft
-Bilateralism
-US public opinion
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-End of war
Cambodia
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] negotiations
-Timing
-Bombing
-Haig’s conversation with Gen. John W. Vogt, Jr. June 12, 1973
-6-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 938-3 (cont’d)
-Military situation
-Compared to 90 and 60 days ago
-Political aspects
-Funding
-Duration
-Communiqué
-Effect on congressional leaders
Laos
-Military situation
-Infiltration
South Vietnam
Vietnam negotiations
-Communiqué
-North Vietnamese, South Vietnamese positions
-Leonid I. Brezhnev visit
-Congress
-Aid to South Vietnamese, North Vietnamese
-Thieu
-President’s efforts
-Missing in Action [MIA]
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Paris
-Time difference
-US Response
-Effect of congressional action
-Cambodian bombing
-Progress
-Peace with honor
-South Vietnamese position
-Trade
-North Vietnamese position
-Soviet Union, PRC relations with US
President’s schedule
-7-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 938-3 (cont’d)
-Brezhnev visit
-Agreements
-Sensitivity
-Trade
-Outlook
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] II
-Principles
-Offensive weapons
National economy
-Presidential address
-Price freezes
-Possible freeze
-Post freeze program
-President’s forthcoming speech
-President’s recent conversation with Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Possible price freeze
-Wages
-Exclusion from rigid controls
-Condition
-Settlements
-Phase III
-Export license regulations
-Possible congressional action
-Public law [PL] 480
-Agricultural products
-Trading with the enemy act
-Deletion
-Phase IV
-Standards
-Possible price freeze
-Gasoline, food prices
-Ceilings
-Enforcement
-Briefings
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Meat
-8-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 938-3 (cont’d)
-Recent letter from William D. Farr
-September 1973
-1974
-Meat
-Worcestershire sauce, mustard
-Price ceilings
-Post freeze action
-60 days
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-President’s experience with Office of Price Administration [OPA]
-P-3, P-5 wage scale
-Price controls
-Grocery stores
-Bureaucracy
-Food
-Lettuce
-Current status
-Strawberries, produce, meats, butter, eggs
-Nutmeg, spices
-Implementation
-Connally’s view
-Companies
-Number
-Sears-Roebuck
-Butter
-Ceilings
-Adjustments
-Duration
-Food czar
-Post freeze action
-Butter surplus
-Secretary of Agriculture
-Price support
-Pending agricultural legislation
-Farm Bill
-Food and gasoline prices
-Tone
-9-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 938-3 (cont’d)
-Farm legislation
-Export controls
-Future policy
-Political difficulty
-Agricultural legislation
-Possible changes
-Farm organizations
-Milk producers
-Co-operatives [Co-ops], associations
-Meat, vegetables
-General Motors Corporation [GM], American
Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial
Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-Price controls
-Senate bill
-House Committee
-Possible veto
-President’s recent meeting with Congressional leaders
-Gerald R. Ford
-Milton R. Young
-Henry L. Bellmon
-Possible price freeze
-Food and gasoline prices
-Stabilization
-Administration spokesman
-Inflation
-Control
-Supply and production
-Export controls
-Price ceilings
-Farm legislation
-Foreign exports
-Bread
-Tax on wheat
-Pending legislation
-Administration’s position
-Cost
-10-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 938-3 (cont’d)
-Four year period
-Department of Agriculture
-Announcement
-Effect on budget
-Full employment
-Donald H. Rumsfeld quote
-Bread
-Symbolic importance
-Price
-Tax on wheat
-Pending farm legislation
-President’s program
-Public support
-Possible price freeze
-Food and gasoline prices
-Stabilization
-Possible Congressional support
-John L. McClellan, John Young, John C. Stennis, George H. Mahon,
William R. Poage, James O. Eastland, J. William Fulbright, Wilbur D.
Mills, Robert J. Dole
-Timing
-Farm legislation
-Dairies
-Congressional vote
-60-day freeze
-Possible veto
-Possible changes
-Earl L. Butz
-Dairy price support
-Butter
-Possible veto
-Re-evaluation of existing legislation
-Surpluses compared to shortages
-Possible veto
-Democrats in House of Representatives
-President’s recent leadership meeting
-Poage
-11-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 938-3 (cont’d)
-City Democrats
-Minimum wage bill
Vetoes
-Congressional relations
-Strategies in face of possible override
-President’s recent conversation with Ash
-Spending
-1969 tax bill
-Media interpretation
-Harlow, Timmons, Laird
-Congressional leaders
-Ford, Hugh Scott
-Connally’s view
-Compromise
-Veterans’ bill
-Education bill
-Agriculture bills
-Minimum wage bill
-Possible vetoes
National economy
-Possible freeze
-Phase IV
-Food and gasoline price stabilization, ceiling
-Necessity
-Use of term “stabilize”
-President’s recent conversation with Price
-Price controls
-Purpose
-Management
-Duration
-Points
-Briefing paper
-Price
-President’s and Frank Nixon’s experience
-Property
-12-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 938-3 (cont’d)
-Compared to Connally’s ranch
-Lemon orchard
-Southern California
-Oil fields
-Grocery store
-Donkey allusion
-Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals [SPCA]
-Quaker
-President’s program
-Public attention
-Goal
-Post freeze program
-Phase III
-Gasoline
-60-day price freeze
-President’s activities
-President’s conversation with Price
-Public appearances
-Campaign
-Timing
-Radio talks
-Newspapers
-Possible Cabinet speeches
-Public relations
-Government action
-Post freeze program
-Least permanent program
-Possible Congressional action
-Television [TV] [Watergate hearings]
-Spending, trade bill, tariff
-Goals
-Farm legislation
-Pending minimum wage legislation
-Possible veto
-Possible Congressional actions
-George Meany’s views
-Timmons
-13-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2012)
Conversation No. 938-3 (cont’d)
-90-day price freeze
-Phase II
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield’s statement
-Agriculture and minimum wage bills
-Effect on prices
-Budget
-President’s program
-Leadership
-Possible Congressional response
Congressional relations
-Farm legislation
-Prospects
-Approach
-Peanut lobby
-Effect on southern supporters
-Butz’s views
Connally’s schedule
-Departure
National economy
-President’s program
-Connally’s assessment
-Food prices
-John B. Connally and Idanell (Brill) (“Nellie”) Connally
Connally’s schedule
-Cabinet and leadership meetings
National economy
-President’s program
-Public relations
-Leaks
-Shultz and Connally
-Compared to advisors program
-Options
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Conversation No. 938-3 (cont’d)
Connally
-Schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-Role in administration
-Cabinet, leadership meetings
-Brezhnev dinner
-Advisement
-Shultz’s, Stein’s, and Laird’s roles
-Laird
-Military
-Schedule
-Preferences
Connally left at 4:26 pm.
National economy
-Farm legislation
-Administration position
-Lack of statement
-Effect of possible veto
-Sustenance
-Prior legislation
-Cotton
-Cotton
-Butz’s views
-Working style
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Previous bill
-President’s telephone call to Allen J. Ellender
-Possible Domestic Council action
-Stein
-Laird’s role
-Congressional experience
-Butz
-Possible veto
-Compared to minimum wage legislation
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-Peter J. Brennan
-Views of Food Advisory Committee
-Dissemination
-Post freeze program
-Phase III
-Compared to gasoline, food
-Companies
-Number
-Pre-notification
-Implementation
-Possible price freeze
-Duration
-January 10, 1974
-Expansion of number of companies
-Price standards
-Tier 1 and Tier 2 companies
-Mandatory nature
-Accounting and legal aspects
-Briefing
-Duration
-Post freeze program
-Congressional relations
-Wages
-Pre-notification
-President’s conversation with Frank E. Fitzsimmons, June 11, 1973
-Fitzsimmons
-Brennan
-Meany
-Contract
-President’s meeting with Labor-Management Committee, June 11, 1973
-Value
-Possible responses
-Paul Hall
-Fitzsimmons
-Possible price freeze
-Labor leaders
-Wages
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-Businessmen
-Phase II
-Fitzsimmons
-Hall
-Seafarers union
-Phase II
-Compared to post freeze program
-Price commission
-Food and gasoline prices
-Compared to Phase III
-Pre-notification
-Business community
-Labor
-Wages
-Phase III
-Possible price freeze
-Food and gasoline prices
-Scott’s poll of Republicans, June 12, 1973
-Democrats’ position
-Public relations [PR]
-President’s forthcoming radio talks
-Timing
-Media coverage
-Topics
-Budget, trade, taxes, food prices, energy
-Aid to Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT], and Harvard
Shultz’s schedule
-Honorary degree
-Princeton University
-Controversy
-Shultz’s reception
-Standing ovation
-Campus situation compared to Cambodia invasion and May 8 bombings
Stein
-Education
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-Williams College, University of Chicago
Dunlop
-Education
-University of California, Berkeley
Edward W. Carter
-Broadway-Hale stores
-Possible conversation with Shultz
-University of California chancellor
-Shrewdness
National economy
-President’s program
-President’s conversation with Leslie C. Arends on debt limits, budget deficits
-Media criticism concerning administration’s policies
-Hobart Rowen, Washington Post
-1972
-Inflation
-Spending
-Pace
-Public sector
-President’s program
President’s schedule
-Brezhnev
Camp David
-President’s trip to California
-Invitations to staff
-Shultz’s schedule
-Pool
-Pool and sauna
-Aspen Lodge
-Brezhnev
-Red Oak, Birch, Dogwood, and Maple Lodges
-Birch Lodge
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-Brezhnev
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Bugging
Secret Service
-Hotel
-Bugs
-Discovery
Stein, Ash, and Dunlop left at 4:48 pm.
Forthcoming Brezhnev visit
-Dinners
-Cabinet
-Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense
-Embassy
-Van Cliburn
-Cabinet
-Blair House reception
-Attorney General [?]’s request
-Businessmen
-Cabinet
-Harry S. Dent
-Butz
-State Department
Shultz and Haig left at 4:49 pm.