Date: March 10, 1972
Time: 10:40 am - 11:13 am
Location: Cabinet Room
The President met with John B. Connally, Elliot L. Richardson, Arthur S. Flemming, George P.
Shultz and John D. Ehrlichman
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]
Social Security and Medicare
-Fiscal Year 1973 budget
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-Wage base
-Retroactive increases
-Social Security benefits
-Increase
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-Percentages
-Wilbur D. Mills’ proposal
-Inflationary impact
-Elderly
-Alternatives
-Poor
-Percentage of population
-Rise in prices
-Rise in standards of living
-Ratio to earnings
-Elderly on public assistance
-Alternatives
-Wage base
-Earnings base
-Elderly
-Hospital insurance contribution rate
-Increase
-Tax rate proposal
-The President
-Welfare
-Wages and prices
-HR 1
-Finance Committee bills
-Russell B. Long
-Mills’ proposal
-Medicare benefits
-Percentages
-Richardson
-Clifford P. Case
-Benefits
-Percentages
-Long
-Mills
-Long
-Connally
-Talk with George D. Aiken [?]
-Administration position
-Mills
-House
-Recess
-The President’s speech
-Busing
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