Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 7 › Conversation 007-022
Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on Economic Policy
Wednesday, July 28, 1971 · 6:19 PM–8:42 PM ET · White House Telephone · 5 sec
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On July 28, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 6:19 pm and 8:42 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 007-022 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 7-22
Date: July 28, 1971
Time: Unknown between 6:19 pm and 8:42 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with the White House operator.
Requested a call to George P. Shultz
Conv.
Conversation
No. 7-161
No.
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7-23
Date: July 28, 1971
Time: 8:42 pm - 8:58 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with George P. Shultz.
Shultz's and John B. Connally’s meeting with Senators
-Wage-price policy
-Davis-Bacon Act
-John G. Tower
-Economic statistics
-The President’s preparation for the Bohemian Grove
-Labor costs in manufacturing
-Profits
-Second quarter productivity figures
-Retail and automobile sales
-Connally
-Politics
-Support for the President
-Clark MacGregor
-Paul W. McCracken
-International economics
-Economic situation
-Shultz's talk with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Free market theory
-Devaluation of the dollar
-Gold supply
-International monetary expertsShow the rest of the log (55 more lines)
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Gold supply
-Trade balance
-United States compared to other countries
-Expansion
-Input
-Depression
-Output
-Speculation
Economy
-Budget
-Balance of payment
-Steel strike
-Timing
-Administration action
-Compared with automobile strike
-Connally briefing of House members
-Jerome H. Jaffe briefing on drugs
-Attendance
-Timing
-Leaders
-Key spokesmen
-Retail sales
-Automobile sales
The President's schedule
Shultz's schedule
-Meeting with steel industry management
-Strike compared with settlement
-Aluminum cans
-Inflation
-Involvement by the President
-Inventories
-Effects of a strike
-Shoreham
The President's schedule
Economy
-Statistics
-Stock market
-Arthur F. Burns
-Jack R. Miller (?)
-Price review board
-Positive statement by Burns
-Retail sales
-Rail strike
-Trucks
-Productivity
-Administration action
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Also recorded on July 28, 1971
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- 550-001 4:58 PM · 19 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:58 pm to 5:16 pm.
- 550-002 5:16 PM · 38 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House at 5:16 pm.
- 550-003 5:16 PM · 58 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Alexander P. Butterfield, John D. Ehrlichman, White House operator, John B. Connally, George P. Shultz, Manolo Sanchez, and William P. Rogers met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:16 pm to 6:22 pm.
- 007-019 5:41 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and John B. Connally talked on the telephone from 5:41 pm to 5:43 pm.
- 007-020 5:43 PM · 6 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 5:43 pm and 6:04 pm.
- 007-021 6:04 PM · 15 min — President Richard M. Nixon, William P. Rogers, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman talked on the telephone from 6:04 pm to 6:19 pm.
- 550-004 6:21 PM · 2 min — United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 6:21 pm and 6:40 pm.
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Cite this conversation
Conversation 007-022, July 28, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 417189333). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/007-022 (accessed October 28, 2026).