Conversation: 017-005
Prev: 017-004 Next: 017-006Start Date: 24-Dec-1971 1:37 PM
End Date: 24-Dec-1971 1:46 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Shultz, George P.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:02:02
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:11:03
NARA Description:
On December 24, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and George P. Shultz talked on the telephone from 1:37 pm to 1:46 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-005 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 17-5 Date: December 24,1971 Time: 1:37 pm - 1:46 pm Location: Oval Office The President talked with George P. Shultz. [See Conversation No. 309-3] 3 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Shultz's schedule President's meeting with John D. Ehrlichman and Henry A. Kissinger Defense budget -Numbers -Melvin R. Laird -Right wingers -Arthur F. Burns -Defending the budget -Kissinger -Laird will defend the budget -$82 billion outlay -$78.6 billion -Defense spending in fiscal '72 -75.8 -Monthly rate of expenditure -Approximately $1 billion more -Effect on economy -Laird -Meeting with the President Water Bill -Ehrlichman -Shultz -Budgetary implications -Amount -Appropriations -Congress -Override -Budgetary implications -Political implications -Veto -Edmund S. Muskie Environment -Cleaning up the air -Political issue -Future discussions Water Bill 4 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) -Shultz to meet with Ehrlichman -Signature -Appropriations Budgetary issues -Unknown issues to be discussed later Money supply -Burns -President's influence on Burns -Burns -Voted to increase money supply -Burns's trip to Virgin Islands Federal Reserve Board of Governors -Procedures for appointment -Burns -Warren E. Burger -"Fed" compared to Supreme Court -Burns Foreign policy -Kissinger -India -Pakistan -US neutrality -Relief -Public reaction to possible US involvement in India-Pakistan War -Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy -Shultz’s view -War -India Kissinger -Forthcoming call to Kissinger from Shultz Public reaction to India-Pakistan War -Kissinger's reaction to press -Moral support for Kissinger -Joseph S. Kraft -Marquis W. Childs 5 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) -Kissinger -Middle East -Wall Street Journal -Editorial -US foreign policy Christmas greetings ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 14s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 ********************************************************************** President's signing of the National Cancer Act of 1971 on December 23, 1971 -Shultz's and daughters' attendance -Ceremony Movie "Brian's Song" -Ehrlichman -Monday night in White House theatre -American Broadcasting Company [ABC] movie -Brian Piccolo -Gale E. Sayers -Race relations -Shultz and family invited