Conversation No. 21-126

Date: March 21, 1972
Time: 1:03 pm - 1:09 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with George P. Shultz.

[See Conversation No. 690-11C]

     Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act of 1972 signing

     Shultz’s previous meeting with George Meany
          -Meany’s possible resignation from the Pay Board
          -Questions
                -General program
                -Prices
                -Interest rates
                      -Arthur F. Burns
                            -Wage controls
                            -Earl L. Butz
                      -Bankers
                      -Hobart Rowen
                            -Burns
                            -Dollar
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                     -Prime rate
                           -Bankers
                           -John B. Connally
                -Meat prices
                -Food prices
                     -Connally
                           -Cattle price
                           -Consumer Price Index [CPI]
                -Contracts
                -Government regulation
                -Small firm exemption
                     -Pay Board, Price Commission
                -Construction industry

     Interest rates
           -Connally’s possible public statement
                 -Burns
           -Administration policy
           -Prime rate
                 -Connally
                 -Burns
                       -Committee

     Shultz’s previous meeting with Meany
          -Administration position
          -Democrats
          -Controls compared with freedom