Conversation: 326-001
Prev: 325-023 Next: 326-002Start Date: 22-Mar-1972 5:07 PM
End Date: 22-Mar-1972 6:15 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ehrlichman, John D.; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Connally, John B.; Shultz, George P.; Stein, Herbert; Rumsfeld, Donald H.; Colson, Charles W.; Sanchez, Manolo;Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:00:24
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:44:26
NARA Description:
On March 22, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, John D. Ehrlichman, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, John B. Connally, George P. Shultz, Herbert Stein, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Charles W. Colson, and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 5:07 pm and 6:15 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 326-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 326-1
Date: March 22, 1972
Time: Unknown between 5:07 pm - 6:15 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with John D. Ehrlichman, H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John B. Connally, George
P. Shultz, Herbert Stein, Donald Rumsfeld and Charles W. Colson.
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress; this is a continuation of Conversation
No. 324-43]
National economy
-Pay Board
-George Meany’s resignation
-The President’s possible statement
-Television
-Reaction
-The President’s view
-Meany
-Possible West Coast longshoremen strike
-Press coverage
-Labor members
-Meany’s resignation
-Effect on Democratic candidates
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Humphrey
-Busing
-Joint Economic Committee
-Muskie
-Leonard Woodcock
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-The President’s possible statement
-Format and timing
James D. Hodgson
-Woodcock
Shultz left at an unknown time before 6:05 pm.
National economy
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 326-1 (cont.)
-Pay Board
-Meany’s resignation
-The President’s possible response
-Networks
-Format and timing
-Possible public perception
-Forthcoming Cost of Living Council [COLC] meeting
-Connally
-Timing
-George H. Boldt
-Colson’s view
-Statement
-Rumsfeld’s view
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s statement
-COLC meeting
-Timing
-Ziegler’s possible statement
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Connally’s view
-Boldt
-Pay Board
Shultz entered at an unknown time after 5:07 pm.
-Price Commission
-Woodcock’s possible resignation
-Hodgson’s views
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Public Pay Board
-John T. Dunlop
-Construction industry
-Peter J. Brennan
-Fitzsimmons
-Hodgson’s view
-International Brotherhood of Teamsters’ public image
-Views
-Construction industry
-Relationship with Teamsters
-Dunlop
-Shultz’s view
-COLC meeting
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 326-1 (cont.)
-Timing
-The President’s possible statement
-Ziegler
-Colson’s view
-Doug Johnson [?]
-Rumsfeld
-Shultz
-Preparation
-Long Statement
-Television statement
-William L. Safire
-Stein’s forthcoming briefing
-Composition
-Virgil B. Day
-Benjamin F. Biaggini
-Rocco C. Siciliano
-Biaggini
-The President’s view
-Fitzsimmons
-Rumsfeld’s view
-Day
-Day
-Rumsfeld’s view
-Biaggini
-The President’s view
-Meany’s resignation
-Administration response
-The President’s view
-Connally
-Rumsfeld
-Connally’s forthcoming speech to the Middlesex Club
-Boston
-Club
-Television shows
-Today
-Size of audience compared to Meet the Press
-Herbert E. Kaplow
-Barbara Walters
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] Morning News
-Meet the Press
-Marshall Green
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 326-1 (cont.)
-Today
-Connally’s possible appearance
-Timing
-The President’s forthcoming press conference
-Meany’s attendance record
-Meany’s resignation
-Administration response
-Television shows
-Today
-Timing of Connally’s appearance
-Network news
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Location
-Meet the Press
-Possible replacement of Green with Rumsfeld
-The President’s forthcoming meeting with Green
-Humphrey, Muskie
-Administration’s response
-The President’s schedule
-Green
Ehrlichman, Connally, Shultz, Rumsfeld, and Colson left at 6:05 pm.
Steins’s briefing technique
-The President’s view
National economy
-The President’s program
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Wage and price controls
-Success
-Possible freeze on food prices
-Stein’s view
-Farmers
-Meat
-Cattle
-Hogs
Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Marina von N. Whitman
-Stein’s view
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 326-1 (cont.)
-Schedule
-Speeches
-Ezra Solomon
-The President’s view
-Stein’s possible speech on wage and price controls
Stein left at 6:08 pm.
The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming COLC meeting
-Forthcoming meeting with Green
-Henry A. Kissinger’s views
-Green’s possible press statement
-State Department
-Shanghai Communique
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Haldeman’s view
-William P. Rogers
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Green’s forthcoming appearance on Meet the Press
-Florida
-Press conference
-The President’s view
-Meany
-Camp David
-Press conference
-Pay Board story
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Haldeman’s schedule
-Press conference
-Patrick J. Buchanan views
-George C. Wallace
-ITT
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 6:08 pm.
Instructions
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:15 pm.
The President’s forthcoming press conference
-Responses
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 326-1 (cont.)
-ITT
-Life magazine story
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Ziegler
-Harry S. Truman, Franklin D. Roosevelt
The President and Haldeman left at 6:15 pm.