Conversation: 409-001
Prev: 408-010 Next: 409-002Start Date: 1-Feb-1973 4:08 PM
End Date: 1-Feb-1973 6:05 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Trend, Burke (Sir); Kissinger, Henry A.; Shultz, George P.; Heath, Edward R. G.;Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On February 1, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Sir Burke Trend, Henry A. Kissinger, George P. Shultz, and Edward R. G. Heath met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:08 pm to 6:05 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 409-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 406-56/409-1
Date: February 1, 1973
Time: 4:08 pm - 6:05 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Edward R. G. Heath, Burke Trend and George P. Shultz.
[This recording continues conversation 406-56.]
Trade
-Arthur F. Burns [?]
-Soviet Union [?]
-Reaction
-Trip
-Anthony Barber [?]
-Paul A. Volcker [?]
-Secretary of Treasury
-Possible trip
-Emergency
-Memorandum
-Congress
-“Laundry list”
-Inaugural address
-State of the Union address
-George Washington [?]
-Thomas Jefferson
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
-Labor
-Possibilities
-Congress
Agriculture
-Europe
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Aug.-09)
Conversation No. 409-1 (cont’d)
-US
-Products
-Industrialization
-Agricultural lobby
-Trade deal
-Labor
-Farmers
-Portion of population
-Portion in Congress
-Senate
-Problem for Great Britain
-Farmers
-Portion of population
-Agricultural workers
-Negotiations
-Population
-Canada
Economic issues
-J. Willard (“Bill”) Marriott, Jr.
-Hotels
-Restaurants
-Unemployment
-Workers
-January 1973 figures
-Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS]
-1972 election
-George S. McGovern’s use of issue
-Statistics
-Men [?]
-Women
-Fluctuating employment
-Blacks
-Welfare and unemployment
-Blacks
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Aug.-09)
Conversation No. 409-1 (cont’d)
-Birthrate
-Whites
-College
-Blacks
-Great Britain
-Welfare [?] options
-US
-Family assistance programs
-Food stamps
-Welfare
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-Meeting with Heath [?]
Trade deal
-US goal
-Cooperation
-Europe-US relations
-Great Britain, Italy, Germany
-Politics, economics
-Japan
-Europe
-Products
-Cameras, television sets
-The President’s equipment
-Dictation machine [?]
-Sony
-International Business Machines Corporation
[IBM]
-Schedule
-Agenda
-Meeting
-Camp David
-Heath’s motorcade [?]
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew [?]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Aug.-09)
Conversation No. 409-1 (cont’d)
The President, Heath, et al., left at 6:05 pm.