Conversation: 424-019
Prev:  424-018 Next: 424-020Start Date: 29-Mar-1973 9:20 AM
End Date: 29-Mar-1973 9:33 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Shultz, George P.; Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On March 29, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and George P. Shultz met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 9:20 am to 9:33 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 424-019 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 424-19 Date: March 29, 1973 Time: 9:20 am -9:33 am Location: Executive Office Building The President met with George P. Shultz. Price controls -Freeze -Implementation -Base date -Statement -Prices -18- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. Aug.-2010) Conversation No. 424-19 (cont’d) -Rollback -Phase I -1972 attempts -Demands by George Meany President's address -Tariffs -Trade -John D. Ehrlichman, H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, Roy L. Ash -President's vetoes -Counterattack -Price freeze -Tariffs -Price ceiling -Operation -Tone -Drafting -Ehrlichman -Effects of freeze -Budget -Domestic spending -Increases -Congress -Taxes -Restraint -Price ceiling -Compared with price freeze -Wording -Appeal to public -Budget -Future conflicts -Effects of Vietnam War -Cost of living -Four years of progress -President's actions -Inflation -Cuts in rates -Imports, domestic production -Imposition of price ceiling -President's recommendation to Congress -19- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. Aug.-2010) Conversation No. 424-19 (cont’d) -Removal of tariffs -Press conference -Food crisis -Energy crisis -Imports -Comments on President's economic program -Edward Calvin [?] -Republican -Meat prices [?] -Budget -Price freeze on food -Credit to President -Housewives’ role -Removal -Cattlemen -Reactions -Duration of freeze -Shultz's statement -Impact of President's address -Shultz's briefing -Advice of Ronald L. Ziegler -Abe Bartlett [?] -Public response -Meat prices -Pork -Chickens, turkeys -Eggs -Soybean prices -Chicken prices -Production levels -Freeze -Call to John B. Connally -President's address -Contents -Use of term “ceiling” Shultz left at 9:33 am. -20- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. Aug.-2010)