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Start 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

424-019.mp3

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.
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                     (rev. Aug.-2010)