Conversation: 444-014
Prev: 444-013 Next: 444-015Start Date: 12-Jun-1973 12:45 PM
End Date: 12-Jun-1973 1:15 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Price, Raymond K., Jr.; Scowcroft, Brent G. (Gen.);Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On June 12, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Raymond K. Price, Jr., and Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 12:45 pm to 1:15 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 444-014 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 444-14
Date: June 12, 1973
Time: 12:45 pm - 1:15 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Raymond K. Price, Jr.
Price’s schedule
-President’s address to nation about Watergate investigations, April 30, 1973
-Statements about Watergate investigations, May 22, 1973
President’s forthcoming address to nation announcing price control measures
-President’s forthcoming economic policy meeting
-Tone
-Strength, positivity
-Content
-Status and prospects
-Beginning and end of speech
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 444-14 (cont’d)
-Use of superlatives
-Food, clothing, housing
-Food prices
-Jobs, wages
-Food prices
-Inflation
-Global demand, bad weather
-Europe
-Actions
-Price freeze
-Wages
-Current exemption from freeze
-Duration
-Temporary measure
-Free economy
-Possible effects
-Boom contrasted with bust
-Black markets, rationing, price increases
-Recession
-Congress
-Free market economy
-Price freeze
-Duration
-Temporary nature
-Phase IV
-Phase I, Phase II, Phase III
-Gasoline prices
-White House actions
-Congressional action
-Possible effects
-Congress
-Necessity for action
-Possible vetoes
-Costs to American people
-Need for public support
Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft talked with the President between 12:52 pm and 12:54 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 444-14 (cont’d)
[Conversation No. 444-14A]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 40-29]
[End telephone conversation]
President’s forthcoming address to nation announcing price control measures
-Content
-Congressional relations
-Tone
-Strength, positivity
-Content
-Goals
-Removal of controls
-End of speech
-Vietnam
-Peace
-Significance
-US-Soviet Union relations
-Soviet Summit
-Shared responsibility
-Opportunity
-Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
-1955
-“Prosperity without war and without inflation”
-Format
-Tone
-Level of detail
-Phase III
-Public awareness
-George P. Shultz’s role
-Ability as salesman
-Herbert Stein’s role
-Goals of speech
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 444-14 (cont’d)
-Communication of White House action, care
-Compared to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s closing of banks in 1933
-Price freeze
-Exemptions
-Rents, interest, wages
-Public attention
-Congressional action
-Phase IV
-Compared to Phase III
-Education of public
-Timing of communication initiatives
-Forthcoming of Leonid I. Brezhnev meeting
-Possible radio talks
-Frequency, schedule
-Subjects
-Budget, food, world markets
-Compared to political campaign
-Number
-Press relations
-Contrasted with television [TV] address
-Price’s preparation
-Program
-Conclusion, introduction of speech
-Possible meeting with President
-Draft review
-Timing
-Length
-Drafts
-President’s review
Watergate
-Firing of H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Eisenhower’s relationship with President
-John W. Dean, III
-White House response
-Haldeman’s possible response
-Use immunity
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 444-14 (cont’d)
-Compared with transactional immunity
-Grand jury
-Compared to James McCord
-Press relations
-President’s possible resignation
-President’s knowledge
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Media coverage
-Dean and Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Veracity
-Motives
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, John N. Mitchell
President’s forthcoming address to nation announcing price control measures
-Tone
-Confidence
-Jobs, money, meat prices
Price left at 1:15 pm.