Conversation: 445-001
Prev: 444-026 Next: 445-002Start Date: 13-Jun-1973 10:15 AM
End Date: 13-Jun-1973 11:33 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Price, Raymond K., Jr.; Scowcroft, Brent G. (Gen.); [Unknown person(s)]; White House operator; Haig, Alexander M., Jr.;Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On June 13, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Raymond K. Price, Jr., Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft, unknown person(s), White House operator, and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 10:15 am and 11:33 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 445-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 445-1
Date: June 13, 1973
Time: Unknown between 10:15 am and 11:33 am
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Raymond K. Price, Jr.
Price’s coat
Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft talked with the President at an unknown time between 10:15 am and
11:22 am.
[Conversation No. 445-1A]
[Begin telephone conversation]
President’s telegrams
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Charles Whitehouse
-William H. Sullivan
[End telephone conversation]
Vietnam peace negotiations
-October, November 1972
-Problem
-North Vietnam
-US election
-South Vietnam
-Paris
-North Vietnam’s reaction
-January 1973
-Problem
-South Vietnam
-President’s message to Nguyen Van Thieu
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
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Conversation No. 445-1 (cont’d)
-Tone
-President’s meeting with Tran Kim Phuong
-Diplomatic language
-Communique
-Aid to South Vietnam
-Agreement
-Importance
-Strength
-Laos
-Simplicity
-Cambodia
-Delay
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Vietnam
-Future
US foreign policy
-Crises
-Lebanon
-US power advantage
-Suez
-Great Britain, France [?]
-Gomal Abdel Nasar [?]
-US response
-President’s opinion
-Aswan Dam
-World view
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Nikita S. Khruschev
-Deal
-Substance
-Watergate
-Impact
-Partisanship
-US-USSR summit [?]
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
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Conversation No. 445-1 (cont’d)
-US-PRC relations
-Press relations
-Faith
-Future concern
-Atomization
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 10:15 am.
Refreshments
-Coffee
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:22 am.
President’s foreign policy
-President’s critics
-Year of Europe
-Significance
-Georges J. R. Pompidou’s support
-Great Britain, France, Italy
-Pompidou
President’s forthcoming speech on nation’s economy
-President’s actions
[Discontinuities appear in the original recording.]
President’s forthcoming speech on nation’s economy
-Boom
-US standard of living
-Economic prosperity
-Buying power of dollar in 1972
-Economic growth
-Percentages
-Annual income
-Inflation
-Strength of US economy
-Public perception
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
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Conversation No. 445-1 (cont’d)
-Jobs
-Income growth
-Price index
-Rent
-Inclusion
-Explanation
-Press briefing
-Interest rates
-George P. Shultz’s viewpoint
-Wage freezes
-Settlements
-Inflation
-Phase III
-60 day freeze
-System of controls
-Shultz
-Removal
-Shultz
-Reaction
-Public
-Business
-Gasoline prices
-Reports
-Increases
-Rhetorical flourishes
-Controlled economy
-Phase IV
-Prosperity, jobs
-President’s action
-Cost of living
-Food prices
-Freeze
-Retail
-Supplies
-Crop production
-Reduction
-Current prices
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
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Conversation No. 445-1 (cont’d)
-Raw agricultural products
-Shortages
-Domestic compared to export consumption
-Soybeans
-President’s experience
-Importance
-Uses
-Export controls
-Reporting
-Food products
-Congressional action
-Existing commitments
-[Internal Revenue Service audits]
-Price “roll back”
-Deletions
-Surplus [?]
-Executive compensation
-Demagoguery
-Briefing
-[Spending bills]
-Taxes, prices
-William W. Scranton
-Appointment
-Return call
-Announcement
-Timing
-Speech [?]
-Energy
-Congressional action
-President’s proposals
-Crisis, shortage, problem
-Alaska pipeline
-Message to Congress
-Farm Bill
-Veto threat
-Inflation
-Vietnam War
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Conversation No. 445-1 (cont’d)
-Peace
-Bombing of Cambodia
-Overstatement
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Military draft
-Price’s efforts
-President’s approval
-Briefing
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Comment on 60-day freeze
-Public reception
-Cabinet, staff
Time of day
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:15 am and
11:22 am.
[Conversation No. 445-1B]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 40-63]
[End telephone conversation]
President’s forthcoming speech on nation’s economy
-Briefings
-Timing
-Significance
-Public perception
-War
The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr. between 11:22 am and 11:26 am.
[Conversation No. 445-1C]
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Conversation No. 445-1 (cont’d)
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 40-64]
[End telephone conversation]
Scranton
-Return telephone call
-Liberal progressive
Elliot L. Richardson
-Performance as Attorney General
Watergate
-Ervin Committee
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-President’s assessment
-Leadership
-Forthcoming Leonid I. Brezhnev visit
President’s speech on nation’s economy
-Editing
-Improvement
Price
-Role on White House staff
-Involvement with speechwriting
Price left at an unknown time before 11:33 am.
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