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Start Date: 13-Jun-1973 3:22 PM

End Date: 13-Jun-1973 3:40 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Price, Raymond K., Jr.

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

445-020.mp3

NARA Description:

On June 13, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Raymond K. Price, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:22 pm to 3:40 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 445-020 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 445-20

Date: June 13, 1973
Time: 3:22 pm - 3:40 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Raymond Price.
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                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                     Tape Subject Log 

                                     (rev. August-2011)

                                                          Conversation No. 445-20 (cont’d)


      President’s speech on nation’s economy
             -Approval of speech
                     -Herbert Stein, George P. Shultz

An unknown man entered the room after 3:22 pm.

      Refreshments         

             -Coffee           


The unknown man left at an unknown time before 3:40 pm.

      President’s speech on nation’s economy
             -Length
             -Content and phraseology
                     -Edits
                     -Wages
                              -Timing
             -Price’s efforts
                     -President’s approval
             -President’s schedule
                     -Typing, copying
                     -President’s edits
                     -Cabinet meeting
                     -Rose Mary Woods
                     -Congressional leaders meeting
                     -President’s edits
             -Woods’s typing
                     -President’s edits
             -Military draft
                     -Duration
                     -Exceptions
                     -Wording

      William W. Scranton
             -Schedule
                   -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
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                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                          Tape Subject Log 

                                          (rev. August-2011)

                                                               Conversation No. 445-20 (cont’d)


       Bryce N. Harlow 

             -Timing of announcement               


       Scranton        

              -Capabilities         

              -Work history           

              -Work ethic         

              -Status as “outsider”          


       President’s speech on nation’s economy 

              -Proposals by George P. Shultz, Herbert Stein, and John T. Dunlop 

                      -Status quo
                              -Cost of living increases
                              -Economic consequences
                              -Quaker anecdote about a donkey
              -Possible congressional action         

              -Content and phraseology           

                      -Consultation         

                              -Robert C. Byrd [?]       


Price left at 3:40 pm.