Conversation: 482-004
Prev: 482-003 Next: 482-005Start Date: 16-Apr-1971 12:09 PM
End Date: 16-Apr-1971 12:38 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Lasker, Bernard J. ("Bunny"); Gordon, Albert H.; Regan, Donald T.; Flanigan, Peter M.; Connally, John B.; [Unknown person(s)];Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:07:07
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:24:33
NARA Description:
On April 16, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Bernard J. ("Bunny") Lasker, Albert H. Gordon, Donald T. Regan, Peter M. Flanigan, John B. Connally, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:09 pm and 12:38 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 482-004 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 482-4
Date: April 16, 1971
Time: Unknown after 12:09 pm - 12:38 pm
Location: Oval Office
Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker, Albert H. Gordon, Donald T. Regan, Peter M. Flanigan, and John
B. Connally met.
Presentation to the President
-Steven Delaney
-Gift to President
-Bull
-Shopping
-General Services Administration [GSA]
-Gift to President
-Bull
[Break in tape recording]
The President entered at 12:23 pm.
Presentation to President
-President's economic accomplishments
-Bull
-Press
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
An unknown man entered at 12:25 pm.
Press
The unknown man left at 12:25 pm.
Positions for press photo
Members of the press entered at 12:25 pm.
[Camera noise]
Presentation to President
-Economy
-Stock market
-Bull
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Economy
-Wall Street
-Confidence
-Prospects
-Stock market
-Rise
-Institutional buying
-Individuals
Members of the press left at an unknown time before 12:38 pm.
-Confidence in President's policies
-Numbers
-President's policies
-Inflation
-Stock market
-Institutional buying
-Individuals
-Blue chips
-Bonds
-Insurance companies
-Individuals
-Numbers
-Projections
-Confidence
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Growth rate
-Economists
-Politics
-Otto Eckstein
Presentation of gifts by President
-Bull
-Eisenhower Conv. No. 482-4 (cont.)
-Gettysburg Farm
-Presidential paper weights
-Blue chips
Stock market
-Performance
-Fall
-Decline in earnings
-Brokerage firms
-Difficulties
-President's conversation with unknown broker
-Improvement
-Long-range projections
Economy
-March economic indicators
-Gross National Product [GNP]
-Growth
-Automobiles
-Home building
-Retail sales
-March figures
-Household furnishings
-Automobiles
-General Motors [GM]
-Consumers
-Confidence
-Stock market
-Shares
-Growth
-Institutions/individuals
-President's foreign policy
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Ping-pong team
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
Foreign relations
-Middle East
-PRC
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Stock market
-President's forthcoming meeting with American Society of Newspaper Editors
[ASNE], April 16, 1971 Conv. No. 482-4 (cont.)
-State Department
-PRC
-Communism
-President's initiatives
-Pace
-USSR
-US/USSR relations
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-PRC
-Detente
-US/PRC relations
-US policy
-Need for confidentiality
-USSR
-USSR
-Possible interpretations of US/PRC relations
-PRC
-US missionaries
-Relations with US
Merrill Lynch's public sale of stock
-Timing
Unknown man's daughter
-Connally
Stock market
Connally
-Anecdote
-Bull
Wall Street
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
Lasker, Gordon, Regan, Flanigan, and Connally left at 12:38 pm