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Start Date: 12-Aug-1971 12:25 PM

End Date: 12-Aug-1971 12:44 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Weber, Arnold R.Shultz, George P.White House photographerBull, Stephen B.

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:18:13

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:39:04

562a.mp3

562b.mp3

562c.mp3

NARA Description:

On August 12, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Arnold R. Weber, George P. Shultz, White House photographer, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:25 pm to 12:44 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 562-005 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 562-5

Date: August 12, 1971
Time: 12:25 pm - 12:44 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Arnold R. Weber and George P. Shultz; the White House photographer
was present at the beginning of the meeting.

     President's schedule

     Photograph session
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                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                               Tape Subject Log
                                 (rev. 10/06)
                                                               Conv. No. 562-5 (cont.)


Weber
    -Experience with administration
    -Future
         -University [of Chicago]

Teaching
     -Lectures
     -Blue books
          -The President’s law school experience
          -Weber's experience
          -Shultz's experience
               -Dean of Business School
                      -Executive program
     -Businessmen's knowledge
          -Monetary system
               -Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
               -Commercial banks

Government
    -Businessmen's knowledge
         -FRB
    -Weber's future teaching experience
         -Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
         -Faculty
               -Possible seminar
    -Weber's experience
         -Administration
               -Conservatism compared to liberalism
               -Manpower program
                     -Job Corps
                          -Congress
                          -Cost
                          -Success
                          -Political aspect
                          -Administration policy

National economy
     -Edmund S. Muskie's statement
           -News summary
     -Unemployment
           -Administrations of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
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                           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                          Tape Subject Log
                                            (rev. 10/06)
                                                                      Conv. No. 562-5 (cont.)



     Weber


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           -Hyde Park of Chicago
           -House
               -Location
                     -Museum of Science and Industry

     President's previous visits to University of Chicago
          -Allan Wallace [sp?]
          -Law school building dedication

     Occupations
         -Importance

     Immigration to US
         -Polls
         -Unknown Polish editors conversation with President
         -Elite classes
         -Unknown man's statement in 1875
         -Colonial labor force
               -Unknown Frenchman

Stephen B. Bull entered and left at an unknown time after 12:25 pm.

     Presentation of gifts by President
          -Weber’s sons
                -Key chain
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                           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                        Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. 10/06)
                                                                Conv. No. 562-5 (cont.)


              -Apollo viewer
          -Weber's wife
              -Compact
              -Money clip

     Government
         -Grade levels
              -Reduction
                    -Press coverage

Weber and Shultz left at 12:44 pm.