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Start Date: 29-Oct-1971 11:01 AM

End Date: 29-Oct-1971 11:30 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Burns, Arthur F.[Unknown person(s)]

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:27:38

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:57:41

607a.mp3

607b.mp3

607c.mp3

NARA Description:

On October 29, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Arthur F. Burns, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:01 am to 11:30 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 607-011 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 607-11

Date: October 29, 1971
Time: 11:01 am - 11:30 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Arthur F. Burns.

     Winton M. (“Red”) Blount
          -Political plans
                -John J. Sparkman
                -Announcement
                      -Timing
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. 10/06)
                                                                     Conv. No. 607-11 (cont.)


     Sparkman
          -The President’ view
               -Age
               -Appearance

     National economy
          -Economic indicators
          -International monetary situation
                -Henry A. Kissinger's role
                      -John B. Connally
                      -George P. Shultz
                      -Peter G. Peterson
                      -Burns’s forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
                            -Gold
                -Kissinger's views
                      -Willy Brandt
                      -Georges J.R. Pompidou
                      -Edward R.G. Heath
                            -European Common Market
                                 -France
                            -Middle East policy

     France
          -Burns’s view
               -Popular opinion
          -The President's relations with Pompidou

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 11:01 am.

     The President's schedule
          -Forthcoming meeting with Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:30 am.

     France
          -The President's previous meeting with Pompidou in New York
               -Chicago
          -Kissinger’s view
          -Kissinger's relationship with Valery Giscard D'estang
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                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                 Tape Subject Log
                                   (rev. 10/06)
                                                                   Conv. No. 607-11 (cont.)


National economy
     -Economic indicators
           -Burns’s view
     -Charles W. Colson's possible arrangements for dinner
           -Gustave L. Levy
           -Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker
           -Previous dinner
           -Liquidity
     -Money supply
           -Critics of the rate of growth
     -Unemployment
           -The President’s view
           -Connally's views
           -Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
     -Interest rates
           -Burns’s views
     -Liquidity
           -Banks
           -Corporations
     -1960s
           -The President’s view
                 -Capital investment
     -Prospects for 1972
           -Recession
           -Recovery
     -The President's program
           -George Meany
                 -Possible action
                        -Burns’s view
                              -Possible speech by the President
                                    -Wage and price freeze
                                    -1972 election
           -Burns’s view
                 -Business Council
                        -Cost of Living Council [COLC]
                              -Criticism
                        -Profits
                              -The President's statement to unknown steel worker
                                    -Detroit
           -Meany
                 -Participation
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                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                  Tape Subject Log
                                    (rev. 10/06)
                                                                Conv. No. 607-11 (cont.)


                -The President’s view

International Monetary Fund [IMF]
      -Leadership position
           -Burns's conversations
                 -Great Britain
                 -Germany
                 -France
           -Pierre-Paul Schweitzer
                 -Burns’s views

Alcoholic drinks
     -The President
           -Public speaking
           -Political campaigns
           -State dinners
     -Josip Broz Tito
     -The President’s view
     -Yugoslavia
           -Burns's experience
     -The President

IMF
      -Leadership position
           -Jelle Zijlstra
                 -Connally's dispute with Burns
                 -Burns's research
                 -Burns's previous conversation with Connally
                        -Burns's credibility
                              -Connally’s credibility
                 -Connally's Views
                 -Possible meeting with Connally
                 -Conversations
                 -Views on US economy
                        -Rate of appreciation
                        -Balance of payments
                              -IMF
                              -Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
                                      [OECD]
                 -Burns’s views
                        -Paul A. Volcker
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. 10/06)
                                                                     Conv. No. 607-11 (cont.)



An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 11:01 am.

     [Unintelligible]

The unknown person entered at an unknown time before 11:30 am.

     Connally
         -Burns’s view

     Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
          -Vacancies
               -Andrew F. Brimmer
                     -President’s previous conversation with William P. Rogers
                     -Possible role with administration
                           -United Nations [UN]
          -Appointments
               -Carl Thompson
                     -Burns’s view
                     -Biographical sketch
                     -The President’s view
                     -Connally's views
                           -Texas
               -Requirements
               -Unknown man from Atlanta
               -Martin C. (“Marty”) Anderson
                     -Burns’s view
               -Timing
               -Burns's forthcoming conversation with Frederic V. Malek
               -Burns's possible conversation with Connally

     Burns's schedule
          -Forthcoming meeting with Kissinger

Burns left at 11:30 am.
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)