Conversation: 642-023
Prev: 642-022 Next: 642-024Start Date: 3-Jan-1972 11:00 AM
End Date: 3-Jan-1972 11:08 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Shultz, George P.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 04:03:20
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 04:12:04
NARA Description:
On January 3, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and George P. Shultz met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:00 am to 11:08 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 642-023 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 642-23
Date: January 3, 1972
Time: 11:00 am - 11:08 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with George P. Shultz.
Budget
-Health Bill
-Medicare
-Present waiting period provision on costs
-Views of Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger, Elliot L. Richardson,
John D. Ehrlichman and Shultz
-Sharing costs
-Waiting period
-Views of the elderly
-Ways and Means Committee and House Resolution [HR] 1
-Waiting period
-Senate Finance Committee
-Richardson's position
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 642-23 (cont.)
-Elderly
-Weinberger's position
-Cost
-Richardson
-Day care bill
-Herman E. Talmadge bill
-The President’s view
-Memorandum
-Constituency
-Shultz’s proposal to the President
-Reasons
-Expense
-Weinberger’s view
The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Shultz and Weinberger
-Budget
National economy
-Projections
-Gross National Product [GNP]
-Base adjustment
-Range of error
Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Herbert Stein and Ezra Solomon
-Possible woman member
-Marina von N. Whitman
-Stein's view
-John B. Connally's view
-Stein
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman's forthcoming call to Connally
-Woman member
-Political advantage
-Woman member
-Connally's view
-Forthcoming call from Shultz
-Political advantage
-Supreme Court
-Stein
-Whitman
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 642-23 (cont.)
-Price Commission
-International economics
-Treasury Department staff
-Kenneth W. Dam's views
-John [D. Ehrlichman?]
-Paul W. McCracken's views
-Appearance
The President's interview with Dan Rather, January 2, 1972
-Camera angles
-The President's appearance
Shultz left at 11:08 am.