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Start Date: 27-Jan-1972 11:13 AM

End Date: 27-Jan-1972 11:24 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Stans, Maurice H.Ziegler, Ronald L.Peterson, Peter G.Flanigan, Peter M.White House photographer

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:16:45

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:28:14

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NARA Description:

On January 27, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Maurice H. Stans, Ronald L. Ziegler, Peter G. Peterson, Peter M. Flanigan, and White House photographer met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:13 am to 11:24 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 658-007 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 658-7

Date: January 27, 1972
Time: 11:13 am - 11:24 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Maurice H. Stans.

     Stans’s resignation
          -Announcement
          -The President’s gratitude
          -Announcement
                 -Stans’s forthcoming role
          -Secrecy
          -The President’s gratitude
                 -Stans’s past support
                      -1960 election
                      -1962 election
                      -1968 election


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     Business
          -Support for the Administration

     Economy
         -As issue
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                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. 10/06)
                                                            Conv. No. 658-7 (cont.)


          -Democrats
     -Retail sales
          -Arthur F. Burns
     -General thrust
     -Economic indicators
          -Retail sales
                 -Stans’s reports
          -Stock market
          -Rise in economy
          -Unemployment

Stans’s future attendance at meetings
     -Legislative leaders
     -Robert J. Dole
     -Cabinet
     -Bryce N. Harlow
     -Notification of H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Attendees at White House functions
     -Dinners
     -Rose Mary Woods notification
     -Haldeman
     -Stans’s talk with Woods

Business problems
     -Federal Trade Commission [FTC] decision
     -Breakup of breakfast cereal companies
     -FTC administrator [Miles W. Kirkpatrick]
     -The President’s support for business
           -Edmund S. Muskie, Hubert H. Humphrey, Edward M. Kennedy
     -Perception of business community
           -Stans
           -Peter M. Flanigan
           -Control of commissioners
                 -William D. Ruckelshaus
                 -Kirkpatrick
                 -Virginia H. Knauer

Stans’s notes to the President
     -Telephone call to be made
           -Former head of 3M, Camden Knight
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                           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                         Tape Subject Log
                                           (rev. 10/06)
                                                                         Conv. No. 658-7 (cont.)


                     -View of wage and price controls
                     -Political pressure from right wing
                -Foster [?] McGraw [sp ?]
                     -Birthday greetings

     Mike McGill
          -Books
          -Possible position with administration
               -Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
          -Qualifications
          -Stans’s possible talk with Flanigan
          -Possible ambassadorship

     Forthcoming announcement
          -Duration
          -Speaking rules
               -Stans, Peterson, Flanigan
          -Council on International Economic Policy [CIEP]

Peter G. Peterson, Flanigan, and the photographer entered at 11:20 am.

     Forthcoming announcement

     Arrangement for photograph session

     [Photograph session]
          -[General conversation]
               -Germany

     Announcement of appointments
         -Protocol
               -Flanigan’s forthcoming position
         -The President’s remarks
         -Stans’s remarks
         -Peterson’s remarks
               -Duration
               -Content

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 11:23 am.

     Camera
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                            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                          Tape Subject Log
                                            (rev. 10/06)
                                                                  Conv. No. 658-7 (cont.)


           -Position

The President, et al. left at 11:24 am.