Conversation: 854-019
Prev: 854-018 Next: 854-020Start Date: 13-Feb-1973 10:59 AM
End Date: 13-Feb-1973 11:42 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ehrlichman, John D.; Bull, Stephen B.; Shultz, George P.; Sanchez, Manolo;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On February 13, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, John D. Ehrlichman, Stephen B. Bull, George P. Shultz, and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:59 am to 11:42 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 854-019 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 854-19
Date: February 13, 1973
Time: 10:59 -11:42 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with John D. Ehrlichman
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-10)
Conversation No. 854-19 (cont’d)
President’s schedule
-Meeting with George P. Shultz
-Personnel meeting
-Publicity
-Trade
-Home front devaluation
Public relations
-Shultz's statements
-Apolitical nature
-Trade
-American products
-Press conference
-Political points
-Foreign consumption
-Great Britain [?]
-Coverage
Personnel appointments
-Cathy Douglas
-William O. Douglas
-Application for job at Justice Department
-Assistant US Attorney
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Meeting with President
-Health
-Second Circuit Court
-Connecticut
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Gray
-Successor at Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Loyalty
-Biographies
-Henry E. Peterson
-Assistant Attorney General
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:59 am.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-10)
Conversation No. 854-19 (cont’d)
Shultz’s arrival for meeting
Bull left at an unknown time before 11:42 am.
Personnel appointments
-Petersen
-Judgeship
-FBI director
-Apolitical civil servant
-Gray
-Removal as nominee
-Watergate
-Newsweek article
-FBI director
-List of names
-Gray
-Jerry V. Wilson
-Washington, DC police chief
-Retention
-Meeting with President
Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Trip to Europe, Japan
-Presidential politics
-Anne L. Armstrong
-Rockefeller’s political aspirations
-Ronald W. Reagan
Meeting with Shultz
-Length
Shultz and the White House photographer entered at 11:05 am.
Presidential appointments
-Judges
-George L. Hart, Jr.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-10)
Conversation No. 854-19 (cont’d)
-Supreme Court
International monetary situation
-Devaluation
-Next crisis
-Fixed rates of exchange
Photographs
-Chair
International monetary situation
-Value of dollar
-Speculation
-Gold
Members of the press entered at an unknown time after 11:05 am.
California
[Photograph session]
International monetary situation
-Shultz’s statement
-Devaluation
-US foreign relations
-Value of dollar
-Cost of living
-Phase III
-August 15, 1971 decision
-Devaluation
-Public reaction
-Trade
-Lowering barriers
-American products
-Negotiations
-Congress’s role
-Restrictions
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-10)
Conversation No. 854-19 (cont’d)
-Safeguards
-Flooding markets
-Japan
-US jobs
-Free trade
-Possibility of protectionism
-Lowering barriers
-Discrimination
-Bargaining position
-Trade legislation
-Discussions
-Russell B. Long
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Republican leaders
-Business
-Labor
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Devaluation
-Temporary solution
-Need for trade legislation
-US trade imbalance
-Causes
-Reduction
-President’s speech to International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-System of exchange rates
-Congressional attitudes
-Trade legislation
-Mills, Long
-Consultation
-Travel abroad
-Cost
Members of the press and the White House photographer left at an unknown time before 11:42
am.
Shultz’s press conference
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-10)
Conversation No. 854-19 (cont’d)
President’s economic message
-State of the Union address
-Draft
-Trade
-Environment
-Timing of message
-Shultz’s views
Trade
-Congressional relations
-Mills
-Japan
-Paul A. Volcker
-Negotiations
-Abilities
-Shultz’s press conference
-Reactions
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Conversations with Pham Van Dong
-Laos
-Shultz
-Consultation with President
-Arthur F. Burns
-Herbert Stein
-Meetings with Burns, William P. Rogers, and Stein
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Involvement
-Press briefings
-Attendance
-Process
-President’s role
-Negotiations
-Policy group for President
Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:05 am.
Rogers’s schedule
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-10)
Conversation No. 854-19 (cont’d)
-Meeting with John A. Scali
-Cuba
-Hijackers
-Situation paper
-National Security Council [NSC]
Bull left at an unknown time before 11:42 am.
Press relations
-Shultz’s press conference
-Pierre Rinfret
-Bombing
-Reason for halt
-Television [TV] appearance
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:05 am.
Refreshments
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:42 am.
Rinfret
-US actions on trade
Trade
-Treasury consultants
-Economists
-Approval
-US actions on trade
-US policy
-Free trade
-Foreigners
-Protectionist
-Congress
-Legislation
-Support of labor
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-10)
Conversation No. 854-19 (cont’d)
-Importance
-Compared to Burke-Hartke bill
-Fitzsimmons
-Schedules
-Face the Nation appearance
-Shultz’s meeting with Meany
-Florida
-Shultz’s meeting with Fitzsimmons
-Arizona
-Tucson
-Meeting with President on plane
-Ehrlichman’s telephone call
-International monetary policy
-Fitzsimmons’s briefing by President
-Florida
-Meany’s briefing by Shultz
-TV appearances
-Face the Nation
-Press relations
-US products
-Phase III
-Shultz’s TV appearances
-Question and answer [Q & A] format
-Image of leadership
-International speculators
-US dollar
-Multinational corporations
-Jobs
-Labor leaders
-International sales
-Agriculture
Labor relations
-Fitzsimmons
-Meeting with Shultz
-Face the Nation
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-10)
Conversation No. 854-19 (cont’d)
-Trade legislation
-Briefing by President
-Shultz’s meeting with Meany
-Golf game
-Murray (“Dusty”) Miller
-Telephone call to son from Presidential plane
-Abilities
-Teamsters
-Statement
-Unemployment insurance
-Welfare
-Labor-management Advisory Committee
-Management representatives
-Power
-Walter Wriston
-James M. Roche
-retirement
-Leonard Woodcock
-Automobile industry
-Peter Blair
-Steel industry
Edward W. Carter [?]
-Prisoners of war [POWs] return
POWs
-Return
-Helena M. (“Obie”) Shultz
-TV coverage
-Collaborators
-Public reaction to POWs
-Support for President
-Sign
-Washington Star
-President's telephone calls to wives
-Capt. Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr., Col. Robison Risner, Capt. James A.
Mulligan, Jr.
-Wives' fortitude
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-10)
Conversation No. 854-19 (cont’d)
Shultz's schedule
-Meeting with Meany
-Business Council
-Shultz's address at dinner
-Phase III
-Trade
-David Packard
-Exports
-Frederick Dent
-Programs
-Henry Kearns
-Interest in markets
-Stability
-US markets
-Public’s understanding
Economic issues
-Criticism of Administration
-News summary
-Hobart Rowen
-Time
-Stein’s view of economic outlook
-Economists’ views
-Credit crunch
-Retail sales
-Confidence
-Rowen
-Burns
-Uncertainty
-International businesses
-Multinational corporations
-Crises
-Uncertainty
President’s schedule
-Scali
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-10)
Conversation No. 854-19 (cont’d)
-Departure for United Nations [UN]
International monetary situation
-Reassurances by Shultz
-Sense of crisis
-Attention
-Kissinger
-Vietnam
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Fisheries
-Pismo Beach
-Environmental clean-up
-Monetary crisis
-Handling
-Game plan
-President’s support for Shultz
-Compared to Congressional relations
-Budget
-David M. Kennedy, John B. Connally
-“Bureaucracy”
-Convertibility
-Burns
Middle East
-Kissinger
-Golda Meir
-Compared to Indira Gandhi
-Visit to US
-US-Israel relations
-US position
-Israel’s position
-Israel’s allies
-Moshe Dayan
-Oil shortages in US
-Effect on US policy
UN
-US support
-Kurt Waldheim
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-10)
Conversation No. 854-19 (cont’d)
Shultz’s schedule
-Kissinger
Ambassador
-Swearing-in
Ehrlichman and Shultz left at 11:42 am.