Conversation: 921-020
Prev: 921-019 Next: 921-021Start Date: Thursday, May 17, 1973 4:26 PM
End Date: Thursday, May 17, 1973 4:45 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Perk, Ralph J.; Bush, George H. W.; Cole, Kenneth R., Jr.; Falk, James H.; Members of the press; White House photographerRecording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On May 17, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Ralph J. Perk, George H. W. Bush, Kenneth R. Cole, Jr., James H. Falk, members of the press, and White House photographer met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:26 pm to 12:45 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 921-020 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 921-20
Date: May 17, 1973
Time: 12:26 pm - 12:45 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ralph J. Perk, George H. W. Bush, Kenneth R. Cole, Jr. and James H.
Falk.
Greetings
Arrangements for press photograph
Perk’s accomplishments
-Veterans
-Jobs
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
Perk’s forthcoming election
-President’s support
-Air waves
-Cleveland, Ohio
-Polls
-Numbers
-Perk
-John J. Gilligan
-Gilligan
-Taxes
-Previous year’s vote on amendment
-Vote of confidence
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 921-20 (cont’d)
Watergate
-Washington, DC
-Press coverage
-Popular mood
Members of the press and the White House photographer entered at an unknown time after 12:26
pm.
Press coverage
-Discussion points
-Pleasantries
-Cleveland Browns
Bush
The press and the White House photographer left at an unknown time before 12:45 pm.
Cleveland
-Possible action by administration
-Budget
-Unemployment
-Compared with Detroit
-Federal revenue-sharing
-President’s message
-Bureaucracy
-Defense by Perk
Emergency Employment Act [EEA]
-President’s support
-Funding
-Extension
-Manpower
-Federal revenue-sharing
-Flexibility
-Timing of announcement
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 921-20 (cont’d)
Cleveland
-City Council
-Political make-up
-Unemployment
-Funds from administration
-Timing of announcement
-City Council
-Mayor
-Board of Education
-Polls
-Bush
Perk’s possible statement regarding meeting with the President
-Watergate
-Administration’s activities
-Embarrassment
-Foreign policy
-Peace
-World War II
-Soviet Summit
-Europe
-Domestic programs
-Inflation
-Federal budget
-Administration’s attitude
-1972 election mandate
-Peace
-Prosperity
-War
-Inflation
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
1972 campaign
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 921-20 (cont’d)
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s visit
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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Watergate
-Administration’s activities
-Bush’s recent trip
-Lincoln, Nebraska
-Tuscon, Arizona
-President’s message
-Public reaction
-Cabinet meeting
-Revenue-sharing
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
Republican Party
-Political success
-Mayorship
-Annapolis, Maryland
-Black vote
-Oakland, California
-[First name unknown] Reading [?]
-Alexandria, Virginia
-Administration’s handling of Watergate
Perk’s forthcoming election
-Cleveland Press
-Cleveland Plain Dealer
-Thomas V. H. Vail
-Cleveland Press
-Roy Howard
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 921-20 (cont’d)
-Scripps-Howard Company
-New York
-Perk’s opponent
-Finances
-Message from President
-Vail
-Herbert G. Klein’s possible calls
-Jack Howard
-Thomas L. Boardman
-Cleveland Press
-Proximity to President
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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Presentation of gifts by President
-Golf balls
-Seal
-Cufflinks
Bush
President’s schedule
-Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty
-Visit to Cleveland
-Joseph Cardinal Slipyj-Kobernickyj-Dyckowsky
-Hungarian, Ukrainian voters
-New Majority
-National Security Council [NSC]
Perk et al. left at 12:45 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 921-21 (cont’d)