President Nixon initiated a brief telephone contact with the White House operator to facilitate a direct communication line with George P. Shultz. This administrative request served as the immediate precursor to a substantive discussion regarding the administration's economic policy, labor relations, and pending legislative briefings. The call functioned as an essential logistical step in coordinating the President's engagement with his key economic advisors.
On July 28, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 6:19 pm and 8:42 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 007-022 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 7-22
Date: July 28, 1971
Time: Unknown between 6:19 pm and 8:42 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with the White House operator.
Requested a call to George P. Shultz
Conv.
Conversation
No. 7-161
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7-23
Date: July 28, 1971
Time: 8:42 pm - 8:58 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with George P. Shultz.
Shultz's and John B. Connally’s meeting with Senators
-Wage-price policy
-Davis-Bacon Act
-John G. Tower
-Economic statistics
-The President’s preparation for the Bohemian Grove
-Labor costs in manufacturing
-Profits
-Second quarter productivity figures
-Retail and automobile sales
-Connally
-Politics
-Support for the President
-Clark MacGregor
-Paul W. McCracken
-International economics
-Economic situation
-Shultz's talk with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Free market theory
-Devaluation of the dollar
-Gold supply
-International monetary experts
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Gold supply
-Trade balance
-United States compared to other countries
-Expansion
-Input
-Depression
-Output
-Speculation
Economy
-Budget
-Steel strike
-Timing
-Administration action
-Compared with automobile strike
-Connally briefing of House members
-Jerome H. Jaffe briefing on drugs
-Attendance
-Timing
-Leaders
-Key spokesmen
-Retail sales
-Automobile sales
The President's schedule
Shultz's schedule
-Meeting with steel industry management
-Strike compared with settlement
-Aluminum cans
-Inflation
-Involvement by the President
-Inventories
-Effects of a strike
-Shoreham
The President's schedule
Economy
-Statistics
-Stock market
-Arthur F. Burns
-Jack R. Miller (?)
-Price review board
-Positive statement by Burns
-Retail sales
-Rail strike
-Trucks
-Productivity
-Administration action
-CongressThis transcript was generated automatically by AI and has not been reviewed for accuracy. Do not cite this transcript as authoritative. Consult the Finding Aid above for verified information.