{"conversationCode":"007-022","tapeNumber":7,"conversationNumber":22,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-007-022","startDateTime":"1971-07-28T22:19:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-07-29T00:42:00.000Z","startDate":"28-Jul-1971","startTime":"6:19 PM","endDate":"28-Jul-1971","endTime":"8:42 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"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.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":1,"chronRelease":"First Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"5-Oct-1999","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 7-22\n\nDate: July 28, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 6:19 pm and 8:42 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Requested a call to George P. Shultz\n\n                                                                     Conv.\n                                                                      Conversation\n                                                                           No. 7-161\n                                                                                   No.\n                                                                                     (cont.)\n                                                                                       7-23\n\nDate: July 28, 1971\nTime: 8:42 pm - 8:58 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with George P. Shultz.\n\n     Shultz's and John B. Connally’s meeting with Senators\n          -Wage-price policy\n                -Davis-Bacon Act\n                      -John G. Tower\n          -Economic statistics\n                -The President’s preparation for the Bohemian Grove\n                -Labor costs in manufacturing\n                      -Profits\n                -Second quarter productivity figures\n                -Retail and automobile sales\n          -Connally\n                -Politics\n                -Support for the President\n          -Clark MacGregor\n          -Paul W. McCracken\n          -International economics\n          -Economic situation\n                -Shultz's talk with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman\n                -Free market theory\n                -Devaluation of the dollar\n                -Gold supply\n                 -International monetary experts\n                      -Dwight D. Eisenhower\n                -Gold supply\n                      -Trade balance\n                -United States compared to other countries\n                      -Expansion\n\n                      -Input\n                -Depression\n                      -Output\n           -Speculation\n\nEconomy\n    -Budget\n    -Balance of payment\n    -Steel strike\n          -Timing\n          -Administration action\n          -Compared with automobile strike\n    -Connally briefing of House members\n          -Jerome H. Jaffe briefing on drugs\n                -Attendance\n          -Timing\n          -Leaders\n                -Key spokesmen\n    -Retail sales\n    -Automobile sales\n\nThe President's schedule\n\nShultz's schedule\n     -Meeting with steel industry management\n            -Strike compared with settlement\n                  -Aluminum cans\n                  -Inflation\n                  -Involvement by the President\n                  -Inventories\n                  -Effects of a strike\n                  -Shoreham\n\nThe President's schedule\n\nEconomy\n    -Statistics\n          -Stock market\n                -Arthur F. Burns\n                -Jack R. Miller (?)\n                      -Price review board\n                -Positive statement by Burns\n\n                           -Retail sales\n          -Rail strike\n                -Trucks\n                       -Productivity\n                -Administration action\n                       -Congress","filename":["007-022.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:05:01","tapeEnd":"01:05:05","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"007-021","nextCode":"007-023","transcript":[{"start":1.7,"end":3.59,"text":"Schultz please, George Schultz."},{"start":3.61,"end":3.92,"text":"Yes sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"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.","topics":["Economic Policy","George P. Shultz","White House Operations","Labor Relations","Presidential Scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:26:04.408Z"},"topicSlugs":["economic-policy","george-p-shultz","white-house-operations","labor-relations","presidential-scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":5,"audioFiles":[{"file":"007-022.mp3","bytes":119744,"durationSec":4.93,"bitrate":194441,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.707Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:34.855Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/007-022.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/007-022","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/7/conversation-007-022","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). 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