Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 119
Nixon White House Tape 119 (March 13, 1973 – March 20, 1973)
4 conversations · Cabinet Room
Featuring Nixon, Dunlop, Stein, Ehrlichman, Ash
President Nixon met with his Cabinet and key administration officials to address the national crisis of rising food prices and related supply chain bottlenecks. The discussion focused on agricultural production, the impact of labor costs on retail food prices, and the implementation of strategic stockpiling policies to stabilize the market. The President instructed his team to prioritize the transportation of farm produce, explore measures to increase production, and maintain clear accountability through regular reporting to manage public concern and inflation.
President Nixon met with Republican Congressional leaders and economic advisors to discuss strategies for addressing rising food prices, inflation, and the ongoing transition of the wage-price stabilization program. Key topics included the administration's efforts to increase food supplies and imports, the management of labor-management relations, and the necessity of maintaining party unity to sustain presidential vetoes on spending legislation. The meeting underscored the administration's focus on economic control and the importance of Congressional support in implementing fiscal policy.
George H. W. Bush met with unknown individuals in the Cabinet Room to discuss matters that remain obscured due to the withdrawal of the recording for personal reasons. The available archival material provides no substantive record of the topics addressed or decisions made during the six-minute and forty-one-second duration of the meeting. Consequently, the historical significance of this encounter cannot be determined from the existing documentation.
A White House tour group consisting of an unidentified man and woman visited the Cabinet Room, where they discussed the room's layout and the specific roles of various Cabinet members. The participants examined the Cabinet table and identified the assigned seating positions for officials such as George P. Shultz, Anne L. Armstrong, and John A. Scali. The interaction concluded without any significant policy developments or administrative action items.