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Conversation 271-003

TapeTape 271StartWednesday, August 4, 1971 at 8:37 AMEndWednesday, August 4, 1971 at 10:10 AMTape start time03:12:40Tape end time03:25:58ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Recording deviceOld Executive Office Building
AI Summary

President Nixon and H.R. Haldeman reviewed administrative and political priorities, specifically focusing on the status of government reorganization plans regarding the Office of Management and Budget and the Federal Reserve. They discussed strategies for engaging business leaders and economic editors to improve public and media perception of the national economy. Additionally, the pair evaluated the political fallout of recent busing controversies and reviewed potential responses to Democratic critiques on foreign policy and domestic issues.

Government ReorganizationNational EconomyMedia RelationsBusingPublic Relations
AudioNARA Description

On August 4, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 8:37 am and 10:10 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 271-003 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 271-3

Date: August 4, 1971
Time: Unknown between 8:37 am and 10:10 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

     President's schedule
          -Trip
                 -New York City
                      -Timing
                      -Meeting [Essex House ?]

     Government reorganization
         -Ash Council
              -Level II
                    -Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
                    -Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
                    -George P. Shultz

Television program
     -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
           -Response to Republicans
           -John B. Connally
           -Clark MacGregor

Busing
     -News summary
         -Austin statement
              -Reaction
              -Patrick J. Buchanan

Media
    -Business
         -News summary
         -Connally and Shultz
    -National economy
         -News coverage
         -Indicators
               -Retail sales
               -Automobile sales
               -Construction
    -Business leaders
         -Meetings
               -Shultz, Paul W. McCracken, Peter G. Peterson, Donald H. Rumsfeld
               -Facts
               -Peter M. Flanigan
                     -Revenue sharing
               -Economic editors
               -William E. and James C. Dunn
               -Businessweek
    -News magazines
         -Democratic politicians
         -Issues
               -Foreign policy
               -Economy
               -Administrative response
                     -Revenue sharing
                     -Environment
                     -Economy
                     -Foreign policy

                           -Crime
                           -Economy

     Busing
          -Political effect
                -MacGregor
                -Jacob K. Javits
                -Connally, Shultz
Transcript (AI-Generated)

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They all set for this thing today?
Okay, what's the game at 7.30?
Alright.
Yeah.
If they got there, they can meet there and have a talk.
Good.
All right.
All right.
But one thing, if you check with me, call me back.
I think the, I was, but didn't the adding also recommend that both the OPM be a level two and the federal reserve?
Well, find out what it was.
Somebody recommend that level two to the federal reserve.
Well, I've heard of him, but I've never seen him in the dark.
He was a crater.
He cratered in the end of the quarter.
What's the feeling about, I read it this summer, but what's the feeling about the usual reaction?
What are we doing or not in our...
No, I think the .
It's a rather curious .
This seems like one record, and I rather wonder if we have something to go with it, whether we're following results.
I don't think we really have an option to go with it.
It's not a big part of the whole problem.
But I can't do that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's right.
That's right.
But then about how the economy is going, you hardly, you just don't get to see all the economy is bad.
It is.
Some of it's bad, some of it's good.
And, yeah, I just don't have it.
Well, the other thing that's true about it is, yeah, well, they're not all bad either.
But the commercial thing, retail sales, I've never been here.
Retail sales, not mobile sales, construction sales.
What I was thinking when you talked about this is that you've changed a lot of those laws.
They, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they,
Yeah, I think, for example, the planning of the meeting probably has not been too effective.
Yeah, right.
But I think, you see, the point is they should be talking about the economy and those guys.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then the other thing is, the other thing is not about the economy, but another thing.
I think the more important part of doing it individually, except for about 40 or 50, you have to do it individually.
I'm sure you get questions on these things.
And that's why I said to him, you know, I'm going to get this, and so forth and so on.
I met him once, and I thought, you know, I'm going to get some good stories for him.
I'm going to get back to him.
But then, nobody called up on us.
Well, meeting every week or so, that's what you have to do with the does, the business ways, and all those people.
They just have to be back.
They're too lucky.
They're too calm.
You know, calm.
That's what I had to do.
So I'm sure they want to follow that up.
But I think the other thing, too, is that we have to realize it's a very interesting and subtle regard.
And I'm sure it will be done.
Just as the Democratic politicians figured it out, these people are petrified about the war and all sorts of ways possible.
And now we've got the parents and all kinds
31, you know, it's like season.
It's like season.
It's like season.
It's like season.
It's like season.
It's like season.
It's like season.
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