Conversation: 274-034
Prev: 274-033 Next: 274-035Start Date: Wednesday, September 8, 1971 5:34 PM
End Date: Wednesday, September 8, 1971 7:03 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Price, Raymond K., Jr.; Sanchez, Manolo; Ehrlichman, John D.; [Unknown person(s)]; Bull, Stephen B.; Butterfield, Alexander P.Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:20:47
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:04:38
NARA Description:
On September 8, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Raymond K. Price, Jr., Manolo Sanchez, John D. Ehrlichman, unknown person(s), Stephen B. Bull, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:34 pm and 3:03 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 274-034 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 274-34
Date: September 8, 1971
Time: 1:34 pm - unknown before 3:03 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Raymond K. Price, Jr.
President’s address to Congress on economic stabilization, September 9, 1971
-George P. Shultz
-Talk with Price
-Meetings with the President
-John B. Connally
-Phase II
-Meetings
-Business
-Labor
-Farmers
-Congress
-Paragraph re-write
-Wording
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Price's memorandum
-Tax cuts
-Research
-Ehrlichman
-Tax cuts
-Shultz
-Connally
-Congress
-The President's reading of draft
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:34 pm.
Economic speech
-Sanchez
-Delivery of retyped pages
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:46 pm.
The President talked with Ehrlichman between 1:46 pm and 1:47 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 274-34 (cont.)
[Conversation No. 274-34A]
[See Conversation No. 8-49]
Economic speech
-The President's talk with Price
-Research
-Taxes
-Shultz
[End of telephone conversation]
Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:47 pm.
Delivery of retyped pages of the President's economic speech
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:24 pm.
Economic speech
-The President's reading of draft
-Price's suggestions
-Wording
-Woodrow Wilson
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:47 pm.
Delivery of page 4 of economic speech
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:24 pm.
Economic speech
-Page 4
-The President's reading of draft
-Wording
-Democrats in Congress
-Acceptance
-Page 5
-Congress
Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:47 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 274-34 (cont.)
Economic speech
-Page 5
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:24 pm.
Economic speech
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Bipartisan leadership meeting
-Russell Long
Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:47 pm.
Delivery of page 5 of economic speech
Pipe and matches
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:24 pm.
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 2m 4s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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Economic speech
-Tax cuts
-Page 6
-Wording
-The President's reading of draft
-Edmund S. Muskie and Long
-Price's suggestions on wording
-Cost of living
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 274-34 (cont.)
-Tax cut language
-Federal budget
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 1:47 pm.
Shultz
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:24 pm.
Economic speech
-Page 7
-Price's material
-Page 8
-Wording
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:47 pm.
Page 9 of economic speech
Bull left at an unknown time before 2:24 pm.
Economic speech
-Wording
-Inflation
-The President's reading of draft
-Technology
-Congress
-Welfare reform
-Revenue sharing
-Welfare
-Funding
-Postponements
-Page 16
Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:47 pm.
Economic speech
-Delivery of draft
-Request
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:24 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 274-34 (cont.)
Economic speech
-The President's reading of draft
-Competition
-Health, housing, education, environment, opportunity
-Page 9
-Tax reform
-Employment
-Goals
-Meeting language
-Copy
-Meeting
-Earlier draft
-Credit
-Wording
-Credit
-Peace
-Credit
-Congress
Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 2:24 pm.
Price left at 2:24 pm.
President’s schedule
-George E. Allen
-Japanese dinner
-Speech
-Questions
-Takeo Fukuda meeting
-Time
-Location
-Yellow Room
-Guests
-Peter G. Peterson
-William P. Rogers
-Wives
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew and Elinor I. (Judefind) Agnew
-Press
-Toast
-Cabinet members
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 274-34 (cont.)
-George P. Shultz
-Peterson
-George W. Romney
-Photograph opportunity
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Fukuda
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-White House worship service, September 12, 1971
-Guests
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham’s family
-Soloist
-Paul Yu Pin
-Taiwan
-John Cardinal Krol
Butterfield left at an unknown time before 3:03 pm.