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Start Date: 25-Oct-1972 9:25 AM

End Date: 25-Oct-1972 9:36 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Ehrlichman, John D.

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

372-010.mp3

NARA Description:

On October 25, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and John D. Ehrlichman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 9:25 am to 9:36 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 372-010 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 372-10

Date: October 25, 1972
Time: 9:25 am - 9:36 am
Location: Executive Office Building


The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.

        Forthcoming speeches
            -Radio Address on the American Farmer
                -The President’s view
                     -Veterans speech
            -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
                -Television speeches
            -Urban speech
            -Radio Address: One America
                -Sunday press coverage
            -Crime speech
            -Veterans speech
            -Environment speech
            -Urban speech
            -Education speech
            -Tax, spending, and economic issues
                -Herbert Stein, George P. Shultz

        George S. McGovern’s economic policies
           -White House Response
                -Raised taxes
                -Higher prices
                -Recession
                -Food prices
                -Increased unemployment
                -Administration economic spokesmen
                     -Stein
                     -Shultz
                     -Donald H. Rumsfeld
                     -Pierre Rinfret
                     -Coordination
                     -Stein
                                      6
             NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                             Tape Subject Log
                               (rev. Nov-03)

                 -New York speech
        -The President’s view
            -Stein’s recent New York speech
        -The President’s role
            -Compared with the President’s statements on Vietnam
                 -McGregor’s statements

The President’s bill signings
    -Supplemental appropriations
    -Public relations effort
        -Veto of tax increase
    -Congressional cooperation
    -Aging bill
        -Caspar (“Cap”) Weinberger
        -Veterans bill
        -House Resolution [HR] 1
    -Water bill
        -The President’s previous veto
             -Statement of an unknown man to the President
                  -New York
             -Press and media coverage
                  -Spending limit
                       -Ehrlichman’s briefing
        -McGovern’s response
             -Economic policies
             -Administration action
                  -The President’s view
                       -Taxes, prices, unemployment, welfare
    -John B. Connally
    -Spending cuts
        -1972 election
        -Bureaucratic studies
             -Confidentiality of findings
        -Weinberger
             -Nature of cuts
                  -Trimming compared with cutting
        -Employment
             -Government employees
        -Education
        -National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH]
        -National Institute of Health [NIH]
                                               7
                      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Nov-03)

                 -National Science Foundation [NSF]
                 -Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
                 -Ehrlichman’s work with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

        Clark R. Mollenhoff
            -Herbert G. Klein
            -The President’s view
            -Haldeman’s forthcoming conversation with unknown person

        The President’s forthcoming speeches
            -Ehrlichman’s staff
            -Farm issue
            -Urban issues

Ehrlichman left at 9:36 am