Conversation 380-015

TapeTape 380StartThursday, December 28, 1972 at 12:39 PMEndThursday, December 28, 1972 at 2:20 PMParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President)Recording deviceOld Executive Office Building

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NARA Description

On December 28, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 12:39 pm and 2:20 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 380-015 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 380-15

Date: December 28, 1972
Time: Unknown between 12:39 pm and 2:20 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum to John D. Ehrlichman and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

      Second term reorganization
           -George P. Shultz
                 -Conversation with the President
                        -Location
                              -Florida
                 -Role as Assistant to the President
                        -Office of Management and Budget
                 -Economic policy
                        -Administration spokesman
                              -John B. Connally
                 -Conversation with the President
                        -Tax reform, trade policy
                              -Treasury Department, William E. Timmons, Ehrlichman
           -Departmental views
                 -Henry A. Kissinger’s option papers
                        -State Department, Defense Department, Central Intelligence Agency
                         [CIA]
                 -Ehrlichman
           -Shultz
                 -Views on tax reform, trade policy
                        -Treasury Department
                        -Ehrlichman’s and Haldeman’s role
                              -Congressional and political perspective
                 -Staff meetings
                        -Ehrlichman, Roy L. Ash
                        -Ehrlichman
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                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      (rev. Dec.-07)

                                                             Conversation No. 380-15 (cont’d)

                             -Timmons
                                  -Congressional relations
            -Counsellors
                  -Representation of agencies
                  -Views of bureaucracies in Departments
            -Instructions for Ehrlichman and Haldeman
                  -Forthcoming conversation with Ash

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all right

Also, we have to recognize that the economy is a complex community, and I'm exposed to that communication, and I'm effectively pushing each other to go at it.

We're all engaged in that field, so we're engaged in the conversation in the other part of the world.

Thank you very much.

I saw the federal law, which was inherent in the evolution of trade.

It brought up the issues of national law and trade policy, which I am somewhat familiar with today.

I realize that

I have an absolute perception that there is a lot of ability in our approach here to narrowing the variation there.

All right.

of the professional and political experience that we've had in this world so far.

That's what I just avoid.

I think you're going to hear something.

And we're in the last part.

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