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Conversation: 453-001

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Start Date: 19-Feb-1971 3:15 PM

End Date: 19-Feb-1971 3:59 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Ehrlichman, John D.Shultz, George P.Whitaker, John C.Bull, Stephen B.Bull, Stephen B.

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:00:50

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:38:04

453-001.mp3

NARA Description:

On February 19, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, John D. Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz, John C. Whitaker and Stephen B. Bull and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:15 pm and 3:59 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 453-001 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 453-1

Date: February 19, 1971
Time: Unknown after 3:15 pm until 3:59 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz, and John C. Whitaker
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

     Agricultural policy
          -“Salute to Agriculture”
                -Attendees
          -Patrick J. Buchanan
          -Clark MacGregor
          -Democratic attack
                -Rural development
                      -Administration response
          -The President’s report to Congress
                -Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
          -The President’s trip to Iowa
          -”Salute to Agriculture”
          -The President’s schedule
                -Purdue University
                      -Frederick L. Hovde
                      -Clifford M. Hardin
                -The President’s visit to Iowa
                      -Ottumwa
                      -Purpose
                -Possible visits by the President
                      -Jackson Hole
                            -Nelson A. Rockefeller
                            -Logistics
                      -Purpose
                            -Farm policy
                                  -Administration efforts
                            -Farmer mentality
                      -Nebraska
                            -Peter G. Peterson
                      -Des Moines
                      -Sioux City
                      -Springfield, Missouri
                            -Mountain oysters
                                         2

                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                 Tape Subject Log
                                    (rev. 9/08)



                            -President’s visit as a Congressman
     -“Salute to Agriculture”
          -Media coverage
     -Public relations
          -Congress
          -Murray Spitzer
          -Clarence D. Palmby
          -[Forename unknown] Loeb
     -”Salute to Agriculture”
          -Administration policies
                 -Rural development
          -Format
     -Farm problems
          -Wages

The President’s previous meeting with Fortune magazine
     -Peterson
     -Economic education
     -Wage and price controls
           -Value

Agricultural policy
     -Farmers
           -Government assistance
     -Rural development
     -Revenue sharing
     -Areas of growth

The President’s meeting with Fortune
     -Opinion of the President’s economic policy
          -Money supply

Consumer Price Index [CPI]
    -Food prices
         -Hardin’s speech
               -Effect on farmer
         -Farmers’ income
               -Corn supports
         -Corn/hog ratio

Peter M. Flanigan
      -State Department job
                                                3

                           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. 9/08)



                -William P. Rogers
          -Position with White House
          -Value

     Public relations
          -Economic policy
                 -Paul W. McCracken
                 -The President’s role                          Conv. No. 453-1 (cont.)
                       -Knowledge
                       -Compared to foreign policy

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:16 pm

     The President’s schedule
          -George Black, Jr.
               -Grandchildren
          -Young Republicans reception

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:59 pm

     Public relations
          -Manpower training and revenue sharing
                 -Administration efforts
                 -Vietnam veterans
                 -Number of jobs
                      -James D. Hodgson
                            -Congressional testimony
                                  -Administration’s policies
                                       -Effects
                      -Funding
          -Supersonic Transport [SST]
                 -Economic value to nation
                      -Job creation
                      -Effect on economy
          -Manpower training
          -Welfare program
                 -Administration policies
                      -Effects
                      -Budget
                 -Press conference questions
                      -Ronald L. Ziegler
          -Manpower training
                                             4

                            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 9/08)



           -Possible White House action
                -Letter

     Spitzer
          -Value and position

     Manpower training
         -Administration policy                                      Conv. No. 453-1 (cont.)
              -Blacks
              -Veterans
              -Aid to ghettos
                    -Rural poor
                    -James B. (“Scotty”) Reston’s press story

     President’s speech at [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
          -Use of speech by Shultz

An unknown man [Stephen B. Bull?] entered at an unknown time after 3:16 pm

           -The President’s order

The unknown man [Bull?] left at an unknown time before 3:59 pm

     Wilson
          -Wilson’s speech
                -“Men of thought” versus “men of action”
          -As a politician
          -Portrait in Cabinet Room

Ehrlichman, et al. left at 3:59 pm