Conversation: 455-022
Prev: 455-021 Next: 455-023Start Date: Monday, February 22, 1971 8:09 PM
End Date: Monday, February 22, 1971 8:50 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Shultz, George P.; Ehrlichman, John D.; Bull, Stephen B.; Woods, Rose MaryRecording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 04:52:11
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 05:29:49
NARA Description:
On February 22, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, George P. Shultz, John D. Ehrlichman, Stephen B. Bull, and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:09 pm to 3:50 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 455-022 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 455-22
Date: February 22, 1971
Time: 3:09 pm - 3:50 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with George P. Shultz and John D. Ehrlichman
Welfare Reform Bill
-Participants
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Social Security
-Mills’ view
-Russell B. Long
-Role in House of Representatives
-Richard K. Cook
-Elliot L. Richardson’s view
-Revenue sharing
-Prospects for passage
-Mills
-Food stamps and other reform proposals
-Democratic opposition
-Status in House
-Clifford M. Hardin
-John G. Veneman
Roger O. Egeberg
-Replacement
-Richardson
Welfare Reform Bill
-Public service employment
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-Department of Labor view
-Special Revenue Sharing
-Funding
-Manpower training
-Administration view
-Job creation
-Manpower training
-Revenue sharing Conv. No. 455-22 (cont.)
Egeberg
-Richardson
-New position
Health program
-”First Dollar” approach
Richardson
-Senate testimony
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy’s committee
-”Face The Nation” performance
-Welfare reform
-Administration efforts
-Congressional opposition
-Congressional hearings
-Mills
“Brand name” concept
-John B. Connally
-Welfare reform
-Revenue sharing
-Law enforcement
Suspension of Davis-Bacon Act
-James D. Hodgson
-Inflation
-Construction industry
-Shultz’s position
-Voluntary restraints
-Wage and price freeze
-Problems
-Alternatives
-Wage limit
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-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-Wage Price Board
-Hodgson
-Union view
-Effect on construction industry
-Administration strategy
-Legal maneuvers
-Possible congressional action Conv. No. 455-22 (cont.)
-Court challenges
-Legislative action
The President’s schedule
-Leadership meeting agenda
-Wage and price action
-Hugh Scott
-Consumer legislation
-Laos
-Suspension of Davis-Bacon Act
-Administration position
-Shultz
-Hodgson
-Length of meeting
National economy
-Suspension of Davis-Bacon Act
-Inflation psychology
-Wage and price controls
-President’s position
-Connally’s forthcoming testimony
-Administration’s response
-Congress
-Shultz’s forthcoming call to Connally
-Wage Price Board
-Arthur F. Burns
-Federal Reserve System
-Wage Stabilization Board
-Wage and price control
-President’s view
The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Housing
-Department of Housing and Urban Development
-George W. Romney
-Department of Justice
-Location of housing projects
-Administration position
-President’s view
-Romney Conv. No. 455-22 (cont.)
-John N. Mitchell
-Samuel C. Jackson speech
-Administration strategy
-Small homeowners
-Effect of legislation
-Federal coercion
-Civil rights impact
-Housing project construction
-Effects
-Administration position
-Prince George’s County
-Fairfax County
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s statement
-Use of federal power
-Options
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:09 pm
Rose Mary Woods
Bull left at an unknown time before 3:46 pm
Woods entered at 3:46 pm
The President’s schedule
-Shotgun from Khrushchev
-Use by Connally
Woods left at 3:49 pm
-Peter G. Peterson
-Meeting with the President
-Connally
-Meeting with the President
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Statement prepared by Ehrlichman and Hodgson
-Timing
-Delivery to governors
-Press
Shultz and Ehrlichman left at 3:50 pm
Conv. No. 455-22 (cont.)