President Nixon met with Miss Lund, the secretary to Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service Director J. Curtis Counts, for a brief introductory discussion. The conversation touched upon ongoing efforts to resolve a labor strike involving telephone workers, noting the involvement of George P. Shultz and James D. Hodgson. Additionally, the President engaged in casual rapport by discussing Counts' collegiate background as an All-American baseball player at UCLA.
On July 21, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Miss Lund (secretary to J. Curtis Counts) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 2:53 pm to 2:54 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 541-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 541-1
Date: July 21, 1971
Time: 2:53 pm - 2:54 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President talked with Miss Lund, secretary to J. Curtis Counts.
J. Curtis Counts
-Efforts to settle telephone strike
-George P. Shultz and James D. Hodgson
Baseball
-Counts' background as All-American baseball player at the University of California
at Los Angeles [UCLA]No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.