Conversation: 658-007
Prev: 658-006 Next: 658-008Start Date: Thursday, January 27, 1972 4:13 PM
End Date: Thursday, January 27, 1972 4:24 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Stans, Maurice H.; Ziegler, Ronald L.; Peterson, Peter G.; Flanigan, Peter M.; White House photographerRecording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:16:45
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:28:14
NARA Description:
On January 27, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Maurice H. Stans, Ronald L. Ziegler, Peter G. Peterson, Peter M. Flanigan, and White House photographer met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:13 am to 11:24 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 658-007 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 658-7
Date: January 27, 1972
Time: 11:13 am - 11:24 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Maurice H. Stans.
Stans’s resignation
-Announcement
-The President’s gratitude
-Announcement
-Stans’s forthcoming role
-Secrecy
-The President’s gratitude
-Stans’s past support
-1960 election
-1962 election
-1968 election
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Political returnable]
[Duration: 39s ]
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Business
-Support for the Administration
Economy
-As issue
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 658-7 (cont.)
-Democrats
-Retail sales
-Arthur F. Burns
-General thrust
-Economic indicators
-Retail sales
-Stans’s reports
-Stock market
-Rise in economy
-Unemployment
Stans’s future attendance at meetings
-Legislative leaders
-Robert J. Dole
-Cabinet
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Notification of H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
Attendees at White House functions
-Dinners
-Rose Mary Woods notification
-Haldeman
-Stans’s talk with Woods
Business problems
-Federal Trade Commission [FTC] decision
-Breakup of breakfast cereal companies
-FTC administrator [Miles W. Kirkpatrick]
-The President’s support for business
-Edmund S. Muskie, Hubert H. Humphrey, Edward M. Kennedy
-Perception of business community
-Stans
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Control of commissioners
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-Kirkpatrick
-Virginia H. Knauer
Stans’s notes to the President
-Telephone call to be made
-Former head of 3M, Camden Knight
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 658-7 (cont.)
-View of wage and price controls
-Political pressure from right wing
-Foster [?] McGraw [sp ?]
-Birthday greetings
Mike McGill
-Books
-Possible position with administration
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Qualifications
-Stans’s possible talk with Flanigan
-Possible ambassadorship
Forthcoming announcement
-Duration
-Speaking rules
-Stans, Peterson, Flanigan
-Council on International Economic Policy [CIEP]
Peter G. Peterson, Flanigan, and the photographer entered at 11:20 am.
Forthcoming announcement
Arrangement for photograph session
[Photograph session]
-[General conversation]
-Germany
Announcement of appointments
-Protocol
-Flanigan’s forthcoming position
-The President’s remarks
-Stans’s remarks
-Peterson’s remarks
-Duration
-Content
Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 11:23 am.
Camera
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 658-7 (cont.)
-Position
The President, et al. left at 11:24 am.