Conversation: 676-012
Prev: 676-011 Next: 676-013Start Date: 1-Mar-1972 9:23 AM
End Date: 1-Mar-1972 9:50 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Connally, John B.; Kissinger, Henry A.; Butterfield, Alexander P.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:46:10
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:13:44
NARA Description:
On March 1, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, John B. Connally, Henry A. Kissinger, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:23 am to 9:50 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 676-012 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 676-12
Date: March 1, 1972
Time: 9:23 am - 9:50 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with John B. Connally.
Connally’s schedule
-Testimony
-House Banking and Currency Committee
-Price of gold
-Wright Patman
-Henry S. Reuss
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 676-12 (cont.)
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National economy
-Gold
-Interest rates
-Money supply
-M1
Henry A. Kissinger entered at 9:24 am.
Barry M. Goldwater
Backgrounder
-Time of completion
The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Time
Kissinger left and Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 9:25 am.
The President’s schedule
-Possible trip to West Virginia
-Charleston
-Flood area
-Robert C. Byrd
-Gen. George A. Lincoln
-Byrd
-Charleston
-Flood area
-Viewing
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 676-12 (cont.)
-Helicopter
-Lorado, West Virginia
Butterfield left at 9:30 am.
National economy
-Money supply
-M1
-M2
-Indicators examined
-Compared to October 1968
-Administration’s reactions
-Connally’s view of public mood
-Washington Post
-Meat prices
-Cost of living
-Press coverage
-Pay Board
-Price Commission
-Charles W. Colson
-Previous memoranda to Connally
-Connally’s possible meeting with supermarket
executives
-Meat prices
-Polls
-Louis P. Harris
-The President’s view
-Enactment of wage and price controls in August 1971
-Press coverage
-Washington Post, Washington Star
-Administration attitude
-Treasury Department
-Federal Reserve Board
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
Connally’s previous meeting with Thomas G. Corcoran
-The People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Political situation
-Labor
-Coalition government
-Mood of the US
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 676-12 (cont.)
-Administration role
-November 1972
National economy
-Pay Board
-Price Commission
-Wage and price increases
-Food prices
-January index
-Television media coverage
-Meat import prices
-Unemployment
-Job security
-Administration’s role
-Foreign competition
-Employment
-Inflation
-Arthur F. Burns
-Schedule
-Convertibility
-American people’s views
-Aid To foreign countries
-Great Britain
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
Issues in the US
-Busing
-Racial problem
-Effect on election
-Florida primary
-Texas
Dallas
Houston
-North and South
-Job security
-Job maintenance
-Foreign competition
-Labor
-Confidence
-In administration
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 676-12 (cont.)
-General economic condition
-Cost of living
-Connally’s view
Life cycles
-People
-Women
-Men
-Nature
-Spring
-Winter
Labor
-Possible settlement with longshoremen
-Pay Board
-Strike possibilities
National economy
-Stock market
-Indicators
-Machine tool orders
-Investment tax
-Automobile sales
-Compared to last year
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 676-12 (cont.)
Congress
-Leadership
-House of Representatives
-Ways and Means Committee
-Wilbur D. Mills
-John W. Byrnes, Jackson E. Betts, Carl B. Albert, Michael J.
Mansfield, Hugh Scott, Gerald R. Ford
National economy
Connally’s forthcoming testimony
Connally left at 9:50 am.