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Conversation: 283-023

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Start Date: Wednesday, October 6, 1971 2:32 PM

End Date: Wednesday, October 6, 1971 3:10 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Safire, William L.Sanchez, Manolo

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:44:26

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:09:49

283-023.mp3

NARA Description:

On October 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, William L. Safire, and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 10:32 am to 11:10 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 283-023 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 283-023
Date: October 6, 1971
Time: 10:32 am - 11:10 am
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with William L. Safire.
Draft of October 7, 1971 speech announcing Phase II of Economic Stabilization Program
-International front
-Domestic front
-Wholesale price index
-Wage stabilization
-Price Board
-Herbert Stein
-Cooperation
-Business, labor, Congress, American people
-Inflation
-Rate
-John B. Connally
-Wage Board
-Appointees
-Agreement for establishment
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Arthur F. Burns
-Price Board
-Rent Board
-Profit Board
-Employment
-Wages
-Ceiling on prices
-Profits
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White House Tapes of the Nixon Administration, 1971-1973
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542
-Productivity
-Windfall profits
-Re-wording of themes of speech
-Stabilization
-Bureaucracy
-Efforts to fight inflation
-Use of a good sentence
-Adjustments
- Great year
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:32 am.
Refreshment
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:10 am.
The President's forthcoming Phase II speech
- Great year
-Foreign policy
-International monetary situation
-Year
-Prosperity
-Assignment for Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Samples from incoming letters
-Use of anecdotal material
-Impact on average listener
-Impact of images compared to technical terms
-Great events
-Henry A. Kissinger's forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Berlin
-Persons working for background on speech
-Price
-John A. Scali
-“Great Year”
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Price Board
-Jurisdiction
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White House Tapes of the Nixon Administration, 1971-1973
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542
-Pay Board
-Profits
-Price Board
-Jurisdiction
-Profits
-Inflation
-Restraints on wages and prices
-Profits
-Windfall
-Inflation psychology
-US history
-American spirit
-Competitive ethic
-Wage and price reduction emphasis
-Replacement of inflation psychology
-Chain stores
-The President's timetable for work on speech draft
-Safire's schedule
-Showing text to others
-Stein
-Briefing orientation
-George P. Shultz
-Budget
-Recommendations
Safire left at 11:10 am.