Conversation: 295-014
Prev: 295-013 Next: 295-015Start Date: Tuesday, November 16, 1971 8:31 PM
End Date: Tuesday, November 16, 1971 10:04 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Peterson, Peter G.; Shultz, George P.; Ehrlichman, John D.; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Kissinger, Henry A.; Bull, Stephen B.Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:19:25
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:48:43
NARA Description:
On November 16, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Peter G. Peterson, George P. Shultz, John D. Ehrlichman, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Henry A. Kissinger, and Stephen B. Bull met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:31 pm to 5:04 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 295-014 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 295-14
Date: November 16, 1971
Time: 3:31 pm - 5:04 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Peter G. Peterson, George P. Shultz and John D. Ehrlichman.
H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
Secretary of Commerce
-Maurice H. Stans
Haldeman entered at 3:32 pm.
-Activities
-Tenure in office
-Peterson
-Possible role
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Jeb S. Magruder
-Compared with Stans
-State Department's activities
-William P. Rogers
-Employees
-Peter M. Flanigan
-John N. Mitchell
-Shultz and Ehrlichman
-James T. Lynn
-Stans's views
-Peterson
-Possible roles
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
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Conv. No. 295-14 (cont.)
-National Bureau of Standards [NBS]
-Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]
-Advocacy
-Stans's tenure in office
-Budget review sessions
-Herbert C. Hoover
-Research and development
-Government reorganization plan
-Gross National Product [GNP] statistics
-Errors
Cabinet
-John B. Connally
-Shultz
-Peterson's possible role
-Speeches
-College campuses
-Congress
-International economics
-Work of various US departments and agencies
Flanigan
-Possible role with administration
International economy
-State Department
-David M. Kennedy
-Russell B. Long
-State Department
-Stans's views
-Kissinger
-US trade with Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Soviet Summit
-Vietnam War
-East Bloc satellites compared with the Soviet Union
-Co-Ordinating Committee on Export Controls [COCOM]
Stans
-Schedule
-Tenure in office
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-Role
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 39s ]
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Commerce Department
-Lynn
-Harold B. Scott
-Statistics
-Peterson's role
-Business Council
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[National Security]
[Duration: 57s ]
AUSTRALIA
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International monetary situation
-Connally
-Arthur F. Burns
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
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Conv. No. 295-14 (cont.)
-Price of gold
-Convertibility
-Peterson's conversation with Pierre-Paul Schweitzer
-Italy
-Labor’s reaction
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle
-Price of gold
-Convertibility
-Politics
-Views of Henry S. Reuss and William Proxmire
-Views of Edward M. Kennedy, Edmund S. Muskie And Hubert H.
Humphrey
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Price of gold
-US trade surplus with Europe
-Agriculture
-William D. Eberle's negotiations
-National defense
-Convertibility
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Connally’s view
-Muskie, Humphrey, Reuss and Proxmire
-Price of gold
-Exchange rate
Commerce Department
-Peterson
-Relations with other departments
-Connally
-State Department
-Rogers
-John R. Stevenson
-Conversation with Shultz
-Leaks
Leaks
-Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Notes of telephone calls to Rogers
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Commerce Department
-Unknown man
-Staff
-Peterson's possible role
-Popular opinion of business
-Advocacy
-Management
Water Quality Bill
-Muskie
-Passage by Senate
-House committee's forthcoming hearings
-Commerce Department
-Credibility
Peterson left at 4:20 pm.
The President's possible speech to American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial
Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-Charles W. Colson's views
-The President's possible reception
-George Meany
-Rhetoric
-Office of the Presidency
-Shultz's previous conversation with Colson
-Interests
-Range
-Relations with rank and file
-Construction unions
-Wage and price freeze
-Possible themes
-National security
-Employment
-Labor program
-Dignity of work
-Research and development
-Progress
-Environment
-Ehrlichman and John C. Whitaker
-Timing
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-Colson’s view
-Meany
-Democrats
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson and Humphrey
-Value
-Reception
-Value
-Press
-Public
Support for the President
-Unions
-Blacks
-Jews
-Israel
-B'nai Brith
-Organized labor
-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP], B'nai Brith
and AFL-CIO
-Whitney M. Young, Sr. funeral
-Working people
-Blacks
The President's possible speech to AFL-CIO
-Reception
-Phase II
-Meany
-Foreign policy
-James R. Hoffa
-Possible clemency
-Possible announcement
Henry A. Kissinger entered at 4:30 pm.
The President's possible speech to AFL-CIO
-Hoffa
-Possible clemency
-Presidential demeanor
-Content
-Support for the President
-Cambodia
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Conv. No. 295-14 (cont.)
-Marches
-Sacrifices
-Prosperity in 1968
-Causes
-Preparation
-Colson
-Timing
-Content
-James D. Hodgson
-Mine safety
-Politics
-Support for the President
-Cambodia
-National economy
-Phase II
-Foreign policy
-Meany
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-Cuba
-Colson
-Ehrlichman
Appointments
-Shultz's forthcoming conversations
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
The President's schedule
-Quadriad
Shultz's schedule
-Kissinger and Connally
-Peterson and Burns
-International monetary situation
International monetary situation
-The President's schedule
-Possible meetings with European Heads of State
-Connally's views
-Japan
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Conv. No. 295-14 (cont.)
-Paul W. McCracken's Views
-Convertibility
-International trade
-Connally
-Offset
-West Germany
-Analogy to Japan
-Okinawa
-Shultz's schedule
-Connally and Burns
-Convertibility
-Burns's views
-Surcharges
-Japan
-Textile Agreement
-Yen
-Devaluation
-Possible settlement
-Timing
-Manlio Brosio's letter to Kissinger
-West Germany
-Convertibility
-Political ramifications
-Italy
-West Germany
-Connally
-1972 election
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Trips to PRC, Soviet Union
-Japan, Western Europe
National economy
-Balance of trade
-Imports
-Exports
-Dock strike
-Shift
-1971 compared to 1970
-Economic expansion
-Gross National Product [GNP]
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Conv. No. 295-14 (cont.)
The President's schedule
-Quadriad
-Burns
National economy
-Money supply
-Shultz's conversations
-Milton Friedman
-Burns
-Erratic behavior
-Friedman's letters to Burns
-1960
CEA
-Friedman
-Possible role
-McCracken
-Burns
-Friedman
-Possible effect
-Conservatives
-Phase II
National economy
-Phase II
-Friedman's possible role
-Herbert Stein's possible role
-Burns
Japan ambassadorship
-Hoyt Ammidon
-Wife
-Walter N. Thayer
-Armin H. Meyer
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-William S. Renchard
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Frederic V. Malek
-Chemical Bank
-Wife, Alice M. (Fleming) Renchard
-Father [Robert V. Fleming]
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-Meyer's wife [Alice Meyer]
-Women
-Possible appointment
Shultz and Ehrlichman left at 4:50 pm.
The President's possible speech to AFL-CIO
-Ehrlichman's views
-Meany
-Popular opinion
-Phase II
-Reception
-Colson's views
-Content
-Phase II
-Colson's views
Laird
-Previous conversation with Haldeman
-Leaks
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Associated Press [AP] story from Saigon
-Compared to New York Times story
-Press
-Troop withdrawal figures
Vietnam
-Negotiations
-The President's forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Response
Haldeman left at 4:54 pm.
-Le Duc Tho
-US proposal
-Possible publicity
-Timing
-Rogers
-Possible North Vietnamese proposal
-PRC and Soviet Union
-PRC
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Conv. No. 295-14 (cont.)
-Recent speech
International economy
-Textiles
-Connally
-Cabinet
-Peterson
-Secretary of Commerce position
-Flanigan
-George R.S. Baring, the Earl of Cromer's memorandum to Kissinger
-Connally
-Call from Kissinger, November 16, 1971
-Connally
-Kissinger, Shultz and Connally
-Peterson
-The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meetings with Europeans
-Negotiations
-Convertibility
-Forthcoming report
Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Strategy
-Possible military action
-Possible announcement
-Forthcoming trip to PRC
-William J. Porter
-Paris
-Publicity
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:54 pm.
The President's schedule
Bull left at an unknown time before 5:04 pm.
Vietnam
-Negotiations
-US proposal
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-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Possible resignation
-Le Duc Tho
-The President’s actions
-Reaction
-Announcement
-Timing
-North Vietnamese expectations
-Thieu
-US bargaining position
-Timing
The President's schedule
-Kissinger's conversation with the Earl of Cromer, November 15, 1971
-Willy Brandt
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
Vietnam
-Negotiations
-POWs
-Deadline
-Possible bombing
-Possible effect
-PRC trip
-Kissinger’s possible message to PRC
PRC
-The President's forthcoming trip
-Message to Vernon A. Walters, November 16, 1971
-Timing
-Soviet Union
-United Nations [UN] speech, November 15, 1971
-State Department
-Soviet Union
-Press reaction
-George H. W. Bush's forthcoming statement in New York
-Rhetoric
-Television
International economy
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Burns
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Conv. No. 295-14 (cont.)
-Convertibility
-Connally
Kissinger left at 5:04 pm.