112–2

Conversation No. 112-2

Date: February 5, 1973
Time: 10:40 am - 11:08 am
Location: Cabinet Room

The President met with Donald H. Rumsfeld, James W. McLane, George H. Boldt, Robert P.
Tiernan, Kermit Gordon, Arnold R. Weber, William G. Caples, Dr. C. Jackson (“Dan”) Grayson,
Jr., William B. Lewis, William T. Coleman, Jr., Mary T. Hamilton, Robert F. Lanzillotti, John
William Queenan, and J. Wilson Newman
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

Economic Stabilization Program
-Pay Board and Price Commission
-Boldt
-Grayson
-Phase II
-Effects
-Cooperation
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Increases
-Compared to Wage-Price Index
-Commodities
-Food
-Bureaucracy
-Size
-Unemployment
-Decrease
-Effect on national economy
-Growth

[Unintelligible -- Camera noise]

Phase II
-Transition
-Wage and price controls

Pay Board and Price Commission
-Appreciation of board members
-Weber, Hamilton
-Members’ service
-Effort
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-Board and staff members
-Future
-Members’ service
-Future
-Inflation control

Economic Stabilization Program
-Phase III
-William McChesney Martin
-Arthur F. Burns
-Business community
-Compared to Phase II
-Stock market
-Future
-Washington Star
-Hobart Rowen
-Columns
-Vietnam
-International monetary situation
-Stock market
-Agriculture subsidies
-Agricultural lobby
-Phase I and Phase II
-World food situation
-Soviet Union
-Crop failure
-Japan
-United States
-Effect of new world markets
-Surpluses
-World food prices


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World markets

Energy crisis

[To listen to the segment (1m47s) declassified on 02/28/2002, please refer to RC# E-606.]

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-Energy crisis
-George P. Shultz’s report in 1970
-Oil imports
-Decontrol
-Complaints
-Alaska Pipeline
-World demand
-Industrialization
-Nuclear power
-Phase II
-Demand
-Increases in food prices
-Church-state separation
-Seventh Day Adventists
-Food
-Mary Baker Eddy
-Health
-Abortion
-Appreciation
-Media comment
-Accomplishments
-Pay Board and Price Commission
-Return to Phase I
-Future
-Super Bowl/Billy Kilmer
-Standard of living
-Private sector role


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Great Britain and the Common Market

[To listen to the segment (1m33s) declassified on 02/28/2002, please refer to RC# E-606.]

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-Phase II
-American Labor
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-Cooperation of business, consumers, and labor
-World War II
-Edward R. G. Heath
-Future
-Differing interests
-Inflation
-Inflation
-Phase III
-Market forces
-Martin’s predictions
-Food
-Importance
-Wage increases

Presentation of gifts by the President
-Ashtrays
-President’s appreciation
-President’s responsibility for next phase

The President left at 11:08 am

[General conversation/Unintelligible]

Recording ends at an unknown time after 11:08 am