Date: January 24, 1973
Time: Unknown between 4:42 pm and 6:10 pm
Location: Cabinet Room
The President met with Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, William P. Rogers, George P. Shultz,
Elliot L. Richardson, Richard G. Kleindienst, Rogers C. B. Morton, Earl L. Butz, Frederick B.
Dent, Peter J. Brennan, Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger, James T. Lynn, Claude S. Brinegar, Roy
L. Ash, John A. Scali, Anne L. Armstrong, H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, Henry
A. Kissinger, Peter M. Flanigan, William E. Timmons, Ronald L. Ziegler, Raymond K. Price, Jr.,
Herbert Stein, Kenneth R. Cole, Jr., and George H. W. Bush
[This conversation continues from Conversation No. 111-4; a portion of this conversation was
not recorded while the tape was changed]
1974 budget
-Labor support
-Brennan’s view
-Future
-Programs
-Congressional Democrats
-Committees
-John L. McClellan
-Labor support
-Tax reform, jobs
-Agriculture
-Congress
-Price supports
-Previous administrations
-Proposed cuts
-Support
-Gale W. McGee
-Press conference
-Disaster loans
-Minnesota, South Dakota
-Costs
-Rural Electrification Administration [REA]
-Costs
-Compromise
-Shultz’s view
-Cuts
-1972 election
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/08)
-President’s constituency
-Congress
-Spending
-Taxes, tax money, inflation
-Selling the budget program
-Public
-Revenue sharing
-Congress
-Republicans
-George H. Mahon
-Bipartisanship
-Problems
-Compromise
-Maritime concerns
-Agriculture
-World markets
-Trade increases
-Labor
-Jobs
-Food prices
-Stability
-Agriculture
-Farmers
-Market-based programs
-Herman E. Talmadge and Strom Thurmond
-Peanut subsidy
-Carl B. Albert
-Farm constituency
-Problems
-Congress
-Need for industry encouragement
-Job creation
-Alaska Pipeline
-Court case
-Refineries
-Jobs
-Public support
-Programs
-Compromise
-Budget cuts
-Amount
-Congress
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