Secret White House Tapes

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274–24
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • Manolo Sanchez
  • White House operator
  • Peter M. Flanigan
  • Dwight L. Chapin
  • Alexander P. Butterfield
August 16, 1971
Conversation No. 274-24
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)




Date: August 16, 1971
Time: 3:53 pm - 4:16 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Call to Idanell (“Nellie”) Connally
-John B. Connally's press conference
-Connally
-Breakfast
-Rest

The President's schedule
-Golf
-Transportation
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Press
-William P. Rogers


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 4s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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-Time
-Clubs

Economy
-Evening Star story about President’s initiatives
-Workers
-Stock exchange
-Wage and price curves
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 274-24 (cont.)


-Dollar floating
-Tax reductions
-Government employees
-George P. Shultz
-Another story
-Speech text
-Arthur F. Burns
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Extent of coverage
-Pictures
-Political effects
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Forthcoming visit
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Edward M. Kennedy
-PRC
-George Meany
-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations
[AFL-CIO]
-John Kenneth Galbraith
-Dallas
-Muskie
-Henry M. (\"Scoop\") Jackson
-George S. McGovern
-Criticism
-Wage and price freeze
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Dollar floating
-Jobs
-Big business
-Congress
-International money market
-Wage and price freeze
-Stock market reaction
-Business community reaction
-Congress
-Historical precedents

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:53 pm.

Delivery of something
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 274-24 (cont.)



Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:06 pm.

Economy
-Evening Star story
-Vance Hartke
-Congress
-View of President’s program
-Investment tax credit

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:53 pm.


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 58s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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Economy
-Evening Star story
-PRC


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 2s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 274-24 (cont.)



Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:06 pm.

Stock market
-Record
-Volume and gain
-Nixon dinner

The President's schedule
-New York
-President’s possible visit to stock market

Stock Market
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker

Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:53 pm and 4:06
pm.

[Conversation No. 274-24A]

Request for a call to Flanigan

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-New York
-President’s possible visit to stock market

Haldeman talked with Flanigan at an unknown time between 3:53 pm and 4:06 pm.

[Conversation No. 274-24B]

Flanigan's location

[End of telephone conversation]

Economy
-Stock market
-The President's schedule
-Announcement
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 274-24 (cont.)


-Stock exchange visit
-New York
-Speech

Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:53 pm and 4:06
pm.

[Conversation No. 274-24C]

Request for a call to Dwight L. Chapin

[End of telephone conversation]

Stock market visit
-Invitation

Haldeman talked with Chapin at an unknown time between 3:53 pm and 4:06 pm.

[Conversation No. 274-24D]

The President's schedule
-New York
-Announcement
-Time of departure

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time between 3:53 pm and 4:06 pm.

Letter to President of Guinea

Butterfield left at an unknown time between 3:53 pm and 4:06 pm.

-Stock market
-Time

[End of telephone conversation]

Stock market visit

The President's schedule
-Meeting with legislation leaders, August 17, 1971
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 274-24 (cont.)


-Mayor Klaus Schutz of West Berlin
-Possible meeting

Japan
-Textile negotiations
-Peter G. Peterson
-Flanigan
-Shultz and Peterson
-Statement
-Rogers
-President’s involvement
-Meeting with Roger Milliken
-Harry S. Dent
-Peterson and John N. Mitchell
-Mitchell

Economy
-Stock market
-Record volume

Japan
-Textile negotiations
-Plan
-Camp David meeting
-Quotas
-President’s efforts
-Flanigan
-Milliken
-Textile board meeting
-Timing
-President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with [Emperor of Japan] Hirohito

Haldeman left at 4:16 pm.
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