409–1

Conversation No. 406-56/409-1

Date: February 1, 1973
Time: 4:08 pm - 6:05 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Edward R. G. Heath, Burke Trend and George P. Shultz.

[This recording continues conversation 406-56.]

Trade
-Arthur F. Burns [?]
-Soviet Union [?]
-Reaction
-Trip
-Anthony Barber [?]
-Paul A. Volcker [?]
-Secretary of Treasury
-Possible trip
-Emergency
-Memorandum
-Congress
-“Laundry list”
-Inaugural address
-State of the Union address
-George Washington [?]
-Thomas Jefferson
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
-Labor
-Possibilities
-Congress

Agriculture
-Europe
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-US
-Products
-Industrialization
-Agricultural lobby
-Trade deal
-Labor
-Farmers
-Portion of population
-Portion in Congress
-Senate
-Problem for Great Britain
-Farmers
-Portion of population
-Agricultural workers
-Negotiations
-Population
-Canada

Economic issues
-J. Willard (“Bill”) Marriott, Jr.
-Hotels
-Restaurants
-Unemployment
-Workers
-January 1973 figures
-Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS]
-1972 election
-George S. McGovern’s use of issue
-Statistics
-Men [?]
-Women
-Fluctuating employment
-Blacks
-Welfare and unemployment
-Blacks
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-Birthrate
-Whites
-College
-Blacks
-Great Britain
-Welfare [?] options
-US
-Family assistance programs
-Food stamps
-Welfare
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-Meeting with Heath [?]

Trade deal
-US goal
-Cooperation
-Europe-US relations
-Great Britain, Italy, Germany
-Politics, economics
-Japan
-Europe
-Products
-Cameras, television sets
-The President’s equipment
-Dictation machine [?]
-Sony
-International Business Machines Corporation
[IBM]
-Schedule
-Agenda
-Meeting
-Camp David
-Heath’s motorcade [?]
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew [?]
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The President, Heath, et al., left at 6:05 pm.