Secret White House Tapes

788–5

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788–5
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Arthur F. Burns
  • Stephen B. Bull
September 29, 1972
Conversation No. 788-5

Date: September 29, 1972
Time: Unknown between 10:56 am and 11:07 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Arthur F. Burns.
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)

The President's schedule
-Previous meeting with Maurice Schumann

International Monetary Fund [IMF] meeting
-Burns’s view
-Prices in US
-Foreign reaction to trends in US
-Control
-Production
-Last year’s statistics

Burns’s schedule
-Stephen B. Bull
-Timing
-1972 Presidential elections
-Burns’s role
-Japan
-India
-Indonesia
-India
-The President’s view
-Pakistan
-Bangladesh
-Indonesia
-The President’s view
-Burns’s previous trips
-Singapore
-Malaysia
-South Korea
-Taiwan
-Hong Kong
-South Korea
-Possible itinerary
-Japan
-Indonesia
-Iran
-Mohammad Reza Pahlavi [Shah of Iran]
-The President’s view
-Israel
-Hussein ibn Talel [Hussein, King of Jordan]

The US economy
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)

-Federal Reserve system
-Discount rates
-Bank directors
-Control of rates
-Timing
-Stock market
-Effect
-New York
-New Jersey
-Connecticut
-Joseph P. Kennedy's purchase of stocks in 1960
-Timing
-New York Stock Exchange
-[James J. Needham], Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker
-Money supply and interest rates
-Control of prices
-The President’s view
-Increases
-The president’s view
-Italians
-British
-Current situation
-The President’s forthcoming meeting with Sir
Alexander F. Douglas-Home
-Burns’s view
-Fiscal discipline
-Government control
-American labor unions
-British labor unions
-George Meany
-British
-Attitude
-George P. Shultz

Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:54 am.

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Home
-Forthcoming dinner for Home
-Unknown person’s schedule
-Burns’s schedule
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:07 am.

The President and Burns left at 11:07 am.
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