Secret White House Tapes

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88–3
January 28, 1972
Conversation No. 88-3

Date: January 28, 1972
Time: 2:59 pm - 3:50 pm
Location: Cabinet Room

The President met with James D. Hodgson, Richard C. Van Dusen, J. Curtis Counts, John T.
Dunlop, Frank A. Bonadio, Maurice A. Hutcheson, Martin J. Ward, Hunter P. Wharton, Carl M.
Halvorson, Robert L. Higgins, John A. Stastny, Laurence H. Silberman, Willie J. Usery, Jr.,
Michael H. Moskow, Peter Fosco, John H. (“Jack”) Lyons, Charles H. Pillard, Joseph T. Power,
Thomas H. Owens, William E. Dunn, James H. Ferguson, Joseph Rich, George A. Miller, Fred
R. Stevens, Dale R. Witcraft, David P. Lafayette, E. Carl Uehlein, Jr., D. Quinn Mills, Edward F.
Carlough, John E. Healy, II, Robert A. Georgine, William Sidell, and Donald H. Rumsfeld
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

Garment industry
-Unions
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Construction industry
-Dunlop’s role
-Collective Bargaining Commission
-Goals
-Effect
-Charts
-Goals
-Effect
-Publicity
-Structure
-Effect
-Views of rank and file
-Dunlop’s role
-Conduct of management and labor
-George P. Shultz’s views
-Collective Bargaining Commission
-John E. Quinn, Stuart Rothman, Clarence D. Barker
-Operation
-Knowledge
-Collective Bargaining Commission
-Value
-Shultz
-Collective Bargaining Commission
-Value
-Cost to taxpayers
-Cost of living increases
-Productivity Commission
-Purpose
-National Commission on Productivity
-Goal
-Strikes
-Prospects
-Development of new employees
-Collective Bargaining Commission

Van Dusen
-George W. Romney
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/08)



Construction industry
-Status
-The President’s role

Industrial Revolution
-History

Construction industry
-Structure
-The President’s programs
-Prospects
-Wage rates
-Labor-management relations
-Perceptions
-Government’s role
-Wage rates
-Collective Bargaining Commission

Presentation of gifts by the President

Construction industry


[General conversation/Unintelligible]

The President, Hodgson, et al. left at 3:50 pm
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