Secret White House Tapes

911–32

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911–32
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • George P. Shultz
  • UNKNOWN
May 3, 1973
Conversation No. 911-32

Date: May 3, 1973
Time: 12:24 pm - 12:40 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with George P. Shultz and an unknown man.

President’s schedule

-Meeting


The unknown man left at an unknown time before 12:40 pm.

Greetings
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. September-2012)

Conversation No. 911-32 (cont’d)


President’s schedule

Watergate

White House staff relations with Cabinet departments
-Departments’ work

-Legitimacy, openness

-William P. Rogers’s opinion

-Henry A. Kissinger

-Kissinger
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s and John D. Ehrlichman’s departures
-Haldeman’s replacement
-British system
-Congressional confirmation
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Domestic Council
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Kissinger
-Personnel selection

-Cabinet’s role

-Loyalty to President

-Quadriad
-Domestic Council, Cabinet, Council on Economic Policy, National
Security Council [NSC] meetings
-Flanigan
-Shultz’s chairmanship
-Arthur F. Burns
-Concerns

-Shultz’s preparation of memorandum


Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:24 pm.

White House staff relations

-Bull

-Reliability

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. September-2012)

Conversation No. 911-32 (cont’d)

-Roy L. Ash

President’s schedule

-Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon

-Leonard Garment


Bull left at an unknown time before 12:40 pm.

White House staff relations
-Shultz’s preparation of memorandum
-Compared to talking paper regarding Soviets
-Shultz

-Actions

-Responsibilities

-International monetary and trade policy
-Tax policy
-Criticism
-Simplification

President’s meeting with Labor-Management Advisory Council

National economy
-Price freeze

-Possible effects

-Congress

-Ronald L. Ziegler


An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:24 pm.

President’s schedule

-Five minutes


The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:40 pm.

White House staff

-Congressional confirmation

-Shultz’s meeting with Rogers

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. September-2012)

Conversation No. 911-32 (cont’d)

-Kissinger
-India-Pakistan war
-US policy
-Questions
-President’s concerns
-Flanigan

-Peter G. Peterson

-Testimony

-Shultz’s meeting with Rogers


Shultz’s schedule

-Interamerican Development Bank meeting

-Jamaica


Garment

Shultz left at 12:40 pm.
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