Date: April 18, 1973
Time: 12:48 pm – 12:58 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with George P. Shultz.
[See also Conversation No. 900-18]
President’s schedule
-Rainer Barzel
Economic Stabilization Act
-Conference report
-Gerald R. Ford’s reaction
-Wright Patman’s actions
-Effects of fight in Congress
-Senate action
-Rent controls
-Allocation of petroleum products
-Oil industry
-Definition of substandard earnings
-Exemption from wage controls
-Health services
-Food workers
-Authority to withhold funds
-Disclosure of cost/profit information by Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Bryce N. Harlow’s reaction
-Trade secrets
-Comparison with Security and Exchange Commission reports [SEC]
requirements
-Hearings concerning adverse wage determination
-John T. Dunlop’s actions in 1972
-Ford’s feeling concerning possible vote
-Price freezes
-Extension for one year
-Wage freezes
-Senate vote
-Effect on House of Representatives
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-Patman
-Rent controls
-John J. Sparkman and John G. Tower
-Veto
-Senate vote
-Administration’s position
-Ford
-Business community opposition
-Enforcement of provisions
Emigration of Soviet Jews
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Most favored nation [MFN] status
-Announcement
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson’s reaction
-Jacob K. Javits and Abraham Ribicoff
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield and Hugh Scott
-Summit with Soviet Union
-Blame for possible cancellation
-Jewish community
-Jackson
Economic Stabilization Act
-Dunlop
-Herbert Stein