Date: February 7, 1973
Time: 2:35 pm – 3:07 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with George Shultz and John D. Ehrlichman.
Budget
-Congressional hearings
-Publicity
-Televised hearings
Economic policy
-The President’s meeting with Colson
-Taxes, trade
-New York Times article
-Developments
-Monetary powers
-Discussions
-Devaluation
-Compared to August 1971 action
-Problem
-International crisis
-Leadership
-Trade
-Trade package
-Compared to August 1971 action
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-Public reaction
-Ports
-Jobs
-The President’s forthcoming speech
-Trade package, devaluation of the dollar
-Public relations
-Form of announcement
-News leads in August 1971
-Freeze in wages and prices
-Dollar devaluation
-Surcharge
-News leads for new policy
-Trade
-Devaluation
-Complications
-Timing of remarks
-Positive stories
-Compared to August 1971 action
-Announcement
-Radio talk compared to press conference
-Newspapers
-Television [TV] excerpt
-Trade
-Foreign imports into US markets
-Competitive goods
-Global audience
-Rhetoric
-Appeal to Congress
-Discussions before announcement
-Leaks
-Recommendations from others
-Devaluation decision
-Final decision
-Consultation with Arthur F. Burns, Herbert Stein [?], Roy
L. Ash, Quadraid
-Congressional relations
-Wilbur D. Mills
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-Russell B. Long
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:35 pm.
Refreshments
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:07 pm.
Economic policy
-Congressional relations
-Mills, Long
-Ehrlichman
-Taxes
-Welfare reform
-Health programs
-Schultz
-The President’s meeting with Long
-Groundwork
-Ehrlichman’s [?] call to Wallace F. Bennett
-Long
-Herman T. Schneebeli
-John W. Byrnes
-Mills, Long
-Welfare reform
-Senate
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-White House staff
-Schultz’s role
-Ehrlichman, William E. Timmons, Ash
-Trade package
-Confidentiality of devaluation decision
-Ash
-Trade package
-Timmons
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Kissinger’s trip
-Knowledge of devaluation decision
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-Cable
-Kakuci Tanaka
-Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft
-John T. Dunlop
-Scowcroft
-Kissinger’s role
-William P. Rogers, Burns
-Kissinger’s trip to Japan
-Vietnam
-Kissinger’s opinion of Treasury Department
-Post-war reconstruction
-Ideas
-North Vietnam
-Long term plans
-Japan
-North Vietnam
-World Bank, Asian Development Bank
-Ehrlichman’s meeting with Kissinger
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Secretary of State, Secretary of Treasury, NSC
member
-Kissinger’s understanding of monetary issue
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Workload
-The President’s schedule
-Dunlop’s swearing-in
-Committee involvement
-Summit with Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT II}
-Vietnam settlement
-Involvement in policy
-Europe, Japan, US
-Common bond
-Economy
-Demeanor at meetings
-Rogers
-Eisanku Sato
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-Devaluation
Tax policy
-The President’s schedule
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Checklist
-Simplified minimum tax proposal
-Capital gains reduction
-Tax package
-Meeting with Dunlop
-Minimum tax
-Reduction of top rate
Stephen B. Bull entered at 3:05 pm.
The President’s attendance at swearing-in ceremony
Bull left at 3:06 pm.
James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa
-Frank Fitzsimmons
-Newspaper article
-Tucson
-Hoffa’s release from prison
-Ehrlichman’s role
The President, Shultz, and Ehrlichman left at 3:07 pm.