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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
Date: September 6, 1972
Time: 4:00 pm – 6:04 pm.
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 4m 34s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming speech to International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-George P. Shultz
-John B. Connally
-Henry A. Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Proposal of US position
-Departments of Labor and Treasury
-Speech draft
-William L. Safire
-Shultz
-Previous acceptance and Labor Day speeches
-Dan Rather’s view
-Charles W. Colson
-Administration response to Rather
-Tone
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal returnable]
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[Duration: 8m 11s ]
Connolly entered at 4:02 pm.
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming speech to the IMF
-Connally
-Shultz
-US proposals
-Rogers
-US proposals
-World reaction
-Connally’s previous meeting with Shultz
-Schultz’s view
-Convertibility
-Benefits of making speech
-Connally’s view
-Kissinger
-Inflation
-Productivity
-Jobs
Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 4:06 pm.
The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Connally and Democrats for Nixon staff
-Press announcement
-The President’s forthcoming trip to Texas
-Democrats for Nixon
-George A. Christian
Ziegler left at 4:07 pm.
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 10m 56s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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The President’s accomplishments
-White House position
-Price controls
-Economic policy
-Responsible image
-Leadership
-Louis P. Harris poll figures
-Tax reform
-The President’s tax program
-Success
-Administration actions
-Removal of poor from tax rolls
-Personal income taxes
-Excise taxes
-Corporate taxes
-Property taxes
-Legislation
-1969, 1971
-Significance
-Compared to 1913 income tax law
-George S. McGovern’s tax program
-The President’s responses
-Connally’s view
-Safire
-Shultz
-Specific examples
-Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania example
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Tape Subject Log
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-City boards
-City services
-McGovern program
-Effect on local taxes
-Lyndon B. Johnson actions
-Tax reform legislation
-Stanley S. Surrey
-Congressional support
-1969 tax reform bill
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 2m 22s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
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Presidential appointments
-Eugene S. McCarthy
-Relationship with McGovern
-Federal Communications Commission [FCC] position
-Corporation for Public Broadcasting
-John W. Macy, Jr.
-The President’s view
-McGovern
-John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
-FCC vacancy
-Nicholas Johnson
-The President’s view
-Macy
-Corporation for Public Broadcasting
-Leonard H. Marks
-Possible ambassadorial position
-McCarthy’s marital status
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-FCC position
-Leonard Garment
-Possible arts position
-Possible endorsement
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 3m 38s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:07 pm.
The President’s schedule
-Staff of Democrats for Nixon
Bull left at an unknown time before 4:42 pm.
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 7m 58s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
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The President’s record
-Grain deals
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-Effect on Mid-west
-Farm prices
-Japan
-Soviet Union
-The People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Soviet trade agreement
-Kissinger and Rogers
-Forthcoming announcement
-Timing
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
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[Duration: 22m 52s ]
Michael R. Gardner, Christian Marks, Jake Jacobsen, Paul Howell, Michael A. Myers, Warren
Woodward, Jeno F. Paulucci, William H.G. France, John O. Marsh, Lee A. Vann, and Steven J.
Frenzel entered at 4:42 pm.
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
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Oval Office
-Walter H. Annenberg
-Steuben Glass
-Presidential seal
-Trees from PRC
-White House print
-Unknown British artist
-Future Nixon Library
-Johnson Library
-Duplicate of office
-Scale
-Flags
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
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[Duration: 12m 23s ]
Gardner et al. Left at 5:10 pm.
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