Date: June 6, 1973

Time: Unknown between 4:56 pm and 5:02 pm

Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Gerald R. Ford.

[See also Conversation No. 443-27]

Congressional relations

-President’s schedule

-Policy Committee

-Minimum Wage Bill

-Substitute

-Amendments

-Conference

-Possible need for veto

-Peter J. Brennan

-Support for labor

-Youth differential

-Veto

-Committee bill

-President’s recommendations

-Veto

-Brennan’s reaction

President’s schedule

-Cabinet meeting

-Bipartisan Congressional leadership meeting

-Postponement

-Vietnam and Leonid I. Brezhnev summit

-Timing

-Cabinet meeting

-Ford and Hugh Scott

-Timing

-Melvin R. Laird

-98-

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. February-2011)

Watergate

-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.

-Forthcoming speech

-Impeachment

-Content

-Possible White House reaction

The President talked with Hugh Scott at an unknown time.

President’s schedule

-Cabinet meeting

-Bipartisan Congressional leaders meeting

-Vietnam and Soviet summit

-Postponement

-Cabinet meeting

-Ford and Scott

President’s forthcoming economic package

-Scott’s conversation with John B. Connally

-Possible presentation to joint session of Congress

-Difficulty

-President’s forthcoming conversation with Connally

-Readiness

-Possible presentation to Congress

National economy

-Unknown economist’s statement in US News and World Report

-Effect on consumers

-Food prices

-Wage and price freeze

-Duration

-Debt limitation bill

-Possible effects on labor, economy

-John T. Dunlop’s meeting with labor and management

-Opposition

Watergate

-Scott’s statement, June 5

-99-

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. February-2011)

-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield

President’s schedule

-Cabinet meeting

-Scott, Ford