Date: June 13, 1973
Time: Unknown between 10:15 am and 11:33 am
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Raymond K. Price, Jr.
Price’s coat
Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft talked with the President at an unknown time between 10:15 am and
11:22 am.
[Conversation No. 445-1A]
[Begin telephone conversation]
President’s telegrams
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Charles Whitehouse
-William H. Sullivan
[End telephone conversation]
Vietnam peace negotiations
-October, November 1972
-Problem
-North Vietnam
-US election
-South Vietnam
-Paris
-North Vietnam’s reaction
-January 1973
-Problem
-South Vietnam
-President’s message to Nguyen Van Thieu
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-Tone
-President’s meeting with Tran Kim Phuong
-Diplomatic language
-Communique
-Aid to South Vietnam
-Agreement
-Importance
-Strength
-Laos
-Simplicity
-Cambodia
-Delay
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Vietnam
-Future
US foreign policy
-Crises
-Lebanon
-US power advantage
-Suez
-Great Britain, France [?]
-Gomal Abdel Nasar [?]
-US response
-President’s opinion
-Aswan Dam
-World view
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Nikita S. Khruschev
-Deal
-Substance
-Watergate
-Impact
-Partisanship
-US-USSR summit [?]
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
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-US-PRC relations
-Press relations
-Faith
-Future concern
-Atomization
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 10:15 am.
Refreshments
-Coffee
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:22 am.
President’s foreign policy
-President’s critics
-Year of Europe
-Significance
-Georges J. R. Pompidou’s support
-Great Britain, France, Italy
-Pompidou
President’s forthcoming speech on nation’s economy
-President’s actions
[Discontinuities appear in the original recording.]
President’s forthcoming speech on nation’s economy
-Boom
-US standard of living
-Economic prosperity
-Buying power of dollar in 1972
-Economic growth
-Percentages
-Annual income
-Inflation
-Strength of US economy
-Public perception
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-Jobs
-Income growth
-Price index
-Rent
-Inclusion
-Explanation
-Press briefing
-Interest rates
-George P. Shultz’s viewpoint
-Wage freezes
-Settlements
-Inflation
-Phase III
-60 day freeze
-System of controls
-Shultz
-Removal
-Shultz
-Reaction
-Public
-Business
-Gasoline prices
-Reports
-Increases
-Rhetorical flourishes
-Controlled economy
-Phase IV
-Prosperity, jobs
-President’s action
-Cost of living
-Food prices
-Freeze
-Retail
-Supplies
-Crop production
-Reduction
-Current prices
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-Raw agricultural products
-Shortages
-Domestic compared to export consumption
-Soybeans
-President’s experience
-Importance
-Uses
-Export controls
-Reporting
-Food products
-Congressional action
-Existing commitments
-[Internal Revenue Service audits]
-Price “roll back”
-Deletions
-Surplus [?]
-Executive compensation
-Demagoguery
-Briefing
-[Spending bills]
-Taxes, prices
-William W. Scranton
-Appointment
-Return call
-Announcement
-Timing
-Speech [?]
-Energy
-Congressional action
-President’s proposals
-Crisis, shortage, problem
-Alaska pipeline
-Message to Congress
-Farm Bill
-Veto threat
-Inflation
-Vietnam War
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-Peace
-Bombing of Cambodia
-Overstatement
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Military draft
-Price’s efforts
-President’s approval
-Briefing
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Comment on 60-day freeze
-Public reception
-Cabinet, staff
Time of day
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:15 am and
11:22 am.
[Conversation No. 445-1B]
[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 40-63]
[End telephone conversation]
President’s forthcoming speech on nation’s economy
-Briefings
-Timing
-Significance
-Public perception
-War
The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr. between 11:22 am and 11:26 am.
[Conversation No. 445-1C]
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[Begin telephone conversation]
[See Conversation No. 40-64]
[End telephone conversation]
Scranton
-Return telephone call
-Liberal progressive
Elliot L. Richardson
-Performance as Attorney General
Watergate
-Ervin Committee
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-President’s assessment
-Leadership
-Forthcoming Leonid I. Brezhnev visit
President’s speech on nation’s economy
-Editing
-Improvement
Price
-Role on White House staff
-Involvement with speechwriting
Price left at an unknown time before 11:33 am.
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