On April 27, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Winton M. ("Red") Blount, Jr., George P. Shultz, Stephen B. Bull, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:43 am to 12:16 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 488-016 of the White House Tapes. Topics include: The President met with Winton M. ("Red") Blount and George P. Shultz. Greetings Economy - Interest rates - Arthur F. Burns - Ronald L. Ziegler - John D. Ehrlichman - Problems Blount's tenure - Postmaster General Shultz's meeting with James D. Corbett, April 26, 1971 - New York - University Club Postal Service - Wage negotiations - Labor - Contract negotiations - Costs Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:43 am. President's schedule - Meeting with ambassadors of Kuwait and Guinea Bull left at an unknown time before 12:16 pm. Postal Service Labor negotiations - Management's position - Postal supervisors - Previous contract - Outlook - Wage increases - Costs - Effect on government - Productivity improvements - Grievance procedures - Discipline - Management rights - Technology improvements - Wage increases - Impact on Government employees - Management's position - Shultz - Budget - Possible rate increase - Wage increases - Amount - Cost - Legislation - Comparability of pay - Government and private sector - President's options - Congress - Pay bills - Union activities - Procedures - Wage increases - Pressures - Effect on other government workers - Wage increases - Productivity - Negotiations - Timing - Fact- Finding procedures - Arbitration - Importance - Decisions - Postal Service's position - President's view - Blount's role - Balance - Management's position - Compatibility of pay - Productivity Commission - Bargaining - Shultz's view - Procedures - Psychology - Union's position - Arbitration - Postal regions - Local post offices - Political influence - Reorganization of regions - Blount's view - Congress - Management's stance - Reductions- In- Force - President's view - Closing of bases - Russell B. Long - Funds An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 11:43 am. Refreshment The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:16 pm. Postal Service - Reorganization - Blount - Postal regions - Administration's position - Organization - Top officials - Recruitment of talent - Businessmen - Gen. Leonard F. Chapman, Jr. - Qualifications - Joint Chiefs of staff - Adm. Thomas H. Moorer - Age - Military - President's view - Gen. Lucius D. Clay, Jr. - Chapman - Ambassadors - Philippines - Raymond A. Spruance - Background - Douglas MacArthur - Dwight D. Eisenhower - Retirement - Salary - Retire Chief Executive officers - Bucky Newsom [sp?] - Bert S. Cross - Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company - Age - Robert C. Tyson - Previous assignment for the President - US steel corporation - Qualifications - Military - Air Force - Navy - Bernard Schreiver - Texas - President's view - Missiles Businesses - Hirings - Veterans - James F. Oates - Blacks Postal Service - Recruitment - Newsom [sp?] - Possible meeting with the President - Blount - Tenure - Newsom [sp?] - Boys clubs - Cleveland Blount's conversation with George C. Wallace - Moorer - Qualifications [Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 06/21/2019. Segment cleared for release.] [Personal Returnable] [488-016- W002] [Duration: 8m 1s] Winton M. ("Red") Blount's conversation with George C. Wallace - Eastern Democrats - Possible candidacy to pull votes away - George C. Wallace's political aspirations 1972 campaign - John N. Mitchell - George C. Wallace's possible candidacy - Eastern Democrats - Wilbur D. Mills - Texas - Alabama - Georgia - Louisiana - Mississippi - George C. Wallace's strength - Northern blue collar Democrats - New York - Pennsylvania - New Jersey - Indiana - Illinois - Ohio - Missouri - California - Michigan - Wisconsin - California - Racism - The President's strength - Two- Man race - Avoid minority president - John F. Kennedy - Harry S Truman - Eisenhower - Abraham Lincoln - Congress - George C. Wallace - Center - John N. Mitchell - George C. Wallace - Losing support in the South - Alabama - Legislature - Georgia - Louisiana The President's schedule - Possible visit to Alabama - Winton M. ("Red") Blount's possible 1972 political activities - John J. Sparkman - Florida - George C. Wallace - Alabama - Birmingham -200th anniversary - Timing - Fall 1971 - Elton Stevens - Tom Warren [?] - Co- Chairman - Impending indictment - The President's electoral prospects - Paul W. ("Bear"). Bryant - Edmund S. Muskie - Edward M. ("Ted") Kennedy - Hubert H. Humphrey - Polls - Summer 1971 - Winton M. ("Red") Blount's Senate race - Candidates - Issues The President's schedule - Possible visit to Alabama - H.R. ("Bob") Haldeman - Scheduling - Meeting with ambassadors of Kuwait and Guinea [Previous National Security (B) withdrawal reviewed under MDR guidelines case number LPRN- T- MDR-2014-024. Segment declassified on 04/24/2019. Archivist: DR] [National Security] [488-016- W003] [Duration: 47s] The President's schedule - Meeting with ambassadors of Kuwait and Guinea - Kuwait and Guinea - The President's belief - Guinea - El Hadj Mory Keita - The President's comments - Portugal - November 1970 raid on Guinea - US relations The President's schedule - Previous Cabinet Meeting - United Nations [UN] - Other cities - New York - George H.W. Bush - Press coverage - Guinea - Building Blount's performance The President, Blount, and Shultz left at 12:16 pm. Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Blount, Winton M. ("Red"), Jr.; Shultz, George P.; Bull, Stephen B.; [Unknown person(s)].
- Part of White House Tapes: Sound Recordings of Meetings and Telephone Conversations of the Nixon Administration, Oval Office Sound Recordings