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THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON The Western White House San Clemente July 25, 1974 MEMORANDUM FOR: FROM: THE PRESIDENT Rurn RAY PRICE SUBJECT: ECONOMIC SPEECH The 6th draft is attached. It incorporates your changes on the 5th, plus a few others, mostly minor. The one change I've made that I would flag for your attention is on page 7. That's the part following "We will continue to monitor every sector of the economy, 11 where you took out not only the reference to improved unemployment compensation, but also the line that "we will be prepared to move decisively when one sector has a particular problem. " In taking this out, I substituted a line saying: "We will take what actions are necessary to prevent distress. 11 The purpose of this, originally, was both to cover such actions as the signing of the feedlot operators' bill, and also to signal reassurance to those who might worry that they'd be left stranded in policies of anti- inflationary austerity. But you'll want to look at it, and see whether you do want this substitute included. This draft has been reviewed and okayed by both Herb Stein and Ken Rush. Jerry Warren hopes very much to have an advance text available as early as possible. I think he's right that we'll get better play on this one if we give them some time to write -- particularly with the West Coast deadline problem. Attachment - 6th Draft PS: My preliminary word count is 3411; we're doing a careful check, and will phone the final to Manolo.