621–31

Conversation No. 621-31

Date: November 20, 1971
Time: 11:13 am - 12:00 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

The President's schedule
-Previous speech to American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial
Organizations [AFL-CIO] convention
-Press coverage
-Helen A. Thomas
-Public reaction
-Rose Mary Woods
-Publicity
-Mrs. Lou Gehrig
-Press coverage
-United Press International [UPI]
-George Meany
-Public reaction at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts event
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-John B. Connally's views
-Charles W. Colson
-The President's attendance at Khmer Classical Ballet Performance
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

National economy
-The President's program
-Pay Board
-Meany's pay raise
-Colson's views
-John A. Scali's views
-Popular views
-Editorial writers
-Polls
-Meany's pay raise
-The President's previous speech to AFL-CIO convention
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-Reception by Meany

Public relations
-Previous speech at AFL-CIO convention
-Thomas
-Public reaction
-Press coverage
-The President's previous call to Seymour Halpern
-Press coverage
-Dan Rather
-Frank Cormier
-Connally's views
-Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin’s view
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Meany
-American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]
-Tricia Nixon Cox's views
-Scali's views
-John F. Kennedy's visit to Houston
-Labor leaders
-Press coverage
-US navy
-Film
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon Cox
-Telegrams to White House
-Thomas and Cormier
-White House reaction
-George P. Shultz's view
-Meany
-Pay Board
-Scali's view
-The President's economic program
-Wage freeze

Rumsfeld
-Possible meeting with the President
-Forthcoming call from Haldeman
-The President's economic program

National economy
-The President's program
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-Meany's pay increase
-James D. Hodgson
-George W. Romney

Public relations
-Previous speech to AFL-CIO convention
-Popular reaction
-Press coverage
-Thomas's view
-Associated Press
-Cormier
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Press coverage
-Content and phraseology
-The Vice President
-Rather
-Press coverage
-Rather
-White House response
-Ziegler
-Cormier
-The President’s view
-Gen. Walter R. Tkach's view
-White House response
-Meany
-Participation on Pay Board
-Connally's view
-Pay increase
-Connally's possible statement
-The President's conversations with Halpern and Alan Bible

Helicopter
-Noise

Tkach

Ziegler
-Gerald L. Warren

The President's schedule
-Football games
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-Pepper Rodgers

Julie Nixon Eisenhower and David N. Parker entered at 11:36 am.

-Woods

Haldeman left at 11:36 am.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower's schedule
-Haldeman's presence in meeting

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 11:36 am and 11:37
am.

[Conversation No. 621-31A]

Requested Haldeman join them

[End of telephone conversation]

Rose Mary Woods entered at 11:37 am.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower's schedule
-Haldeman
-The President

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 11:37 am.

-William L. Safire
-Patrick J. Buchanan

US Navy
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Blacks

First Family's schedule
-Location of appearances
-Television
-Local candidates
-Issues compared to politics
-The President’s policies
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-David Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon Cox
-Mrs. Nixon
-Invitations
-Case Western Reserve University
-Youth
-The President’s view
-High schools and colleges
-White House staff involvement
-Scali, Richard A. Moore, Safire and Ziegler
-Advance staff
-Secret Service
-The President's schedule
-Invitations
-Screening
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s view
-Number
-Company Christmas parties
-Jews and blacks
-The President’s view
-Catholics and ethnics
-Jews and blacks
-The President’s instructions
-Television talk shows
-Possible questions
-The Vice President
-Possible conversation topics
-Volunteer center
-Director
-Frederic V. Malek
-Aged
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s possible participation
-Aged
-Compared to youth
-Number
-Voting pattern
-Volunteer organizations
-Vocational clubs and boys clubs
-Julie Eisenhower’s participation
-Young Men’s Christian Association [YMCA]
-Boy Scouts
-4-H
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-Salvation Army
-Presidential awards
-Presidential awards to individuals
-Drugs
-Efforts of professional athletes
-David Eisenhower
-Television talk shows
-Robert F. Kennedy
-Issues
-Buchanan
-Personality
-Previous questions on Cleveland television show
-Issues
-John D. Ehrlichman and John C. Whitaker
-Environment
-Public concern
-Polls
-Family life
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Woods
-Ann Landers
-Letters to the White House
-Locations
-South
-Border states
-Mountain states
-Importance
-Small states

Stephen B. Bull and Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 11:56 am.


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Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Parker and Woods left at 11:58 am.

The President's schedule

Bull and Butterfield left at 12:00 pm.