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5–156
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Wilbur D. Mills
June 24, 1971
Conversation No. 5-156

Date: June 24, 1971
Time: 10:42 am - 10:44 am
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Wilbur D. Mills.
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[See Conversation No. 528-6]

Mills’ work on H.R.1
-Vote counts
-Gerald R. Ford
President's possible help with H.R.1 in Senate
-Russell B. Long Conv. No. 5-154 (cont.)
-Wallace F. Bennett

Senate legislative strategy for H.R.1
-Timing of hearings
-Long's statements
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield, Carl B. Albert
-Welfare
-Guaranteed annual wage
-Work requirements

Governor Ronald W. Reagan's views on welfare
-Mills’ possible speech to California legislature on welfare

Office of President
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson's and Mills’ ability on foreign policy

Pentagon Papers
-Lyndon B. Johnson and disloyalty of former subordinates
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Robert S. McNamara
-Joseph McCarthy
-Johnson-John F. Kennedy involvement
-Need to protect security of secret government documents
-President's conversation with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Ronald L. Ziegler
-Security classification
-Alger Hiss case
-Turning over of documents to Mansfield and Albert
-F. Edward Hébert
-Mills’ forthcoming trip to New Haven, Connecticut
-Congressman Robert N. Giaimo
-Anticipated press conference
-Administration's response
-Rule of law
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H.R.1

Revenue sharing
-President's conversation with George P. Shultz
-Mills’ proposal
-President's forthcoming conversation with Richard J. Daley
-President's conversation with Shultz and John B. Connally, June 23
-John W. Byrnes Conv. No. 5-156 (cont.)

President's schedule
-Indiana, Illinois
-Recent trips to Oklahoma, Atlantic City

Patriotism in America

President's possible role in legislation
-H.R.1
-Shultz, Connally
-Revenue sharing
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