262–5

Conversation No. 262-5

Date: July 19, 1971
Time: 3:00 pm - 5:05 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building
Conv. No. 262-2 (cont.)
The President met with John B. Connally.


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PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA [PRC]



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White House staff
-Connally's conversation with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Relations with Connally

Personnel
-Department of the Treasury
-Appointment of Blacks; women
-Unknown woman as possible appointee
-Charls E. Walker
-Samuel R. Pierce, Jr. (?)
-Internal Revenue Service
-Hurley (?) [John?]
-Job seeker
-Lloyd Bentson's office
-William Patrick (?)
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-Unknown woman
-White House action
-Peter O'Donnell
-Connally's conversation with Haldeman about staff member
-White House staff
-Relations with Connally
-Appointments
-The President
-Potential Black appointees
-Party affiliation
-Treasury
-Appointment of woman
-Connally's handling of personnel matters
-Bypassing of channels
-Peter [Surname not given] [O'Donnell?]
-John G. Tower

Connally
-Relationship with the President
-Political judgment
-Administration's chief economic spokesman
-Arthur F. Burns
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Paul W. McCracken
-George P. Shultz
-Position in the Cabinet
-John N. Mitchell
-Peter G. Peterson
-Secrecy compared with consultation in handling policy changes
-Shultz, McCracken
-Personnel changes
-John A. Volpe, George W. Romney
-White House channels
-Haldeman

Personnel
-Appointments
-Peterson's assignment
-State Department, National Security Council [NSC]
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State Department
-Administration’s position
-Connally’s position
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-World Bank
-Other funds
-George A. Lincoln
Conv. No. 262-5 (cont.)
Personnel
-Appointments
-Peterson
-NSC role
-Peterson
-William P. Rogers, Melvin R. Laird

Connally
-NSC
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Senior Review Group
-Representative
-Briefings

Inter-American Development Bank

World Bank

Coordination of Policy in the NSC

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 3:00 pm.

Refreshments

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 4:32 pm.

-Distribution of memorandum
-Department of the Treasury
-Connally's role
-NSC functioning
-Kissinger
-Connally’s role
-Mitchell’s role
-Richard M. Helms
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Conv. No. 262-5 (cont.)
PRC


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-Laird


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Lyndon B. Johnson
-January 1969 conversation
-Foreign policy leaks
-State Department, Dean Rusk
-Advisors to the President
-The press

Connally
-Possible resignation from Cabinet
-Connally's role as advisor
-Wilbur D. Mills
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-George Meany
-David Packard
-Lockheed
-Projected vote outcome in House, Senate

[Unintelligible]

The economy Conv. No. 262-5 (cont.)
-Present conditions
-Personal income, house sales, leading indicators
-Stock market
-Burns' views
-Quadriad meeting

Federal Reserve Board
-J. L. Robertson
-Paul A. Volcker
-J. Dewey Daane
-Gross National Product [GNP] for second quarter of 1971
-Robertson’s telephone call to Connally, Shultz
-Burns
-Volcker
-Connally's call to Daane
-Possible vacancy
-Interest rates
-Dollar exchange rates
-Burns’ actions
-Statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS]
-Robert D. Novak
-Incomes policy
-Wage-price policy
-Appointment
-Burns

Connally
-Personnel and public relations questions
-The White House staff
-John D. Ehrlichman's role in domestic policy
-Personnel and public relations
-Haldeman
-Ronald L. Ziegler
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-Domestic policy
-Ehrlichman
-Peterson
-Staff support
-Possible duties at the Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]

Foreign relations
-Trade and international relations Conv. No. 262-5 (cont.)
-Congress
-Developments in relations with the PRC
-Vietnam
-Organization of American States [OAS]
-Form of US relations with Latin American countries
-Differences in countries
-Costa Rica, Honduras, Brazil
-Argentina, Peru, Chile, Bolivia
-Trade
-Eastern Europe, the PRC
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-The PRC
-Vietnam

Welfare
-Work requirements
-H.R. 1
-Possible veto after changes
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Views

National character


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-Chico's [Surname unknown] Restaurant, Rockville, Maryland
-President’s experience
-Owner background
-Owner’s accomplishments
-Work ethic
-Welfare
Conv. No. 262-5 (cont.)
Tax cuts
-Mills
-Administration’s position

Robert S. McNamara
-World Bank presidency term
-Tenure
-Kissinger
-September 1971 meeting of the IMF
-Pentagon Papers, Kissinger
-Possible role with the Administration

Personnel
-Unknown woman
-Ethnic appointments
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Peterson
-McCracken, Shultz
-Domestic policy


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PRC


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Leadership Issue
-Vietnam, the Pentagon Papers

Kissinger entered at 4:32 pm.

US foreign relations
-Developments in relations with the PRC Conv. No. 262-5 (cont.)
-Kissinger's forthcoming briefing of his staff


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PRC


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-USSR
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Kissinger
-Forthcoming meeting with the President

Kissinger left at 4:35 pm.

Africa
-Africans, Blacks
-Comments

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Judgement and beliefs
-Second term in office
-Henry A. Wallace comparison
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-Comments on African leaders
-Heritage of Black Americans
-Standing with conservatives
-Reason for stated positions
-Standing in 1972

Predictions for 1972
-The Vietnam war Conv. No. 262-5 (cont.)

US foreign policy
-The PRC
-Initiative
-Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally, Connally's Children
-Agnew
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Chiang Kai-Shek
-Clare Booth Luce
-United Nations [UN] membership issue
-US public reaction
-Quemoy, Matsu
-Two China policy
-Chiang Kai-Shek
-Security Council seat


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Issues facing the nation
-Foreign policy
-Economy
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-International monetary issues
-Character
-Presidential qualities
-Values


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Conv. No. 262-5 (cont.)
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Connally left at 5:05 pm.