294–22

Conversation No. 294-22

Date: November 18, 1971
Time: 2:56 pm - 4:50 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with George P. Shultz and Manolo Sanchez.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:36 pm.

John B. Connally
-Previous meeting with Shultz
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Upcoming meeting with the Group of Ten

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:56 pm.

[Unintelligible]

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:36 pm.
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Connally
-Previous meeting with Shultz
-Staff
-Gold

International monetary situation
-Price of gold
-Convertibility

Charles H. Percy
-Previous statement
-Richard B. Ogilvie
-Vietnam

Nelson A. Rockefeller

Ronald W. Reagan
-Conversation with the President
-Welfare reform

Rockefeller
-Revenue sharing

Ogilvie
-Previous call to Shultz
-Percy's speech
-House Resolution 1

House Resolution 1
-Percy's efforts
-Shultz's previous conversation with Connally

Congress
-Pending legislation
-Connally's efforts

Ogilvie
-Federal welfare funds
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Congress
-Tax Bill
-Michael J. Mansfield

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 2:56 pm.

Delivery

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 3:36 pm.

American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
convention
-George Meany's previous speech
-Soviet Union and People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Executive Council's meeting
-Pay Board participation
-The President's forthcoming speech
-Meany's statement on the President's economic program

National economy
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Increase

AFL-CIO convention
-The President's forthcoming speech
-Vietnam
-Meany
-Relations with Lyndon B. Johnson and Dwight D. Eisenhower
-The President's schedule
-Pay Board

Federal Budget
-Manipulation
-Pending tax bill
-Revenue-sharing
-Family assistance
-Value added tax
-Possible role in tax system
-Hubert H. Humphrey's proposal
-Russell B. Long's proposal
-Cost
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-Herbert Stein

Stein
-Shultz's call to Maj. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes
-White House car
-Possible role with administration
-Shultz's previous conversation with Connally
-Milton Friedman
-Arthur F. Burns
-Paul W. McCracken
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA] appointment
-Jews in administration
-Connally's views
-Health

National economy
-Pay Board
-Coal miners
-Retroactivity of contracts
-Shultz's daughter's question
-Possible strike
-Congress
-Effect of freeze
-Previous Wall Street Journal article
-Duration of freeze
-Burns
-Letter to the President regarding his visit to New York

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 2:56 pm and
3:36 pm.

[Conversation No. 294-22A]

[See Conversation No. 15-35]

[End of telephone conversation]
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Burns
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Contacts
-Pierre-Paul Schweitzer

The President talked with Peter M. Flanigan between 3:36 and 3:42 pm.

[Conversation No. 294-22B]

[See Conversation No. 15-36]

[End of telephone conversation]

Fredrick M. Eaton
-Possible role with Administration
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] Ambassadorship
-Requirements

David Kennedy
-Possible role with Administration

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:42 pm.

The President's schedule
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:47 pm.

David M. Kennedy
-Possible role with Administration

International monetary situation

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:42 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:47 pm.
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Pending legislation

National economy
-Money supply
-Burns

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:42 pm and
3:47 pm.

[Conversation No. 294-22C]

[See Conversation No. 15-37]

[End of telephone conversation]

National economy
-Money supply
-Burns
-Friedman
-Federal budget for Fiscal Year 1973

The President talked with Charles W. Colson between 3:47 pm and 3:51 pm.

[Conversation No. 294-22D]

[See Conversation No. 15-38; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Rumsfeld entered at 3:48 pm.

[End of telephone conversation]

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman between 3:51 pm and an unknown time
before 4:17 pm.

[Conversation No. 294-22E]

Colson

The President's schedule

[End of telephone conversation]
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National economy
-Pay Board
-Retroactivity of contracts
-Pending legislation
-Pending legislation
-Clark MacGregor's views

Congress
-Authority vis-a-vis the President
-Washington Post article

National economy
-Rumsfeld's deputy
-Frank C. Carlucci
-Requirements
-The President's program
-C. Jackson Grayson and George H. Boldt
-Pay Board and Price Commission
-Relations
-Rumsfeld's activities
-Staffs' activities
-Effects
-Exemptions
-Cost of Living Council
-Activities
-Virginia H. Knauer
-Connally
-Telegram from Jewel Tea Company
-Activities

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:51 pm and 4:17
pm.

[Conversation No. 294-22F]

[Unintelligible]

[End of telephone conversation]

National economy
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-The President's schedule
-The President's program
-Foreign policy
-Cost of Living Council
-Role
-Rumsfeld's conversation with Dick [Surname unknown] [Richard Ogilvie?]

Ogilvie
-Welfare reform


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-Possible role with administration
-Judicial appointment
-Mitchell
-Confirmation


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The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:51 pm and 4:17
pm.

[Conversation No. 294-22G]

The President's schedule
-Mitchell
-Subway in Washington, DC
-Daniel P. Moynihan
-Joel T. Broyhill

[End of telephone conversation]

District of Columbia
-Home Rule
-Subway

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:51 pm and
4:17 pm.

[Conversation No. 294-22H]

[See Conversation No. 15-39]

[End of telephone conversation]

National economy
-The President's program
-Effect
-Duration

The President talked with John B. Connally between 4:17 pm and 4:24 pm.

[Conversation No. 294-22I]

[See Conversation No. 15-40]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Kissinger and Mitchell
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National economy

The President talked with an unknown person in Kissinger's office at an unknown time between
4:24 pm and 4:34 pm.

[Conversation No. 294-22J]

The President's schedule
-Kissinger

[End of telephone conversation]

National economy
-The President's program
-Inflation
-Rent Board
-Thomas B. Curtis
-Rent controls
-Paris
-Curtis
-Democrats' actions
-Tax cut
-Labor unions
-Shultz's conversation with Willie J. Usery
-Usery's speech in St. Louis in 1960
-Connally's views
-Public perceptions of Administration's policy towards labor unions

Supreme Court
-William H. Rehnquist and Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

National economy
-The President's program
-Pay Board
-George Meany
-Business's reaction
-Stein's views

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 4:24 pm.
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Kissinger's schedule

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 4:34 pm.

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:24 pm and 4:34
pm.

[Conversation No. 294-22K]

The President's schedule
-Mitchell

[End of telephone conversation]

National economy
-The President's program

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 4:34 pm.

The President's schedule

Kissinger's schedule
-Prisoner of war [POW] wives

The President's schedule
-Mitchell and Rumsfeld

Shultz and Rumsfeld left at 4:35 pm.

Vietnam
-Military dispositions
-North Vietnamese Army

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:35 pm.

The President's schedule
-Rumsfeld
-Mitchell
-Broyhill

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:50 pm.
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Vietnam
-Military dispositions
-North Vietnamese Army
-Bombing
-Timing
-People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-The President’s decision
-Thomas H. Moorer
-Possible effect
-PRC, Soviet Union
-Le Duc Tho's possible actions
-Negotiations
-William J. Porter's statement
-Le Duc Tho's schedule
-Bombing
-Possible effect
-Kissinger’s view
-PRC and the Soviet Union
-Timing
-Possible effect
-The President’s view
-PRC trip
-Timing

Soviet Union
-William P. Rogers's statement
-Mitchell
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Yitzhak Rabin

Connally's schedule
-Press conference

Kissinger's conversation with an unknown man

The President's schedule
-Press conference
-Time

Kissinger left at 4:50 pm.
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