468–19

Conversation No. 468-19

Date: March 16, 1971
Time: 5:47 pm - 6:22 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

Items for signing

President’s schedule
-Thomas E. Dewey’s funeral

Papers for signing
-Richard Morrison
-Terry Wilson
-Rose Mary Woods
-A declaration

Dewey
-Announcement of death

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 5:50 pm
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Butterfield left at an unknown time before 5:52 pm

President’s schedule
-Dinner, March 16, 1971

Dewey funeral
-Day
-President’s attendance
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Whitney M. Young, Jr. funeral
-Day
-Possible demonstrators
-Location
-Health of Dewey

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 5:52 pm

Young
-Query about job offer
-John D. Ehrlichman
-President’s Cabinet offer
-Previous statement

Ziegler left at 5:53 pm

President’s schedule
-Dewey funeral
-Forthcoming press conference
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-George P. Shultz
-Timing
-March 26, 1971
-Maurice H. Stans’ dinner
-Timing
-CPI
-Coverage
-President’s possible statements
-Timing
-John B. Connally
-Meeting with mayors
-Mayors’ complaints
-John V. Lindsay
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-Richard G. Lugar
-Ziegler’s office
-A list of attendees
-Ehrlichman
-President’s previous meetings with mayors
-Lindsay
-Lugar in Indianapolis
-White House meeting Conv. No. 468-19 (cont.)
-Meetings with mayors and blacks
-Ziegler
-Press release
-A mayors committee
-Legislation proposals
-Lindsay, Carl B. Stokes, Joseph Alioto
-Staff awareness
-Purpose
-Information on past meetings
-John V. (“Jack”) Brennan
-National Archives office
-Retrieval of information
-Young funeral
-Travelers on President’s plane
-W. Ramsey Clark
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Margaret (Birchner) Young
-Ehrlichman
-William P. Rogers
-Ziegler
-Clark
-Rumsfeld
-Connection with Young
-Rumsfeld’s decision
-Reason
-Press coverage
-Clark

Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan’s letter
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Stans
-Business Council
-Content
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-Flanigan
-Possible business constituency
-Stans
-Letter from Fred J. Borch

Supporting constituencies for the Administration
-Business
-Congress Conv. No. 468-19 (cont.)
-Republican National Committee [RNC]
-Governors
-Business
-John N. Mitchell
-A possible meeting with the President

Dewey funeral
-President’s attendance
-Lewis, George C. Wallace, Barry M. Goldwater
-Dewey’s positions
-Presidential candidate
-Presidential advisor
-President’s attendance
-Young funeral
-Public opinion
-Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson
-Young funeral
-President’s attendance
-Day
-President’s schedule
-Possible demonstrations

Demonstrations
-President’s response
-Public opinion

President’s schedule
-Meeting with mayors
-Ehrlichman
-Length
-Previous Cabinet meeting
-Ehrlichman
-John A. Volpe
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-Stans
-Greece
-Nicaragua, Kenya
-Compared with home slide shows
-Dewey funeral
-Wreath
-Dewey’s sons
-Possible letters from the President Conv. No. 468-19 (cont.)
-Wreath
-Family and associates
-Sons
-Importance
-Possible other funerals
-Johnson
-Harry S Truman
-Johnson
-Possible lying-in-state
-Truman
-Johnson
-President’s possible attendance
-Washington, DC; Texas
-Publicity value
-Young funeral in Kentucky
-Publicity value
-Richard B. Russell’s funeral
-Symbolism
-Coverage
-Value
-Dewey funeral
-Meeting with mayors
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Revenue sharing
-Length
-Ehrlichman
-President’s role
-President’s role in meetings
-Blacks
-Leonard Garment
-Congress
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Henry A. Kissinger
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-Meeting with mayors
-Length
-Purpose
-Previous meetings
-President’s view
-Value
-Purpose
-Revenue sharing Conv. No. 468-19 (cont.)
-Ehrlichman’s role

Haldeman left at 6:22 pm