493–3

Conversation No. 493-3

Date: May 6, 1971
Time: 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
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President’s schedule
-”Salute to Agriculture” May 7, 1971
-President’s remarks
-Length

[The White House operator talked with the President at 9:10 am]

[Conversation No. 493-3A]

[See Conversation No. 2-103]

[End of telephone conversation]

President’s schedule
-”Salute to Agriculture”
-President’s remarks
-Length
-A briefing
-Clifford M. Hardin
-John N. Mitchell
-Rural revenue sharing
-Lunch at State Department
-South Lawn exhibit
-Possible remarks by President
-Dinner at White House
-Number of guests
-President’s role
-Remarks, toast
-Dinner
-Glen Campbell
-Toast
-Farmers’ wives
-Hardin
-Farmers
-Public attitude

Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Upcoming vote
-Gerald R. Ford

President’s schedule
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-George Meany
-Possible breakfast
-Business Council
-George P. Shultz
-John D. Ehrlichman

Lobbyists
-Milk producers Conv. No. 493-3 (cont.)
-John B. Connally’s suggestion
-Sugar
-Administration staff
-Shultz, Peter G. Peterson, Peter M. Flanigan
-Sugar
-Oil
-Lyndon B. Johnson [?]
-Charles W. Colson
-Administration staff

Prisoner of War [POW] wives
-Henry A. Kissinger’s contacts
-Major General James D. (“Don”) Hughes

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 9:10 am

[Unintelligible]

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:20 am

POW wives
-Kissinger
-Hughes
-A press conference
-Effect

Lobbyists
-Colson
-Possible work
-Contributions
-Connally
-Lee R. Nunn
-Colson
-Nunn, Herbert W. Kalmbach
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-Colson, White House staff
-Milk fund
-Colson
Vietnam War
-Upcoming vote on end the war resolution

[The President talked with Ford between 9:20 am and 9:26 am]
Conv. No. 493-3 (cont.)
[Conversation No. 493-3B]

[See Conversation No. 2-104]

[End of telephone conversation]

SST or end the war vote
-Defense Department [DOD]

Washington, DC demonstrations
-A possible poll
-Possible questions
-Timing
-Another poll [?]
-Release
-Congressmen

[Transcript #1: A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under
court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access [SA] 8, Ronald V.
Dellums, et al. v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271. The National Archives and Records
Administration produced this transcript. The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 9:38 am

Dinner, May 5, 1971
-Drinks
-Dress
-Drinks

Butterfield left at an unknown time after 9:41 am
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[Transcript #2: A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under
court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for SA 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al. v.
James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271. The National Archives and Records Administration
produced this transcript. The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

Cabinet Conv. No. 493-3 (cont.)
-John A. Volpe
-Hardin
-Connally
-Cancer program
-President’s review
-Staff
-President’s commitment

Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 9:38 am

Dinner, May 5, 1971
-Drinks

Butterfield left at 9:41 am

Programs
-Breeder reactor
-President’s role
-Administration’s role
-Publicity
-Commerce Department
-Peterson, Maurice H. Stans
-Staff

[Transcript #3: A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under
court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for SA 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al. v.
James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271. The National Archives and Records Administration
produced this transcript. The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

News
-President’s reading
-Network news
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-Story on the economy, May 5, 1971
-Washington, DC demonstrations
-Story on the economy
-Position of the dollar
-Germany
-Length
-Willy Brandt
-US actions Conv. No. 493-3 (cont.)
-Germany
-Shultz
-President’s advisors
-Peterson
-Flanigan
-Shultz
-Paul W. McCracken
-Paul A. Volcker
-New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times

[Transcript #4: A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under
court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for SA 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al. v.
James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271. The National Archives and Records Administration
produced this transcript. The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

Vietnam
-Vietnamization
-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak column, May 6, 1971
-Effect in Congress
-North Vietnamese military action
-Casualties
-Missing in Action [MIA]
-Release of figures
-Stanley R. Resor’s office
-Timing
-Casualty figures
-Comparisons
-President’s statement
-Administration accomplishments
-A network news story
-Arrival of a veteran
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-US withdrawal
-Rate
-Draft
-Kissinger
-Colleges
-Kissinger
-Negotiations
-General Nguyen Van Thieu Conv. No. 493-3 (cont.)
-Kissinger
-President’s offer
-Timing
-Possible reply
-Kissinger

“Salute to Agriculture”

Meetings
-A commission

Federal Reserve
-Position on budgets

President’s schedule
-Meetings
-Arthur F. Burns
-Commissions

Publicity
-A May 5, 1971 story

Haldeman left at 10:00 am