554–6

Conversation No. 554-6

Date: August 4, 1971
Time: 1:55 pm - 2:18 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

Press conference
-Economy
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 554-5 (cont.)


The President talked with the White House operator at 1:55 pm.

[Conversation No. 554-6A]

[See Conversation No. 7-61]

[End of telephone conversation]

Press conference
-Economy
-John B. Connally
-Industry
-Wage and price settlements
-Secretary of Labor [James D. Hodgson]
-Reports
-Political aspect
-Connally meeting with Colson
-Unemployment rate
-Figure
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Dan Rather

The President talked with John C. Stennis between 1:56 pm and 1:59 pm.

[Conversation No. 554-6B]

[See Conversation No. 7-62]

[End of telephone conversation]

Letter
-President's instructions
-Clark MacGregor
-Dictation

Economy
-Unemployment rate
-Press conference
-Current figure compared to 1961-63
-Rather
-Possible reporting
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 554-6 (cont.)


-Assessment of figures
-Current rate compared to April - July 1971
-Married men
-Veterans
-Economic expansion
-Colson forthcoming call to Frank Stanton of Columbia Broadcasting System
[CBS]
-Rather's estimates
-John W. Chancellor
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Attitude toward administration
-American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]
-John A. Scali
-Press relations
-President’s previous meeting with business editors
-Paul W. McCracken, George P. Shultz, Connally
-Media bias
-Time, Newsweek, New York Times editors
-William L. Safire
-Unknown person
-McCracken
-Maurice H. Stans
-Hodgson
-1970 election
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Spiro T. Agnew, Stans, Hodgson, Flanigan, Shultz, Connally
-Nationwide tour
-Meetings with business leaders
-Editorials boards
-Television
-Press coverage
-Time, Newsweek, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall
Street Journal, Business Week, The Nation’s Business
-Shultz
-Time
-Networks
-Creation of editorial board
-Psychological impact
-Leading indicators
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Retail sales, gross national product [GNP], housing starts, inventory,
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 554-6 (cont.)


inflation, unemployment
-CPI
-Compared to previous administration
-John F. Kennedy
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Unemployment
-Louis P. Harris
-Work on issues poll
-Talk with Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr.
-1972 election
-Economy as political issue
-Peace issue

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:59 pm.

Unknown item for Colson

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:18 pm.

-Gordon L. Allott's comments
-Rather
-Charles Percy
-Illinois
-Impressions
-Compared to reality
-Unemployment
-Vietnam
-Casualties
-Press conference
-Wage and price guidelines
-Board
-Business community’s views
-Stock market
-President's confidence
-Press relations
-Forthcoming meeting
-Connally
-Flanigan

Pentagon Papers
-John D. Ehrlichman, Egil G. (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 554-6 (cont.)


-Forthcoming Senate hearings
-Appropriation
-Possible political impact
-Investigation
-Material
-Analysis
-Unknown man
-Political aspect
-Sensitivity
-Vietnam elections
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Subject
-Ngo Dinh Diem
-Coup
-Interviews
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman, Roger Hilsman, McGeorge Bundy
-Timing of release
-Vietnam elections
-Kennedy administration officials


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Colson left at 2:18 pm.