559–3

Conversation No. 559-3

Date: August 10, 1971
Time: 9:11 am - 10:05 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

President's schedule
-Bill veto
-George P. Shultz
-Harry Bridges meeting
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-Council on International Economic Policy [CIEP] meeting
-Peter G. Peterson
-Monetary situation
-Source of leak

Henry A. Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 9:11 am.

-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS] meeting
-Melvin R. Laird
-Japan
-Possible force reduction
-Domestic considerations
-Armed services
-Reorganization

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time after 9:11 am.

-Budget
-Air Force
-Fighter wings
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-North Pole
-Army
-Condition
-Strategic concept

Democrats
-W. Averell Harriman
-Previous administration

Kissinger left at 9:14 am.

Press
-Washington Post story
-Edward B. Fiske
-White House church services
-Unknown reporter

White House personnel
-Constance M. Stuart
-Rose Mary Woods
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-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-US Information Agency [USIA]
-Duties
-Forthcoming presidential campaign
-Mrs. Nixon’s schedules
-Mrs. Nixon
-Barbara H. Franklin
-Frederic V. Malek's office
-Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Duties
-Scheduling
-Press
-Lucy A. Winchester
-Social affairs
-President’s campaign strategy
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Comparison to Herbert G. Klein
-Comparison to Stuart
-Klein
-Relations with press

Public relations
-News summary
-President's public appearances
-[New Hampshire] crowds
-Importance
-Press coverage
-George S. McGovern and Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
-Description
-Crowds
-Importance
-Compared to press coverage
-Press
-Use of adjectives
-Edith Efron's media study
-Press
-New England trip coverage
-New Hampshire
-Local press
-Boston Globe
-The President, Mrs. Nixon and family
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-Crowd response
-Photographs
-Unknown girl
-Cynthia Frink
-Mrs. Nixon
-Portland, Maine
-Apollo moonshot
-Boston Globe
-Margaret Chase Smith
-National coverage
-Apollo spaceshot
-Photo coverage
-Jacksonville Journal
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II and Julie Nixon
Eisenhower
-Youngstown Vindicator
-New York Post
-Washington Star
-Baltimore Sun
-Charles W. Colson
-Unknown man
-Efron
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Background

The President left the room at an unknown time between 9:14 am and 9:28 am.

[Pause]

The President entered the room at an unknown time between 9:14 am and 9:28 am.

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:14 am and
9:28 am.

[Conversation No. 559-3A]

[See Conversation No. 7-82]

[End of telephone conversation]

Efron
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-Background
-Port-au-Prince, Dominican Republic
-Look magazine

The President talked with Colson between 9:28 am and 9:30 am.

[Conversation No. 559-3B]

[See Conversation No. 7-83]

[End of telephone conversation]

The press
-Efron
-Background
-Political background
-Media study
-Foundation
-William F. Buckley, Neal Freeman, Lawrence Purdy [?], Ruth
Matthews
-J. B. Matthews
-Freeman
-Buchanan
-Hearst Corporation
-King Features
-Publication
-Buchanan
-Endorsement
-Credibility
-Distribution
-Reaction
-White House strategy
-Buchanan
-John A. Scali
-Efron
-Updating
-Distribution of summary
-Kissinger
-Colson
-Public mind
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
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-Financing and mailing
-Buchanan
-Media
-Accuracy of study
-Efron


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Public relations
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Foreign trip
-Agnew’s reaction
-News summary
-Interview
-Godfrey Sperling, Jr.
-Christian Science Monitor
-Agnew’s reasoning


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People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-James B. Reston articles
-Democrats
-Chou En-lai

National economy
-Leak
-Paul Scott’s article
-Department of the Treasury
-John B. Connally
-Eddie Bernstein
-Republican leadership meeting
-Shultz
-Hugh Scott
-Foreign policy
-Robert P. Griffin
-Automobile industry
-Automobiles
-Possible economic action
-Griffin
-Charles E. Chamberlain
-Connally
-1973
-Wage and price action
-Probability of success
-Consumer confidence
-Leak
-Shultz
-Paul Scott
-Kissinger
-Alexander M. Haig
-Peterson
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Proposed meeting
-Connally
-Connally
-Shultz
-Kissinger
-Public relations
- Road show
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-Connally, Peter M. Flanigan, Shultz, Paul W. McCracken, and Colson
-Connally
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Colson’s strategy
-Economy as issue
-Democrats
-Media
-Public perceptions
-Bankers
-Trade deficits
-Administration posture
-Standing pot
-Businessmen
-Haldeman's talk with Julie and David Eisenhower
-Individual compared to national conditions
-Wage and price increases
-Mass hysteria
-Caution
-Comparison to President's foreign policy
-Reaction to critics
-Possible economic action
-Staff briefings
-Colson, Ehrlichman, Peterson
-Ehrlichman
-Shultz
-President's meeting with Connally
-Peterson
-Arthur F. Burns
-Ehrlichman
-Shultz
-Possible leak

Kissinger entered at 9:52 am.

PRC trip
-Reston interview with Chou En-lai
-Post-announcement actions by Chinese
-Reassuring allies
-Sign removal
-Chou En-lai comments
-Deals
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-Compared to Soviets
-Harriman
-Arms control
-Comments
-Press coverage
-1969
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]

Arms control
-Antiballistic Missiles [ABMs]
-Gerard C. Smith
-USSR
-Arms Control and Disarmament Agency [ACDA]
-May 20, 1971 agreement
-Congress
-President's Instructions
-Cable
-May 20 agreement

Berlin
-Possible settlement
-Four-Power negotiations
-Announcement
-President’s possible involvement
-West Germany
-Internal politics

Arms control
-Smith
-Proposals
-Effect on Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-James S. Lay, Jr.
-ACDA
-State Department

PRC
-Chou En-lai
-Forthcoming talks with the President
-Reston Article
-Rowland Evans
-Rumania
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-View of the President
-USSR

Press
-Evans
-Robert D. Novak
-Politics

President's schedule


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PRC
-Reston article
-Chou En-lai
-Kissinger's talk with Chou En-lai
-Reston
-United Nation [UN]
-The President

Stephen B. Bull entered and left at an unknown time after 9:52 am.

Chou En-lai
-Comments about UN

Arms control
-Gerard Smith

Pakistan
-[Sheik Mujibur Rahman]
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-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Press coverage
-Possible action


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PRC
-Conservatives
-Liberals

Arms control
-Liberals
-SALT
-Harriman
-John F. Kennedy
-Nonproliferation Treaty
-SALT
-Possible agreement
-Timing

President's schedule
-[JCS] meeting
-Location
-David Packard
-Agnew
-Chiefs
-Haig
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-Melvin R. Laird

Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:52 am.

JCS meeting
-Cabinet Room
-Briefing books
-Number
-Agnew
-Seating

The President, Haldeman, Kissinger and Bull left at 10:05 am.