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Conversation No. 563-2

Date: August 13, 1971
Time: 9:36 am - 10:08 am
Location: Oval Office

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

President's schedule
-Camp David
-Departure time
-Quadriad
-Arthur F. Burns
-Service secretaries

Speechwriting
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-Anecdotes
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

President’s schedule
-Price
-Quadriad
-Paul A. Volcker, Herbert Stein, Peter G. Peterson
-John B. Connally, George P. Shultz, Paul W. McCracken, Burns
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Camp David
-Burns
-Stein
-Summer interns
-Photograph opportunity
-Press
-Parade magazine
-Rose Garden
-Camp David
-Connally
-Shultz
-Helicopters
-Connally, Shultz, Ehrlichman, Volcker
-Burns
-Helen (Bernstein) Burns
-Helicopter
-Possible announcement
-Quadriad
-Burns
-Room assignments
-Dogwood Lodge
-Birch Lodge
-Connally

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 9:46 am.
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-National Security Council [NSC]
-Defense budget
-Melvin R. Laird
-Shultz and David Packard
-Taxes

Defense budget
-US military dispositions in Pacific
-Air Force

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Vietnam
-US military dispositions
-Sortie rate
-Budget


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-Thailand
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President's schedule
-NSC meeting
-Service secretaries

Vietnam
-Demilitarized zone [DMZ]
-Possible us military action
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Negotiations
-Kissinger's conversation with Ellsworth F. Bunker

Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with People’s Republic of China [PRC] officials
-US-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] relations
-Accidental War Treaty
-[Emperor of Japan] Hirohito
-Forthcoming visit to Anchorage
-US-USSR relations
-Possible summit
-Announcement
-Timing
-Travel
-Route

Kissinger left at 9:53 am.
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President's schedule
-Quadriad
-Camp David
-Burns

National economy
-President's forthcoming program
-Preparation
-Connally, Shultz
-McCracken
-Stein
-Burns

President's schedule
-Camp David
-Quadriad
-Connally
-Ronald L. Ziegler possible announcement
-Burns
-Budget
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Rose Mary Woods
-William L. Safire
-Helicopters
-Volcker, Stein, Peterson

Textiles
-Peterson
-Paper
-Viewpoints

President's schedule
-Camp David
-Shultz
-Arnold R. Weber
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Connally
-Volcker
-Number of attendees
-Safire
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Speeches
-Geoffrey Shepard
-Price
-Arthur A. Shenfield
-Rockford College
-Writers
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-[John J. McLaughlin]
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW] [and Knights of Columbus]
-Straw man technique
-Rockford College
-Cheer lines
-Price

Bicentennial Commission
-Democrats
-Membership
-Southern Democrats
-White House staff
-David J. Mahoney, Jr.
-Safire
-Leonard Garment

President's schedule
-Church services
-Preachers
-Woods's list
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Mother
-Protestant
-Oral Roberts
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Camp David
-Staff accommodations
-Haldeman
-Connally
-Burns
-Aides
-Helicopter pilots
-Secret Service agents
-Doctor
-Staff recommendations

Speeches
-Haldeman's forthcoming conversation with Price

President's schedule
-National Park
-Rogers C.B. Morton
-Speech
-Quadriad

The President and Haldeman left at 10:08 am.
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