566–1

Conversation No. 566-1

Date: August 17, 1971
Time: Unknown between 9:44 am and 10:39 am
Location: Oval Office

Alexander P. Butterfield met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

President’s schedule
-Telephone call to Roman L. Hruska
-Birthday greetings
-Hruska’s location
-Helsinki, Finland

President's speeches
-Drafts
-Patrick J. Buchanan and John J. McLaughlin
-William Safire
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Buchanan
-Safire
-Deadline
-Price’s call to Haldeman
-Book
-Rockford College speech
-“The Roots of American Discontent”

President's schedule
-Meeting with Arthur A. Shenfield, August 16, 1971

The President entered at an unknown time after 9:44 am.

Item for the President’s signature
-Ireland

President's schedule
-[Emperor of Japan] Hirohito
-Timing of announcement
-New York City
-Departure
-Traffic
-Itinerary
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-Wall Street
-Traffic
-Hotel
-Dinner
-Return
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Speech drafts

Butterfield left at 9:49 am.

[Pause]

-Departure
-Kissinger
-Cables
-Departure
-Traffic
-Staff
-John D. Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz, Peter G. Peterson
-Speech drafts
-John B. Connally

National economy
-Textiles
-Peterson
-Connally

President's schedule
-Congressional leaders
-Connally
-Shultz
-Connally
-Paul A. Volcker
-Charls E. Walker
-Volcker
-Interruptions
-Kissinger
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National economy
-President's economic program
-Phrase \"New Economic Policy\"
-Shultz’s point
-Vladimir I. Lenin
-Leon Trotsky
-Josef V. Stalin
-Compared to Franklin D. Roosevelt's program
-Shultz’s point
-Connally
-Success of New Deal
-Safire
-Connally
-Sam Whiting
-Media coverage
-News summary
-Buchanan
-September 21, 1971 Productivity Commission meeting
-Shultz
-Agenda
-Wage and price freeze
-Length of meeting

White House staff
-News article concerning unknown White House aide
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Shultz
-Haldeman's meeting with White House staff
-Possible reaction
-Staff
-Handling of subject, August 16, 1971
-Ronald L. Ziegler's role and capabilities
-Connally
-Herbert G. Klein
-John A. Scali
-Richard A. Moore
-Scali’s role and capabilities

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
-News summary
-Size of crowds
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-Staff work
-Women
-Activities
-Handshaking
-Telephone calls

President's schedule
-Barber

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 9:49 am and 10:05
am.

[Conversation No. 566-1A]

Request for Charles W. Colson’s presence

[End of telephone conversation]

White House staff
-Unknown person's conversation with Dan Rather
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Location
-Illinois

John Birch Society
-Relationship with President
-[Howard K.?] Smith
-California
-Views concerning the President's policy toward the People's Republic of China
[PRC]
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-John Foster Dulles

Colson and Stephen B. Bull entered at 10:05 am.

President's schedule
-Connally

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:25 am.

National economy
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-President's program
-Television coverage, August 15, 1971
-George Meany
-Response
-Position on wage and price freeze
-Administration's possible attacks
-Shultz, Paul W. McCracken
-Partnership
-Democrats
-Marvin Mandel
-Shultz's suggestion
-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial
Organizations [AFL-CIO] meeting
-Possible news coverage
-Possible attacks on Democrats
-Hubert H. Humphrey and George S. McGovern
-Partisanship
-PRC initiative
-Vietnam
-Tone
-Buchanan
-Franklyn C. (“Lyn”) Nofziger
-Buchanan
-Agnew
-Media coverage
-Possible attacks on Democrats
-Forthcoming meeting
-Gerard R. Ford
-Bipartisanship
-Wilbur D. Mills
-President's policy toward PRC
-Forthcoming meeting
-Kenneth E. BeLieu's efforts
-Wallace F. Bennett
-Comments
-Frank McGlinn, Finance chairman, Pennsylvania Republican Party
-William Proxmire
-Mills
-Republicans
-PRC initiative
-Clark MacGregor
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-Possible responses
-Public support
-Controversy
-Price
-Tone of Administration
-Possible administration attacks
-Democrats
-Republicans
-Meany
-Peter J. Brennan
-Press conference
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Leonard Woodcock
-Impact
-News media
-Time, Newsweek, Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], American
Broadcasting Corporation [ABC], National Broadcasting
Corporation [NBC]
-President's opponents' reaction
-PRC initiative
-Media coverage of Connally
-Public reaction
-Housing figure
-Shultz
-Milton Friedman's views
-Effect
-News media
-PRC initiative
-Leadership
-Briefings by administration spokesmen
-McCracken
-Specifics
-Agnew
-Forthcoming television appearance
-Possible comments
-Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]
-Connally
-Today Show
-Arthur F. Burns
-Reaction
-Conversation with the President
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-Backgrounder
-Columnists
-Column
-Sub-Cabinet
-State Department
-Conservatives
-Friedman
-Agnew
-Connally
-Possible administration attacks
-Possible strategy
-Mood of the American people
-PRC initiative
-Hubert H. Humphrey, Edmund S. Muskie, Edward M. Kennedy
-Washington Star article, August 16, 1971
-Public reaction
-National issues
-Vietnam
-PRC
-Economy
-Crime and drugs
-Pollution
-Blacks

Connally entered at 10:25 am.

-Connally's press conference, August 16, 1971
-Media reaction
-Connally's forthcoming \"Today\" show appearance
-Audience
-Households
-Labor unions' reaction
-Connally's possible response
-Letter to banks
-Interest rates
-Credit Control Act
-Statement
-Credit Control Act
-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-Connally's possible letter to American Bankers Association
-Leroy Hall
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-Auto industry
-Possible statement
-President’s attempt to call Connally, August 16, 1971
-Connally’s location
-McCracken
-The President’s role
-Public reaction
-Voluntary cooperation
-Stock market
-Leadership
-President's forthcoming meeting with Congressmen, August 17, 1971
-Congressional action
-Economic action
-Timing
-Bipartisanship effort
-International monetary situation
-Negotiations on exchange rates
-Stabilization
-Connally's role
-Taxes
-John S. Nolan, Walker
-Mills
-Forthcoming hearings
-Relief
-Budget
-Business
-Beneficiaries
-Labor
-Government
-Workers
-Stockholders
-Average American
-Mills’s view
-Proxmire
-Hearings
-Referring legislation

The President and Connally left and Butterfield entered at 10:35 am.

President's speeches
-Safire
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-George W. Romney
-Roosevelt
-The President’s and Connally’s view
-Ehrlichman
-John F. Osborne
-Agnew

Butterfield left at 10:38 am.

Haldeman, Colson and the President left at 10:39 am.




Conversation No 566-21

Date: August 17, 1971
Time: Unknown between 10:39 am and 12:55 pm
Location: Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

The President’s location
-Cabinet Room

The unknown people [Secret Service agents] left at an unknown time before 12:55 pm.
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