568–9

Conversation No. 568-9

Date: September 9, 1971
Time: Unknown between 3:58 pm and 5:06 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

Vietnam
-Troops
-Numbers

Public appearances
-The President's appearances
-Frequency
-Impact of communication
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Frequency
-William L. Safire
-National television
-Talk with students
-Talk with Plumbers' Union members
-Awareness by people
-Impact of television
-Effort at communication
-Effectiveness
-Contact
-College presidents, business leaders
-Effort by the President

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:58 pm.

John B. Connally

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:05 pm.

-Effect of communication
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 568-9 (cont.)


-The President's effort

Speechmaking
-Interest by people
-Question and Answer [Q&A] sessions
-Radio appearances
-Number of people reached
-Radio speeches, newspaper story
-Effort by the President
-Story
-The President's September 9, 1971 speech before Congress
-Announcement

Press relations
-Meeting with the press
-Timing
-Location
-Oval Office
-Value
-Q&A session
-In Detroit (September 23, 1971)
-Effectiveness
-September 9 speech
-Probable effectiveness
-Timing
-August 15, 1971 economic speech
-News coverage
-Political reaction

Connally entered at 4:05 pm.

Greetings

Speech by the President before Congress, September 9, 1971
-Effectiveness
-The President's delivery

The economy
-Domestic economy
-Possible future actions
-Need for confidentiality
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 568-9 (cont.)


-Lack of consensus
-Meetings with the President
-Formulation of opinions
-Advice
-Labor, agriculture, business
-Haldeman
-Arnold R. Weber
-George P. Shultz
-Paul W. McCracken
-Notetaking
-Small groups
-Cost of Living Council [COLC] meeting with labor leaders
-Number of people
-Setting
-Labor
-Agriculture
-Experts
-Weber
-McCracken
-Shultz
-Herbert Stein
-Communication
-Wage-price freeze
-Announcement
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Issues
-Domestic area
-Wage and price freeze
-Possible further action
-Timing
-1972 elections
-The President's meetings with special interest groups
-Meetings
-Labor
-Business
-Rollbacks
-International area
-Europe
-Paul A. Volcker's comments
-Markets
-Belgium, the Netherlands
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 568-9 (cont.)


-Pivot plan
-Gold price
-European Economic Community [EEC, Common
Market]
-Exchange rates
-Floating currency
-Monetary issues
-Areas of responsibility within the US government
-Trade, defense
-Commerce, Defense, State, and Department of Treasury
-Exchange rates
-Focus
-Trade and tariff issues
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Unilateral action
-Devaluation of currencies
-Yen
-World War II
-Japan
-The Netherlands
-Switzerland
-Belgium
-US reaction to moves against the dollar
-Difference in focus
-State Department
-Nathaniel Samuels
-Group of Ten meeting
-Finance ministers
-Federal Reserve banks
-Perceptions on jurisdiction and purview of Government departments
-State and Treasury Departments
-Focus of negotiations
-Power of foreign ministers
-Compared to the Secretary of the Treasury
-Fixed
-State Department
-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-Treasury Department
-Bankers
-US strategy
-Pressure on US
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 568-9 (cont.)


-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak
-Floating
-Japan
-Negotiations
-Trade
-Textiles
-Canada
-US concessions
-Latin America
-Reaction to surcharge
-Canada
-Tariff
-General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade [GATT]
-Connally's conversation with Volcker’s unknown counterpart
-Trade action
-Canadian Parliament
-International reaction
-Japanese, Canadians, British, French, Germans
-Perceptions of action
-American press
-Japanese public statements
-Surcharges
-Latin America, Canada, Mexico
-President’s position
-US strategy
-Connally's lunch meeting with Henry A. Kissinger
-Connally's conversation with Shultz
-Negotiations
-Strategy
-State Department focus
-William P. Rogers
-Treasury Department
-Commerce Department
-Handling by US
-State Department
-Rogers
-Focus
-Ambassadors
-Peter G. Peterson
-Participants
-Connally
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 568-9 (cont.)


-Shultz, McCracken, Rogers
-Handling
-Need for negotiating team
-Peterson
-Latin American strategy
-Mexico, Brazil, Argentina
-Surcharge
-US assurances
-Handling of tariff situation
-EEC
-Japan
-Canada
-GATT
-Public relations
-International press
-New York Times, Washington Post
-Time, Newsweek, Life, Business magazines
-Television networks
-Connally's Conversation with Kissinger
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer


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-Shultz, McCracken, Connally, Peterson
-Robert D. Murphy
-State Department
-Manpower
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 568-9 (cont.)


-Resources
-Projected action in trade relations
-New bloc
-Connally’s conversation with the President and Kissinger
-Japanese
-Stance on future prospects
-Kakuei Tanaka, Takeo Fukuda
-Europe
-Germany, Great Britain
-EEC
-International monetary situation
-US stance
-Desire for order
-The President, Connally, Shultz, Peterson
-Arthur F. Burns, Rogers
-State Department
-Unknown person, Philip H. Trezise
-Treasury Department
-Volcker
-Unknown person
-Trezise
-Burns
-Volcker
-Rogers
-Burns
-Views
-Group of Ten
-Composition
-Strategy
-Handling
-Context
-Political interests
-Nature of decisions
-Responsibility
-Free trade
-US compared with other nations
-President’s economic speech before Congress, September 9
-Political considerations
-Competition
-Connally’s visits abroad
-Connally’s view
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 568-9 (cont.)


-International monetary situation
-Kissinger
-US position compared to rest of the world
-Soviet Union, People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Kissinger
-Comments of Sino-Soviet experts
-Llewellyn E. (“Tommy”) Thompson, Jr. Charles E. (“Chip”)
Bohlen
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Possible summit
-Post-World War II period
-Great Britain
-Germany
-Japan
-Latin America
-Idea of US world responsibility
-US stance
-Problems at home
-Great Britain
-Rolls Royce deal
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Perceptions
-Kissinger
-Peterson
-San Clemente meeting
-Japan, Germany
-Shultz’s view
-Handling
-David M. Kennedy
-Fixed parity
-Burns
-European central banks
-FRB
-Kissinger
-Shultz
-Peterson
-Connally
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Busing
-State Department
-Peter M. Flanigan
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 568-9 (cont.)


-Rogers

The economy
-Staffing in international economic effort
-Murphy, Robert Anderson-type person
-Thomas C. Mann
-Colvey T. Oliver
-Mann
-[Unintelligible name]
-George W. Anderson, Jr.
-Franklin D. Murphy
-Establishment
-PRC initiative
-Soviet Union
-Japan
-C. Douglas Dillon
-Gordon Gray
-Coordination of situation
-Peterson
-Memorandum on Japanese negotiations
-Revaluation
-Position of the US
-Soviet Union, PRC
-Japan, European countries
-Impact of changes in trade relations
-Japan
-Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Canada, Mexico, Japan
-Europe
-Arab Countries
-Black Africa
-Australia
-Latin America
-Latin American divergence
-Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia
-Peru, Bolivia, Chile
-Venezuela
-Military aid
-Middle East
-Arabs
-European relations
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Tape Subject Log
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MIDDLE EAST


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-Organization of efforts


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-State Department and Defense Department
-Frank F. Church
-US military missions in foreign countries
-President’s forthcoming press conference
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Connally’s testimony
-Dollar exchange rates
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 568-9 (cont.)


-Forthcoming action
-Kissinger
-Need for confidentiality
-State Department
-US emissary
-Chile, Mexico
-Pierre Elliot Trudeau
-Kissinger
-Mann
-Latin America, Canada
-Abilities

Hoyt Ammidon
-Possible role with administration
-Medal of Freedom

Connally's schedule
-Kennedy Center concert

The economy
-Wage and price freeze
-Currency devaluation
-Wage and price freeze
-Forthcoming action
-Public opinion
-Timing
-Governor of Texas
-Labor
-Administration stance
-Attitude

Connally and Haldeman left at an unknown time before 5:06 pm.