571–1

Conversation No. 571-1

Date: September 13, 1971
Time: Unknown between 12:37 pm and 2:58 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:12 pm.

Robert J. Dole and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered at 12:37 pm; the White House photographer
was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings
-Dole's appearance
-Dole’s schedule

H. R. Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 12:37 pm.

Greetings

Dole's schedule
-Santa Monica
-New York City
-Dole's meeting at Republican Governors' Conference


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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 571-1 (cont.)

Attica state prison riots
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Events
-Death toll
-Guards
-Prisoners
-Hostages
-Blacks
-Time of death
-Guards
-Amnesty request
-Rockefeller's response
-Police operations
-Tear gas
-Helicopters
-Death toll
-John D. Ehrlichman's previous telephone conversation with Rockefeller
-The President's forthcoming conversation with Rockefeller
-Police operation
-Public reaction
-Angela Y. Davis
-Blacks
-Uprising
-Other incidents
-California
-Blacks
-Revolution
-Prisons
-Campuses

Dole's trip to Far East
-Report
-Southeast Asian countries
-Senate experience
-Identity
-Cambodia
-Vietnam
-North
-South
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 571-1 (cont.)

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LAOS


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-South Vietnam presidential elections
-Dole's meetings
-Nguyen Cao Ky
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Duong Van Minh
-Withdrawal of candidacy
-Effect
-South Vietnam election
-US role
-Guarantee of free elections
-Congressional elections
-Thieu
-Electoral process
-Ballots
-Negative voting
-Announcement on television

Foreign affairs
-Nations gaining independence after World War II
-Number with Governments in power due to contested elections
-Uncontested elections, contested free elections
-Governments
-Africa
-Attica prison
-Latin America
-Chile
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 571-1 (cont.)

-Colombia
-Venezuela
-India
-Pakistan
-Ceylon
-South Vietnam elections
-US role
-Congressional elections
-Development of electoral process
-Choices
-South Vietnam compared with North Vietnam
-Two-Party System
-Development
-France
-Italy
-Great Britain
-United States
-Commonwealth countries
-British-American phenomenon
-Europeans

Vietnam elections
-Candidates
-The South
-1948 US elections
-Nominations

Vietnam
-Dole's trip
-Meeting with Gen. Creighton W. Abrams
-Meeting with Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Dinner with South Vietnamese Senators
-Political situation in South Vietnam
-Effect on US Senate
-Reduction of US economic aid
-Troop withdrawal
-Understanding of US political system
-Drug program
-Urinalysis
-Prisoner of war camps
-School attendance
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 571-1 (cont.)

-Diet
-Visitors
-Food
-Health care
-Cambodia
-Military training
-Cambodians
-Spirit
-Thailand

Japan
-Dole's visit with Armin H. Meyer
-Announcement [Economic Stabilization, September 9, 1971]
-Japanese reaction
-US position
-Economy
-Competition

Evaluation of Dole's trip to the Far East
-J. William Fulbright
-George S. McGovern
-The President's announcement
-Troop withdrawals

Dole's meeting with Republican Governors' Conference
-Support for 90-day wage and price freeze
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Congressional support
-Public support
-Wage increase
-Government
-Public opinion
-Labor leaders
-Support for freeze
-Poll on issue reaction
-Released during Dole's trip to Far East
-Copy for Dole
-Use of poll
-California
-National poll by Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]
-Use by the President at 90-day freeze meetings
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 571-1 (cont.)

-Surcharge
-Deferral of wages
-Wage and price freeze
-Dole's public appearances in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Virginia
-Response to program
-Republicans

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:37 pm.

Request by Haldeman

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:12 pm.

Wage and price freeze program
-Labor
-Wage increase
-Farmers
-Possible wheat sales to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Dole's visit to Kansas
-Support for program
-Decisionmaking
-Farmers
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Clifford N. Hardin
-Work
-Farmers
-Hardin
-Orville L. Freeman
-Ezra Taft Benson
-Work
-Freeman
-Benson
-Meeting with the Associated Milk Producers, September 3, 1971
-Support from dairy industry
-Administration action
-Democrats
-Wilbur D. Mills’ sponsorship of bill
-Number attending meeting in Chicago
-Comparison with Republicans
-Bipartisan
-Hardin
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 571-1 (cont.)

-Milk prices
-Support from Dole
-Support for administration


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Busing
-Boston rally
-Charles W. Colson
-Michigan
-Pontiac
-Boston
-Blacks
-Pickets
-Whites
-Louise Day Hicks, Mills
-Issue in the South
-North
-South
-Situation
-Reaction in the North
-Local schools
-Connecticut

Democrats
-William Proxmire
-Statements
-Partisanship
-Economy
-Dole's conversation with Franklyn C. (“Lyn”) Nofziger
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 571-1 (cont.)

-Colson's response to Edmund S. Muskie's statement
-Muskie
-Presidential candidate
-Proxmire
-Suggestions on the President's welfare reform proposals
-Economy
-Democrat line
-Colson's remarks
-Muskie's statements
-Black Vice Presidential candidate
-Busing
-Time magazine article

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:37 pm.

Delivery of item

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:12 pm.

Muskie
-Time’s response to statements
-Comparison between the President and Muskie
-Black Vice Presidential candidate
-Busing
-Nixon as candidate
-Public reaction
-Colson's point
-Administration strategy
-McGovern
-Call to Dole's office
-Effect of Muskie's statement
-The President's record
-Black Vice Presidential candidate
-American people
-Voting
-Race
-Religion
-Busing
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 571-1 (cont.)

Issues
-The economy
-Election issue
-Vietnam War
-Speeches
-World leader role of the President
-PRC initiative
-Peacemaker
-Election strategy
-Republican Party [GOP]
-\"Generation of Peace\"
-Republican audiences
-PRC initiative
-Vietnam
-Administration achievements
-McGovern
-Vietnam War
-Trip to Paris
-Negotiate an independent settlement
-Viet Cong's [VC] peace proposal
-News story
-Fixed withdrawal date
-Return of Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Effectiveness
-Families of POWs
-Meeting in Washington, DC
-Ambassador William J. Porter
-Response
-Political visitors
-Vermont
-Robert T. Stafford
-Deane C. Davis
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 571-1 (cont.)

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Republican National Committee [RNC]
-Economy
-Speechwriters
-White House
-The President's speech \"State of the Economy\"
-Speechwriting
-Presidential candidates
-Muskie
-Gerald R. Ford
-Unknown person
-Speechwriters
-Support for the President
-Nofziger
-Additional staff
-The economy

The President's request of Haig
-Number of independent countries since World War II
-Government as a result of fair contested elections

Dole and Haig left at 1:12 pm.

Dole

Refreshment

The President left and Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:12 pm.

Refreshment
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 571-1 (cont.)


Sanchez's schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:15 pm.

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 1:12 pm.

The President's location

Copies
-Number of people

The President entered at an unknown time after 1:12 pm.

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 1:15 pm.


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The President talked with John B. Connally between 1:15 pm and 1:16 pm.

[Conversation No. 571-1A]

[See Conversation No. 8-111]

[End of telephone conversation]

Connally
-Meeting with business leaders
-Connally's performance
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 571-1 (cont.)

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 1:16 pm.

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:31 pm.

Connally
-George P. Shultz

The President's schedule
-Cabinet wives
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Lenore L. Romney
-John A. Volpe

Business leaders' meeting
-Reaction
-Presentation of program
-Connally's performance
-Investment tax credit
-Small businessmen
-Remarks
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Praise of women
-Six Crises
-Praise of businessmen
-Leader class

The President's speech to Congress, September 9, 1971
-Washington Post editorial
-Hobart D. Rowen
-The President's rhetoric
-Congressional speech
-Reaction
-Reaction
-James C. Hagerty
-David M. Kennedy
-Paul C. Bartholomew
-University of Notre Dame
-Speech
-References to American spirit
-News commentators
-John A. Mayer
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 571-1 (cont.)

-Rhetoric
-Cambodian Operation (1970)
-Mayer
-Mellon National Bank
-President's leadership
-Press criticism of the US
-Agnew
-Role
-The President's substitute
-Gen. Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle
-Agnew
-Comparison to the President's speeches
-Building up the country
-Richard A. Moore
-Analysis of the President's speech to Joint Session
-The President's level of leadership
-The President’s August 15, 1971 speech
-National unity
-Revival of national pride
-Criticism of intellectuals
-Rhetoric
-Congress
-Country built-up
-\"Speech doctor\"
-The President's speechmaking

Labor Day speech
-Work ethic
-Reaction
-Editorials
-Hobart Lewis
-Magazines
-Time, Newsweek


The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:16 pm and
1:31 pm.

[Conversation No. 571-1B]

[See Conversation No. 8-112]
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 571-1 (cont.)


Call to Rockefeller

[End of telephone conversation]

Rockefeller
-Previous call to the President
-Ehrlichman's return call
-Attica state prison riots
-Death tolls
-Guards
-Prisoners
-New York Times
-Amnesty
-Thomas Grey Wicker
-Negotiators
-William M. Kunstler

Race
-Busing, work, welfare
-The President's position
-George C. Wallace
-Black support
-Militants

Leonard Bernstein
-Mass
-Cocktail party
-Black Panthers
-Press coverage
-Kennedy Center
-Time
-Photographs
-Cabinet wives
-Dress
-September 13, 1971 meeting
-Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
-Bernstein's actions
-Kissing
-Unknown man
-European tradition
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 571-1 (cont.)

-Jewish families
-Latin Americans' \"Abrazo\"
-French
-Kennedy Center
-Failure
-New York Times review
-Bernstein
-Harold C. Schonberg

The President talked with Rockefeller between 1:31 pm and 1:38 pm.

[Conversation No. 571-1C]

[See Conversation No. 8-113]

[End of telephone conversation]

Attica state prison riot
-Death tolls
-Prisoners
-Guards
-Prisoners
-Blacks
-Puerto Ricans
-Amnesty
-New York Times
-Rockefeller's decision
-Support
-Negotiations
-Concessions
-San Quentin prison breakout attempt, August 1971
-Black prisoners' complaints
-Treatment
-Grievances
-Revolution
-Rockefeller
-Russell G. Oswald
-Prison reformers
-Model prison
-Model state prison
-San Quentin prison breakout attempt
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 571-1 (cont.)

-Riots in model prisons
-San Quentin's prison breakout attempt
-Death tolls
-Governor’s role
-Duration of riots
-Compared with Attica
-Alcatraz
-Federal prison
-Causes
-Permissiveness
-Campuses
-Blacks

Protests
-National antiwar moratorium
-Date
-Demonstrators
-Washington, DC
-San Francisco
-New York
-National Peace Action Coalition
-People's Coalition for Peace And Justice
-Plans
-Time
-Permits
-US District Court rulings
-Underground press
-Issue focus
-Prison reform
-Civil rights
-Vietnam War
-Environment
-Prison reforms
-Comparison to Indians
-Editorials
-Effect on youth
-Comparison to Selma and Mobile, Alabama civil rights marchers
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 571-1 (cont.)

-Revolutionary point of view
-Prisoners
-Blacks
-Militants

Cabinet meeting
-Briefers
-Shultz
-Arnold R. Weber
-Connally
-Rogers
-Cabinet members' wives
-Reaction
-Meeting
-Administration


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The President’s schedule
-Edwin Hoyt
-Book
-Meeting with the President and Mrs. Nixon
-Previous meetings
-Ancestry of the President
-Meeting with Mrs. Nixon
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 571-1 (cont.)

International Seminar on Illicit Drug Traffic and Abuse
-Meeting in Washington, DC
-Participants from foreign nations
-Law enforcement specialists
-Possible meeting with the President
-Presidential statement on international drug program
-Location
-Cabinet Room

The President's schedule
-Allen J. Ellender
-Chicken gumbo social
-Birthday
-Mrs. Nixon
-Senators' wives
-The President's attendance
-Forthcoming Domestic Council meeting
-Ehrlichman's previous conversation with the President
- Agnew
-The President's attendance
-Meeting of elected state and local officials, September 16, 1971
-National Governors' Conference
-National Association of County Officers
-US Conference of Mayors
-National League of Cities
-National Legislative Conference
-Revenue sharing
-The Vice President's role
-State and local government
-Domestic policy
-The President's participation
-Cabinet
-Revenue sharing
-The President's attendance
-Vice President

National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia
-Dole
-Meeting in Washington, DC
-Decision on non-political status
-Administration position
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 571-1 (cont.)

-Number of attendees
-Dinner, September 28, 1971
-Melvin R. Laird
-The President's attendance
-Original schedule
-Mamie G.D. Eisenhower's dinner
-Conflict in scheduling
-The President's statement
-Prisoners of war [POWs]

Mrs. Eisenhower
-Medal of Freedom
-Eleanor Roosevelt
-Recognition
-Queen Mother’s role
-First Lady
-Role
-Medal of Freedom recipient
-Kennedys
-Manlio Brosio
-Lynda Johnson Robb
-Claudia A. (“Lady Bird”) Johnson
-Compared with Mrs. Eisenhower
-Mrs. Eisenhower's attendance at symphony
-The President's arrival
-Public response to Mrs. Eisenhower
-Magazines
-Time
-Remark about Rose Kennedy
- Bernstein
-Birthday
-Eisenhower College Fund
-Medal of Freedom recipients
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Merriman Smith
-White House staff

Williams Commission
-Appointments
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 571-1 (cont.)

The President's schedule
-Black event
-National Business Week
-Booker T. Washington Symbol of Service Award
-Presentation to the President
-Colson's view
-The President's attendance
-Location of convention
-Richmond, Virginia
-Number of attendees
-Shultz's view
-American Cancer Society dinner
-Elmer H. Bobst
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Cancer research program
-Funds
-National Institutes of Health [NIH]
-Appointment
-Speeches
-Annual awards banquet
-Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
-New York City
-Bobst
-Mary Lasker
-The President's presentation of awards
-The President's message
-Conquest of cancer
-Number of attendees
-The President's attendance
-The President's cancer program
-Visit to New York City
-Richardson as surrogate speaker
-The President's presentation of awards
-Bobst
-The President's attendance
-Conflict with schedule
-The previous trips to New York City
-Speechmaking visits
-Lyndon Johnson
-Al Smith Dinner
-Future visits
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 571-1 (cont.)

-Advance notice
-Award banquet
-Terence Cardinal Cook
-Henry Cabot Lodge
-The President's appearance
-Richardson
-Thanksgiving plans for the President and Mrs. Nixon
-Lucy A. Winchester
-California
-Presidential Thanksgiving dinner
-California
-Dedication of the Eisenhower Memorial Hospital
-Invitations to the President
-Number

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 1:38 pm.

Delivery of item

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:58 pm.

Schedule
-The President's consultation on invitations

Connally meeting
-Reaction

William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Contributions
-Economy
-Relationships
-Public manner
-Receiving lines
-Compared to the President
-Touching

White House church service
-Visitors
-Treaty Room
-Lincoln Sitting Room
-Queen's Bedroom
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 571-1 (cont.)

-Drawing Room
-Mrs. Nixon
-Public demands


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The President's schedule
-Preparation for meeting
-Hardin
-Offer of resignation
-John N. Mitchell
-September 14, 1971
-Michael J. Mansfield
-The President's meetings with Robert H. Finch and Donald H. Rumsfeld
-National Health Education Foundation
-Camp David
-Arrangements
-Invitations
-Apollo XV Astronauts
-Vice President and Elinor I. Agnew
-Newspaper editors meeting [September 25, 1971]
-Panel session
-Questions
-Members of panels
-Audience
-Question and answer [Q&A] session
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 571-1 (cont.)

-Television
-Media coverage
-Peter G. Peterson
-[Williams Commission]

The President and Haldeman left at an unknown time before 2:58 pm.