572–3

Conversation No. 572-3

Date: September 14, 1971
Time: 10:07 am - 10:21 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Gordon L. Allott, Leslie C. Arends, Clark MacGregor and Kenneth E.
BeLieu.

Selective Service conference report
-F. Edward Hebert
-Support
-Committee
-Allott
-US foreign relations
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Soviet Union
-Europeans
-Japanese
-Economic action
-Impressions created in world
-Need for bill
-Long-term interest
-Allott's son
-US Navy
-San Diego
-Senate bill
-Conference (Gates) report
-Pay raise scale
-House bill
-Senate bill
-Support of military service draft
-Michael J. Mansfield
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 572-3 (cont.)


-Strong defense
-Mansfield
-Michael Gravel
-Alan Cranston
-Richard S. Schweiker
-Cloture
-Majority vote
-Filibuster
-Mansfield
-International implications on the draft
-Military personnel
-Pay issue
-The President's statement of draft bill
-Senate position
-House of Representatives
-Position
-Conference Report
-Mansfield Amendment
-Stuart F. Symington
-Thomas J. McIntyre
-Work on the Mansfield Amendment
-Hebert
-House filibuster
-MacGregor's talk with John C. Stennis
-Congressional recess
-Final resolution
-Mansfield's call to MacGregor

The President's schedule

Military service draft extension bill
-Tactical problem
-Damage to US international position

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 10:07 am.

Schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:21 am.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 572-3 (cont.)


Military service draft extension bill
-Passage of bill
-Need for military draft
-Mansfield
-International position
-Mansfield, John G. Tower, Stennis
-Motion
-The President's forthcoming talk with Mansfield
-The President's support
-Congress

The President's schedule
-Next meeting
-Health

The President, et al. left at 10:21 am.