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Conversation No. 572-8

Date: September 14, 1971
Time: 12:37 pm - 1:45 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman; an unknown person was present at the
beginning of the meeting.

The President's schedule

Presidential gifts
-Eisenhower silver dollar
-Price
-US Mint
-Value
-Special groups
-Stephen B. Bull
-Supply

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

Charles W. Colson's schedule
-Briefing

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:44 pm.

Presidential gifts
-Box

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

Gifts
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The unknown man left at an unknown time before 12:44 pm.

Williams Commission members
-Certificates of appreciation
-Williams Commission
-Certificates
-Bible to minister
-Signature
-Rose Mary Woods

Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-List
-Charles G. (\"Bebe\") Rebozo
-Investigation
-New York City IRS office
-Reporter
-Investigations
-Jews
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Johnnie M. Walters
-Directions

Colson entered at 12:44 pm.

Congressional relations
-Previous meeting with Congressional leadership
-Status of bills
-Robert J. Dole
-Senate
-Issue poll by Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]
-Hugh Scott
-Robert P. Griffin
-Gordon L. Allott
-Peter H. Dominick
-Wallace F. Bennett
-Milton R. Young
-Jacob K. Javits
-House of Representatives
-Gerald R. Ford
-Leslie C. Arends
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-John B. Anderson
-John J. Rhodes
-Robert C. Wilson
-H. Allen Smith
-Robert T. Stafford
-Colson's calls to Senators and Congressmen
-The President's meeting
-Poll
-Congress
-Democrats
-Conference
-Congressional recess
-Issues
-Support for pay raise
-Congressional leadership
-Pay raise issue
-Robert P. Griffin
-Note to the President
-Excise tax
-Support for repeal
-Clark MacGregor's role
-Griffin
-Information from poll to Senators and Congressmen
-Cover letter from Dole
-Members of Congress
-Relations between administration and Congress
-Attendance of White House staff at meetings
-MacGregor
-William E. Timmons
-The President's role at meeting
-White House staff
-Handling of poll information
-Haldeman's memo to MacGregor
-Timmons
-Conversation with Colson
-Letter with poll information
-Statements
-Press reaction

Public relations
-Edmund S. Muskie
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-Press reaction to recent comments
-News summaries
-Lyndon K. (\"Mort\") Allin
-Time, Newsweek
-Book [Edith Efron's The News Twisters]
-Press reaction
-Administration opponents
-Cabinet officers' actions
-Elliot Richardson
-Muskie's remarks
-Busing
-William P. Rogers
-Congress
-Melvin R. Laird
-Connally
-Congressional matters
-Barry M. Goldwater, Sr.
-Muskie
-Muskie
-Newsweek
-Time
-1960 and 1968 elections
-Herbert G. Klein, Ronald L. Ziegler
-Relations with the press
-White House staff
-John A. Scali
-Ziegler
-Role as Press Secretary
-Press relations
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Eric F. Goldman
-Victor Lasky, William S. White
-Time article on the President's speech
-Labor Day speech
-Rhetoic
-Work ethics
-Congress’ reaction
-Networks
-Television
-William A. Gill, Jr.
-George Washington
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-Equal time requests from Democrats
-Previous requests
-Joseph A. Califano
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Coverage of Muskie
-Reaction to remark
-Black Vice Presidential candidate
-Thomas W. Braden
-Ernest F. Hollings
-John Conyers, Jr.
-Possible Presidential candidacy by a black
-Carl B. Stokes
-Liberal columnists
-Braden
-Possible question for the President

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Governors
-Briefing time
-Number of attendees

Meetings
-Distribution of poll and information
-Bull
-White House staff
-MacGregor
-Cabinet meeting
-John A. Volpe
-Javitz's comments
-Patriotism
-Community committees
-Leonard Bernstein
-Mass

Rotary International
-William E. Walk, Jr.
-Telegrams

Domestic issues
-Letters to Congress on draft extension vote
-Democrats
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-Republicans
-Colson's meeting with lobbyists
-Mail
-Specific measures
-Robert C. Wilson
-Meeting with the President, September 14, 1971


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-Speech
-1970 campaign
-Support for the President's program
-Farmers organization
-Business groups
-Polls
-Farmers
-Tony C. DeChant
-Cooperatives
-Meeting with the President
-Leadership
-Support from Congress
-Cabinet
-Mood
-Richardson
-George W. Romney
-Volpe
-John N. Mitchell
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Role
-Appearance at Governors' Conference
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-Muskie appearance
-Busing
-Black for Vice President
-Liberals
-Articles on Romney
-Comparison
-Press
-Reaction toward Muskie
-Reaction toward the President
-John B. Connally's remark
-Comparison between Muskie and Romney
-Source of black as Vice President remark
-Comparison to Romney's brainwashing comment
-Administration response
-The President's record and views
-1960, 1968 campaigns
-American tradition
-Cartoon on Muskie's remarks in Monday magazine
-Compared to Patrick B. Oliphant cartoons
-Muskie rally
-Robert J. Brown
-Signs
-Blacks
-Patrick J. Buchanan's suggestion
-Funds for financing black candidates
-Shirley Chisholm
-Julian Bond
-Black voters
-Democratic Party
-Black candidates
-Financing
-Eugene J. McCarthy
-Howard Stein
-US News and World Report
-Newsweek
-McCarthy plan
-Primaries
-Speaking tour
-Democratic National Convention
-People's candidate
-Fourth party
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-George Wallace
-Funds for McCarthy, black candidates
-Black candidates
-Comparison with Democrats' votes for Wallace
-Alabama primary
-Use of funds
-Television commercials, billboards

Relations between administration and press
-Improvement
-Press office
-Role
-Factual errors
-Ziegler

Democratic National Committee [DNC]
-Publication
-Muskie's statement
-The President's possible response to question on Muskie's statement
-Qualified candidate
-Edward W. Brooke
-The President's record

Domestic issues
-Letters to Congress
-Colson's staff
-Check on mail, wires
-Effect of volume of the President's August 15, 1971 speech
-Phillips Petroleum
-Newspaper issue support coupons for mailing
-Oklahoma
-Colson's meeting
-Jack R. Miller
-Volume of mail
-Support for investment tax credit
-Future White House contact, handling
-Possible trip to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Mail
-Federal pay issue
-Congressional issue
-Federal employees union
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-Chamber of Commerce
-Democrats
-Action on bill in Congress
-Partisanship
-Governors' Conference
-Investment tax credit
-Retroactive
-Individual tax exemption increase
-Control on profits and dividends
-Administration's response
-[Peter G. Peterson's] speech
-Profits
-Benefits for working class
-Re-investment
-Federal revenue
-The President's program
-Public support
-Businessmen
-The President's speeches on August 15 and September 9, 1971
-Leadership
-Labor Day speech
-George Meany
-Public reaction
-Poll
-Percentage of support
-Tone of remarks
-As labor leader
-Democrats
-Actions in Congress
-The President's initiative
-Governors' Conference caucus
-Television appearances
-Since August 15, 1971
-Public image of the President's administration
-Cambodian action in Vietnam War
-Dick Cavett
-Guest’s attack on administration's welfare policy
-ABC
-Administration's response
-Daniel P. Moynihan
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The President's meeting with Republican Congressional leadership
-Effect of meeting
-Capitol Hill
-Support for Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Javits
-Barber B. Conable, Jr.
-Ford
-Scott
-The President's support
-Rockefeller's statement
-Javits
-The President's statements
-Demonstrations
-Attica State Prison riot
-Public reaction
-Support for Rockefeller
-Scott
-Black Muslims
-Role
-Black Panthers
-Reaction of blacks
-White House elevator operator

Colson left at 1:32 pm.

Committee to Form a National Health Education Foundation
-Meeting with the President
-Richardson
-Announcement of the Presidential Commission
-Purpose of Commission
-Preventive medicine
-Report
-Ehrlichman
-Citizens' involvement
-Length of meeting
-The President's attendance
-Attendees
-Blue Cross/Clue Shield
-University leaders
-Agnew's attendance
-Surrogate for the President
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-Grover Whalen
-Role
-New York
-Mayor of New York City
-Role
-Comparison to Nixon's Vice Presidential role during Dwight D.
Eisenhower's administration

Refreshment

The President's schedule
-Meeting with [unknown man?]

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 1:32 pm.

Refreshment

Meeting with [unknown man]
-Poll
-Figures

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:45 pm.

Prisoners of war [POW] wives meeting
-The President's previous conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-The President's appearance at convention
-The President's meeting with a group of POW wives
-Political action group
-The President's meeting with committee
-Popular support of POW issue
-Clark M. Clifford
-Maj. Gen. James D. (\"Don\") Hughes
-The President's possible appearance

The President's schedule
-Appearance in Florida
-California
-Jacksonville


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-Weather for Key Biscayne, Florida

White House staff
-Vernon C. Coffey
- Haldeman's conversation with Hughes
-Job considerations
-Qualifications
-New tour of duty
-Continuity
-Hughes
-Management requirements
-Personnel
-Military aide office
-Relationship of staff to the President
-Personnel
-Structure
-Eisenhower
-Army aide
-Navy aide
-Air Force aide
-Hughes
-Performance
-Reductions
-Helicopter units
-Rank of commanding officer
-Coffey
-Junior grade officer

MacGregor
-Report to the President
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The President's schedule
-Kissinger
-Meeting with Corneliu Bogdan
-Message from Nicolae Ceausescu to the President
-Date
-Rose Mary Woods
-The President's meeting with Charles S. Rhyne
-Rhyne's meeting with Josip Broz Tito

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 1:32 pm.

-Rhyne
-Commission
-US Ambassador to United Nations [UN] Refugee Commission in Geneva
-Meeting with the President

Delivery of documents

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:45 pm.

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Admiral Charles K. Duncan
-Kissinger
-Commander-in-Chief, US Atlantic Command and Fleet
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] meetings
-Europeans
-US concerns over Atlantic
-The President's meeting with Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-The President's visit to NATO
-Kissinger's note
-Robert H. Finch

Bull entered at 1:40 pm.

The President's schedule


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-Meeting with George P. Shultz
-Time of meeting
-The President's forthcoming meeting with Mansfield and Scott

Bull left at 1:44 pm.

Haldeman left at 1:45 pm.