578–6

Conversation No. 578-6

Date: September 24, 1971
Time: 11:44 am - 12:05 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman and William M. Magruder.

Greetings

Progress report

Unknown person

New technology opportunities program
- Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Japan
-1972 US elections
-US position
-Future plans
-Objective

President's schedule
-Time

New technology opportunities
-US national needs
-Magruder's research
-Congressional study
-International transfer of technology
-National Aeronautics and Space Council
-Position for future developments
-SST
-Date
-Trade organizations
-Letters from Magruder
-Type of response
-Ideas
-James T. Lynn
-Government initiatives
-Tax incentives
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-Congress
-Research and Development [R&D]
-Innovation of industry in government
-Task forces
-Scientific and engineering
-Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
-Anti-trust laws
-Lewis A. Engman
-John N. Mitchell
-John B. Connally
-Report
-Industry and government
-Available initiatives
-Economics
-Early depreciation
-Paul W. McCracken
-Solomon [Surname unknown]
-Impact on labor law practices
-Examples
-Effect
-George Meany
-Jim Lewin [?]
-International transfer
-Initiatives
-Assistant Secretaries
-Type of initiatives
-Technological resources
-Human resources
-Natural resources
-Community and economic development
-Approaching Congress
-Date
-Report
-Technology
-Needs
-Gen B. A. Schriever and Harold A. Geneen
-Management
-Financing
-Blue Ribbon Council
-Industrial input
-Results
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Tape Subject Log
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-Timing
-Administration's position
-National response
-Strategy
-Cancer
-Amount of money
-Actions taken
-Elliot L. Richardson and Department of Health, Education and
Welfare [HEW]
-Bureaucrats
-Former, traditional procedure of action
-Strategy
-Methods
-Psychological effect
-Comparison to traditional procedure
-Manhattan Project
-Moon shot
-Idea of new agency
-Possible impact
-Idea of taking action
-Comparison to traditional government agencies
-Ehrlichman
-Subsidizing American industry
-Competition with Japan
-Tax policy
-Initiatives
-Responses from various agencies
-Department of Treasury
-Department of Commerce
-Law enforcement
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Arrests
-Reactions
-Heroin bust
-Amount of money
-Washington Star
-Press response
-Location in paper
-National Air Space Administration [NASA], Atomic Energy Commission [AEC],
Department of Defense [DOD]
-System management capabilities
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-Feasibility
-Market and public needs
-Management capabilities
-Manhattan and Apollo Projects
-James C. Fletcher
-George M. Low
-Systems management initiatives
-Possible future situation
-Comparison to Apollo
-Samuel C. Phillips
-Air Force
-NASA's capabilities
-Experience
-Department of Transportation [DOT]/NASA package
-SST
-Other nations' plans
-Concorde
-A-300 Airbus
-Mercure[?]
-Boeing
-Italians
-General Electric [GE]
-Jet civil engine
-France
-Senegman [?]
-Pratt and Whitney
-Japan
-Type of program
-NASA, DOT, Commerce Department
-Noise reduction
-Staff
-Package
-SST
-Civil aviation industry
-William Proxmire
-Gaylord Nelson
-Democrats
-Unemployment
-New possibilities
-Deadline
-Date
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Tape Subject Log
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-Education and tax reform
-Education costs
-Relationship to rebate of property taxes
-California case
-Employment
-Number of people
-Department of Treasury
-Value-added tax
-Response in numbers
-Inclusion of program
-Taxes
-Edwin S. Cohen
-Conversation between Ehrlichman and Connally
-US position in world
-SST
-Question of technical advancement
-Exports
-Percentage of Gross National Product [GNP]
-Comparison to Canada, Japan and Great Britain
-Type of market in comparison to rest of world
-Japan
-Europe
-Impact on US market
-Competition
-Exports
-Scientific community
-Problems
-Inertia
-Regulators
-Basic research
-National Science Foundation
-Director, Dr. William D. McElroy
-Political appointment
-Possible people
-David

Appointments
-Supreme Court

Ehrlichman and Magruder left at 12:05 pm.
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 578-6 (cont.)