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Conversation No. 694-7

Date: March 27, 1972
Time: 5:01 pm - 5:14 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Clark MacGregor and Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's press conference
-Food prices
-George P. Shultz
-Herbert Stein
-Members of Congress

Advertising Council

Economy
-Stein presentation
-Paul W. McCracken’s previous presentations
-Stein
-John B. Connally
-McCracken
-Forthcoming Republican Congressional leadership meeting
-Members of Congress
-Recess
-Message from the White House
-Price stabilization program
-George P. Shultz
-Stein
-Connally
-Stein
-Inflation
-Orders for durable goods
-Congress
-Lack of action
-White House proposals
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Record
-MacGregor
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Conv. No. 694-7 (cont.)
-Detroit
-Stein
-Republican leaders
-Speeches
-Filibuster

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-James O. Eastland
-Meeting with MacGregor
-Vote
-The President's talk with Haldeman
-Republican Convention
-Richard G. Kleindienst confirmation
-Vote
-MacGregor's conversation with Michael J. Mansfield
-Eastland's talk with Mansfield
-Eastland's request of MacGregor
-Judiciary Committee
-Schedule a hearing
-Executive session
-Marlow Cook
-Filibuster
-Hugh Scott, Roman L. Hruska
-Charles W. Colson
-Robert Mardian
-Eastland
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Television appearances
-Dita Beard's testimony
-White House involvement
-Statement

Alexander M. Haig entered at 5:04 pm.

-Beard testimony
-Cook
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-White House involvement

Economy
-Stein
-Positive messages
-MacGregor
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Conv. No. 694-7 (cont.)

MacGregor and Butterfield left at 5:06 pm.

The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Possible step in Poland
-Soviet Union
-US domestic situation
-US interests
-Soviets
-Compared to trip to Romania
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-US reaction
-Public reception in Tehran
-Possible reception
-The President’s experience as Vice President
-Relations with the Soviet Union
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-William P. Rogers
-Kissinger
-Soviet Union
-Reception
-Haig's talk with Kissinger

The President and Haig left at 5:14 pm.