724–2

Conversation No. 724-2
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Date: May 15, 1972
Time: Unknown between 2:25 pm and 3:32 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

John B. Connally
-Arrival

Connally entered at 2:29 pm.

Arthur F. Burns
-A speech
-Distribution
-Disagreement with Connally
-The President’s view
-Discussion with [First name unknown] Turner

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 2:29 pm.

Refreshment orders

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 3:32 pm.

Burns
-A speech
-Canadian government
-The President’s view
-A speech
-Effect
-International monetary negotiations
-Possible rebuttal
-Paul A. Volcker
-Pepperdine College speech
-Domestic monetary situation
-Discussions with the President
-Value to administration
-The President’s view
-Value to Administration
-Appointment of Andrew F. Brimmer
-Alternatives
-Work of Jeffrey M. Bucher
-Connally’s view
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 724-2 (cont.)

-Story on speech
-Comparison to Pepperdine speech
-Controls
-Domestic
-International
-Relations with the press

Jews
-In press
-In government
-Plans for second term
-Frederic V. Malek
-Background
-Check by H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Schedule C appointees
-Percentage of Jews to be allowed
-The President’s view
-Haldeman's views
-Geographical areas
-Schools to avoid
-Harvard
-Yale
-Princeton
-Columbia
-Malek's work
-The President’s view
-President's review of Schedule C list
-Change in philosophy

Effect of Washington environment
-Potter Stewart
-The President’s view
-Compared to William O. Douglas
-\"Georgetown set\"
-Mrs. Stewart
-Effect on others
-Texans
-Californians
-Embassy officials
-Similarities

Connally's schedule
-Montreal
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 724-2 (cont.)

-Cancellation
-Reasons
-Latin America trip
-Timing
-Vietnam
-Resignation
-Montreal banking meeting
-Number and nationalities attending
-Attendees
-Volcker
-Burns
-James Dewey Daane
-Herbert Stein
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Council of International Economic Policy [CIEP]
-Desire to make news

Business Council
-The President’s view
-Donald McI. Kendall
-President's actions in behalf of business
-Stance on Vietnam
-Compared with George Meany
-The President’s view
-The President’s and Connally’s view
-Administration representatives at meeting
-Secretary of Commerce
-William P. Rogers
-Administration actions in behalf of business
-Alternatives
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-George S. McGovern
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Meetings with the President and government officials
-The President’s view
-Compared with Elmer H. Bobst
-Compared with Robert H. Abplanalp
-Compared with John W. Mulcahy
-1968 campaign contributions
-Amount
-Compared with Mulcahy
-Cyrus R. Smith
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 724-2 (cont.)

-Attitude toward Business Council
-The President’s view
-Stance on Vietnam policy
-Greg Borchers [?]
-Kendall
-The President’s view
-Wife
-The President’s view
-Mail survey on the blockade decision
-Amount of response
-Use
-Business Council responses
-Rusty Young
-Expected results
-Reasons
-Kendall
-Advice on Soviet trade policy
-Trade policy
-President's knowledge compared with Business Council
-Peter G. Peterson
-Flanigan
-Soviet trade
-Export-Import [Ex-Im] Bank credits
-Grain crop
-Most Favored Nation [MFN] status
-Statistics
-Peterson
-US return
-Soviet return
-Computers
-Grain
-US return
-Kendall's interest
-PepsiCola
-Meetings with the President
-Texas Eastern
-Oil and gas interests
-George Kirby
-Reports on meetings with Alexei N Kosygin
-Need for deal

Soviet Summit
-Cancellation
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 724-2 (cont.)

-Connally's prediction
-Timing
-Likelihood
-Communications on preparations
-Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger
-Gifts
-Hydrofoil
-Cars
-Cancellation
-Predictions
-Likelihood
Previous speech on the blockade
-People's Republic of China [PRC] response
-Soviet response

Vietnam
-Recent victories
-Effect on morale
-US
-South Vietnam
-Firebase Bastogne
-Sorties
-Number since blockade decision
-Effect
-Targets
-Red River Bridge
-Oil dumps
-Expectations of success
-1968 Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] comparison
-Cambodian support
-Sihanoukville
-Ports
-Mechanization
-Oil
-Rolling Stock
-Railroads
-Effect on railroads
-Weaponry
-North Vietnam-Soviet Union relations
-US military actions
-Risk
-Effects
-Settlement
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 724-2 (cont.)

-Timing
-Destruction of North Vietnamese assets

Soviet Union`
-Role in Vietnam settlement
-Timing
-Credit
-Communications
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Summit

Vietnam
-US military actions
-State Department
-Story on mines
-Repudiation
-Kissinger meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Public opinion
-Polls
-Louis P. Harris
-Percentage
-Pennsylvania
-John Getz's report
-President's decision
-The President’s view
-Alternatives
-Fall of Hue
-Da Nang evacuation
-Summit cancellation
-The President’s view
-Demonstration
-Effect
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 724-2 (cont.)

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Vietnam
-President's previous speech on the blockade
-Senate Democratic Caucus vote
-Necessity
-Connally’s view

President's schedule
-Meeting with George P. Shultz
-Time
-Meeting with Connally

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 2:29 pm.

Refreshment order

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 3:32 pm.

Shultz
-Appointment as Secretary of Treasury
-Connally's appointment
-Date
-Connally's tenure
-Length
-Qualifications
-Discussions
-Nomination process
-Acting Secretary status
-Connally's discussions with Haldeman
-Confirmation
-Connally's status
-Likelihood
-Transition period
-Volcker
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 724-2 (cont.)

-Charls E. Walker
-Business community
-Effect
-Opinion of Shultz
-Burns
-Timing of appointment
-President's return from Moscow
-Connally's schedule
-Idanell Brill (“Nellie”) Connally
-Travel
-New positions at Treasury
-Shultz's decision
-Advantages to the President
-Caspar W. Weinberger
-Cabinet
-Budget
-Transition
-Support
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Connally’s view
-Forthcoming announcement of appointment
-Calls
-Clark MacGregor
-Cabinet meeting
-Time
-Attendees
-President's comments
-Connally's comments
-Press briefing
-The President, Connally, Shultz, Weinberger
-President's remarks
-Connally's role in transition
-Shultz's qualifications
-Weinberger's appointment
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Ronald L. Ziegler [?]
-Connally's remarks
-Reasons for resignation
-Review of accomplishments
-Future plans
-Smithsonian Agreement
-Control programs
-Support for the President
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 724-2 (cont.)

-National Security Council [NSC] membership
-Expected questions
-Future plans
-Endorsement of Democrats
-Support for the President
-Nellie Connally


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Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Veto on busing moratorium
-The President’s view
-Vetoes
-Anti-abortion bill
-Forest Hills integrated housing

President's opinions
-Integrated housing
-Busing
-Abortion
-Religious considerations
-Graham
-Terence Cardinal Cooke
-Personal consideration

Connally
-Availability
-Parallel to end of term as governor
-Mark Connally
-Move to Houston
-Connally's work
-Richardson and Bass law firm
-Sid Richardson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 724-2 (cont.)

-Length of service
-Nellie and John Connally's plans
-Trip to South America
-Brazil
-Purpose
-Trip to Europe
-Trip to South America
-Robert H. Finch
-Trip to Africa
-Trip to South America
-Discussion with Kissinger
-Timing
-Soviet Summit
-Shultz's confirmation
-Russell B. Long and Senate Finance Committee
-Purpose
-Brazil
-Argentina
-Value
-Possible trip to Africa
-South Africa
-The President’s view
-Trip to Arab countries
-Jewish influence in US
-Oman
-Saudi Arabia
-Algeria
-Iran
-Morocco
-North African countries
-Value
-Need for trip
-Brazil
-Emilio Garrastazu Medici
-Timing
-Value of Connally visit
-Celebrity status in other nations
-Continuity of relationship with the President
-Trip to Iron Curtain countries
-President's trips to Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Hungary
-Connally's trip
-President's preference
-Latin America
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 724-2 (cont.)

-President's visit to Mexico
-Itinerary
-Colombia
-Brazil
-Argentina
-Connally’s view
-Appointment to President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [PFIAB]
-Reasons

Restructuring of intelligence bureaucracy
-Richard M. Helms
-The President’s view
-Replacement
-Removal of Georgetown influence
-Adm. George W. Anderson
-PFIAB
-Retention
-Disarmament Board
-President's plans
-The President’s view
-Improvements
-Accuracy of intelligence on Soviets
-Connally's role
-Announcement
-Timing
-Purposes
-Visits to Washington, DC
-Information
-Need
-Defense of US
-Foreign policy
-Economic intelligence
-Discussion with Anderson
-Appointment to PFIAB

Connally
-Resignation
-Announcement
-Cabinet meeting
-Press briefing
-Ziegler
-Press speculation
-Return to Texas
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 724-2 (cont.)

-Ben F. Barnes


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Connally
-Schedule
-Attendance at Blue Room reception
-Nellie Connally
-Location
-Shultz meeting
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Location of Shultz meeting

Connally left at 3:32 pm.