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742–13
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Peter M. Flanigan
  • Stephen B. Bull
  • White House operator
  • Henry A. Kissinger
  • George P. Shultz
  • H. R. Haldeman
June 26, 1972
Conversation No. 742-13

Date: June 26, 1972
Time: 11:31 am - 12:08 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Peter M. Flanigan.

Flanigan's previous trip to Europe
-Anthony P.L. Barber
-Flanigan’s and the President’s view
-Relationship with Edward R.G. Heath
-European Economic Community [EEC]
-US-British relationship
-Romania

Spain ambassorship
-Wiley Buchanan
-Horatio Rivero
-Problems with EEC
-Trade preferences
-Possible US action
-Shoes
-Attributes for ambassador
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(rev. Feb-02)


-Knowledge of Spanish military
-Gen. Francisco Franco
-Spanish language
-Rivera
-Qualifications
-Henry Cabot Lodge

Ambassadorships
-Buchanan
-The President’s view

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:30 am.

Bull’s pager
-Alexander P. Butterfield

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:42 am.

Ambassadors
-Luxembourg
-Role in policy formulation
-The President’s view
-Denmark
-Buchanan
-Fred J. Russell

Council on International Economic Policy (CIEP)
-Organization structure
-John B. Connally
-George P. Shultz
-Size
-George W. Romney, John A. Volpe, Melvin R. Laird, David M. Kennedy
-Shultz, William P. Rogers, Henry A. Kissinger, Peter G. Peterson, Herbert
Stein
-Meetings with the President
-The President’s view
-Rogers
-Robert S. McNamara
-World Bank loans
-India
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-Iraq
-Appointment
-Rogers
-Role
-Department of State
-Attitude
-McNamara's appointment
-Iraq loan
-Kissinger, Connally
-Vietnam

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 11:30 and
11:42 am.

[Conversation No. 742-13A]

[See Conversation No. 26-7]

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger entered at 11:42 am.

CIEP
-Connally
-Roy L. Ash Council
-Size
-Problems
-Volpe, Laird, Kennedy
-Flanigan’s suggestion
-Executive committee
-Executive committee
-Rogers's role
-Preparation
-Connally
-McNamara's role
-Loan to Iraq
-Instructions for Shultz
-Loans
-Iraq loan
-Iran's role
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-McNamara's role
-The President’s view
-Katharine L. Graham
-Chile and India loans
-Instructions for Shultz
-Chile and India loans
-Expropriation

The President talked with Shultz between 11:45 am and 11:47 am.

[Conversation No. 742-13B]

[See Conversation No. 26-8]

[End of telephone conversation]

Food prices
-Roles of Connally and Shultz

The President's conversation with Shultz
-State Department
-CIEP

Relations with EEC
-CIEP executive committee meeting
-US policy
-Trade preferences
-Spain
-Rivero
-The President’s view
-Franco relationship
-Lodge
-Charles W. Colson's views
-Rivero
-The President’s decision
Future trade legislation
-Effect on tax legislation

Soviet Union
-Peterson's forthcoming trip
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-Future deal
-Negotiations
-Flanigan’s view
-Schedule
-Instructions from the President, Kissinger
-Terms of deal
-Negotiating strategy

Kissinger left at 11:54 am.

Ambassadors
-EEC
-J. Robert Schaetzel
-Joseph A. Greenwald
-Organization for Economic and Cooperation Development [OECD]
-Flanigan’s views
-Iceland
-Vacancies
-State Department
-Career diplomats
-Iceland
-Importance
-V. John Krehbiel
-Senate confirmation
-Congressional approval
-Strategy
-Career and political appointees
-MacGregor
-Spain
-Rivero
-Holland
-Kingdon Gould, Jr.
-J. William Middendorf, II
-Ruth L. Farkas
-Luxembourg
-Pakistan
-Robert G. Neumann
-Afghanistan
-Rogers
-Political orientation
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-William B. Macomber, Jr.
-Career diplomat
-Hermann F. Eilts
-The President’s view
-Malagasy Republic
-Joseph A. Mendenhall
-Anthony D. Marshall
-Pakistan
-Requirements for Position
-Macomber
-Role in State Department
-Mendenhall
-Panama
-Frank T. Bow
-Pakistan
-George W. Landau
-Robert B. Anderson
-Fred J. Borch
-The President’s view
-Length of stay
-Hoyt Amidon
-George Champion
-Canada
-Bangladesh
-Landau
-Kissinger’s view
-The President’s view
-Vacancies
-Australia
-Denmark
-Italy
-Jamaica
-New Zealand
-Spain
-Sweden
-Poland
-Portugal
-OECD
-Poland
-Walter J. Stoessel, Jr.
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-Martin J. Hillenbrand
-Stoessel
-Contributors
-Pakistan
-Borch
-Japan
-Robert S. Ingersoll
-France
-US embassy building
-Flanigan’s view
-Arthur K. Watson

Press attacks on the President
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-G. Harrold Carswell
-Watergate bugging incident
-Gen. John D. Lavelle
-Watergate break-in
-Reasons
-White House role
-John N. Mitchell's role
-Joseph C. Kraft

Foreign economic policy makers
-Peterson
-Shultz
-CIEP executive committee meeting

The President left and H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time before 12:08 pm.

Ambassadorial appointments
-Senate confirmation
-Rogers
-Timing

Flanigan left at 12:08 pm.
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