17–24

Conversation No. 17-24

Date: December 24, 1971
Time: 4:41 pm - 4:55 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Donald H. Rumsfeld.

Rumsfeld's press conference


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Henry A. Kissinger
-Concerned with world events
-India-Pakistan War
-US responsibility
-West Pakistan
-Public interest

Vietnam

Israel

Indians

Pakistanis
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President's schedule
-Meetings
-Rumsfeld's talk with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-US economy
-President's leadership
-President to do program with Dan Rather for Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Rather
-Style
-Walter L. Cronkite and [Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-Questions
-Credibility
-President's trips
-Timing
-State of the Union
-Vietnam announcement
-President's meeting with Eisaku Sato
-Economy
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip

US economy
-Christmas retail sales
-In US
-In Southern California
-Robert H. Finch
-Increases over last year
-Amount
-Public confidence
-Wage and price controls
-Percentage
-Lifting controls
-Rents
-Thomas B. Curtis
-Recommendations
-January and February
-De-control
-Luxury apartments
-Vacancies
-Percentage
-Los Angeles, California
-Florida
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-Competition
-Press
-Secondary story
-President's trip to PRC


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Football games

\"Brian's Song\" movie
-Chicago Bears
-Brian Piccolo
-Gale E. Sayers
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC] movie
-White House, December 23
-Rumsfeld family invited
-Race relations