267–10

Conversation No. 267-10

Date: July 30, 1971
Time: 3:04 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
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Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Victor Gold
-Memorandum for the President
-Relations between the US and the People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Gold's impression of Agnew's position on the 1972 ticket
-Frank Cormier's article
-PRC
-John A. Scali Conv. No. 267-10 (cont.)
-Meeting
-John Roberts
-Source of item
-Cormier
-Herbert G. Klein
-Sources of rumor
-Robert Pierpoint's report about Agnew’s involvement in PRC
-Arthur J. Sohmer's alleged receipt of unsigned White House cable
-Scali
-Vice President problem
-Involvement
-Klein
-White House staff relations

The press
-Pentagon Papers
-New morality
-William P. Rogers
-Letter to the editor of Newsweek from US ambassador to Kenya
-Response to article about Agnew
-Scali
-Golf course
-Meeting with Jomo Kenyatta
-Use of limousines
-Kakuei Tanaka
-Newsweek
-White House response to article
-Lack of contact
-Request for retraction
-Ronald L. Ziegler, Scali
-Henry Hubbard
-Kenyatta article
-White House contact cut-off
-Ziegler
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-Retraction of article
-Presidential directive
-Instructions to Cabinet members
-White House staff
-Circulation of background information and ambassador's letter to the
editor
-The Bohemian Grove
-Cancellation of trip Conv. No. 267-10 (cont.)
-Agnew
-The President's forthcoming trip
-Ohio
-California
-The Bohemian Grove
-Telephone call to the President
-The Gridiron dinner
-News embargo on reporting event
-Comparison to the Bohemian Grove

The President’s schedule
-California
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Milk producers speech
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Northern California


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Unidentified person
-Attitude
-Haldeman’s view
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John B. Connally
-President’s instructions
-Haldeman

Fraternal Organizations
-Secrecy Conv. No. 267-10 (cont.)
-Order of Elks
-Masons
-Lodge

Newsweek
-Haldeman’s forthcoming staff meeting
-Letter to Cabinet members
-Cable
-Hubbard
-Call by Ziegler
-White House reaction
-Richard A. Moore
-Letter to Cabinet members
-Handling of distribution
-Release of letter
-Timing
-Agnew

The President's schedule
-July 31, 1971 travel
-Republican leaders meeting
-Rathbun Dam dedication
-Future forum

The economy
-Wall Street Journal article
-Citation by Shultz
-Automobile sales, housing starts, production output

The Vietnam war
-Casualty figures
-Cambodia
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The economy
-Positive stories
-Great Britain's unemployment rate
-Comparison with the US
-Germany, Japan, Italy
-Welfare recipients in the US
-Per Capita Income
-Latin America, Mexico Conv. No. 267-10 (cont.)
-Africa
-South Asia
-Italy

Thomas R. Shepard
-Speech
-“Ding-a-ling” era
-Current issues
-The environment
-Air and water pollution
-Participants in television show
-Population projections
-People concerned with environmental and social issues
-”Disaster lobby”
-Ralph Nader
-Automobile fatalities
-1920's to 1961
-Automobile safety improvements
-Nader
-Compulsory seatbelts and shoulder harnesses
-Automobile recalls
-Effect on auto fatalities
-The environment
-Air pollution
-Coal
-Industry development of alternative energy sources
-Amount of oxygen at present compared with 1910
-Water pollution
-1900 statistics on typhoid in Chicago
-Comparison to the present
-Lake Erie
-Municipal responsibilities
-Sewage
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Environmental issues
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane [DDT]
-Effect
-Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
-Malaria control
-Ceylon
-Increase in deaths after DDT ban Conv. No. 267-10 (cont.)
-Gypsy moth
-Copies of speech by Shepard
-Distribution to Ehrlichman and John C. Whitaker
-Possible future speech by the President
-Speech
-Population growth projections
-Disaster lobby
-Free enterprise system
-Daniel P. Moynihan
-Influence
-President’s view
-Poll questions
-Charles W. Colson
-Louis Harris
-Environmental issues
-Jobs compared with environment
-Harris’ handling of questions
-Compared to Thomas W. Benham

Shepard
-Possibility of White House job
-Nader’s effect on business
-Consumerism
-Speech
-Regulation
-Kingman Brewster's comments
-Fair trials for Black revolutionaries
-US senator
-Ralph Nader
-Comparison with other eras in US history
-Pre-Civil War gold rush fever
-Post-Civil War carpetbaggers
-1920's
-Senator Joseph McCarthy
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-“Disaster lobbyists”
-Quote from the President
-Appearance, abililties
-Comparison of writing style with the President's speaking style
-Use of the term crackpot
-Consumer and environmental activists
-Speech
-Current attitudes in the US Conv. No. 267-10 (cont.)
-Emphasis on rights of the criminal, not the victim
-Universities
-Draft dodgers compared with soldiers serving in the US military
-Treatment of minorities compared with charges of racism
-Double standards on prejudice
-Liberal prejudice against hardhats, construction workers,
career soldiers, southern Whites
-Vietnam war
-Action against cigarette smoking compared with the fight to liberalize
marijuana laws
-Beliefs of “disaster lobby”
-Copies of speech
-Distribution
-Raymond K. Price, Jr. and speech writers
-Ehrlichman, Whitaker
-Nature of environmental issues
-Comparison with the President's handling of the Vietnam war
-Edmund S. Muskie, Nader

Haldeman left at 4:00 pm.