272–16

Conversation No. 272-16

Date: August 11, 1971
Time: 3:52 pm - 4:45 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

National economy
-Textiles
-Political problem
-South Carolina
-Possible import quotas
-John N. Mitchell, John B. Connally, Peter G. Peterson
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Expertise
-National security
-Steel industry
-Quota
-Congress
-William P. Rogers’ negotiations
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-Takeo Fukuda

Raymond K. Price, Jr. entered at 3:55 pm.

-Mitchell's call to Haldeman
-Peterson
-Flanigan
-Peterson
-David M. Kennedy
-Mitchell’s memorandum
-Legislation
-Japan
-Kennedy
-Peterson
-Appointment with the President
-Return from Japan
-Harry S. Dent
-Flanigan
-Peterson
-Kennedy’s, Connally’s, Mitchell’s view
-Peterson’s view
-Political issue
-Flanigan's schedule
-Instructions to Haldeman
-Pull factions together
-Japan
-State Department
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Maurice H. Stans
-Decision-making process
-Kennedy
-Mitchell
-Kissinger
-Kissinger's possible call to Connally
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Rogers
-Fukuda
-Congress
-Rogers
-Summit
-Kissinger
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-Kennedy
-George P. Shultz
-Administration's divisions
-Need to pull together factions
-National security
-NSC
-Kennedy
-Connally
-Flanigan's role
-Dent
-Role
-Dent’s conversation with Mitchell
-Quotas
-Legislation
-Kennedy

President's forthcoming radio talks
-Geoffrey C. Shepard
-Content
-Theme
-America’s critics
-Audience
-Wording
-Institutions
-Jobs
-Irrationality
-Historical examples
-Gold rush, carpet baggers, Joseph McCarthy
-Content
-Themes
-America’s critics
-Public reaction
-Demand for patriotic, upbeat message
-Revision
-Preparation
-Price's role
-President’s assistance
-Style and tone
-Content
-News
-Timeliness
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-Length
-Forthcoming Labor Day speech
-Dignity of work
-President's conversation with Charles W. Colson
-Labor
-Congress of Industrial Organizations [CIO]
-New York
- Leader class
-Dignity of work
-Content
-Carl Sandburg
-Literary themes
-Prairie, railroads
-Audience
-Women
-Women
-Girls Nation convention remarks, August 6, 1971
-Women’s Liberation
-Public roles
-Yvonne (Vendroux) De Gaulle
-Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle
-Winston Churchill's book
-Emperor Franz Josef of Austria
-Emperor Maximilian of Mexico
-Crown Prince Rudolf
-Archduke Franz Ferdinand
-Empress Elizabeth
-Unknown Woman
-Dignity of work
-Madame Binh
-Indira Gandhi
-Golda Meir
-Women's liberation
-President’s conversation with unknown woman
-Length
-Tone
-Preparation
-Use of previous speeches
-Shepard
-July 3, 1971 speech Lincoln, Nebraska speech
-Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S.
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Truman
-President's list of speeches
-Content
-Programs
-Environment
-Revenue-sharing
-President’s Iowa speech
-Response
-Ideas
-Statement regarding nurses
-Wilson
-Length
-Content
-Anecdotes

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:55 pm.

President's schedule
-Shultz

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:45 pm.

President's forthcoming radio talks
-Content
-Themes
-Economy
-Materialism
-Dorothy L. Sayers
-Unknown book
-John J. McLaughlin
-Unknown group
-Patriotism
-Religion
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Cheer lines
-Religion
-Education
-Preparation
-Timing
-Draft
-Viewing by President
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President's schedule
-August 12, 1971
-Visit to Wolf Trap Farm
-August 13, 1971
-NSC and Service Secretaries meeting
-Arthur F. Burns meeting
-NSC meeting
-Burns’ meeting
-Drafts

President’s forthcoming radio talks
-Content
-Themes
-Patriotism
-Public temper
-Changes since 1968
-American spirit
-Dignity of work
-William L. Safire
-Sayers
-Preparation
-President's schedule
-Drafts
-Importance
-Preparation

Haldeman and Price left at 4:45 pm.