285–10

Conversation No. 285-10

Date: October 7, 1971
Time: Unknown between 9:22 am and 10:24 am
Location: Executive Office Building

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

[Conversation No. 285-10A]

Economy
-Price Commission
-Wage Commission
-Charles McC. Mathias
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Role
-Frederic V. Malek
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Possible appointment [Pay Board]
-[Forename unknown] Fuller
-Gustave L. Levy [?]
-Length of speech
-Wholesale price index

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Russell B. Long
-John B. Connally
-Taxes
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Long’s staff
-Note taking
Possible press conference
-West Coast

William L. Safire entered at 9:22 am.

[End of telephone conversation]

Draft of speech on the economy
-Phase II
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Conv. No. 285-10 (cont.)


-Changes
-Wages
-Social Security
-Windfall profits
-Connally
-Goods
-General Motors
-Prices
-Wording
-Prices
-Television
-Arthur Godfrey
-Cars
-Japan
-Connally

The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 9:22 am and 10:24
am.

[Conversation No. 285-10B]

[See Conversation No. 10-111]

[End of telephone conversation]

Safire talked with John B. Connally at an unknown time between 9:22 am and 10:24 am.

[Conversation No. 285-10C]

[See Conversation No. 10-112]

[End of telephone conversation]

-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Inflation psychology
-Connally
-Conclusion of speech
-Political writing
-Adolf Hitler
-[Unintelligible]
-Abraham Lincoln
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Conv. No. 285-10 (cont.)


-\"House Divided\" speech
-Cooper Union
-William Jennings Bryan
-Cross of Gold
-Prince of Peace
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
-International trade
-Historic context
-Peace of the world
-Wage-price freeze
-Last page
-Wording
-Peace of the world
-Inflation
-Wording
-Prosperity
-Letters
-Selection
-Safire's schedule
-The President's schedule
-Connally's schedule

The President talked with an unknown person [H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman] at an unknown time
between 9:22 am and 10:24 am.

[Conversation No. 285-10D]

The President's speech, October 7, 1971
-Announcement of chairman
-Connally
-George P. Shultz
-Safire
-[Unintelligible]
-Congress

[End of telephone conversation]

-Rose Mary Woods
-Delivery style
-Media
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 285-10 (cont.)


-Prime time ratings
-California
-Midwest
-Safire's conversation with Herbert Stein
-Trigger device
-Profits
-Stein’s response
-Stein
-Wholesale prices
-Wages
-George Meany
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Congress
-Inflation
-Profits
-Investments
-Jobs
-Connally
-Dividends
-Charles W. Colson
-Price freeze
-Arthur F. Burns

Safire left at 10:22 am.