327–8

Conversation No. 327-8

Date: March 28, 1972
Time: 3:15 pm - 5:30 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with John B. Connally and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

National economy
-Connally’s schedule
-Previous television appearance
-Charts
-Today show
-Forthcoming meeting with Food chain executives
-Giant
-Wage and price controls
-Southland Corporation
-7-11 stores
-Earl L. Butz
-Herbert Stein
-Clifford M. Hardin [?]
-Food prices
-Connally’s charts
-Trends
-Meat prices
-Price Commission hearing
-C. Jackson Grayson, Jr.
-Farm organizations
-Connally’s forthcoming meeting with Butz
-Butz’s statements
-Connally’s view
-Automobile sales
-Economic indicators
-Balance of trade
-Trade deficit
-Competitiveness
-Currency exchange rates

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-Connally’s view
-Taxes
-US dependents in Europe
-Possible Defense Department activities
-Banking activities
-The President’s possible action
-US banking operations overseas
-Compared to domestic banking
-New York
-California
-Ohio
-Texas
-Currency speculation
-Deutsche marks
-Yen
-Convertibility
-Suspension
-The President’s August 15, 1971 statement
-Stock market
-Businessmen’s confidence
-George P. Shultz
-Arthur F. Burns
-Peter G. Peterson
-Grayson
-Herbert Stein
-Leaks
0Burns
-The President’s Democratic opponents
-Issues
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Tax reform
-George C. Wallace
-Tax reform
-Connally’s efforts
-Democrats’ intentions
-Raise taxes
-Close loopholes
-Mortgage interest
-Municipal bonds
-The administration’s possible response
-Government spending
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-Congress’s possible action
-Family support programs
-Welfare
-The President’s view
-Poor
-Example
-Labor leaders
-Senior citizens
-Media
-Inflation
-US business competitiveness in the world
-Japan
-Europe
-Trading blocs
-Japan
-Europe
-Consolidation
-The President’s view
-Europe
-Japan
-US-Soviet relation
-The People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Connally’s view
-Japan
-US economic capacity
-National Defense
-The President’s view
-Possible trading bloc with South America
-Japan
-Europeans
-Soviets

US foreign policy
-Middle East
-Jewish influence
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Response to Suez crisis in 1956
-Gamal Abdel Nasser
-The President’s view
-British
-French
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-Lebanon
-Relations with Israel
-The President’s view
-Harry S Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
Administrations and current Administration
-Arab nations
-United Arab Republic [UAR]
-Syria
-Iraq
-Saudi Arabia
-Jordan
-US financial support
-Bonds
-Soviet Union
-Possible withdrawal from Egypt
-Israeli territorial concessions
-US-Arab relations
-Arab views
-Great Britain
-Japan
-France
-US
-Soviet Union
-Democrats’ views
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Israel
-Occupation of territory
-Africa
-Northern Africa
-South Africa
-Central Africa
-The President’s view
-Europeans
-Latin America
-Japan
-Indonesia
-Thailand
-India, Pakistan
-Middle East
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National economy
-Federal budget
-Balance
-Possible cuts
-International economy
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Tax reform
-Connally’s possible role
-George S. McGovern
-Muskie
-George Meany
-Democratic candidates
-Democratic candidates
-Social security
-Welfare education
-Defense spending
-Tax increases
-Price increases
-Press coverage
-Tax reform
-Connally’s review
-Capital gains
-Stock market
-Real estate
-Administration’s possible actions
-Congress
-Capital gains
-Trade balance
-Foreign exchange markets

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-Congress
-The President’s role

The President’s schedule
-News
-ITT case
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Press conferences
-Frequency
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-Television
-Speeches
-Televised press conferences
-1972 election
-Democrats

National issues
-Possible Republican response strategy
-Congress
-Republican National Committee
-Cabinet
-Democratic primaries
-Wisconsin
-Busing


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Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:15 pm.

Refreshments

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ITT case
-Richard G. Kleindienst confirmation hearing
Peter M. Flanigan
-Harry F. Byrd
-William E. Brock, III
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-John N. Mitchell
-Clark MacGregor
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-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Roman L. Hruska’s possible letter
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Executive Session
-William P. Rogers, Arthur K. Watson
-Executive privilege

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:15 pm.

-Flanigan’s possible statement
-Kleindienst’s confirmation
-Kissinger’s conversations with Congressional committees

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:16 pm.

-Hruska
-Ervin’s opposition
-Executive privilege
-Truman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John .F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
-Separation of powers
-Congressmen
-Warren E. Burger
-Flanigan’s possible statement
-Witnesses’ affidavits
-James O. Eastland
-Harold S. Geneen’s conversations
-President
-Haldeman
-Connally, Peter Peterson
-Mitchell, Spiro T. Agnew

The President’s schedule
-Jews
-United Jewish appeal
-B’nai B’rith
-Kissinger
-William L. Safire
-Burns

ITT case
-Kleindienst’s confirmation
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-Congressional hearings
-Strategy
-Floor vote
-Michael J. Mansfield’s statement, March 28th
-Prospects
-Possible withdrawal
-Erwin N. Griswold
-Kleindienst’s possible statement
-ITT settlement
-Withdrawal
-Strategy
-Congressional hearings
-Administration’s options
-Democrats’ intentions
-Committee’s actions
-Mansfield
-Kleindienst’s possible actions
-Withdrawal
-Reaction
-Haldeman’s view
-Scenarios
-Haldeman’s view
-Continued hearings
-Vote on the nomination
-Withdrawal
-The President’s view
-Connally’s view
-Mansfield
-National economy
-Tax reform
-The President’s possible actions
-Emoluments for individuals
-Flanigan, Mitchell, Kleindienst
-San Diego convention
-Contributions
-San Diego convention
-Contributions
-Democrats’ motives
-Effect of repetition
-Kleindienst’s possible actions
-ITT settlement
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-Philip A. Hart
-Dita D. Beard memorandum
-Involvement of Mitchell and Kleindienst
-Hart’s possible actions
-Eastland
-Haldeman’s view
-President’s statement
-Mitchell’s views
-Robert J. Dole
-Kleindienst’s possible actions
-Senate
-Mansfield’s possible actions
-Dole’s possible response
-Senate
-Mansfield
-Jack N. Anderson
-The Administration actions
-Committee hearings
-Eastland, Hart
-Washington Post, New York Times
-Alternatives
-Kleindienst
-Alternatives
-L. Patrick Gray, III
-Kleindienst’s possible actions
-Committee hearings
-Abe Fortas’s nomination
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Fortas
-Kleindienst’s possible actions
-Unknown man during Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration
-Committee hearings
-Effect of continuation
-Television
-Richard W. McLaren
-Joseph McCarthy
-Television
-Kleindienst’s possible actions
-Hugh Scott
-Statement
-Connally’s conversation with John Chancellor
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-Joseph C. Kraft
-Senators
-Hruska
-Marlow Cook
-Membership in the committee
-Justice Department
-G. Harrold Carswell, [Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr.]
-William H. Rehnquist, Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

Leadership in the US
-The President’s previous meeting with the General Advisory Committee on Arms
Control and Disarmament
-John J. McCloy
-Lauris Norstad
-William W. Scranton
-The President’s view
-Middlesex Club
-Governors
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Preston Smith
-Richard B. Ogilvie
-Milton J. Shapp
-John J. Gilligan
-Reubin O. Askew
-James E. (“Jimmy”) Carter
-Republican Governors Conference
-William T. Cahill
-Thomas J. Meskill
-Senate
-House of Representatives
-[Carl B. Albert]
-[[Thomas] Hale Boggs]
-Gerald R. Ford
-Clarence J. Brown
-James T. Broyhill
-Elford A. Cederburg
-Edward J. Derwinski
-William J. (“Jack”) Edwards
-John N. Erlenborn
-Louis Frey, Jr.
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-Jack F. Kemp
-John H. Kyl
-Robert H. Michel
-Albert H. Quie
-William A. Steiger
-John B. Anderson
-Barber B. Conable, Jr.
-Richard H. Poff
-John J. Rhodes
-Robert C. (“Bob”) Wilson
-Steiger
-Kemp
-Frey
-Education system
-Media
-Vietnam War
-“Captains of industry”
-President of General Motors [GM]
-President of US Steel
-Cabinet
-Kleindienst
-Connally
-Butz
-George W. Romney
-John A. Volpe
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Possible changes
-Connally’s view
-Necessity
-The President’s opponents
-Wallace
-John N. Ashbrook, Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
-Kleindienst

ITT case
-Kleindienst’s confirmation
-Committee hearings
-Mansfield
-Hart, Quentin Burdick, John V. Tunney
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-Hart
-Beard
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Administration’s position
-The President’s forthcoming press conference
-ITT settlement

Connally left at 5:16 pm.

The President left at 5:16 pm.

The President returned at an unknown time before 5:30 pm.

Connally
-The President’s view
-Charles W. Colson

ITT case
-Kleindienst’s confirmation
-Administration’s position
-Press
-Committee hearings
-Mitchell
-Duration
-Washington Post
-Possible allegations of cover-up
-Length
-Strategy

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:16 pm and
5:30 pm.

[Conversation No. 327-8A]

[See Conversation No. 22-37]

[End of telephone conversation]

-Haldeman’s possible conversations with Colson and MacGregor

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