449–8

Conversation No. 449-8

Date: September 21, 1971
Time: 11:48 am - 12:14 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Paul G. Hoffman and Richard T. Kennedy; the White House
photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.


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United Nations [UN] economic program

Hoffman's position
-Retirement in 1958
-Offer of position by Dag Hammarskjöld
-Reason for accepting offer
-World situation
-Peacekeeping
-Economic and social activities
-Program to build up economic and social policies
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 449-8 (cont.)


-Budget for programs
-US position
-Budget
-Changes in budget
-World Bank
-Robert S. McNamara
-Allocation of monies for UN development program
-Amount
-Investment
-McNamara
-Pre-investment work
-Education
-Surveys
-Foreign countries
-Development
-Understanding of countries' problems
-UN representative
-Pre-investment
-Planning of programs
-Technical inputs
-Presence in foreign countries
-Successor
-Hoffman’s trips
-Japan
-Germany
-France
-Great Britain
-Fundraising for 1972
-US foreign economic aid
-Policies
-Budget for UN
-Development programs budget
-Resources
-Reserves
-Hoffman's successor
-Declining resources
-Hoffman's role
-House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee
-Recommendations
-Approval of Senate
-Committee
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 449-8 (cont.)


-Otto E. Passman
-Possible conversation with the President
-View of the world
-Hoffman's meeting with John A. Hannah
-Hannah’s programs
-State Department
-Budget
-Hoffman's programs
-Budget
-Hoffman's successor
-Hoffman's retirement
-Date
-Successor
-Rudolf A. Peterson
-Qualifications
-Hoffman's assistance
-David A. Morse
-Transition
-Organization
-Funds
-World development
-Funds
-Technical assistance
-The President's role
-Congress
-Foreign assistance aid

International trade
-The President's meeting with consumer representatives
-Cabinet Room
-Tariffs
-Quotas
-Guaranteed price
-Liberalized trade
-Labor leaders
-Cheap labor abroad
-Multinational companies
-American consumers
-Business leaders
-Loss of will to compete
-Congressmen
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 449-8 (cont.)


-Concerns
-Textiles
-Shoes
-Automobiles
-Steel
-US position
-Economic isolationism
-Dangers
-Effects on US
-Consumers


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NORWAY


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-Competition in world marketplace

UN
-Social and economic programs
-Importance
-Hoffman's trips
-Thailand
-Sarat Thanarat
-Prince Norodom Sihanouk
-Visit to Japan
-Meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
-Ministers
-Mekong Valley
-Newspapers
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 449-8 (cont.)


-Story on Prince Norodom Sihanouk
-Sarat’s comment
-Ministers of Thailand, Vietnam, Laos
-Development of Mekong Valley
-Neutrality
-Unifying influence
-Political influences
-Ideologies of member countries
-World War III
-World economy
-Peace
-Political world
-Objectives of Marshall Plan
-Recovery
-Common Market
-Significance
-Marshall Plan
-Hoffman's role
-Experiences

Hoffman
-Retirement
-Senior citizens
-Age
-Golf
-Fishing
-Hoffman's wife
-Length of retirement

International drug traffic conference

Presidential gifts
-Cufflinks
-Golf
-Golf balls
-Paperweight
-Presidential seal
-Tie pin

White House
-Powder room
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 449-8 (cont.)


-Oval Office
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Rugs
-Color
-Color television
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Colors in rooms
-The President's greetings to Mrs. Hoffman

Hoffman and Kennedy left at 12:14 pm.