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Conversation No. 471-7

Date: March 24, 1971
Time: 10:05 am - 10:43 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Peter H. Dominick and Clark MacGregor

Greetings

President’s previous conversation with MacGregor

Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Current count in Senate
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-George Meany
-Previous conversation with the President
-Margaret Chase Smith
-A letter from the President to Smith
-Portsmouth, New Hampshire naval facility

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 10:05 am

Refreshment order

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:43 am

Ernest F. (“Fritz”) Hollings [?]

A letter signed by the President

Kenneth E. BeLieu’s schedule

A letter signed by the President concerning Portsmouth, New Hampshire
-Campaign promise
-Norris Cotton
-Smith
-George D. Aiken
-Louis C. Wyman

Dominick’s March 23, 1971 meeting with the President
-Future series of meetings
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-Robert C. (“Bob”) Wilson [?], Robert J. Dole
-Charles H. Percy

President’s interview with Howard K. Smith
-Cotton’s comments
-Access to the President
-Consultation with Congress
Conv. No. 471-7 (cont.)
Columns
-A personal secretary

Republican leadership meeting
-A leak
-H. Allen Smith
-Possible solutions
-Problems
-Dominick’s concerns
-Dominick’s notetaking


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Environment
-William H. Chisholm
-Relations with Dominick
-Former president of Rockford Paper Company
-Ethyl Corporation plant in Maine
-Operations
-Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] study
-Results
-Injunction
-Violation of Clean Water Act
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-Justice and Interior Departments
-Walter J. Hickel
-Call from Dominick
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr. story
-Court action
-Plant closing
-Hickel’s statements concerning Kennebec River
-Pollution Conv. No. 471-7 (cont.)
-DuPont research on nitrilotriacetic acid [NTA] chemical
-Unleaded gasoline
-American and/or General Motors
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW] action
-Hickel
-Relations with Dominick
-Congress
-Legislation
-Administration position
-White House staff
-President’s position
-Business
-Procter and Gamble
-Movement supporters
-President’s view
-Florida barge canal
-Letter-writing campaigns
-White House staff action
-Alaskan pipeline
-President’s position
-Location
-Rogers C. B. Morton’s position
-Opponents’ position
-Hickel
-Possible action
-John N. Mitchell
-Location
-President’s position
-Canadian alternative
-SST
-Opponents
-Position
-Danger of cancer
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-Legitimate environmental issues
-Water
-Business
-Oil and manufacturing industry
-Effect
-Automobile industry
-Effect
-Chisholm Conv. No. 471-7 (cont.)
-Administration action
-Bureaucracy
-Interior Department
-Future action by Dominick and White House
-Movement supporters
-Position
-Resources
-Use
-The West
-Alaska
-Florida
-Colorado
-Views of Colorado residents
-SST
-SST
-Polls
-Public opinion

Farm reorganization
-A luncheon, March 23, 1971
-Milton R. Young
-Department of Agriculture
-Farmers
-Farm vote in 1972
-Support for the Administration
-Agriculture Department
-Farmers’ view
-School lunch program and farm surplus
-Pork
-Publicity
-Public relations
-Dominick’s view
-Need for better publicity
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-Farmers
-Dominick’s view
-Farmers’ fears
-Bureaucracy
-Department of Agriculture
-Colorado
-Iowa
-South Carolina Conv. No. 471-7 (cont.)
-1968 election results
-Support for the President

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Relations with press
-Relations with youth
-Credibility problems
-Speeches by Agnew
-Relations with press
-Dominick’s view
-Agnew’s speeches
-Press attacks
-1972 election
-Relations with youth
-Dominick’s children
-Fundraising
-Relations with youth
-1972 election
-An unknown person’s suggestion to Dominick
-Jack N. Anderson

Republican leadership meetings with President
-Cotton
-President’s style
-Decision-making
-Congressional briefings
-Input from Congress
-Scope
-Gordon L. Allott
-Suggestions for changes
-President’s programs
-Republican support
-Leaders’ relations with constituents
-Walter F. Mondale, Gaylord Nelson
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President’s March 23, 1971 meeting with mayors
-Washington Post
-Picture
-Three Democrat mayors
-Statements on Edmund S. Muskie
-Joseph Alioto

An unknown man Conv. No. 471-7 (cont.)


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Vietnam War
-Possible action
-Effect on future
-1972
-Hue

Economy
-Stock market
-Current and future levels
-President’s view
-Targets
-Money supply
-Milton Friedman’s prediction
-Summer and fall 1972
-Stock market
-Effect
-Levels
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Dominick and MacGregor left at 10:43 am