500–11

Conversation No. 500-11

Date: May 18, 1971
Time: 10:26 am - 11:03 am
Location: Oval Office

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

President's schedule
-\"Open Door Hour\"
-Meeting with business magazine editors
-Meeting with National Small Businessman of the Year
-Duration
-Meeting with Arthur Gordon (“Art”) Linkletter
-Views
-Courtesy towards President
-Press photograph
-Value compared with meeting with small businessman
-Meeting with National Small Businessman of the Year
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Award
-Previous press coverage
-Length
-Meeting with state legislators
-Meeting with National Small Businessman of the Year
-Value compared with awards given by Maurice H. Stans
-Press play
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-Atkins
-President's call to William P. Rogers
-Forthcoming meeting
-Types of events
-Business magazine editors' interview
-One-on-one interviews
-Compared with interviews with Time, Newsweek, New York Times
-Book and Quill Award to President Conv. No. 500-10 (cont.)
-Fortune, Time, Newsweek, New York Times
-Herbert G. Klein
-John B. Connally
-Work
-Stans
-Peter G. Peterson
-Business Council
-Connally
-Work
-Business magazine editors
-Peterson
-George P. Shultz, Paul W. McCracken, Peterson, Stans, Klein
-Attendees
-Peterson
-Klein
-Dinner
-Stans
-Peterson
-Interview
-Briefings
-Klein
-Senators and Congressmen
-Effect
-Business events
-A list of top business magazines
-Interviews with Time, Fortune, New York Times, Forbes
-Business magazine editors' interview
-Shultz and Klein
-Balance of payments questions
-Connally
-Scotland[?] speech
-Klein
-Connally
-Possible meeting with John D. Ehrlichman
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-Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Time
-Gerard C. Smith meeting
-Length

[The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger at an unknown time between 10:26 am and 11:03
am]
Conv. No. 500-11 (cont.)
[Conversation No. 500-11A]

-Railroad strike
-Smith meeting
-Length
-Time

[End of Telephone Conversation]

-Meeting with Ehrlichman
-Time
-Meeting with Smith
-Length
-Possible postponement
-Kissinger
-Meeting with Ehrlichman
-Time

[Haldeman talked with John D. Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 10:26 am and 11:03
am]

[Conversation No. 500-11B]

Ehrlichman's schedule
-Meeting with President

[End of telephone conversation]

President's schedule
-Robert H. Finch and Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Language of forthcoming Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
announcement
-Upcoming Congressional vote [Mansfield Amendment?]
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-Possible dates
-Quadriad meeting
-Conduct of meeting
-Other meetings
-May 27
-May 28
-Kennedy Center event, May 27, 1971
-Meeting with Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al Saud [King ofConv.
SaudiNo. May
500-11
Arabia], (cont.)
28,
1971
-Details
-Date

President's plane
-David M. Kennedy
-A June trip by the President
-Other users
-Connally
-Cost
-Department budget
-State Department and military planes

Edward Ridley Finch
-Edward R.F. Cox
-Profession
-Air Force reserve
-Retirement rank
-James D. Hughes
-Possible action by President
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

United Nations
-George H.W. Bush
-A speech
-Holding sessions in other countries

President's schedule
-Lyndon B. Johnson Library opening
-Connally, Rogers, Bush, William F. (“Billy”) Graham, Bryce N. Harlow, Julie
and David Eisenhower
-Friday, May 21, 1971
-Option of Washington or Florida
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Railroad strike
-Senate handling
-Japanese
-Compared with foreign policy

Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield Amendment
-Senators' views
-Compromise efforts Conv. No. 500-11 (cont.)
-Mansfield's position

Senate
-Lack of leadership
-Antiballistic missile treaty [ABM]
-President's meeting with Republican leaders, May 18, 1971
-Effect
-Value
-An unknown man [Ehrlichman or Clark MacGregor[?]]
-Possible John Sherman Cooper meeting with President

SST
-President's meetings with Senators
-James L. Buckley, Wallace F. Bennett, Clifford P. Hansen, Cooper
-Effects
-Cooper
-Position
-Ehrlichman
-Cost figures from Boeing Corporation
-Accuracy
-Ehrlichman
-Allen J. Ellender's position
-Views on cost
-Views on SST administration
-A luncheon
-Margaret Chase Smith
-Relations with the President and the Administration
-Ellender
-Boeing

President's schedule
-A group advocating Social Security increases
-Welfare
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Haldeman left at 11:03 am.