503–15

Conversation No. 503-15

Date: May 21, 1971
Time: 2:59 pm - 3:39 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

President's schedule
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-January 8th
-John A. Scali

George P. Shultz and John D. Ehrlichman entered at 3:06 pm.
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Bankers meeting in Munich
-Peter G. Peterson
-John B. Connally
-Size of US delegation
-Attendees
-Federal Reserve governors
-Treasury people Conv. No. 503-13 (cont.)
-Peterson

International Trade Hearings
-Shultz's testimony
-Paul J. Fannin
-Abraham A. Ribicoff', Russell B. Long
-Questions asked Shultz
-US policy on international economic matters
-US Senate
-World trade
-Senate's feelings toward State Department
-Ribicoff's views on Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-State Department's role
-Peterson

Peterson
-Congressional affairs
-Republicans
-James R. Schlesinger
-Intelligence field
-Defense
-Science
-Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]
-Peterson's views
-Appropriations
-Defense Department
-James C. Fletcher
-Chairmanship
-Schlesinger
-Peterson
-Schlesinger
-Peterson's plans for reorganizing AEC
-Connally's meeting with President
-Peterson's ideas
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-Connally
-Staff
-Treasury compared to Housing and Urban Development [HUD], Department of
Transportation [DOT]
-Economic spokesman
-Peterson's interests in security and economics
-National security
-International economic and monetary problems Conv. No. 503-15 (cont.)
-Staff for Peterson
-Schlesinger
-Re-organization of government agencies
-AEC
-Head
-Schlesinger
-Peterson's interest in international trade
-Sugar
-Peterson's interest in a job in the intelligence field
-Government re-organization
-June
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Schlesinger
-Peterson
-Intelligence field
-Peterson
-Job for him
-Knowledge in intelligence field
-Schlesinger
-His paper on intelligence
-Budget

Jerome M. Rosow
-Assistant Secretary at Labor Department
-Return to Standard Oil
-His letter of resignation
-Effective date

Housing
-Integration
-Rev. Theodore S. Hesburgh
-HUD's statement
-Meeting on May 21, 1971 between Ehrlichman, Shultz, George W. Romney and
John N. Mitchell
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-Meeting scheduled between them for next Thursday
-Blackjack, Missouri case
-Mitchell
-Courts
-Republican county executive of Blackjack, Missouri
-Ehrlichman
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
Conv. No. 503-15 (cont.)
Environmental policy
-John C. Whitaker
-Polls
-Political significance
-Interest in by the White House
-Whitaker
-Louis P. Harris poll
-Whitaker
-Analysis of the polls
-Myth compared with fact
-Industry jobs
-William D. Ruckelshaus, Virginia H. Knauer, Peter M. Flanigan, Elliot L.
Richardson, Maurice H. Stans, James D. Hodgson, and Peterson
-Periodic meetings regarding the issue of guidelines on regulation
-President meeting with Nobel Peace Prize winner, Norman E. Borlaug
-Small wheat strains
-India, Pakistan, Mexico, Latin America
-Starvation
-Dichlorodephenyl trichloroethan [DDT]
-Pesticides
-Costs compared with benefits
-Ruckelshaus' views
-Pressure groups
-Anti-trust
-Subjecting his decisions to review
-Anti-trust activity
-Pesticides, DDT, environment safety, consumerism
-Universities
-College professors and associates
-Political costs of environmental public policy
-Unemployment
-Shultz's previous memo to Ruckelshaus
-Costs and gains
-Ruckelshaus
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-Safety
-Consumerism
-Stans
-Environmental impact statement
-Stan's proposal
-Safety, consumerism
-Economic impact statement
-Cost in terms of jobs and business Conv. No. 503-15 (cont.)
-Cost to consumers
-Regulation

President's schedule
-Quadriad meeting May 21, 1971


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Shultz and Ehrlichman left and Kissinger entered at 3:34 pm.

Vietnam
-Casualties
-Battle report
-Statistics
-Accidental deaths
-Military casualties
-Acceptable figures
-Elections
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-National Assembly
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Electoral votes
-US liberals
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-Bunker
-South Vietnamese elections
-US liberals

President's schedule
-Bunker's meeting with the President

Vietnam Conv. No. 503-15 (cont.)
-Bunker
-Kissinger's communications with the President
-William P. Rogers
-Out of the country
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Melvin R. Laird
-Rogers
-Announcement
-Bunker
-Rogers

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:34 pm.

President’s schedule
-Request for appointment

Kissinger, Haldeman and Bull left at 3:39 pm.