514–7

Conversation No. 514-7

Date: June 8, 1971
Time: 9:43 am - 10:31 am
Location: Oval Office

The President talked with Dwight L. Chapin

[Conversation No. 514-7A]

[See Conversation No. 4-68]

[End of telephone conversation]

John D. Ehrlichman entered at 9:43 am

Cabinet meeting
-John N. Irwin, II, Melvin R. Laird, William P. Rogers attendance
-Domestic Council
-Attorney General’s schedule

[The President talked with the White House operator at 9:45 am]

[Conversation No. 514-7B]

[See Conversation No. 4-69]

[End of telephone conversation]
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H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 9:45 am

Rochester, New York briefing
-Schedule
-Paul Miller role

Use of President’s time
-State Department briefings
-Use of working lunch
-Willy Brandt dinner

[The President talked with Curtis W. Tarr between 9:45 am and 9:47 am]

[Conversation No. 514-7C]

[See Conversation No. 4-70]

[End of telephone conversation]

Tarr incident
-Reaction

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:47 am

Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:50 am

Rochester briefing
-Reception attendance
-Use of briefings

Cabinet meeting

Public issues
-Penetration of conscience
-John A. Volpe role
-Haldeman memo
-President’s attributes
-Strength
-World leadership
-Strength
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-Public perception
-John B. Connally
Weinberger entered at 9:50 am
-Budget approval
-Political use of budget
-Elliot L. Richardson
-School subsidies
-Areas to help Conv. No. 514-7 (cont.)
-Domestic Council
-Maurice H. Stans’ view
-Automobile safety points
-Volpe
-Making of jobs
-Environmentalists
-Nuclear plants
-Forums to open plants
-Legal problems
-Stans’ view
-Consumer versus environment
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-Consumer affairs
-Unknown woman
-Jobs
-George W. Romney plan
-Necessity of creating jobs
-Housing role
-Creation of jobs
-Subsidies
-Problems of Romney plan
-Pressure on money market
-Effect on interest rates
-Construction projects
-Immediate need
-Announcements of construction projects
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB] concern for construction
-Congressional versus Executive spending
-John Conyers, Jr. role
-Revenue sharing
-Tax reform bill
-Connally role
-Property tax
-Richardson’s view
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-Drawbacks
-Taxes
-Property tax
-Problems
-Drawbacks to common man
-Political use
-George P. Shultz
-Revenue sharing Conv. No. 514-7 (cont.)
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Revenue sharing
-Drawbacks
-Analysis by outside people
-Issue polls
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Gallup poll
-Quality
-Administration polls
-Nature of questions
-Charles W. Colson
-Harris poll
-Analysis
-Poll content
-John F. Kennedy
-Jobs
-Connally’s role
-Shultz
-Necessity of creating
-San Diego effort
-Administration bill for jobs
-Necessity of creating jobs
-Cost in other programs
-Black Caucus
-Robert J. Brown role
-Reality of situation
-Cabinet role
-Cost of some proposals
-Tax increases
-Administration focus
-Federal job creation
-General Services Administration [GSA]
-Construction on federal land
-Congressional reaction
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-Opportunity costs
-Priorities
-Model Cities
-Education
-Tax cuts
-Public works program
-Funding
-Job creation Conv. No. 514-7 (cont.)
-Use of existing projects
-Cuts in other programs
-Reaction
-Immediate result programs
-George Meany view
-Need for a fight
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Connally
-Effect
-Tax cuts
-Revenue sharing
-Nature of local and federal taxes
-Washington view
-Wilbur D. Mills
-City spending
-Buchanan
-Use of Rochester affair
-Police forces
-New York
-John V. Lindsay
-Accuracy of facts
-Stans
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Romney
-Necessity
-Donald B. Rice
-Staff
-Volpe operation
-Staff
-Pilot project
-Morton view
-Connally view
-Potomac River
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-Job creation
-Cost
-Tax increase
-Popular perception
-Tax shift
-Tax increase
-Conservatives’ ideological split
-Weinberger’s view Conv. No. 514-7 (cont.)
-Alternatives
-Tax credits
-State taxes
-Governors Conference
-Aid to cities
-John W. Byrnes’ view
-Carl B. Stokes’ view
-Legislatures’ view
-Property taxes
-Cuts
-Classifying tax payers
-National Railroad Passenger Corporation/American Track [AMTRAK]
meeting
-Board of directors
-Attendance
-Volpe
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-President’s schedule
-Volpe instruction
-Home Builders meeting
-Content
-Other meetings
-Need for meetings
-Stans
-Benefits
-President’s business contacts
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Local business
-Business Council
-Wage and price rhetoric
-[John D.?] Harper

Bull entered at unknown time after 9:43 am
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President’s schedule

Bull left before 10:31 am

AMTRAK meeting
-Volpe
-Attendance
Conv. No. 514-7 (cont.)
Air West crash
-Cause
-Friedenberg [?]

The President, Ehrlichman, Haldeman and Weinberger left at 10:31 am