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546–4
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • Clark MacGregor
  • John D. Ehrlichman
July 26, 1971
Conversation No. 546-4

Date: July 26, 1971
Time: 5:20 pm - 6:12 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

The economy
-The President's forthcoming meeting with John B. Connally
-Peter G. Peterson
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Clark MacGregor entered and Haldeman left at 5:21 pm.
Congressional action
-Draft extension
-MacGregor's, William P. Rogers’ efforts
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield, John C. Stennis, F. Edward Hébert
-Hébert
-Mansfield Amendment
-Rogers’ memorandum Conv. No. 546-2 (cont.)
-Handling of language
-Mansfield
-Stennis-Mansfield meeting, July 26, 1971
-Senate reaction to compromise language
-Presidential action
-The People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Mansfield's resolution
-Motives
-Reaction
-Motivation for support for the President's proposals
-Schedule
-John G. Tower
-John N. Mitchell
-Busing
-Requested meeting with the President
-Busing issue
-Possible Constitutional amendment
-John D. Ehrlichman
-1963 legislative efforts on Civil Rights Bill
-William Kramer
-Effect
-Kentucky, California, Ohio, Tennessee
-Housing issue
-Education
-Teachers

Foreign policy
-PRC initiative
-Mansfield Amendment
-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC] poll
-Reaction
-Right wing
-John G. Schmitz
-Walter H. Judd
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-Anti-communism in the United States
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR], Japan, Vietnam
-Effect
-The President's action
-Mideast, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT], Berlin negotiations
-PRC initiative
-Congressional reaction
-Votes Conv. No. 546-4 (cont.)
-Public opinion
-Blue collar
-College educated


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Congress
-Hébert

Ehrlichman was present at an unknown time after 5:30 pm.

-MacGregor's forthcoming telephone call
-Strategy
-Tower
-MacGregor's efforts

MacGregor left at 5:34 pm.

Economic impact of programs and legislation
-HR 1 welfare legislation
-Status
-Strategy
-Health issues, reorganization
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-The environment
-Economic impact of legislative action
-John B. Connally
-Political evaluation
-General revenue sharing
-Commitments
-Citizen’s Committees
-Local governments Conv. No. 546-4 (cont.)
-Limitations on cutbacks
-Edmund S. Muskie's work with Wilbur D. Mills
-Possible bill
-Effect
-Presidential action
-Vetoes
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-Richard K. Cook
-Carl D. Perkins
-Director
-Action on Great Society programs
-Special revenue sharing
-Aid to education
-Timing
-Congressional recess
-October 1971

Proposal to chart Congressional action
-MacGregor

Carl B. Albert
-Health
-Appearance
-Mrs. Albert
-John J. (“Jack”) Caulfield
-Response of junior Democrats
-Possible action of Mills
-Speaker of the House
-Continuation of House term or Presidential campaign
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END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4 Conv. No. 546-4 (cont.)

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Leaks
-[Charles M.?] Cooke
-Deposition
-Access to confidential cables by Daniel Ellsberg
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Motives
-Tran Ngoc Chau
-William P. Rogers, the President
-Release of information


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-Top secret report from the President to the Attorney General
-Haldeman
-Chicago Tribune
-New York Times
-Egil G. (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Van Cleef (?)
-Department of Defense
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-Investigation
-Polygraph
-Unnamed State Department employee
-Contact with William Beecher
-SALT document

US-German relations
-Supersonic Transport [SST] Conv. No. 546-4 (cont.)
-Willy Brandt
-Press
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Egon Bahr

Public service symposium
-The President's conversation with George H. Mahon

Education
-School desegregation
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Richardson
-Limitation
-Busing
-Constitutional amendment
-Action
-President’s conversation with MacGregor
-Effect on liberals with children
-Private schools
-Constitutional amendment
-Ehrlichman's conversation with John W. Dean III
-Other alternatives
-Effect in Bible-belt region of the United States
-Perceptions of the President

Lt. William L. Calley, Jr.
-Status of court case
-Sentence
-Position

Model cities program
-Changes
-Forthcoming announcement
-General revenue sharing
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Conv. No. 546-4 (cont.)
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UNITED NATIONS


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Paul W. McCracken
-Possible new job and timing of departure
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-Role in economic policy
-Connally
-Senate
-William Proxmire
-George P. Shultz

The economy
-Statistics Conv. No. 546-4 (cont.)
-Connally
-Unemployment, retail sales
-Employment
-Vietnam veterans
-Narcotics interdiction
-Peterson
-Connally, Shultz
-McCracken
-Implicit effect of departure
-Connally's actions
-Perceptions of possible action
-Interpretation of statistics
-Retail sales
-Consumer confidence
-Edwin L. Harper's memorandum
-Analysis
-Charles W. Colson
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Timing, method of McCracken's departure

Federal Reserve Board
-McCracken
-Arthur F. Burns
-Burns
-Visibility with the press
-Ehrlichman's encounter with Burns
-Attitude

Newsweek article
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END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9 Conv. No. 546-4 (cont.)

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The Pentagon Papers
-Continuation of efforts
-The President's administration
-The PRC initiative

The Pentagon Papers
-Declassification
-World War II-era documents

The economy
-Forthcoming Ehrlichman meeting with Haldeman
-Burns
-Connally, Shultz, McCracken
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Effectiveness
-Public perceptions
-Confidentiality and type of action
-Comparison with with PRC initiative

The President and Ehrlichman left at 6:12 pm.
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