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547–3
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • James D. "Don" Hughes
  • Stephen B. Bull
July 27, 1971
Conversation No. 547-3

Date: July 27, 1971
Time: Unknown between 9:05 am and 10:35 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

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The President's schedule
-John B. Connally meeting
-John N. Mitchell
-July 28, 1971
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Arrival at Andrews Air Force Base
-William P. Rogers
-White House Conv. No. 547-3 (cont.)
-Previous trips
-Compared to Vice President Nixon's Latin American trip during
Eisenhower administration
-John Foster Dulles
-Perceptions
-Compared to Henry A. Kissinger's arrival in San Clemente from People’s
Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Timing of arrival
-Purpose of Africa trip

Agnew
-Funeral of William V.S. Tubman
-Meeting with the President
-Use of helicopters
-Rogers, Melvin R. Laird
-Trip
-Press reaction
-Schedule
-Activities, conduct
-Golf
-African leader’s reaction
-Comment about Blacks
-Relations with the Secret Service
-Vice President's Secret Service detail
-Relations with the President's detail
-Secret Service

Robert S. McNamara
-Job with World Bank
-Candidacy
-Connally
-Kissinger's attitude, Rogers’ view
-Connally’s opinion
-Bi-lateral relationship
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-Comparison with multilateral organization
-Handling
-Release of Pentagon Papers
-Reaction
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Perception

Agnew Conv. No. 547-3 (cont.)
-Trip abroad
-Comparison with the President
-Types of events, sites visited during trip
-Arrival ceremony
-Handling
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Compared to Harry S. Truman's attendance at funeral of Thomas J.
Pendergast
-Presidential succession
-Agnew
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, Truman


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Presidential radio speech series
-Raymond K. Price, Jr., William L. Safire
-Themes
-Possible name for series
-Frequency of speech broadcasts
-1976 Bicentennial era
-Safire
-Issues covered
-Steel settlement, Kansas City speech
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-Labor Day
-Dignity of work
Pentagon Papers
-Douglas L. Hallet
-Duties
-Analysis of papers
-Future tasks
-Charles W. Colson Conv. No. 547-3 (cont.)
-Youth effort

Agnew
-Arrival ceremony, July 28, 1971
-President's role
-Congressional event, July 28, 1971
-Recommendations
-Buchanan, John D. Ehrlichman

Polls
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Analysis
-Ehrlichman
-Colson's contacts
-Louis P. Harris
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Effectiveness

Economic group
-Ehrlichman
-Paul W. McCracken's comments in meeting
-Connally, George P. Shultz, Peter G. Peterson, Peter M. Flanigan
-McCracken
-Departure from job
-Other job possibilities
-Federal Reserve Board
-Arthur F. Burns’ possible actions
-Herbert Stein
-Shultz's attitude towards economic situation
-Haldeman's conversation about Edwin L. Harper's memorandum
-Activism
-Public perceptions
-Presentation
-Harper analysis
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-Wage and price control option
-Public reaction
-Establishment of group
-Connally, Peterson, Shultz
-Flanigan, Colson, McCracken

Public relations
-Safire's efforts Conv. No. 547-3 (cont.)
-Shultz
-Economic issues
-Burns
-Press coverage
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Peterson, Flanigan, Connally
-Focus of efforts
-Pentagon Papers
-PRC initiative
-Presidential leadership
-Establishment of goals
-White House staff
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Colson
-Kissinger

Robert H. Finch
-Possible job
-Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]
-Reaction


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-Business offers
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Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Mitchell
-Contact
-Possible meeting with the President

Press conferences
-Preparation of briefing book
-Buchanan Conv. No. 547-3 (cont.)
-Scheduling
-The President's trip to New York City
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Kissinger
-Budget
-Administration’s posture

Foreign relations
-Effect of the US initiative towards the PRC
-Press coverage
-Vietnam war
-New York Times article about Cambodia
-South Vietnam
-PRC
-Kevin P. Phillips
-Analysis
-Orientation

Radio speech preparation

Declassification effort
-Ehrlichman
-General Services Administration [GSA]
-World War II era documents
-Korean war
-Collection of documents for the President
-Bay of Pigs
-Cuban missile crisis
-Berlin
-John F. Kennedy-Lyndon B. Johnson administration
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.'s assignment
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Agnew
-Arrival ceremony
-Mitchell
-Compared to Rogers
-Attendance by Cabinet members
-Rogers C. B. Morton, Rogers

Budget Conv. No. 547-3 (cont.)
-Approach
-Shultz's views
-Perception of Great Society Programs
-Effect of cuts
-Congress, special interest groups
-Timing
-Forthcoming election year
-1973
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-Family Assistance Program
-Unemployment
-Special revenue sharing
-Symbolism
-Job Corps
-Shultz’s attitude

Press coverage of President's visit to the Bohemian Grove
-Press pool
-Goldwater appearance precedent
-Coverage
-Grove members
-Robert B. Semple, Jr.
-Press pool
-Networks, wire services
-Press assignments
-Ziegler

Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes entered at 10:25 am.

Air Force One Presidential airplane
-Name change to \"Spirit of '76\"
-Lettering options
-Handling of change
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Wives of prisoners of war [POWs]
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Vigil
-Attitude

Hughes left at 10:28 am.

Bohemian Grove Conv. No. 547-3 (cont.)
-Presidential visit
-Press coverage
-President's situation compared to Goldwater
-Baseball game analogy
-Difference from White House events
-Goldwater's visit
-Boat trip on river
-Ziegler
-Presidential advance work
-Arrangements, assignment
-Level of handling

McCracken
-Contributions
-Shultz's comments on efforts
-Comparison with Stein
-Effectiveness as spokesman

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:28 am.

Alfred P. Chamie's arrival for meeting

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:35 am.

McCracken
-Perception of departure
-Washington, D.C.
-Stein
-Burns, Connally
-Briefings, Congressional testimony
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Personnel
-President’s request for Haldeman to meet with Mitchell
-Finch
-Rumsfeld

Radio speech series

Haldeman left at 10:35 am. Conv. No. 547-3 (cont.)
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