554–3

Conversation No. 554-3

Date: August 4, 1971
Time: Unknown between 12:27 pm and 1:43 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

President's schedule

News conference
-Analysis of questions
-Economy
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Vietnam
-Pakistan
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Conservative revolt
-Busing
-Benefit of infrequent news conferences
-Spiro T. Agnew
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-Economy
-Arthur F. Burns
-President's defense
-Pay increase
-PRC

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Margaret Chase Smith
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Smith’s schedule
-Possible meeting with the President
-President's schedule
-Possible trip to Bangor, Maine
-Conflict with Smith’s schedule
-Haldeman’s call

President's schedule
-Meeting with ambassador Henry J. Tasca
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Trip to New York


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Economy
-Need to present administration position
-Farm magazine editors
-Opinion makers
-William L. Safire
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Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 12:27 pm.

Press conference
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Reference
-Meeting with the President
-Possible summit
-Kissinger’s concern
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Gromyko

US foreign relations
-Forthcoming meetings
-Timing
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] compared to PRC
-Gromyko
-Talks with the President
-Invitation
-USSR
-Possible pressure
-PRC
-USSR
-Bilateral agreement
-PRC
-Suggested letter
-Leonid I. Brezhnev

Press conference questions
-Pentagon Papers
-Agnew
-Conservative revolt
-United Nations [UN] vote
-Vietnam
-News bulletins
-PRC
-Forthcoming trip by President
-Relationship to Vietnam
-Economy
-Wage and price board
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-Inflation
-PRC
-Trip
-Vietnam war
-Vietnam war
-Negotiations
-PRC
-Trip
-Detente
-Vietnam
-Casualties
-Impact of Cambodia, Laos operations
-Economy
-Vietnam

Vietnam War
-Negotiations
-North Vietnam
-Hanoi's statements
-PRC
-US
-Le Duc Tho
-PRC's statements
-US military withdrawal
-Kissinger's visit to Peking
-Nguyen Van Thieu

PRC
-Possible purchases from US
-Boeing 707's and 727's
-Analysis
-Long-term expectations
-Announcement
-Timing
-Forthcoming trip by President
-Relationship
-[Forename unknown] Burger [sp?]
-Size
-Prisoners
-Edward M. Kennedy's statement
-Possible release
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-Timing
-President’s trip
-Kennedy’s statement
-Chou En-lai
-Kennedy
-Possible administration response
-Public pressure

Kennedy
-Pakistan
-Refugees
-PRC
-United Nations [UN]

PRC
-Forthcoming trips
-Working group
-Timing
-President's press conference answers
-Vietnam War
-Importance as issue
-Press conference
-Seven points
-President’s handling
-Kissinger's actions
-Press
-Scrutiny

Vietnam negotiations
-Press
-Speculation
-Dobrynin

Democrats
-1972 election
-Statement of principles

Pakistan
-William P. Rogers
-State Department
-UN meeting
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-Publicity
-As spokesman
-Television image
-Press conference
-Cameras
-William H. Carruthers
-Glasses
-Lighting


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Rogers
-PRC
-Businessman’s reception
-Administration
-State Department
-Pakistan

President's schedule
-Henry J. Tasca
-John B. Connally

Tasca
-State Department
-Capitol Hill

Press conference
-Vietnam negotiations
-Seven points
-Helen Thomas
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-New York Times
-Established channels

Soviet summit
-Timing
-Relationship to PRC trip
-Timing

Middle East
-PRC
-Chou En-lai
-Foreign policy briefing, May 1971
-USSR

Kissinger left at an unknown time before 1:43 pm.

President's schedule
-Tasca
-Schedule
-Foreign Affairs Committee
-George P. Shultz

Cabinet meeting
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Blue-collar workers
-Connally
-Economy
-Agnew
-Connally
-George W. Romney
-John A. Volpe
-Maurice H. Stans
-Shultz
-Duration

President's schedule
-Connally
-Forthcoming meeting
-Shultz

Economy
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-Press conference
-Profits
-Unemployment rate
-Instructions to Charles W. Colson
-Dan Rather
-Frank Stanton
- Nixon trouble theme
-News reporting
-Foreign policy as issue
-Difficulty

President's schedule
-National Business Council for Consumer Affairs
-Meeting, August 5, 1971
-Location
-Indian Treaty Room
-Commerce Department, Consumer League, Federal Trade Commission [FTC],
Food and Drug Administration [FDA], Anti-trust division of Justice
Department
-Participants
-Donald S. Perkins
-Jewel Companies, Inc.
-Robert J. Keith
-Pillsbury Company
-Archibald McG. Foster
-Ted Bate and Company
-J. J. Riccardo
-Chrysler Corporation
-Edgar H. Lotspeich
-Proctor and Gamble Company
-Justin W. Dart
-Grant G. Simmons, Jr.
-Barron Hilton
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Thornton F. Bradshaw
-Atlantic-Richfield Corporation
-V. J. Skutt
-Stuart D. Watson
-Dow Corporation
-Donald Hall
-Robert O. Aders
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-President's participation
-Press coverage
-Working paper
-Positives on economy
-Press coverage
-Bill signing
-Appalachian Regional Commission
-Economic Development Act extension
-Jennings Randolph, John Sherman Cooper, Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Lockheed bill
-Baker
-Political matters
-John N. Mitchell
-Defense budget
-Kissinger’s recommendations
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS], National Security Council [NSC], service
secretaries meetings
-Kissinger
-JCS
-Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Haji Abdul Razak bin Dato’ Hussain
-Office call
-Forthcoming trip, October 1971
-Canada
-UN General Assembly
-Speech
-Rogers
-Luncheon
-President’s role
-Meet and greet
-Office press conferences
-Frequency
-Connally
-Frequency
-Preparation
-Television
-Depth of answers
-Use of time
-Forthcoming meetings
-Cabinet meeting
-Romney
-James L. Buckley
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-Farm magazine editors
-Reception for supporters
-Carl B. Albert
-Girls Nation
-Rudolph A. Peterson
-Environmental report
-Office press conference
-News stories
-Office press conference
-Economy
-Blue-collar workers
-Herbert E. Kaplow
-Burns
-Request to see the President
-Transcript
-William L. Safire
-Peter G. Peterson
-Safire
-Peter Peterson
-Bohemian Grove
-Peter Peterson
-Compared to Safire

Personnel
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Future plans
-Rogers
-Henry L. Bellmon
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Agriculture Department
-Louie B. Nunn
-Mitchell
-Harlow's reaction
-Farm credentials
-Farm vote

President's schedule
-Connally
-Peter Peterson

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 12:27 pm and 1:43 pm.
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[Conversation No. 554-3A]

[See Conversation No. 7-59]

[End of telephone conversation]

President's schedule
-Nunn
-[Grand Teton National Park] ceremony
-Speech preparation
-Washington, DC
-Activity
-Participation in park ceremony
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-[Illinois] State Fair
-Defense budget
-Meetings
-NSC and JCS

Haldeman talked with Connally at an unknown time between 12:27 pm and 1:43 pm.

[Conversation No. 554-3B]

[See Conversation No. 7-60]

[End of telephone conversation]

President's schedule
-Connally
-Signing activity
-New Hampshire and Maine
-New York
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-California
-Yorba Linda
-Park ceremony
-Illinois and Ohio
-Illinois State Fair
-Park
-Dallas
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-Speechwriting
-Illinois State Fair
-Abraham Lincoln
-Importance
-Timing
-Park
-Governor [Richard B. Ogilvie]
-Remarks
-Greetings
-Park
-Activity
-Forthcoming meeting

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 1:43 pm.