555–6

Conversation No. 555-6

Date: August 5, 1971
Time: 1:46 pm - 2:40 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Press

Bill signing

President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with James Buckley
-John N. Mitchell
-Clark MacGregor

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 1:48 pm.

-Mitchell
-Forthcoming meeting with representatives of farm journals
-Clifford M. Hardin
-President’s role
-Purpose
-Duration
-Herbert G. Klein
-John C. Whitaker
-Format
-Origin

Butterfield left at 1:50 pm.

[Pause]

-Format
-Scheduling questions
-Catholic journals
-Farmers groups
-Dairy
-Forthcoming meeting with Carl B. Albert
-Henry A. Kissinger
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-Agenda
-Trip to Thailand
-Michael J. Mansfield, Russell B. Long
-Kissinger
-MacGregor
-Mansfield

Manolo Sanchez and Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:50 pm.

-Refreshment
-Charles W. Colson

Sanchez and Bull left at an unknown time before 2:00 pm.

-President's trip to New York City
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] television coverage
-President's visit to theater
-Ruby Keeler
-Interaction with public
-Discussion of show
-Autographs
-\"Today\" show
-Crowd
-Prisoners of war [POWs] question
-Broadway theater crowd
-CBS
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
-Mood
-Organized opposition
-Effect
-Trips
-Advance notice
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Forthcoming trip to Dallas
-Arrival
-Reception
-Locale
-Demonstrators
-New York trip
-Public reception of President
-Bull
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-Mood
-People's Republic of China [PRC] announcement
-Trip westward
-Springfield, Illinois
-State Fair
-Old State Capitol
-Lincoln Home National Historic Site establishment
-Bill signing
-Fair
-Richard B. Ogilvie
-Public mingling
-Size
-Motorcade

Colson entered at 2:00 pm.

Cabinet
-Briefing
-John Volpe's proposal
-Economic fact sheet
-Cabinet meeting
-John B. Connally
-George P. Shultz
-Dissemination of economic information
-Volpe
-Statistics
-Inflation
-Talking papers
-Wholesale price index
-Automobile sales
-Briefing book
-Congress
-Speeches
-Speeches
-Butterfield
-William L. Safire
-Paul W. McCracken
-Charles Duke
-Forthcoming Sub-Cabinet briefing
-Problem
-Making material useful
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-Fact sheet
-Possible comments to Cabinet
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Klein
-Price
-Connally
-News coverage
-Peace issue
-Economic picture
-Unemployment on Vietnam War casualties
-Political effect
-Connally
-Volpe
-President's instructions to Colson
-Economic fact sheet
-Request to see
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Safire

Economy
-Meeting with Congressmen
-MacGregor, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Colson
-Performance
-Post-World War II
-Compared to other countries
-Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
-Unemployment
-Eisenhower administration
-Figures
-John F. Kennedy administration
-Lack of press coverage
-Members of administration
-Congressmen and Senators
-Jack R. Miller
-Comment
-Possible motivation
-PRC trip
-Speech
-Unemployment statistics
-Briefing
-James D. Hodgson
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-Previous month’s briefing
-Trends
-Psychological issue
-Need to defend administration
-Connally
-Hodgson
-Shultz
-McCracken
-Maurice H. Stans
-Small business
-Wall Street
-New York Times, Washington Post, Time, Newsweek and major
television networks
-Vacillation

Foreign policy
-President as world leader
-Emphasis
-Speeches
-PRC trip
-Appeal to public
-President’s recent press conference
-Kissinger
-PRC
-Stature
-World War II
-Look article
-Haldeman interview
-PRC
-Mao Tse-tung
-Chiang Kai-shek
-Gen. Francisco Franco
-Haile Selassie
-Konrad Adenauer
-Winston S. Churchill
-Gen. A.J.M. Charles de Gaulle
-Josef V. Stalin
-Eisenhower
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Willy Brandt
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-Latin America
-Europe
-Connally
-John F. Kennedy

John Kennedy
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Domestic policy
-Foreign policy
-Berlin Wall
-Cuban confrontation
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Adlai E. Stevenson, II
-Turkey
-Vienna Conference
-Boston Globe article
-Kennedy Library
-Release of personal pre-presidential papers
-PT 109
-Profiles in Courage
-Health
-Boston newspapers
-John Kennedy’s college years
-Reading speed

Economy
-Connally
-Public opinion
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Business community
-Pierre Rinfret
-Dun’s
-Interests
-Unemployment
-Arthur F. Burns
-Dan Rather
-Reporting
-Statistics
-Source
-Capitol Hill
-Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS]
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Cabinet
-Connally
-Compared to President
-Republicans

Busing
-Texas
-Responsibility

Press
-Forthcoming presidential election
-Past relations with administration
-1969
-President’s November 3 speech
-1970
-Cambodia
-1971

Economy
-Unemployment figures
-Gordon L. Allott
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Comments
-Defenders of administration
-Robert J. Dole
-Republican National Committee [RNC]
-Lockheed vote
-Democrats
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Pentagon Papers
-Anecdote
-Lack of public understanding
-Addressing
-President’s use of television
-Cambodia
-Press
-Timing
-Radio
-Effectiveness
-Donald C. Burnham of Westinghouse
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-Profits
-Wage and price guidelines
-Public reaction to President
-Ohio, Iowa
-New York City trip
-PRC
-New York City trip
-News coverage
-Gerald L. Warren
-Ohio
-Robert A. Taft, Jr.
-William B. Saxbe
-Miller
-Iowa
-New York
-Public attitudes
-Louis Harris
-Harris
-Television
-President's effectiveness
-Rather

Colson left at 2:37 pm.

President's schedule
-Trip to Manchester, New Hampshire
-Cynthia Frink
-Helen M. (“Obie”) Shultz
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-John A. Scali
-Bangor, Maine
-Republicans
-Margaret Chase Smith
-Springfield, Illinois
-Grand Tetons
-Jackson Hole
-Cruise
-Yosemite Valley
-Montana
-Mansfield
-Timing of forthcoming trip
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-Television
-Springfield
-Grand Tetons
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW] appearance
-Preparation
-Dallas
-Grand Tetons
-VFW appearance
-Television

Haldeman left at 2:40 pm.