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Conversation No. 556-5

Date: August 6, 1971
Time: 11:39 am - 12:02 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Leslie C. Arends, Gerald R. Ford, Robert P. Griffin, Hugh Scott, and
William E. Timmons; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the
meeting.

[Rudolph A. Peterson]
-United Nations [UN]

Press

Congressional session
-President’s appreciation

John B. Connally
-Recent press conference
-Comments
-President’s opening to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
Instructions for griffin
-Automobile industry
-Prices
-Taxes
-Need for Congressional cooperation
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Discussion with the President and Connally
-Foreign competition
-Budget
-Charles E. Chamberlain

[Photograph session]
-Unknown person’s trip to New Orleans

Economy
-Possible actions
-Political effect
-Republican National Committee [RNC]
-Meeting with Senators
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Tape Subject Log
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-President’s press conference
-Possible action
-Effect
-Business and labor
-Enforcement
-Analogy to Office of Price Administration [OPA]
-Arthur F. Burns
-Retail sales figures
-Home sales
-Unemployment rate
-Full-time workers
-Part-time workers
-Michigan, California, Illinois, Ohio
-Gordon L. Allott
-Draft
-Time limitation
-Bill
-Cloture
-Timing

Congressional action
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Appropriation bill
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Employment
-House Resolution [H R] 1
-Family assistance
-Campaign spending bill
-Jurisdictional dispute
-Interstate Commerce, House Administration, Ways and Means
Committees
-Carl B. Albert, Harley O. Staggers, Mills, Wayne L. Hays
-Bill
-Interstate

US concerns
-President's trip throughout country
-Ohio and New York
-Generation of peace theme
-Public reception
-Vietnam
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Tape Subject Log
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-Casualties
-Current figure compared to previous one
-President’s recent press conference
-Unemployment
-Relationship to Vietnam War
-Economy
-Foreign policy
-Pentagon Papers
-Effect on PRC trip
-Henry A. Kissinger's role
-Need to maintain secrecy
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Great Britain
-France
-Japan
-Okinawa
-Negotiations
-Confidentiality
-Foreign visitors
-Senate
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Berlin
-Vietnam
-PRC
-Press
-PRC
-Lawyer-client privilege

Scott’s forthcoming trip to USSR
-Possible meeting with Aleksei N. Kosygin
-President’s recommendations
-PRC
-Confidentiality of channels
-State Department
-SALT
-Berlin
-Mutual and balanced force reductions
-President’s possible visit to USSR
-PRC

Foreign policy
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 556-5 (cont.)


-The President’s record compared to previous administrations
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Goals
-Timing
-Griffin’s campaign
-Vietnam
-Economy
-Employment

Economy
-Employment
-Survey
-Public opinion
-Foreign policy compared to domestic policy

Foreign policy
-Vietnam war policy
-Public support
-PRC
-Public support
-Recommendations for Congressional speeches
-Vietnam
-PRC
-Taiwan
-United Nations [UN]
-US goal
-Averting threat to peace
-Long-term benefit
Economy
-Inflation
-Unemmployment
-Administration’s intention to act
-President’s recent press conference
-Connally
-Contact with Congressmen
-Automobile sales
-Trade
-Most Favored Nation [MFN] status
-Romania and Bulgaria
-Vietnam War
-Romania
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 556-5 (cont.)


-Nicolae Ceausescu
-Bulgaria
-East-West trade
-Vietnam War
Kama River truck plan contract with Mack Trucks, Inc.
-Kissinger
-President’s approval
-Peters G. Peterson
-USSR
-Middle East
-Kissinger's briefing
-Griffin, Ford, and Arends

Gift
-Golf balls

Arends and Timmons left at 11:59 am.

HEW appropriation bill

Busing
-Administration's position
-Blacks

Lockheed vote
-William V. Roth, Jr. and J. Caleb Boggs
-Connally
-President's call to Boggs
-Clark MacGregor
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Dow chemical

Ford, Griffin, and Scott left at 12:02 pm.