561–12

Conversation No. 561-12

Date: August 11, 1971
Time: 12:59 pm - 1:43 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Busing
-President's policy
-Ziegler’s recent press conference
-United Press International [UPI] story
-President’s directive
-Desegregation
-Dual school system
-Federal compliance

Declassification order
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Historical information
-World War II
-Korean War
-Cuba
-Lebanon
-Classification authority
-Limitation
-Public right to know
-Protection of classified information
-Ehrlichman's forthcoming press briefing
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 561-12 (cont.)


-Timing

Ziegler left and Charles W. Colson entered at 1:01 pm.

National security
-President's previous conversation with Ehrlichman
-New York Times article
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Negotiations

Pentagon Papers
-Democrats' reaction
-Possible Congressional hearings
-Democrats
-Republicans
-October 3, 1971 election in Vietnam
-Administration's position
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Timing
-Michael J. Mansfield, J. William Fulbright
-Possible administration action
-Columnists
-Richard L. Wilson
-Hawks
-David Lawrence, Joseph W. Alsop, William S. White
-Democrats
-Unknown man
-Alger Hiss case
-Activities
-Vietnamese elections
-Democrats
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh's efforts
-Possible Congressional hearings
-W. Averell Harriman
-Ngo Dinh Diem
-Overthrow of Diem
-F. Edward Hébert's position
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Unknown man's investigation
-Liberals
-In-fighting
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Tape Subject Log
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-New Yorker magazine
-John F. Kennedy's intellectuals
-McGeorge Bundy
-Comparison to fight between Communists and Socialists
-Public reaction
-Forthcoming election
-Eugene J. McCarthy
-1968 campaign

Congress
-Recess

Colson's activities
-Cabinet
-Lull

Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Speech
-August 10, 1971
-Liberal Democrats
-Effect on working people
-Reaction
-Location
-New York City
-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organization
[AFL-CIO]
-Reaction
-Impact on the Administration
-Raymond R. Corbett
-Administration’s view
-Speech
-Liberal Democrats
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Intellectuals
-New left
-Views
-Working people
-Timing

National economy
-Fact sheet
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 561-12 (cont.)


-Public opinion
-Analogy
-Laos
-Casualties
-Timing
-Economic indicators
-Retail sales
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Figures
-July 1971
-George P. Shultz
-Automobiles
-June compared to July
-Public malaise
-Media
-Democrats
-Republicans
-Transience
-President's foreign policy activism
-Businessmen's views
-Profits and sales
-Statistics
-Unemployment
-Polls
-Commerce Department's forthcoming survey
-Maurice H. Stans
-Businessmen
-International monetary situation
-August
-International monetary situation
-Vacations
-Television ratings
-President's forthcoming program
-Timing
-Stock market
-Cabinet's possible efforts
-Colson’s conversation with John B. Connally
-Stans
-James D. Hodgson
-Labor contracts
-Coal miners
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 561-12 (cont.)


-Longshoremen
-Hodgson
-Unemployment
-Ehrlichman
-Summer 1971
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] report
-Unknown person
-American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]
-Breadwinners
-Louis Harris polls
-Accuracy
-Public psychology
-Timing
-Congress
-Procedures

Polls
-Harris, George H. Gallup
-President's public reception
-Ohio, Iowa, Alabama, Oklahoma, New Hampshire, Maine


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George Meany
-Treatment by administration
-Ziegler's press briefing
-Personal greeting
-Public events
-Jackson
-Edmund S. Muskie
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-Unknown person’s call to Colson
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Jackson

Manolo Sanchez and Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:01 pm.

Briefcase

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:30 pm.

The President's schedule
-Kissinger
-George P. Shultz
-Peter G. Peterson
-Haldeman
-Executive Office Building [EOB]

Bull left at 1:30 pm.

Haldeman and Rose Mary Woods entered at 1:30 pm.

Book by [Dorothy Sayre]
-Jack J. Dreyfus, Jr.
-Religious
-Print date
-Bookbinder
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Harcourt Brace
-Norman Vincent Peale
-Letter

President's previous visit to Indiana
-Possible loss of notes
-Secret Service
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-American Legion newspaper story
-Diary
-Schedule cards
-Location
-Hannah Milhous Nixon’s home
-Article
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-John F. Kennedy
-PRC
-Unknown man

Woods left at 1:36 pm.

Briefcase
-Notes

Jackson speech

Meany
-PRC policy

Harris poll

President's public reception around nation
-New Hampshire and Maine

President’s schedule
-Peterson
-President's conversation with Bull
-International monetary situation

National economy
-Textiles
-Peterson
-President's memo
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-President's schedule
-Possible meeting with Peterson
-Peterson’s possible conversation with Flanigan
-Possible import quota
-Industry
-Quota bill
-Flanigan
-Memorandum
-Possible conversation with Peterson
-President's schedule
-Peterson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 561-12 (cont.)


-Shultz

Mrs. Matak
-Forthcoming tea with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon, August 11, 1971
-Presidential gifts
-Cufflinks
-Compacts

National economy
-Unemployment figures

Ehrlichman

The President, Colson and Haldeman left at 1:43 pm.