563–6

Conversation No. 563-6

Date: August 13, 1971
Time: 12:29 pm - 1:45 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

President’s schedule
-Photograph session

Butterfield left at 12:30 pm.

President's schedule
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Photograph session
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Press photographers
-Atkins

Rose Mary Woods entered at 12:30 pm.
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The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 12:30 pm and
12:32 pm.

[Conversation No. 563-6A]

[See Conversation No. 7-113]

[End of telephone conversation]
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[The President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon between 12:32 pm and 12:33 pm]

[Conversation No. 563-3B]

[See Conversation No. 7-114; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]


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Jouett Shouse

Wolf Trap
-Performance
-Dinner in 1970 in Los Angeles
-Dorothy Chandler
-Fire


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Woods left at 12:37 pm.

President's schedule
-John N. Mitchell, George P. Shultz, John D. Ehrlichman, Edward L. Morgan

George C. Wallace

President’s schedule
-Camp David
-Mrs. Nixon
-Aspen Lodge
-Birch Lodge

White House summer interns
-Henry A. Kissinger

Kissinger entered at 12:39 pm.

President’s schedule
President's previous National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Forthcoming meeting

Stephen B. Bull entered and left at 12:39 pm.

President's schedule
-Service secretaries
-Melvin R. Laird

President's previous NSC meeting
-US military dispositions in Pacific
-Laird's views
-Budget
-Air wings

India-Pakistan
-Robert S. McNamara's call to Kissinger, August 13, 1971
-East Pakistan
-Famine
-Refugees
-Indians
-Edward M. Kennedy's possible action
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-McGeorge Bundy's call to Kissinger, August 13, 1971
-Relief effort
-Kennedy
-William D. Eberle
-Role With Administration
-Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development [OECD]
-Peter G. Peterson
-Us Relief Effort
-Roy L. Ash
-James A. Perkins
-Cornell University
-William P. Rogers

President's schedule
-Camp David
-Peterson
-Forthcoming speech on economic program, August 16, 1971
-Content
-Closing gold window
-Import tax
-General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade [GATT]

An unknown person [Manolo Sanchez?] entered at an unknown time after 12: 34 pm.

National economy
-President's forthcoming program
-Gold window
-Import tax, wage-price freeze
-Purpose
-Japan

The unknown person [Sanchez?] left at an unknown time before 12:46 pm.

-Textiles
-Peterson's memo
-Staff recommendations
-Ehrlichman
-Peterson
-Peter Flanigan
-Relevancy
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Kissinger's previous meeting with conservative columnists
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-National defense
-Taxes
-Anti-ballistic missile [ABM]

Kissinger's schedule

Kissinger left and Mitchell, Ehrlichman, Morgan and Shultz entered at 12:46 pm.

Busing
-Columbia, South Carolina
-School board's plan
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Vote
-Additional busing
-Reasons
-Population
-Law
-HEW
-Swan case
-Community reaction
-Press reaction
-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]
-Possible administration policy
-Confrontation with courts
-Compared with low profile approach
-Austin, Texas
-Appeal
-Columbia
-Compliance with law
-Speech
-President’s view
-Columbia
-Possible NAACP action
-HEW
-Possible news leak
-Litigation against Elliot L. Richardson and J. Stanley Pottinger
-Publicity
-Columbia plan
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-Possible HEW response
-Letter
-Standards
-Dallas, Texas plan
-Austin, Corpus Christi
-Dallas plan
-President's schedule
-Nashville
-Mitchell's conversation with Howard H. Baker, Jr. August 12, 1971
-Candidate for mayor
-Administration policy
-George C. Wallace
-1972 campaign
-George S. McGovern, Eugene J. McCarthy, John V. Lindsay
-Possible constitutional amendment
-Timing
-Baker
-Ehrlichman's conversation with William E. Timmons
-Wallace
-McCarthy
-Daughter
Music studies
-Administration policy
-Ziegler's press briefings
-Civil Rights Commission
-Theodore S. Hesburgh
-Liberals
-Compliance with law
-Austin case
-School districts' plans
-Austin case
-Changes
-Content
-Minimal busing
-Administration's policy
-Controlling bureaucracy
-HEW
-Letter
-Morgan
-Austin case
-Sen. John G. Tower, John B. Connally
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-South
-Morgan

Morgan
-Barry M. Goldwater

Mitchell and Morgan left at 1:02 pm.

National economy
-Meeting
-President's forthcoming program

Busing
-Lawyers' meeting in Florida
-Morgan's schedule
-Justice Department's knowledge
-Popular opinion
-Liberal commentators
-Austin

Ehrlichman left at 1:03 pm.

National economy
-Arthur F. Burns
-Peterson
-Paul W. McCracken
-Connally
-Recommendations
-President's forthcoming meeting
-Agenda
-Textiles
-Peterson's memo
-Export rebate
-GATT
-Subsidy
-Export-Import [EX-Im] Bank bill
-President's forthcoming program
-Peterson's views
-Border tax, export subsidy
-Import tax
-Legal opinion
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-GATT
-National security clause
-Trading with the Enemy Act
-Trade Act of 1962
-GATT
-Preparation
-Import tax
-Trade Act of 1962
-Congress
-Department of the Treasury
-National security clause
-Treasury
-Trading with the Enemy Act
-Mitchell
-GATT
-Congress
-Wage and price freeze
-Application
-Follow-up
-Preparation
-Herbert Stein
-Need for analysis
-Intellectuals
-Critics
-Investment tax credit
-Possible name
-Employment Tax Act
-Department of the Treasury
-Business
-Excise tax
-Congress
-President’s proposal
-Budget
-[Investment tax credit and repeal of excise tax]
-“Moving-up” costs
-Tax exemptions
-Popular opinion
-Psychological effect
-Monetary policy
-Federal budget
-Congress
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-Wilbur D. Mills's possible action
-Taxes
-Politics
-Wage and price freeze
-Job development credit
-Congress
-Amendment
-Mills
-Effect on consumers
-Administration action
-Business
-Tax bills
-Excise tax
-Congress
-Possible reductions
-Effect on budget
-Import tax
-Textiles
-Import tax
-GATT
-Wage and price freeze
-Efficacy
-Follow-up
-Wage and price board
-Bethlehem Steel
-Action on prices
-Compared to other companies
-Automobile industry
-President's forthcoming program
-Preparation
-Budget
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Wage and price freeze
-Arnold R. Weber
-Forthcoming meeting
-Peterson, Paul A. Volcker, Stein
-Kenneth W. Dam
-Ehrlichman, William L. Safire
-Dam
-Roles of Ehrlichman and Safire
-Safire
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-Public relations
-Wage and price board
-Burns's role
-Forthcoming meeting
-Camp David room assignments
-Dogwood Lodge
-Shultz and Burns
-Connally and Volcker
-Shultz
-Burns
-Burns and Peterson
-Accommodations
-Shultz
-Weinberger
-Dam
-Ehrlichman
-Maple Lodge
-Burns
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Accommodations
-Location
-Aspen Lodge
-Laurel Lodge
-Preparation
-Connally's views
-Agenda
-Peterson
-Japan
-Burns
-Gold
-Purpose
-Decision-making
-Assignments
-Wage and price freeze
-Shultz
-Burns
-Budget
-Shultz
-Taxes
-Connally
-Import tax
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-Peterson
-Connally
-Shultz
-Dam
-Gold window
-Wage and price freeze
-Purpose
-Psychological lift
-Textiles
-Impact
-Preparation
-Compared to foreign policy field
-State Department
-Defense Department
-Headlines
-Politics
-Connally, Volcker, Stein, McCracken, Peterson
-Stein
-Burns
-Monetary system
-Volcker
-Stein
-Wage and price board
-Public Service Employment Bill
-Public Service Employment Bill
-Implementation
-Ehrlichman
-Weinberger's role
-Local government
-Spending money
-President's forthcoming meeting
-Quadriad

Shultz left at 1:35 pm.

Haldeman talked with Bruce A. Kehrli at an unknown time between 1:35 pm and 1:45 pm.

[Conversation No. 563-6C]

Camp David cabin assignments
-Lawrence M. Higby
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[End of telephone conversation]

President’s schedule
-Conversation with unknown woman
-Forthcoming meeting

President's speeches
-President's forthcoming speeches
-Preparation
-Ehrlichman
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Shepard's speeches
-President's conversation with Price
-Price
-Knights of Columbus
-Shepard's style
-President’s note
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Importance
-Preparation
-President's schedule
-Importance
-Television
-Religious content
-Knights of Columbus
-Price

National economy
-President's forthcoming program
-Preparation
-Forthcoming meeting
-Camp David
-Work
-Telephone calls
-Possible leaks
-Burns, Peterson
-Timing of President's speech, August 16, 1971

President's speeches
-Preparation
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-Safire
-Style
-Herbert G. Klein
-Safire

National economy
-President's forthcoming program
-President's speech
-Length
-Details
-Briefings
-Connally
-Timing
-Announcement
-Length
-Price
-1968 campaign
-Timing
-Possible press commentary
-Timing

Kehrli [?] talked with Haldeman at an unknown time between 1:35 pm and 1:45 pm.

[Conversation No. 563-6D]

Room assignment at Camp David

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman left at 1:45 pm.