565–1

Conversation No. 564-4/565-1

Date: August 16, 1971
Time: Unknown between 1:08 pm and 1:40 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, Ronald Ziegler, Rose Mary Woods, and
Stephen B. Bull.
[The recording began while the conversation was in progress]

Press coverage

Request for Charles W. Colson

Bull left at an unknown time after 1:08 pm.

Peter M. Flanigan
-Location

Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:08 pm and 1:18
pm.

[Conversation No. 564-4/565-1N]

[See Conversation No. 8-1]

[End of telephone conversation]

National economy
-President's program
-Unknown draft
-Updating economic structure
-Timing
-John B. Connally
-National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
-Jobs
-Statistics
-Connally's previous press conference
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-Food prices
-Connally's June 27, 1971 speech
-Credibility
-Treasury Department

Administration's credibility
-Lyndon B. Johnson

Press
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-President’s economic program
-September 1971

National economy
-Newsweek
-Henry Hubbard's conversation with Ziegler, August 15, 1971
-Wage and price freeze
-Timing
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Dan Rather
-President's program

Connally's health

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:08 pm and
1:18 pm.

[Conversation No. 564-4/565-1O]

[See Conversation No. 8-2]

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman talked with the White House operator.

[Conversation No. 564-4/565-1V]

[See Conversation No. 8-3]

[End of telephone conversation]
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Cancellation of call to Colson

Colson entered at 1:18 pm.

National economy
-President's program
-Reaction
-Stock market
-Volume of trading
-Automobiles
-Television coverage
-Request for Haldeman to call Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker

Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:18 pm and 1:20
pm.

[Conversation No. 564-4/565-1P]

[See Conversation No. 8-4]

[End of telephone conversation]

National economy
-President's program
-Connally's previous press conference
-Colson's conversation with Frank Stanton

The President talked with the White House operator.

[Conversation No. 564-4/565-1W]

[See Conversation No. 8-5]

[End of telephone conversation]

-Devaluation
-Re-broadcast
-Stanton
-Reaction
-[Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] executives]
-PRC initiative
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The President talked with Connally between 1:20 pm and 1:23 pm.

[Conversation No. 564-4/565-1Q]

[See Conversation No. 8-6]

Colson talked with Connally.

Ziegler talked with Connally.

The President talked with Connally.

[End of telephone conversation]

Connally's previous press conference
-Press
-“Face the Nation”

President’s schedule
-Press conference
-Timing

National economy
-President's program
-Reaction
-Businessmen
-Stock market
-Stock market
-Record
-Timing
-Possible action
-William J. Casey

Haldeman talked with Lasker at an unknown time between 1:23 pm and 1:40 pm.

[Conversation No. 564-4/565-1R]

[See Conversation No. 8-7]

[This portion of the conversation was contemporaneous with the Haldeman-Lasker telephone
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conversation]

National economy
-President's program
-Reaction
-George S. McGovern
-Louis P. Harris's views, August 15, 1971
-Public psychology
-Confidence
-Protectionism
-Surcharge
-Connally’s press conference
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman's previous conversation with Lasker
-Stock market
-Records
-Figures
-Studebaker Corporation
-Current status, August 16, 1971
-Dow-Jones Industrial Average
-Prospects
-Investor confidence
-President’s August 15, 1971 speech

National economy
-President's program
-President's forthcoming meeting with Congressmen, August 17, 1971
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Reaction
-Mills
-Connally
-Michael J. Mansfield
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
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Blacks
-As issue
-Alabama Court ruling, August 16, 1971
-George C. Wallace

National economy
-President's program
-Welfare reform
-President’s August 15, 1971 speech
-Vermont call
-Congress
-President’s 1969 proposal
-Delay
-Daniel P. Moynihan
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Revenue-sharing
-Congress
-President's previous conversation with Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Conservatives
-Reaction
-Conservatives
-Budget cuts
-Foreign aid
-Federal employees
-John F. Griner of the American Federation of Government Employees
[AFGE]
-Employee cuts
-George P. Shultz
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-HEW, Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO], Housing
and Urban Development [HUD]
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Drug enforcement

President's schedule
-Forthcoming briefing at State Department
-Press
-Ziegler’s role
-Possible leaks
-Shultz
-Haldeman’s instructions to Manolo Sanchez

The President, et al. left at 1:40 pm.