566–18

Conversation No. 566-18

Date: August 17, 1971
Time: Unknown after 3:26 pm until 4:30 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

National economy
-Stock market
-Volume of trading

The President talked with the White House operator at 4:12 pm.

[Conversation No. 566-18A]

[See Conversation No. 8-26]

[End of telephone conversation]

National economy
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-Stock market
-Volume of trading

President's speeches
-Importance
-Preparation
-Informal comments with statement
-Importance
-Public attention
-Knights of Columbus
-Preparation

The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 4:12 pm and
4:20 pm.

[Conversation No. 556-18B]

[See Conversation No. 8-27]

[End of telephone conversation]

Connally's schedule
-Meeting in Roosevelt Room

President's speeches

President's schedule
-Connally
-Barber

Haldeman left the room at an unknown time after 4:12 pm.

Haldeman entered the room at an unknown time before 4:20 pm.
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President's speeches
-Preparation
-Milk producers
-Audience
-Size

Alexander Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 4:12 pm.

Connally's schedule
-Cost of Living Council [COLC] meeting

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 4:20 pm.

President's schedule
-Possible call to Connally

-National economy
-President’s program
-Republicans

President's forthcoming speeches
-Distribution to press
-Statement
-Knights of Columbus
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Unknown man's practices
-Repetition
-Preparation
-Quotes
-Repetition
-William L. Safire
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Television
-Compared to stories
-John R. Brown
-Television

National economy
-President's program
-Timing
-International monetary conditions
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-Reaction
-Democrats
-News media

News media
-Charles W. Colson
-Herbert G. Klein
-White House correspondents
-President's press conference
-Administration’s attitude
-Colson
-President's forthcoming trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Hunger conference
-Food stamps
-Youth conference
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-President's schedule

Youth
-Attitude toward the Administration
-Robert H. Finch
-Role

Finch
-Schedule
-California
-Role with administration

Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Role with administration
-George P. Shultz [?]
-Wage and price freeze
-Possible post
-Office Emergency Preparedness [OEP]
-Gen. George A. Lincoln

OEP
-Personnel
-Peter G. Peterson
-Current responsibilities
-Wage and price freeze
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-Rumsfeld
-Arnold R. Weber
-Rumsfeld
-Experience
-Congress
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]

Butterfield entered at 4:20 pm.

President's schedule
-Illinois
-Grand Tetons
-Briefcase
-Possible phone calls
-Presidential notes
-Clark Reed
-Harry S. Dent
-J. P. McCarthy
-Jobs for veterans
-William S. White
-Reed
-Loretta Young
-J. Peter Grace
-Whitney N. Seymour, Jr.
-Norman Vincent Peale
-Revenue sharing
-Harley Ranch [?]
-Thomas J. Bannan
-Al Stratton, Jr.
-Otto N. Miller
-Chet Holifield
-Number

The President, Haldeman, and Butterfield left at 4:30 pm.
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