566–7

Conversation No. 566-7

Date: August 17, 1971
Time: 1:32 pm - 2:12 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Gerald R. Ford, Robert Griffin and Alexander P. Butterfield.

President's previous meeting with Oakland A's

Charles W. Colson's schedule

Butterfield left at 1:33 pm.

National economy
-President's program
-Leslie C. Arends, John W. Byrnes, Hugh Scott
-Scott’s location
-Momentum
-Public psychology
-Possible Congressional action
-President’s recent meeting with Congressmen
-Interest rates
-President's instructions to John B. Connally
-Taxes
-Investment tax credit, excise taxes, personal income tax exemption
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 566-7 (cont.)


-Possible Congressional action
-Democrats' possible response
-Republicans' possible reaction
-Reaction
-Detroit Free Press
-Denver Post
-Interviews
-Government employees
-Wages
-Prices
-1965-1969
-Allen J. Ellender
-Ford's comment to Wilbur D. Mills
-Forthcoming hearings
-Russell B. Long
-Possible Congressional action
-Timing
-Amendments

Colson entered at 1:36 pm.

-Possible attacks on President's opponents
-Colson's to Ford
-George Meany, George S. McGovern
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Partisanship
-Compared to national interest
-Reactions
-Colson's conversation with Louis P. Harris
-Edmund S. Muskie, Edward M. Kennedy
-Silence
-Muskie
-Dallas speech
-Wage and price freeze
-Press briefing after President's meeting with Congressmen
-Michael J. Mansfield, Mills
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Mills's role
-Possible attacks on President's opponents
-Reaction
-News coverage
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 566-7 (cont.)


-Compared to People’s Republic of China [PRC] announcement
-Possible attacks on President's opponents
-Humphrey
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-James D. Hodgson
-Mills, Jackson
-Muskie, Kennedy, Humphrey
-Ford’s previous comment
-Timing of forthcoming Congressional action
-Mills and Byrnes
-Need for Republican unity on tax bill
-Jacob K. Javits
-Wage and price freeze
-Letter from unknown person
-William Proxmire
-Republican strategy
-Delay
-Possible repeal of accelerated depreciation rate [ADR]
-Lawsuit
-Reaction


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Congress

Griffin's schedule
-Michigan

Colson’s memo
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 566-7 (cont.)


National economy
-President's program
-Possible attacks on President's opponents
Griffin’s schedule

Ford, Griffin, and Colson left at 1:47 pm.

Colson and Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:47 pm.

Republicans

President's schedule
-Barber

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:51 pm.

Republicans
-Compared to Democrats
-PRC
-Reaction to President's economic program
-Javits, Nelson A. Rockefeller

National economy
-President's program
-Possible attacks on President's opponents
-Ford
-Meany
-Hodgson
-Virginia H. Knauer

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 1:47 pm.

-Labor
-Partisanship
-Forthcoming statement by President on automobile rollback

Colson left at 1:51 pm.

-Reaction
-Stock market
-President's August 15, 1971 speech
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 566-7 (cont.)


-Television ratings
-Viewing audience
-Housing starts
-Paul W. McCracken

President’s schedule
-Possible telephone call

Ziegler entered at 1:53 pm.

President's forthcoming speech
-Draft
-William L. Safire

National economy
-President's program
-John W. Byrnes's statement to press
-Mansfield and Byrnes
-Quotes

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 1:53 pm.

President's forthcoming speech
-Draft
-Safire

Butterfield left at 1:54 pm.

National economy
-President's program
-Statements by Congressional leaders
-Action
-Ziegler's forthcoming conversation with Safire

Ziegler left at 1:54 pm.

-President's previous meeting with Congressmen
-Ellender
-Long
-Momentum
-Housing
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 566-7 (cont.)


-Political effect
-Haldeman's conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-Compared to Vietnam policy
-Relevance

President's schedule
-President’s forthcoming trip
-Charles H. Percy
-John N. Mitchell
-Donald E. Johnson
-Dallas to Los Angeles
-Veterans Hospital
-Rides

Thelma C. Nixon's schedule
-Staff work
-Constance M. (“Connie”) Stuart
-Size of crowds

President's previous visit to Bangor, Maine
-Crowd


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National economy
-Difficulty of problems
-President's program
-Unemployment
-Prices
-Public psychology
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 566-7 (cont.)


-Unemployment
-Attitudes
-Vietnam

Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:54 pm.

President's schedule
-George P. Shultz

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:06 pm.
President's forthcoming speech
-Schedule
-Drafts
-Safire

Shultz entered at 2:06 pm.

National economy
-President's program
-Arnold R. Weber's possible role
-Duration
-Wage and price freeze
-Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]

OEP
-Personnel
-Weber
-Gen. George A. Lincoln
-President’s program
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger's possible role
-Charles D. (“Tex”) Thornton's possible role
-Desirable background
-Business
-[Forename unknown] O’Bannon [sp?]
-Possible abolition of agency
-Political aspect
-Meany
-Donald H. Rumsfeld's possible role
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-Weber's possible role
-Lincoln
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 566-7 (cont.)


-Rumsfeld's possible role
-Lincoln, Rumsfeld
-Role
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Connally
-Rumsfeld
-President’s program
-Decision
-COLC
-Weber

Haldeman and Shultz left at 2:12 pm.