584–3

Conversation No. 584-3

Date: October 5, 1971
Time: 9:12 am - 1:11 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

[Forename unknown] Wilson
-Discussion of unknown person

The President's previous conversation with William P. Rogers
-Middle East
-Henry A. Kissinger
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-New York Times
-Tad Szulc
-Kissinger and Rogers

The President's schedule
-Possible trip
-John N. Mitchell
-Staff responsibilities
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Timing
-National Federation of Republican Women
-Timing
-Press conference
-Florida
-Disney World
-Charlotte
-Camp David
-The President's work habits
-George P. Shultz
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Kissinger
-[Unintelligible]
-John B. Connally
-Kissinger

-Kissinger
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-Rogers
-Middle East
-Soviet Union

The President’s schedule
-National Federation of Republic Women
-Florida
-Disney World
-Eisenhower Theater
-World Series game
-Baltimore

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 9:25 am.

-Trips
-Dr. D. Elton Trueblood
-The President's 10:00 am meeting
-Connally, Shultz, Herbert Stein
-Paul W. McCracken

Butterfield left at an unknown time after 9:25 am.

-Congress

Congressional relations
-Clark MacGregor
-Performance
-Supersonic Transport [SST]

The President's schedule
-Blair House renovations
-Charles W. Colson
-Cabinet Officers and Congressmen
-Commendation notices
-Rose Mary Woods [?]

France
-Trade
-Unknown person’s [Winton M. (“Red”)] Blount action
-Anti-drug efforts
-Administration’s action
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Letter from Robert C. Tyson
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Revisions
-Television policy
-The President's request of Kissinger
-Reply
-Invitation to White House dinner
-Unknown volunteer
-Presidential certificate of appreciation
-Citation for volunteer service


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The President’s schedule
-Thanksgiving
-Christmas
-Florida
-California
-White House receptions
-White House press office

Public relations
-Look magazine
-Allen S. Drury
-Interview with the President
-Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
-Press
-Christmas receptions
-White House Staff
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-Congress
-The President’s attendance
-MacGregor
-Ziegler
-White House Staff and Cabinet
-Invitation language

Blair House
-Receptions
-Youth event
-Congressmen
-Conservatives
-George Putnam
-Business Council
-Flanigan
-Congressmen
-Room size
-Youth

Possible Tennis match at the White House
-Billie Jean King
-Adam [Arthur] Ashe
-Stan Smith
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Rowland Evans
-Television coverage

[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-Comment on Supreme Court
-Possible White House response

Evening at the White House
-Lawrence Welk
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Independent networks
-Paul W. Keyes

Reception
-Conservative newsmen
-Barry M. Goldwater
-James L. Buckley
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Charles S. Rhyne
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Possible ambassadorship
-Robert Strausz-Hupe

Maurice H. Stans
-Proposed trip to Moscow
-Peter G. Peterson

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:25 am.

Item for Colson

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:10 am.

The President's schedule
-Timing of press conference
-Kissinger
-Questions on economy
-Phase II
-Kissinger
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Forthcoming announcement of Soviet Summit
-Vietnam
-Briefing book for President
-Phase II
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Forthcoming meeting with Aldo Moro
-Detroit
-Press
-Reporting outside of Washington
-Compared with Washington
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Montana
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Press coverage

Frank Leonard
-Compared to William L. Safire
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-Article on the President's accomplishments
-Welfare
-Drugs
-Vietnam veterans
-Foreign aid
-Education reform
-Rogers
-Republican National Committee [RNC] newsletter

Praise for the President
-Robert H. Abplanalp and Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Hobart D. Lewis
-New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Denver Post

Press
-Denver
-President’s humor
-Local press
[-Unintelligible]
-John F. Osborne

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:25 am.

The President's schedule
-Connally

Bull left at 10:06 am.

The President left and John B. Connally, George P. Shultz, Paul W. McCracken, and Herbert
Stein entered at 10:06 am.

Jeb Stuart Magruder's conversation with Connally

Haldeman left at an unknown time after 10:06 am.

The President entered at an unknown time after 10:06 am.

Salutations
-Shultz
-Book read by the President
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Economy
-Phase II
-Shultz
-Profits
-Changes from memorandum
-Goals
-Workings of the President's advisers
-Arthur F. Burns
-Negotiating new contracts
-Burns's memorandum
-Rollbacks
-Strikes
-Steel companies
-General Motors
-Follow up to the wage and price freeze
-Pay Boards
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Responsibility
-Inflation
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Future
-Wholesale prices
-John A. Volpe
-Japanese
-Honda
-Foreign policy
-Regional differences among Americans
-Productivity
-Cost of living factor
-Unemployment
-Youth
-Comparisons
-Wage payments
-Pay Boards
-Union contracts
-Wage and price problem
-Unemployment
-Labor-management positions
-Edward N. Cole
-Union negotiations
-Burns
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-Fiscal monetary policy
-Contingency for next year
-Outlook
-Interest rates
-Burns
-The President’s view
-COLC
-No-growth argument
-The President's reference to a generation of peace
-Middle East
-Cuba
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-Importance of goal
-Institutions being created
-Stein
-Pay Board
-Price Board
-Connally
-Profits
-Windfall
-Price reductions
-Attitudes of businessmen
-American leadership class
-Inflation
-Outlook
-Policy of Commission

Haldeman entered at 11:00 am.

-Beliefs of the American people
-Labor
-George Meany
-Rebozo
-Price Commission
-Windfall
-Burns
-David Rockefeller
-Connally
-Pay Board
-Price Commission
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-Prices
-Labor unions
-Meany
-Dividends
-Pay Board
-Price Board
-Political standpoint
-Prices
-Price Commission
-Interest
-Dividends
-Federal Reserve
-Burns
-Camp David
-COLC
-Secretary of the Treasury
-Charls E. Walker
-Donald Rumsfeld
-Haldeman
-Connally
-Responsibilities
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Staff support
-COLC
-Mortgage question
-George Romney
-Burns
-Prime rate
-Rumsfeld
-Rent
-Price Commission
-Rent Board
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Price Commission
-Voluntary compliance
-Jawboning
-COLC
-Membership
-State and local government participation
-Businessmen
-Virginia H. Knauer
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-Consumer Affairs representative
-Lon L. Fuller
-Unintelligible man
-Phillip Areeda
-Fuller
-Timing for announcement
-Poll
-Press
-Audience potential
-Business people
-The President's press conferences
-The President's speech, November 3, 1969
-Summary
-Price Board
-Wage Board
-Timing for announcement
-Noon
-\"I Love Lucy\"
-\"As the World Turns\"
-\"Love is a Many Splendored Thing\"
-Evening
-West Coast
-Temporary measures in Phase I
-10% surcharge
-Wage and price freeze
-Timing for announcement
-Daytime
-Stock market
-Need for consultations
-Wage and price freeze
-Situation to follow
-Labor leaders
-Prime time announcement
-Meaning of Phase II
-Call for support from American people
-Labor council
-Timing
-Friday news shows
-James D. Hodgson meeting with Meany
-Public anticipation of Phase II
-Louis P. Harris
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-Phrasing
-Introduction
-Conclusion
-Summary
-Pay Board
-Salaries
-Price Board
-Windfall profits
-Reason for Phase I's success
-International scene
-Emphasis on success of Phase I
-Length
-Competition from other programs
-Timing
-Audience size
-Businessmen
-Need for consultations
-Timing for briefings
-Dan Rather
-Importance as newspaper story
-Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Los Angeles Times
-Dealing with the press
-Labor support
-Prime time announcement
-The President's schedule
-Tun Abdul Razak
-Draft of speech
-[Unintelligible]
-William L. Safire
-Concern about leaks
-Safire
-Burns
-Interest and dividends

Shultz, McCracken, and Stein left at 11:59 am.

The President's schedule
-Connally
-Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Event
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-Connally's schedule

Supreme Court
-Conservative appointments
-Sevareid’s comment
-William J. Brennan, Thurgood Marshall, Potter Stewart, William O. Douglas

Chile
-Salvador Allende Gossens
-Expropriation
-Connally’s view
-Washington Star and Washington Post
-Expropriation
-Peru
-Bolivia
-Connally’s view
-The President’s view

Connally left at an unknown time after 11:59 am.

Timing of announcement

The President left at an unknown time after 11:59 am.

The President entered at an unknown time before 12:02 pm.

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger at an unknown time between 11:59 am and 12:02
pm.

[Conversation No. 584-3A]

Request for meeting

[End of telephone conversation]

Timing of Phase II announcement

Connally
-Graham

The President's schedule
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-Safire
-Kissinger

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 12:02 pm.

Kissinger's schedule
-Comments to press
-PRC
-John A. Scali
-Ziegler
-Media

Economy
-Phase II announcement
-Timing
-Ziegler

Chile
-Connally
-Allende
-Expropriation
-The President’ view
-Kissinger’s previous conversation with Connally
-US policy
-Peruvians
-Bolivia

The President's Schedule
-Meeting with Latin Americans leaders
-Forthcoming trip of Robert H. Finch
-President’s previous conversation with William P. Rogers
-Mexico
-Mexico City
-Acapulco
-Brazil
-Brazilia
-Luis Echeverria Alvarez
-Rogers
-Finch’s trip
-Department of State
-Rogers
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-Logistics

Ziegler entered at 12:05 pm.

Forthcoming trip to PRC
-Briefing
-Ziegler's presentation
-Kissinger's schedule
-Timing of PRC trip
-Kissinger's presence
-Kissinger's presentation
-American policy vis-a-vis Chinese domestic situation
-Preparations for the trip
-Taiwan
-The President's background preparation
-Detroit
-Oregon

Kissinger's relations with the press
-Max Frankel
-New York Times
-Press participation on Kissinger's PRC trip
-[Unintelligible]
-David Kraslow
-Editorial boards's position
-Osborne
-Mike Wallace

Kissinger's schedule
-Mansfield
-Mao Tse-Tung
-J. William Fulbright
-Vietnam
-Edward W. Brooke
-Missiles
-Carl B. Albert

July 15, 1971 announcement

Press briefing
-South Vietnamese elections
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-Hanoi
-Peking

PRC
-Announcement on October 14, 1971
-Congratulatory comments
-Gerald R. Ford
-Identical announcement from the PRC
-Media interest
-Newspapers
-Television
-Alfred Le S. Jenkins
-Responsibilities
-Scheduling of stories
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] announcement
-July 15th announcement
-Phase II
-Taft-Hartley Act
-Liberal distrust of the administration
-Robert Pierpoint
-Views of the press
-Communism
-Credibility gap
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Lyndon B. Johnson administration
-Vietnam
-Hanoi
-Cambodia
-Ottawa
-PRC
-Indochina
-Ralph T. Albertazzie
-White house staff interest in PRC trip
-Anticipated stress of trip by president
-Background preparations
-Compared with Andrei A. Gromyko visit
-Background preparations
-Briefing papers
-Anticipated negotiations
-Stans
-Japanese
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-Middle East
-Preparation for the President’s trip
-Kissinger's projected format in Peking
-Chou En-lai
-Negotiating groups
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Rogers
-Communiqué
-Projected announcement of date of President's trip
-Timing
-United Nations [UN] vote
-Timing

The President's schedule
-Safire

Ziegler left at 12:33 pm.

PRC
-Unknown man
-Ziegler's press briefings

Soviet Union-US Summit
-Forthcoming announcement
-Ziegler
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Soviet-American relations
-Dobrynin’s comments
-John F. Kennedy
-Middle East

Schedule of events
-Vietnam
-Peace talks
-Possible US airstrikes
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Haig

Kissinger's schedule
-New York
-Mahmoud Riad
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-Rockefeller
-Middle East
-Chile

William L. Safire entered and Kissinger left at 12:38 pm.

The President left at an unknown time after 12:38 pm.

The President's forthcoming speech
-Timing

The President entered at an unknown time before 1:05 pm.

The President's speech announcing Phase II
-Timing
-Content
-Wording
-Length
-Herbert Stein
-Scheduling
-Wage and price freeze
-Progress report
-Goal
-Need for interests to cooperate
-Prosperity without war
-Employment
-Inflation
-Prices
-Windfall profits
-International importance
-Interest rate
-Pay Board
-Congress
-Duration of program
-Cooperation of groups
-Phase II
-Peace and prosperity without inflation
-Impact of PRC announcement
-Temporary nature of program
-Bureaucrats
-Pay Board and Price Board
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-COLC
-Future briefings
-Connally, Shultz, McCracken
-Cost of Living Council
-Themes
-Sacrifice
-Confidence
-Purpose
-Follow-up by experts
-The President's schedule
-Time draft required
-Follow-up
-Announcement
-Timing
-COLC
-Prime time
-California
-Press
-New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal
-Prime Time
-Press conference
-COLC
-Safire's assignment
-The President's schedule

Safire left at 1:05 pm.

Safire
-Raymond K. Price

The President's speech announcing Phase II
-Length

Rose Mary Woods
-Health

Rogers and Kissinger
-Trip

Ron [Surname unknown]
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Haldeman left at 1:11pm.