591–2

Conversation No. 591-2

Date: October 13, 1971
Time: 3:44 pm - 5:18 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

The President's schedule
-Presentation of diplomatic credentials
-The President's proposal for changes
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Family
-Photograph
-State Department Protocol officer
-Dinner guests
-After dinner guests
-Toast
-Receiving line
-Marshal Josef Broz Tito

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 3:44 pm.

Item for the President

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 3:53 pm.
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The President's schedule
-Rose Mary Woods
-Handshakes
-Reception on October 13, 1971 for Citizen's for a New Prosperity
-Support for the President’s economic program

Economy
-Wages

The President's schedule
-Handshakes
-Church services
-Reception line
-Press
-S. Douglas Cornell
-Unknown woman
-Helen A. Thomas
-Press photographs of marriage
-National chairmen
-Visits to cities
-North Carolina
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham

Woods entered at 3:53 pm.

-Ambassadors
-Goldthwaite H. Dorr
-Leonard Garment
-Refreshments
-Reception
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Schedule
-Logistics
-Son
-New York
-John H. Alexander
-Reception on October 13, 1971
-Citizens for a New Prosperity
-Racing drivers
-Lewis
-Doar
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-Gift presentation
-Stephen B. Bull
-Woods
-Garment
-Supreme Court appointments


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Supreme Court appointment
-Jewel S. LaFontant
-Professional experience
-Judge
-William P. Rogers
-Chicago
-Republican
-Thurgood Marshall
-Requirements
-Sammy Davis, Jr.

The President's schedule
-Doar
-Garment
-Mrs. Nixon
-Woods
-Dr. W. Kenneth Riland
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins

Woods left at 3:58 pm.

Supreme Court
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The President's schedule
-Receptions
-State visits
-Trips to the People's Republic of China [PRC] and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
[USSR]
-Europe
-Great Britain
-France
-Henry A. Kissinger's activities
-Handshakes
-Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
-White House staff
-Sherman Adams
-Reception on October 13, 1971
-John B. Connally
-Kissinger
-Camp Hoover

Haldeman left and Charles W. Colson and Louis Harris entered at 4:06 pm.

The President's previous meeting with ambassadors
-Chair

Polls
-Polling techniques
-Colson
-Economy
-Phase II
-Phase I
-Labor
-George Meany
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-I. W. Abel
-American people
-Membership

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 4:06 pm.

Refreshments
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The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:18 pm.

Labor
-Leadership
-Interests
-Wage demand
-Construction union
-Patriotism
-Jobs
-Depression

Inflation
-Percentages
-Compared with previous years
-Compared with previous nations
-Japan, Great Britain, Germany, Italy

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 4:06 pm.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:18 pm.

National economy
-Indianapolis
-Joseph W. Alsop
-Stewart J.O. Alsop
-Loss of television sets
-Popular perceptions
-Borrowing
-Household Finance Corporation
-Time payments
-Interest rates
-Devaluation of the dollar
-Gold standard
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Popular approval of the President's politics
-Upturn of the economy
-Automobile workers strike
-Christmas buying spree
-Money
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-Saving accounts
-Harris’ views

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 4:06 pm.

Refreshments

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:18 pm.

Economy
-Cabinet
-Politics
-Connally
-John A. Volpe
-George H. Romney
-Labor
-George Meany
-Leonard Woodcock
-Alternatives
-Leadership support
-Compulsory controls
-Public board
-Pay Board
-Steel
-George P. Shultz's comments
-Canada
-Labor
-Alternatives
-Canada
-Connally's comments
-Wage and price controls
-Price Board
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Wholesale Price Index

Polls
-Accuracy
-Colson
-Haldeman
-Definitions
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Ambassadors
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Commerce Department
-Personnel
-Statisticians
-Compared with polling organizations
-Census Bureau
-Government employees

National economy
-Prices
-Compliance rate
-Food
-Dr. [Forename unknown] Teller's statistics
-Georgetown University
-Factors
-Albert E. Sindlinger


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-The President's accomplishments
-Announcement of Soviet Summit
-Economic policy
-Phase II

US foreign policy
-Summits
-The President’s view
-Interest
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Tape Subject Log
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-PRC trip
-Long-term interests
-USSR trip
-Berlin
-Middle East
-Arms control
-PRC
-Effect
-Harris’ assessment
-US and Soviet relations
-Latitude for US Presidential action
-Soviets

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:06 pm.

The President's schedule
-Reception

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:18 pm.

US foreign relations
-Middle East
-Harris’ assessment
-Israel
-Suez Canal
-Golda Meir
-Soviet tensions with the West
-PRC
-Negotiations with the US
-Middle East
-Southeast Asia
-PRC
-India and Pakistan
-Mao Tse Tung
-Thailand
-Korea
-Malaysia
-Burma
-Indonesia
-Japanese
-Chinese
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-Southeast Asia
-Mao Tse Tung
-Japanese
-Taiwan
-Japan
-Soviet views
-Siberia
-Copper development

Polls
-Media
-Presidential standing
-Trial heats
-Confidence in groups across the country
-Supreme Court
-Doctors
-Educators
-Bankers
-Religious leaders
-Businessmen
-Scientists
-Governmental groups
-Press
-Labor leaders
-Contrast with 1966
-Presidential objectives
-PRC
-USSR
-Economy
-Peace
-Effects on polls
-The President's standing
-Peace
-PRC


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Polls
-Busing
-Blame
-Racial balance
-Congress
-Supreme Court
-South
-Black-White issue

Prejudice
-Edward G. Muskie
-Statement
-Vice President
-Politics
-Edward W. Brooke
-Harris's past survey
-New York
-Jacob K. Javits
-Ralph J. Bunche
-Brooke
-The President's 1968 experience
-Chicago
-Jews
-Javits
-Ticket balancing
-Vice President
-John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson


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Harris's schedule

Gift presentation

The President's schedule
-Colson's schedule

The President, et al. left at 5:18 pm.