602–6

Conversation No. 602-6

Date: October 26, 1971
Time: 11:35 am - 12:18 pm
Location: Oval Office

Alexander P. Butterfield met with Wallace F. Bennett, George P. Shultz, Clark MacGregor, and
John D. Ehrlichman.

The President's location

Shultz

James D. Hodgson

Sculptor, [Forename unknown Remington ?]
-Unknown man's wife
-Work by assistants

Ehrlichman

Water quality
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Gordon L. Allott

John B. Connally


The President and White House photographer entered at an unknown time after 11:35 am.
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Greetings

The President's schedule
-William P. Rogers
-Press conference

White House photographer and Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:18 pm.

Finance legislation
-William Proxmire
-Paul H. Douglas
-Charles H. Percy
-Health
-Russell B. Long
-Scenario for Senate vote
-Long
-Abraham A. Ribicoff
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-Ribicoff
-HR 1
-Vance Hartke
-Long
-Amendment
-Ceiling on interest
-Arthur F. Burns
-Finance Committee
-Tax cut
-Long
-Wright Patman
-Huey Long
-Staff briefing
-Activities
-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organization [AFL-CIO]
position
-Income
-Taxation
-Finance Committee
-Republicans
-Feeling about House version of the bill
-Expropriation amendment
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-Long
-Sugar Bill
-Interdepartmental relations
-State Department
-Treasury Department
-Connally
-The President's position
-Sugar Bill
-Grace Shipping Line
-Bennett's position
-Long
-State Department
-Scenario for Senate vote
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Long
-Conversation with Bennett
-Amendments
-HR 1
-Views
-Banking Committee
-Bill on interest and dividends
-Proxmire
-John J. Sparkman
-HR 1
-Tax bill
-Senate passage
-Senate hearings
-Social Security
-Family assistance
-Conversations with Elliot L. Richardson, Long and committee staff
-Task force
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Labor
-Family assistance plan
-Work requirements
-Long
-Possibility of committee support
-Family assistance
-Ribicoff plan
-Possibility of approval
-Scenario for House-Senate compromise
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-Wilbur D. Mills
-Work at staff level
-Responsiveness to Long
-Bennett, Herman E. Talmadge
-Possible compromise position support
-Talmadge
-Clinton P. Anderson
-Harry F. Byrd, Jr.
-Carl T. Curtis
-Possible subdivisions of the bill
-Senate schedule
-Supreme Court confirmations
-Okinawa Reversion Treaty
-W. Stuart Symington


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-J. William Fulbright
-Long
-Revenue sharing bill
-Welfare
-Social Security
-Medical bills
-Taxes
-Social Security taxes
-Social Security legislation
-Tax bill
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-Withholding rate
-Mansfield
-Democratic Policy Committee
-Finance Committee
-HR 1
-Long
-Hugh Scott
-Finance Committee
-Anderson
-Talmadge
-Byrd
-Curtis
-Ribicoff
-John J. Williams
-Long
-Connally
-The President's schedule

Office of Management and Budget [OMB]'s relationship with Bennett

Judges
-American Bar Association [ABA]
-Utah

ABA
-The President's reminiscence
-Relationship with ABA

Gift presentations
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Frances (Grant) Bennett

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 11:35 am and 12:18
pm.

[Conversation No. 602-6A]

Request for photograph to be brought to Oval Office

[End of telephone conversation]
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Indira Gandhi

United Nations [UN]
-The President's conversation with Ronald W. Reagan

Marjorie P. Acker entered at 12:15 pm.

Photograph
-The President's instructions on photograph

Acker left at 12:16 pm.

UN vote on Taiwan
-The President's conversation with Reagan
-African nations
-Reaction

Bennett, et al. left at 12:18 pm.