604–9

Conversation No. 604-9

Date: October 27, 1971
Time: 5:29 pm - 6:14 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Economy
-Pay Board
-Alternates for members of Board
-George Meany
-George P. Shultz
-Meany

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 5:29 pm.

The President's schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 6:14 pm.

Economy
-Pay Board
-Meany
-Shultz
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-James D. Hodgson
-The President's previous meeting
-John B. Connally
-Taxes
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-Caspar W. Weinberger
-Balanced budget
-Raising taxes
-Business community

Education
-Parochial schools
-Connally
-Domestic Council's opinion
-Melinda Maury and Edwin L. Harper
-Private education
-Polls
-John N. Mitchell
-School construction
-Property tax
-US Steel
-Home owners
-Political issues
-Aid to parochial schools
-Catholics
-Harper
-Connally, John D. Ehrlichman, Shultz
-Revenue sharing
-Government reorganization
-Welfare reform
-Political support
-Political consideration
-Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Illinois, New Jersey, California
-Supreme Court brief
-Pennsylvania case
-Bible belt reaction
-Central Pennsylvania
-Pennsylvania
-Public school system
-Oklahoma
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Catholics
-Graham
-Norman Vincent Peale
-Political impact
-Patrick J. Buchanan and Colson
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-The President as Protestant
-The President's opponent as Catholic
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Edward M. Kennedy
-John F. Kennedy
-Terence Cardinal Cooke
-John Cardinal Krol
-Revenue sharing
-Taxes
-Domestic Council
-Ehrlichman
-Revenue sharing
-Political impact
-Knights of Columbus
-The President's Knights of Columbus speech
-Catholics
-Taiwan

US foreign policy
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-The President’s forthcoming trip
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Muskie
-United Nations [UN] vote to expel Taiwan
-George H. W. Bush
-Schedule
-Role
-Political impact
-William F. Buckley's “Firing Line”
-Conduct of UN delegates during vote
-Henry A. Kissinger
-The President's instructions
-Botswana
-Ghana
-England
-France
-Italy
-Bush
-Kissinger
-David D. Newsom
-South Africa
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-Botswana
-Qatar
-Bush
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-Domestic opinion
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Bush
-William P. Rogers
-Vote
-William L. Calley
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Conduct of UN delegates

Economy
-Taxes
-Ehrlichman
-Property Taxes Relief Act
-Parochial schools
-Educational issue
-Ehrlichman

Presidential proposals
-Revenue sharing
-Welfare reform
-Daniel P. Moynihan
-Liberals
-Family assistance
-Progressive compared with political thinking

Economy
-Taxes
-Value added tax [VAT]
-Prices
-Property tax
-International concerns
-Connally
-Paul W. McCracken
-Economic indicators
-Conversation with Colson
-Public relations
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-Arthur F. Burns
-Poll
-Chamber of Commerce
-Business men
-Austin H. Kiplinger
-Prediction for 1972
-Council of Economic Advisers [CEA]
-Connally
-McCracken
-Social Security taxes
-Burns
-Money supply
-Stock market
-Shultz
-Chamber of Commerce
-Polls
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Louis P. Harris

US foreign policy
-UN vote to expel Taiwan
-Bush
-The President's position
-Popular opinion
-Elmer H. Bobst
-Africans

Haldeman left at 5:59 pm.

Economy
-Domestic Council
-Aid to parochial schools

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:59 pm.

The President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:02 pm.

Economy
-Economic indicators
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-Stock market
-Taxes
-Catholics
-Property taxes
-Older citizens

Aid to parochial schools
-Peter J. Brennan
-The President's Knight of Columbus speech


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Henry A. Kissinger entered at 6:02 pm.


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US foreign policy
-UN vote to expel Taiwan
-Bush
-New York Times
-Conduct of delegates
-State Department
-The President's previous conversation with Kissinger
-Botswana
-Guyana

Media
-Administration contact with
-Haldeman, Ziegler, Kissinger, Ehrlichman, Shultz
-Bureau chiefs
-Backgrounders
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Tape Subject Log
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-UN vote on Taiwan
-Kissinger's comments in briefing
-Relationship with People’s Republic of China [PRC]

Kissinger's discussion with the press
-The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Press coverage
-Timing of announcement
-Purpose of the trip
-Taiwan
-The President's trip to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

Rose Mary Woods entered at 6:11 pm.

The President's schedule
-Woods

UN vote on Taiwan
-Ziegler’s statement
-Conduct of UN Delegates
-Winston S. Churchill

Woods left at 6:12 pm.

Media
-Kissinger's comments in press briefing
-The President's trip to USSR
-Rogers
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-PRC
-The President's trip to PRC
-Vietnam War
-PRC
-North Vietnam

US foreign policy
-Vietnam War
-North Vietnam
-Speech by Foreign Minister

The President, et al. left at 6:14 pm.
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 604-9 (cont.)