607-11

Conversation No. 607-11

Date: October 29, 1971
Time: 11:01 am - 11:30 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Arthur F. Burns.

Winton M. (“Red”) Blount
-Political plans
-John J. Sparkman
-Announcement
-Timing
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Sparkman
-The President’ view
-Age
-Appearance

National economy
-Economic indicators
-International monetary situation
-Henry A. Kissinger's role
-John B. Connally
-George P. Shultz
-Peter G. Peterson
-Burns’s forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
-Gold
-Kissinger's views
-Willy Brandt
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Edward R.G. Heath
-European Common Market
-France
-Middle East policy

France
-Burns’s view
-Popular opinion
-The President's relations with Pompidou

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 11:01 am.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:30 am.

France
-The President's previous meeting with Pompidou in New York
-Chicago
-Kissinger’s view
-Kissinger's relationship with Valery Giscard D'estang
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National economy
-Economic indicators
-Burns’s view
-Charles W. Colson's possible arrangements for dinner
-Gustave L. Levy
-Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker
-Previous dinner
-Liquidity
-Money supply
-Critics of the rate of growth
-Unemployment
-The President’s view
-Connally's views
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Interest rates
-Burns’s views
-Liquidity
-Banks
-Corporations
-1960s
-The President’s view
-Capital investment
-Prospects for 1972
-Recession
-Recovery
-The President's program
-George Meany
-Possible action
-Burns’s view
-Possible speech by the President
-Wage and price freeze
-1972 election
-Burns’s view
-Business Council
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Criticism
-Profits
-The President's statement to unknown steel worker
-Detroit
-Meany
-Participation
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-The President’s view

International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Leadership position
-Burns's conversations
-Great Britain
-Germany
-France
-Pierre-Paul Schweitzer
-Burns’s views

Alcoholic drinks
-The President
-Public speaking
-Political campaigns
-State dinners
-Josip Broz Tito
-The President’s view
-Yugoslavia
-Burns's experience
-The President

IMF
-Leadership position
-Jelle Zijlstra
-Connally's dispute with Burns
-Burns's research
-Burns's previous conversation with Connally
-Burns's credibility
-Connally’s credibility
-Connally's Views
-Possible meeting with Connally
-Conversations
-Views on US economy
-Rate of appreciation
-Balance of payments
-IMF
-Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
[OECD]
-Burns’s views
-Paul A. Volcker
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An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 11:01 am.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown person entered at an unknown time before 11:30 am.

Connally
-Burns’s view

Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-Vacancies
-Andrew F. Brimmer
-President’s previous conversation with William P. Rogers
-Possible role with administration
-United Nations [UN]
-Appointments
-Carl Thompson
-Burns’s view
-Biographical sketch
-The President’s view
-Connally's views
-Texas
-Requirements
-Unknown man from Atlanta
-Martin C. (“Marty”) Anderson
-Burns’s view
-Timing
-Burns's forthcoming conversation with Frederic V. Malek
-Burns's possible conversation with Connally

Burns's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Kissinger

Burns left at 11:30 am.
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