617–12

Conversation No. 617-12

Date: November 15, 1971
Time: 2:26 pm - unknown before 3:36 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with George P. Shultz and Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger.

Budget
-Continuing resolution
-Affected agencies
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-Foreign aid
-Defense
-District of Columbia
-Public services
-Weinberger's conversation with Walter E. Washington
-Welfare
-The President's possible action
-Pending authorization
-Foreign aid
-OEO
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-Precedent with Post Office
-Allen J. Ellender's strategy
-Conversation with Shultz, November 15, 1971
-Foreign aid
-OEO
-Anti-Deficiency Act
-John N. Mitchell's forthcoming statement
-Provisions
-Employment
-Vietnam
-Washington, DC
-Crime
-Voluntarism
-Supplies
-Effects
-Vietnam, Cambodia and Washington, DC
-Voluntarism
-Ellender
-Motives
-Appropriations Committee
-Michael J. Mansfield

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:26 pm.

The President's schedule
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Carl B. Albert

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:36 pm.

The President's schedule
-Congressmen
-Clark MacGregor and William E. Timmons
-Chairs

MacGregor, Timmons, Ronald L. Ziegler, Mansfield, Hugh Scott, Gerald R. Ford, Ellender,
Milton R. Young, George H. Mahon and Frank T. Bow entered at 2:36 pm.

[General conversation]

Seating arrangement
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Cabinet room
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Pay Board and Price Commission

Budget
-Continuing resolution
-Ellender's position
-Mansfield
-Bow and Mahon
-The President's possible action
-Anti-Deficiency Act
-Affected agencies and services
-OEO
-Washington, DC
-Defense
-Foreign aid
-Mitchell
-Precedents
-Authorizations
-Authorizations
-Precedents
-Post Office
-Mitchell
-Authorizations
-Congress
-Efforts
-Schedule
-Legality
-OEO
-Department of Heath, Education, and Welfare [HEW] bill
-Affected agencies
-Export-Import Bank
-Agency for International Development [AID]
-Office of Refugee Migration
-Federal pay days
-Ellender's strategy
-Appropriation bills
-Signing
-Timing
-Legality
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Tape Subject Log
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-OEO
-Precedents
-Status
-Legality
-Precedents
-Economic bill
-J. William Fulbright's proposal
-Pay status of affected agencies
-OEO
-Clerk of Senate Appropriations Committee
-Rules regarding appropriations
-Authorizations
-House Appropriations Committee
-Legality
-OEO
-HEW
-Philosophy
-Provisions
-OEO
-Legislative treatment
-HEW
-Headstart
-Effect
-Edward P. Boland Amendment
-OEO
-Child development legislation
-Albert
-Responsibility of appropriations committees
-The President’s comments
-Foreign aid
-Legislative status
-Ford's conversations, November 15, 1971
-Thomas E. (“Doc”) Morgan and William S. Mailliard
-Possible House action
-Rules Committee
-Lewis Deschler
-Possible conference
-Proposal
-Provisions
-Foreign Assistance Act of 1961
-Foreign Military Sales Act
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-Effect
-Authorization
-Contracts
-Fulbright
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB] apportionment
-Morgan
-Ellender's actions
-Possible political impact
-Boggs's statement
-Morgan
-Congress schedule
-Albert
-House Committee on Banking and Currency
-Economic Stabilization Act
-Wright Patman
-Military procurement bill
-Foreign aid bill
-Authorization
-Senate action
-State Department
-Foreign aid
-Fulbright Amendment
-Congressional rules
-Bow’s testimony
-John Taber's previous performance as chairman of House Appropriations
Committee
-Authorization
-Defense Department

Congress' schedule
-Judicial confirmations

Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.
-Bequest
-Supreme Court history
Paul A. Freund and Charles Fairman
-Yale University
-Meeting with the President

Supreme Court
-Backlog
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-Congress's schedule
-Judicial confirmations

Congress' schedule
-Adjournment
-Legislation
-Summary
-Senate compared to House
-Continuing resolution
-Democrat Whip's conversation with Boggs and Albert

Budget
-Continuing resolution
-Congress’ schedule

Congress’ schedule
-Thomas E. Dewey's campaign in 1948
-Philadelphia convention
-Continuing resolution
-The President's schedule
-Air Force One
-Boeing Aircraft Company
-Trip to Florida

[General conversation]

Unknown people left at an unknown time before 3:36 pm.

The President's schedule
-Trips to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] and People's Republic of China
[PRC

Budget
-Authorizations

[General conversation]

Executive-legislative showdowns
-Dewey's statement
-Harry S. Truman
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Appropriations committees
-Ellender

Congress’s schedule

Unknown people left at an unknown time before 3:33 pm.

Earl L. Butz

Mahon reentered at an unknown time after 2:38 pm.

Vietnam
-Boland Amendment
-The President's previous troop withdrawal announcement
-Negotiations with North Vietnam
-Cooper-Church Amendment
-Effect
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-US aid
-Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam
-US objectives

Timmons et al left at an unknown time before 3:33 pm.

Ellender
-Movies

The President's previous meeting with congressmen
-Budget
-Continuing resolution
-Possible action
-Timing

MacGregor left at an unknown time before 3:33 pm.