618–3

Conversation No. 618-3

Date: November 11, 1971
Time: Unknown after 10:26 am until 10:51 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman and John C. Whitaker.

The President's previous conversation with John N. Mitchell
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 618-3 (cont.)


Government reorganization
-Earl L. Butz
-Executive departments
-Number

Butz entered at 10:35 am.

Butz
-Experience with Agriculture Department

Agriculture
-Corn prices
-The President's conversation with Carl T. Curtis
-Administration's policy
-Correctness
-Strategy
-Reserve
-Set-aside
-Community Credit Corporation [CCC]
-Clark MacGregor
-Curtis’s statement
-Jack R. Miller
-Symbolism
-1950s
-Grain sales to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Great Depression

Herbert C. Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt

Agriculture
-Corn prices
-Political considerations
-Mitchell
-Conversation with Butz, November 11, 1971
-Conversation with the President
-Butz's role
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Role
-Farmers
-Need for spokesman
-Corn
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 618-3 (cont.)


-Strategic reserve
-Legislative prospects
-Views of Hyde Murray and Clarence D. Palmby
-Surplus
-Predicted blights
-Handling
-Political importance
-States
-Soybeans
-Prospects for 1972
-Hogs
-Corn prices
-Farmer participation in programs
-Role of Secretary of Agriculture
-Farmers

The President's schedule
-Mary (Powell) Butz
-Martha L. (Wood) Hardin
-Forthcoming statement regarding Department of Agriculture
-Preparation
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Chet Holifield

The President, Ehrlichman et al., left at 10:51 am.