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623–3
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Ronald L. Ziegler
  • UNKNOWN
  • John B. Connally
  • Stephen B. Bull
  • Henry A. Kissinger
  • H. R. Haldeman
November 23, 1971
Conversation No. 623-3

Date: November 23, 1971
Time: 10:01 am - 11:40 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

The President's schedule
-John B. Connally

Pending legislation
-Tax Bill
-Check-off provision

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 10:01 am.

Request that Connally be asked to join them

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 10:04 am.

Pending legislation
-Tax Bill
-Ziegler's previous breakfast with William E. Timmons

President's previous speech to American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial
Organizations [AFL-CIO] convention
-George Meany's conduct
-Connally's previous comments

Connally entered at 10:04 am.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 623-3 (cont.)


Connally's schedule

Pending legislation
-Tax Bill
-The President's previous meeting with Hugh Scott and Robert P. Griffin
-Possible veto
-Check-off provision
-Possible House action
-White House strategy
-Possible House conference action
-Possible veto
-John W. Byrnes
-Connally
-Charls E. Walker
-Possible House action
-Southern House members
-Possible veto
-Possible special session of Congress

Public relations
-Previous speech to AFL-CIO convention
-Meany's conduct
-Connally's previous comments
-Press coverage
-Boston Globe
-Barry M. Goldwater and Scott
-Possible questions to Ziegler
-Gerald L. Warren
-The President's attitude and expectations
-Television coverage of speech
-Warren
-The President’s attitude
-The President's previous conversation with Scott and Griffin
-Meany's attitude
-Special interest groups
-Compared to Cornelius Vanderbilt
-Connally's previous comments
-Editorials
-The President’s response
-Meany
-The President's attitude and expectations
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 623-3 (cont.)


-Future speeches

Ziegler left at 10:16 am.

-Connally's previous comments
-Television coverage
-Edmund S. Muskie, Hubert H. Humphrey and Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Schedules
-Convention adjournment
-Meany
-Connally's previous comments
-Michael J. Mansfield's views
-Scott
-Comments
-The President
-Arnold R. Weber, George H. Boldt, Connally and James D.
Hodgson
-Labor's support for the President's foreign policy
-John L. Lewis
-White House reaction
-Television coverage

Connally's schedule

The President's schedule
-Eisenhower Medical Center

Connally's schedule
-Foreign visit
-Meetings
-Mario Ferrari Aggradi
-Japanese officials
-Canadian officials
-Timing

Pending legislation
-Tax Bill
-Funding for presidential campaigns
-Effect
-Minor presidential candidates
-Minor political parties
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 623-3 (cont.)


-George C. Wallace
-John C. Stennis
-Possible veto
-Possible House action
-Possible veto
-Possible special session of Congress
-Necessity
-Funding presidential campaigns
-Effect
-Possible veto
-House of Representatives
-The President’s view
-Gerald R. Ford, Leslie C. Arends and George H. Mahon
-Wilbur Mills
-Connally’s view
-Senate vote
-Possible veto
-Support for veto
-Possible provisions of bill
-Funding political campaigns
-Effect
-Major political parties
-Independent voters
-Quality of candidates
-Contributions
-1968 campaign
-Primaries
-Examples in the South
-James O. Eastland
-Stennis
-Russell B. Long
-Compared to demagogues
-Effectiveness of special interest groups
-Compared to intellectuals
-Compared to general public
-1972 presidential campaign
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Jews
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Humphrey and Muskie
-Congress
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 623-3 (cont.)


-Responsiveness to constituents
-Intentions of Founding Fathers
-Voter qualifications
-Mediocrity in government
-Broadening of franchise
-Voting Rights Bill
-Literacy tests
-Minorities
-Connally’s view
-The President’s view
-Necessity
-Economic prospects
-Connally’s view
-Possible veto
-Possible special session of Congress
-Government reorganization
-Revenue-sharing
-Welfare reform
-Health Bill
-Education reform
-Tax Bill

International monetary situation
-George P. Shultz
-Status of negotiations
-Realignment of currencies
-Public perception
-Effect on US economy
-Commentators
-Trade
-Political effects
-Connally's previous comments
-Mexico
-Negotiations
-Trade negotiations
-Agriculture
-Computers
-Automobiles
-Agriculture
-Negotiations
-William D. Eberle
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 623-3 (cont.)


-Italy
-Rinaldo Ossola
-Meeting with Connally
-Message from Mario Ferrari Aggradi
-Japan
-Negotiations on cattle
-Effect on states
-Quotas on the importation of calves
-Henry L. Bellmon
-Tariffs
-South Korea
-Timing
-Public relations

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Shultz
-Forthcoming meeting with Connally and Arthur F. Burns
-Price of gold

Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-Appointments
-Connally's conversation with Frederic V. Malek
-William J. Carson
-Connally’s view
-Conversation with Connally
-Loyalty
-Impact of Reserve Board
-Money supply
-Loyalty
-Burns's views
-Carson

International monetary situation
-Gold price
-France
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Italy
-Ossola's previous conversation with Connally
-Aggradi
-Group of Six
-Group of Ten
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 623-3 (cont.)


-Composition of Group of Six
-Possible proposition
-Rates of exchange
-Linkage of rates and currencies

William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Previous conversation with the President
-Meany
-Alexander Douglas-Home
-Graham's conversation with Anthony P. Lysberg, Lord Barber
-Barber’s view of Connally

Barber

International monetary situation
-Gold price
-Group of Six
-Possible proposition
-Convertibility
-Possible congressional action
-Political effects
-Pierre Rinfret
-Connally's negotiations
-Import surcharge
-Connally's previous conversation with Ossola
-Trade concessions
-The President's schedule
-Pompidou, Edward R.G. Heath and Willy Brandt
-Negotiations
-Timing
-Politics
-Agriculture
-Possible public statement
-Possible strategy
-Meeting with European officials
-Paul A. Volcker's possible press conference
-Possible concessions
-Price of gold
-Import surcharge
-Trade
-France
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 623-3 (cont.)


-The President’s forthcoming meeting with Pompidou
-Concession on price of gold
-Agricultural products
-Monetary issues compared to trade issues
-Price of gold
-Currency issue
-Import surcharge
-Trade issue
-US negotiating strategy
-Connally's schedule
-Shultz, Kissinger and William P. Rogers
-Shultz's views
-Previous conversation with Connally
-Price of gold
-Germany and France
-Burns’s views
-Henry S. Reuss and Jacob K. Javits
-Congress's actions
-Trade compared to currency realignment
-Politics
-1972 campaign
-Price of gold

National economy
-Money supply
-Connally's previous conversation with Burns
-Connally's forthcoming conversation with Burns
-Burns's speech in New York
-The President’s view
-Effect on the dollar
-William McChesney Martin
-Value Added Tax [VAT]
-Edwin S. Cohen's views
-Connally’s view
-Politics
-Cohen and John Alexander
-Connally’s view
-Timing
-Effect
-Balanced budget
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 623-3 (cont.)


Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:16 am.

The President's schedule
-Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:12 am.

National economy
-VAT
-Politics
-Connally's experience

Kissinger entered at 11:12 am.

-Tax Bill

India-Pakistan
-Possible telephone call from Rogers
-US policy
-Pakistan
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-India-Soviet Union relations
-India’s role
-Possible State Department options
-United Nations [UN]
-US position
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-Security Council
-Kissinger’s forthcoming conversation with Rogers
-Pakistan
-India
-UN
-Great Britain and Rhodesia
-East Pakistan
-State Department
-Washington Special Action Group [WSAG]
-Pakistani proposal
-Mujibur Rahman
-US policy
-Rogers
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 623-3 (cont.)


-Cables
-Aid to Pakistan
-Aid to India
-President’s view
-UN
-Possible resolution
-Support
-PRC
-George H. W. Bush
Proposed meeting with PRC officials
-Cables
-Kissinger and Rogers

David M. Kennedy
-Possible role with administration
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]

Peter G. Peterson's schedule
-Forthcoming trip to Europe
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Possible meetings with economic ministers and Prime Ministers
-The President’s view

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 11:12 am.

-Forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
-Peterson’s forthcoming trip
-The President's schedule
-Future meetings with heads of state
-Connally's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Group of Ten
-Approval

White House staff
-Presidential approval of foreign travel
-Cabinet officers
-Peterson
-Shultz's previous conversation with Sally Peterson
-Peter Peterson’s forthcoming trip to Europe
-Forthcoming conversation with Shultz and Kissinger
-Forthcoming announcements
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 623-3 (cont.)


-Foreign travel
-Shultz
-Previous conversation with Sally Peterson
-Possible meetings with Prime Ministers

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 11:39 am.

International monetary policy
-Connally's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Shultz and Kissinger
-Burns’s potential involvement
-Peterson’s potential involvement
-Kissinger, Shultz, and Burns
-Timing
-Forthcoming meeting of the President, Connally, and Burns
-Connally's proposal
-Shultz
-Price of gold
-Connally's proposal
-Negotiations
-Timing
-Price of gold
-Forthcoming Group of Ten meeting
-The President's forthcoming meeting with Pompidou
-Forthcoming Group of Ten meeting
-Import surcharge
-Currency revaluation
-Price of gold
-President’s forthcoming meeting with Pompidou
-Germany
-Possible compromise
-Connally's previous meeting with Ossola
-Forthcoming proposition
-Price of gold
-Possible settlements
-Import surcharge
-Price of gold
-Pompidou
-Connally’s role
-The President’s view
-The President's schedule
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 623-3 (cont.)


-Forthcoming meeting with European leaders
-Timing of announcements
-Pierre E. Trudeau
-Eisaku Sato
-Proposed message to Sato
-Connally
-Trudeau
-The President’s view
-Connally's schedule
-Proposed telephone call to Trudeau
-Kissinger's schedule
-Proposed telephone call to Trudeau
-Proposed telephone call to Canadian Ambassador
-State Department

Brandt
-Previous call to Kissinger
-Forthcoming announcement
-India-Pakistan

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meetings with Burns, and Connally
-Forthcoming meeting with Shultz
-Forthcoming meeting Connally, Kissinger, and Burns
-Burns
-Pompidou
-International monetary negotiations
-Surcharge
-Currency realignment

Kissinger's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Peterson and Shultz
-Connally
-Peterson, Paul W. McCracken, Herbert Stein, Maurice H. Stans and John A.
Volpe
-Travel to Europe

Kissinger left at 11:39 am.

International monetary negotiations
-Shultz, Kissinger, and Connally
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 623-3 (cont.)


-Briefing material
-The President’s view

Connally's schedule
-Idanell (“Nellie”) Connally

Connally left at 11:40 am.
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