643–10

Conversation No. 643-10

Date: January 3, 1972
Time: 3:07 pm - 3:40 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry Ford II, Edwin D. Etherington, Charles W. Colson and Rayburn
Hanzlik; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

New Year's greetings
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Introductions

Seating

Briefcase

Etherington
-Key Biscayne
-Home in Hobe Sound, Florida

National Center for Volunteer Action [NCVA]
-The President’s gratitude
-Importance
-Funding
-Ford's letter to the President
-ACTION
-Budget for 1973
-Private sector
-Government


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-Private sector
-Competition with other organizations
-Pledges
-Ford's letter to the President
-Pledges
-White House aides
-Financial supporters
-Election year
-Tax deduction
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS] ruling
-The President’s instruction
-Project
-The President's recent conversation with Robert H. Finch
-Local centers network
-Number operating
-Timing
-Number forming
-Money from ACTION
-Awards dinner
-The President's attendance

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:07 pm.

The President's schedule
-Datebook
-Retrieval

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:30 pm.

-Scheduling

NCVA
-Awards dinner
-The President's presence

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:07 pm.

Datebook

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:30 pm.
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NCVA
-Awards dinner
-Date
-The President's presence

Manolo Sanchez [?] entered at an unknown time after 3:07 pm.

Refreshment
-Sanchez

Sanchez [?] left at an unknown time before 3:30 pm.

NCVA
-Awards dinner
-Date
-Location
-Kennedy Center
-Size
-Reservation
-Board meeting
-Honorees
-Honorees
-Date
-The President's forthcoming trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Press
-The President's schedule
-California
-Trip to PRC
-Fund-raising possibilities
-Pre-dinner gathering
-The President's presence
-Advertising
-Funding
-Amount
-ACTION appropriations
-Programs
-\"Right to Read\"
-Volunteers
-The President
-Blacks
-Non-English language speakers
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-“New math”
-“Aid to the Elderly”
-Volunteers
-Ages
-College students
-“Right to Read”
-Funding
-Costs
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW] grant
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Hanzlik, Finch and Etherington
-Colson's forthcoming conversations
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and George P. Shultz
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-The President's support
-ACTION budget
-Congressional support
-Costs of “Right to Read” and “Aid to the Elderly”
-HEW
-Richardson
-Support
-Support from the President and Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-“Right to Read”
-Richardson
-Mrs. Nixon
-Organization
-Chairmanship
-Ford's forthcoming resignation
-Etherington's possible succession
-Etherington's work with Frederic V. Malek
-Ford’s future role
-Presidency
-Schedule
-Salary
-Etherington's work

Malek

William D. Eberle
-Job
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Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:07 pm.

Peter G. Peterson
-Forthcoming meeting with the President

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:30 pm.

Eberle
-Previous role
-American Standard
-Peterson
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
-Previous support for Etherington
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
-Eisaku Sato

Malek
-Performance
-Support for women
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-[Marina von Neumann Whitman]
-Herbert Stein
-Ezra Solomon
-Paul W. McCracken
-Whitman
-Women in government

International monetary agreement
-John B. Connally
-Work with Group of Ten

Peterson entered at 3:30 pm.

Greetings

NCVA awards dinner

Ford, Etherington, Colson, and Hanzlik left at 3:30 pm.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with group on trade legislation
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-Council on International Economic Policy [CIEP]
-Issues to be discussed
-Gold price
-Legislation before Congress
-Banking Committee
-Generalized preferences
-Ways and Means Committee
-Senate Finance Committee
-Timing
-Paul A. Volcker's views
-Eberle
-European Economic Community [EEC]
-Agriculture issue
-Connally’s view
-Forthcoming talk with Peterson
-Politics
-Agriculture
-Citrus and tobacco
-Grain
-Midwestern states
-Eberle's work
-Congress' actions
-Measures to Congress
-Timing
-State of the Union message
-Hearings
-Debate
-Filibuster
-The President's forthcoming meeting with Connally
-California
-Peterson's forthcoming call to Connally
-Filibuster
-Trade legislation
-Timing
-Delay
-Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
[OECD] trade group report
-Congress
-Eberle

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:30 pm.
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-Request for Shultz's presence

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:40 pm.

-Issues to be discussed
-Trade legislation
-Exchange rate
-Other legislation
-Revenue sharing, health
-Ways and Means Committee
-Senate Finance Committee
-Wilbur D. Mills
-James A. Burke
-Vance Hartke-Burke Bill
-Labor
-Relationship with Mills
-Prospects
-The President’s view
-Peterson’s memorandum
-Protectionist measures
-Peterson's responsibility
-William P. Rogers
-Peterson
-Business community
-Connally
-The President’s comments
-Public statements
-Peterson, Rogers, Connally, Stein
-US credibility abroad and at home
-Protectionism

Trade legislation
-Rogers
-Generalized preferences
-Recent conversation with the President
-Submission to Congress
-Timing
-\"Christmas Tree\" approach
-Staff meeting
-Clark MacGregor
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-Consultation

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:30 pm.

The President’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:40 pm.

-Instructions
-Forthcoming talk with Rogers
-Foreign policy concerns
-Quotes

Press coverage
-Peterson
-New York Times
-Charts

State of the Union message
-Staff contact with Congress, business
-1972
-Themes
-Confidence, employment, competition

Peterson's schedule
-California
-Japan

Japan
-Negotiations with US
-Eberle
-Kakuei Tanaka
-Maurice H. Stans

The President and Peterson left at 3:40 pm.