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Conversation No. 663-4

Date: February 1, 1972
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Time: 3:02 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald W. Reagan, John N. Mitchell and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman; the
White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the
meeting.

Appointments
-Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]
-Woman [Jane Hall]
-Los Alamos
-Symbolism
-Supreme Court
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Marina von N. Whitman
-John von Neumann
-John Lawrence, James R. Schlesinger
-California

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 3:29 pm.

Domestic problems
-Washington Post
-Congressional testimony
-Senate Finance Committee
-Welfare reform and Family Assistance Plan [FAP]
-Karl E. Mundt
-San Clemente
-President’s desire for full employment
-Abraham A. Ribicoff
-Trial cases
-Welfare
-Russell B. Long
-Upcoming spending plans
-Amount of savings
-C5A spending
-West Germany
-Japan
-Melvin R. Laird initiative
-Reagan’s opinion
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-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Technical problems
-Amount of allocations
-Solutions
-Rolls Royce Motors
-Northup
-Employment benefits
-Arms race implications
-Japan
-Laird role
-John B. Connally
-Role
-Defensive posture
-NATO
-Joseph M. Luns
-President’s instructions
-Reagan’s upcoming conversation with [David] Kenneth Rush
-Rush’s location

Economy
-Concern of businessmen
-Call to Reagan from Reed Kaiser [?] [sp?]
-State of the Union address
-Budget message
-Justin W. Dart
-Deficit spending
-Depressive effect
-Reagan’s opinion
-Possible speech by the President
-Compared to the President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech,
January 25, 1972
-Economic outlook
-Deficits
-Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson
-Inflation
-Full employment
-Demand for labor
-Expert view
-Budget
-Possible broadcast
-Dart
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-1968 elections
-Employment
-Defense
-President’s meeting with Reagan concerning People’s Republic of China
[PRC]
-Taiwan, Republic of China


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CHINA


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-Difficulty of deficit problem
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958
-Comparisons

California Republican Assembly [CRA]
-Background
-Conservatives
-Number of members
-Executive board meeting
-Harry S. Dent
-Forthcoming convention
-Invitation to President
-Scheduling
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-[Forename unknown] Colbert [?]


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Forthcoming Republican governors dinner
-Reagan
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Linwood Holton
-William G. Milliken


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Daniel J. Evans

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:02 pm.

The President’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:29 pm.

Dock strike
-Congress
-Harry Bridges
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-Labor division
-Talk with the President in Oregon
-Age
-Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services

Vietnam
-President’s peace proposal
-Proposal for resolutions before California legislation
-American people
-Media coverage
-Press release

Evans, James D. Hodgson and George P. Shultz entered at 3:29 pm; the White House
photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Dock strike
-Legal aspects

Mitchell left at 3:29 pm.

Dock strike negotiations
-Coal mine

[Photograph session]

Dock strike negotiations
-Long range problems
-Legislation from Congress
-Short range problems
-Need for action
-Taft-Hartley Act
-Senate
-Alan Cranston
-President’s opinion
-Democratic presidential candidates
-Organized labor
-Taft-Hartley Act
-Teamsters Union
-Negotiation status
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-Bridges
-Length of negotiations
-Possible union mergers
-Congressional action
-Comparison to the East Coat
-East compared to West Coast
-“Continental Gap”
-Possible settlement
-Jurisdiction issue
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Telegram
-Motion picture studio strike
-Hardhats
-Reagan’s talk with Bridges
-Compared to 1950 situation
-President’s concern
-Use in public statements
-Need for more attention to West
-Recognition by Congress
-Washington
-California
-Oregon
-Hawaii
-Wyoming
-Utah
-Possible impact on western states
-Agriculture
-Wheat
-Corn
-Congressional concern
-Press
-Possible action
-Proposed legislation in the West
-Cranston
-Jack Williams of Arizona
-Hearings
-Possible formula
-Railroad Labor Act
-Taft-Hartley Act
-Approach to Congress from President
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-Inaction
-Possible results of strikes
-Congressional vacation
-Lincoln Day
-Mike McCormack
-Clark MacGregor
-Frank E. Evans
-Railroad and trucking strikes
-Labor problems
-Economic effect of strike
-Europe
-Great Britain
-Possible problems
-Reagan’s experience
-General Electric [GE]
-1958
-Motion picture studio strike

Welfare
-Benefits of plan
-Medicaid
-Ribicoff
-Former role
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Congressional pilot program
-Eligibility
-Disabled
-Reagan’s opinion
-Waivers
-Cost of living increase
-Wages
-Percentage
-Evans’s comments

Abortion
-Law
-Liberal ideas
-Reasons
-Medicaid
-Number
-Welfare rolls
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-Property rights of unborn

Well wishes from the President
-Forthcoming dinner

Reagan, et al. left at 4:00 pm.