68–2

Conversation No. 68-2

Date: August 5, 1971
Time: 5:22 pm - unknown before 6:20 pm
Location: Cabinet Room

The President met with Claude Gifford, Thomas Huheey, Royal Fraderich, Wayne Swegle,
Joseph A. Elliott, Cordell W. Tindall, Richard E. Albrecht, Ferdie J. Deering, William D. Knox,
Robert G. Rupp, Lane Palmer, Jack Pickett, and Herbert G. Klein; the White House
photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Photograph of group
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Palmer

Farmers

Schedule
-Blair House
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Special interest groups
-Editors of business magazines
-Editors of farm magazines
-Communications with White House
-Secretary of Agriculture
-Klein
-Farmers
-Number
-The press
-Contributions
-National economy
-Balance of payments
-US industry
-Trade balance
-Agriculture
-Status of agriculture
-The President as vice president
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Eisenhower administration
-US position in world


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Japan

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-Current US trade balance
-Imports
-US agriculture
-Productivity
-Impact on US balance of trade
-President’s meeting with businessmen
-Growth of government
-Steel industry
-Compared to industry
-French, British, German, Russian farmers
-Marketing, equipment and research
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-US industry
-Import quotas
-Competitive position
-Support prices
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Food prices
-Compared to rest of the world
-Position of Republican administrations
-Farm income
-Dairy prices
-Hog prices
-Soybean prices
-Cattle prices
-Cost-price squeeze
-President’s trips to farm areas
-Alabama, Oklahoma, Iowa, Ohio, and Illinois
-Position of rural America
-Need for public support for programs
-”Salute to Agriculture” Day
-Question of competitiveness
-Industry
-Farm subsidies
-Revitalization
-Movement away from farm areas
-President’s trip to New York City
-President’s trip to Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota
-Importance to the rest of the country
-Impact of inflation
-Equipment costs
-Farm laborers
-Organized labor
-Rail strike
-Steel price increase
-Wage increases
-Publishers


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Italy

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-Equipment costs
-California
-Cost of supervision of loans
-Rural development
-Farmers’ Home Administration
-Need for revitalization
-Federal action
-Congressional action
-Revenue sharing
-Cabinet Committee study
-Banks
-Appropriation of funds
-Revenue sharing
-Agricultural Extension Service
-Government reorganization
-Riverside, California
-President’s uncle
-Tindall
-Need for coordination
-Congress
-William Talmadge bill
-Hubert H. Humphrey bill
-Tindall
-President’s schedule
-Inflation
-Wage-price controls
-President’s Office of Price Administration [OPA] experience
-Productivity Commission meeting on September 21, 1971
-Industry
-Construction settlements
-President’s meeting with John A. Volpe
-Kansas City settlement
-Florida
-Effect of war
-Unemployment
-Comparison to Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy administrations
-Vietnam war
-Prosperity with peace
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-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Effect on US position in world markets


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Japan, Europe, People’s Republic of China [PRC]

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-US position
-Administration action
-Productivity Commission
-Wage-price controls
-John C. Stennis
-John Kenneth Galbraith’s testimony before Senate
committee
-Role of government in economy
-Low cost food
-Food stamp program
-Welfare and public assistance programs
-Property taxes
-Revenue sharing program
-Elderly
-Iowa
-Chicago, Illinois
-Possible action
-John B. Connally
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Foreign markets


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Japan

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-Drought in farm areas
-Relief
-Cloud seeding
-Technological development
-Desalinization
-Farm income
-Paul W. McCracken
-Supermarket prices
-Meat prices
-Public image of farmers
-Consumer prices

President’s schedule
-Blair House dinner

Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 6:20 pm