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Conversation No. 689-6

Date: March 20, 1972
Time: 4:48 pm - 5:14 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Richard M. Helms.


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International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]

Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Edward M. Kennedy's attack
-Laos
-John F. Kennedy
-Speech
-General Accounting Office [GAO] report

Helms left and John D. Connally entered at 4:53 pm

Social Security
-The President’s talk with John D. Ehrlichman
-Connally
-George P. Shultz
-Herbert Stein
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Arthur S. Flemming
-Special interest groups
-1972 election
-Elderly
-Richardson
-Flemming
-Percentages

Economy
-Social Security
-Budget
-Wage and price situation
-Pay Board
-Longshoreman
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Retail prices
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-Food prices
-Leaks
-Connally’s possible public statements
-The President’s forthcoming press conference
-Longshoremen
-Food
-Social Security
-Testimony
-Shultz
-Food prices
-CPI increase
-Price Commission
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Department of Agriculture
-Procucers
-Retailers
-Farmers
-Cattlemen
-CPI
-Longshoremen
-George Meany
-CPI
-Shultz
-Leading indicators
-Housing
-Retail sales
-Gross National Product [GNP]
-Department of Commerce
-Personal savings
-Food prices
-CPI
-Cattle prices
-Decrease
-Food prices
-Grocery stores
-Economic indicators


Helms


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ITT
-Life magazine story
-C. Arnholt Smith
-Mayor of San Diego
-Democrat
-Contributor
-John Alessio
-Edmund G. (“Pat”) Brown
-Saturday Evening Post
-Life
-Howard Hughes story
-Dita D. Beard memorandum
-Typewriter
-Evidence
-Files
-Harold S. Geneen
-Meetings
-Connally
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Peter M. Flanigan
-The President
-Settlement
-W. Ramsey Clark
-The President's administration
-ITT divestment

Social security
-The President's talk with Ehrlichman
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-Politics
-Connally

Environmental issues
-Water bill
-Connally
-Importance
-The President’s view
-1972 election
-Interest
-Public reaction
-Clean air
-Pure water
-Connally's idea
-Water bill
-Shutting down plants
-Potential unemployment
-Effects
-Economy


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Connally left at 5:14 pm.