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Conversation No. 768-10

Date: August 14, 1972
Time: 11:29 am - 12:04 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Pierre A. Rinfret, Charles W. Colson, and John B. Connally. The White
House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Photographs
-Seating arrangements

Connally’s previous trip to Jamaica

Rinfret’s public statements
-Other economists
-Marina von N. Whitman


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US foreign relations
-International trade
-Forthcoming International Monetary Fund [IMF] meeting
-Criticism of the US
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-Central Bank
-Fixed exchange rates
-Public relations
-Competitive nature of international trade
-Appeal to US business and working communities
-Japan
-Canada
-Great Britain
-France
-European cooperation


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Presentation of Presidential gifts
-Money clip
-Rinfret's wife [Aida M. (Ceci) Rinfret]
-Presidential seal

Rinfret and Colson left at 11:58 am.


Connally’s schedule
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Vietnam
-R. Sargent Shriver
-Connally’s previous conversation with George E. Christian
-Lyndon B. Johnson’s appointment of Shriver as
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Ambassador to France
-William P. Rogers’s possible meeting with Dean
Rusk
-Possible statement by Rusk
-Shriver’s criticism of Rusk and Johnson
-1968 bombing halt
-William J. Jorden
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Knowledge of Johnson administration Vietnam
negotiations
-Cyrus R. Vance
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman
-Work on Kissinger’s staff
-Previous work for Johnson in Texas
-Knowledge of “peace signals”
-Harriman
-Shriver



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Vietnam
-The President’s trips abroad as a private citizen
-Saigon
-Support for Johnson administration’s foreign policy
-Possible McGovern victory
-Johnson
-McGovern’s attacks on the President’s foreign policy
-Johnson
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-Harriman
-Vance
-Henry Cabot Lodge
-Possible search of foreign policy files
-Jorden
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Shriver
-Credibility
-Role in Johnson's administration
-Knowledge of “peace signal”
-Harriman
-Vance
-Possible statement by Rusk
-Possible statement by Walt W. Rostow
-Jorden
-Rogers
-The President’s forthcoming memorandum
-Haldeman

Connally left at 12:04 pm.