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Conversation No. 797-6

Date: October 13, 1972
Time: 11:19 am - 11:40 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Joe D. Waggonner, Jr., Richard K. Cook, and Helmut (“Hal”)
Sonnenfeldt. The White House photographer and members of the press were present at the
beginning of the meeting.

Waggonner's forthcoming trip to Romania

Photograph session
-Press


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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[Duration: 45s ]


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Bucharest
-People
-Mediterranean Sea people
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-Compared to Slavic people
-Nicolae Ceausescu

[Photograph session]

Waggonner’s status as the President’s representative to the Bucharest
Trade Fair
-The President’s recommendations
-Trade status
-Most Favored Nation [MFN]
-Cooperation from Congress
-Economy
-Josef V. Stalinist system
-Foreign policy
-Independence
-Yugoslavia
-Waggonner’s schedule
-Market
-Conveying the President’s well wishes
-Reception for the President
-The President’s meetings with Ceausescu in 1967 and 1969
-Romanian people
-As “Iron Curtain States Righters”
-Ceausescu
-Congress
-Carl D. Perkins, John H. Dent
-Minimum wage legislation
-Gifts for Romanians
-Protocol staff
-Value
-MFN status
-Corneliu Bogdan
-Wilbur Mills
-House Ways and Means Committee
-Trade bill status in Congress
-Post-1972 election
-Commitment from the President
-Soviet Union
-Josep Broz Tito
-Policies
-Level of economic success
-Hotels, bottling plants
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-Compared with Romania
-Hard currency
-US involvement
-Chase Manhattan
-American metals
-Romanian trading commodities
-Raw materials
-MFN status
-US perception of communist nations
-Definition
-Romania
-Soviet Union
-Europe
-Japan
-Latin America
-Origin of term
-19th century
-Removal of discrimination
-Congress
-Czechoslavakia
-Soviet Union, Romania
-US relations
-Japan
-Western Europe
-Latin America
-Africa
-Tariffs


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[Duration: 17s ]


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Gifts for Romanians
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-Quality and type of gift
-Glass, silver
-Bow pins, tie pins
-Jack N. Anderson
-View of Waggonner

Gifts for Waggonner
-Cuff links
-Pin

Debt ceiling bill

Arthur F. Burns
-Trip to Japan

1972 campaign
-Waggonner
-Support for the President
-George S. McGovern
-Cambodia, Laos
-North Vietnam
-North Vietnam
-South Vietnam
-Bombing
-Demonstrators
-Security for the President
-James O. Eastland’s view
-Louisiana
-Waggonner
-Senate
-Ways and Means Committee
-Ben C. Toledano
-David C. Treen
-The President's schedule
-Waggonner’s schedule
-Romania
-United States Information Agency [USIA]

Waggonner, Cook and Sonnenfeldt left at 11:40 am.
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