867–13

Conversation No. 867-13

Date: March 2, 1973
Time: Unknown between 12:30 pm and 12:47 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Paul Findley, Richard K. Cook, and Helmut (“Hal”) Sonnenfeldt; the
White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Photographs

Meeting with President

Resolution in Congress on Atlantic Union
-President’s discussion with Sonnenfeldt
-Problem
-President’s endorsement of legislation
-1951, 1968
-Findley’s answer
-Compared to Equal Rights Amendment [ERA]
-President’s intervention
-State legislatures
-Montana
-Letter for use by Findley

US-Europe relations
-Problems
-European security conference
-President’s sponsorship of Atlantic Union
-Problems
-Compared with Congressional endorsement
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-Mutual Balanced Force Reduction [MBFR]
-Trade negotiations
-Common market
-President’s political capital
-Atlantic Union compared ERA

Atlantic Union
-President’s identification with goal
-Findley’s resolution
-Language
-Joint resolution
-President's signature
-Willingness
-Letter for use by Findley
-Effects on Europe
-Security conference, MBFR
-Importance of Atlantic community
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Effect on the People's Republic of China [PRC]
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Japan
-Effects on monetary crisis
-Note of stability

Resolution's status in Congress
-House of Representatives
-Senate
-Rules Committee
-Deadlock
-Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen
-Foreign Affairs Committee

John B. Anderson
-Sponsorship of a resolution
-Rules Committee
-Senate candidacy

Foreign policy
-House, Senate
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-Experience
-Anderson, Donald H. Rumsfeld


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Illinois politics
-Candidates
-Adlai E. Stevenson, III
-Senate experience
-Need for opponent
-Rumsfeld
-Ability
-Candidacy for Senate
-NATO ambassador


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Congressional relations
-Public support for President
-Spending control
-Rural Environmental Assistance Program [REAP]
-Water and sewer grants
-March 1, 1973 vote
-Chance of override of possible veto
-Gerald R. Ford
-Vocational Rehabilitation bill
-Democratic strategy
-Vocational Rehabilitation, Older Americans Act
[Amendment of 1973]
-Ford
Albert H. Quie
-Authorization
-Appropriations
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-Legislation
-Impoundment
-Veto override
-Support for President
-House of Representatives
-Opposition to tax increase
-Public relations [PR]
-Poll questions
-Aid to poor
-San Diego
-Tax incentives
-San Diego
-Legislative amendments
-Funding programs
-Taxes compared to debt ceiling
-Veto override
-Republican support
-Vocational Rehabilitation bill [?]
-Appropriations
-Issues of taxes
-1958 veto override
-Samuel Rayburn, Lyndon B. Johnson
-Republican support for Eisenhower veto

Photographs

President’s letter for use by Findley

State of the world message

Sonnenfeldt
-Treasury appointment
-Conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-George P. Shultz
-Nature of job
-Political work
-Shultz
-Economic focus
-Europe
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Findley, et al, left at 12:47 pm.