Conversation No. 7‑1

Date:  July 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:07 pm and 7:37 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Requested a call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Conversation No. 7‑2

Date:  July 26, 1971
Time:  7:37 pm ‑ 7:41 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Henry A. Kissinger's schedule
‑Arrival time

[Unintelligible]

‑Unknown man [Daniel Ellsberg?]
‑Robert S. McNamara
-Rand Corporation

[Unintelligible]

‑Vernon A. Walters
-Schedule

[Unintelligible]

Kissinger's schedule

Conversation No. 7‑3

Date:  July 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:41 pm and 7:49 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Requested a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 7‑4

Date:  July 26, 1971
Time:  7:49 pm ‑ 8:01 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

George P. Shultz and John B. Connally briefing
‑Capitol Hill

House of Representatives debate
‑Rowland Evans‑Robert D. Novak column, July 25, 1971
‑John B. Anderson
‑Republican liberals

Building trades meeting in New York
‑Henry C. Cashen II
‑Peter J. Brennan (?)
‑(Donald F.?) Rodgers (?)
‑Nelson A. Rockefeller
‑Report
‑The President's meeting with Connally
-Report

The President's schedule
‑Golf date with George Meany
‑Labor Day
‑Radio talk by the President
‑Knights of Columbus
‑School issue

[Unintelligible]

Poll results
‑White House
‑George Gallup
‑Timing

Shultz and Connally briefing
-Meeting with Republicans
‑Colson's talk with Shultz

Economy
‑Sales figures
‑Automobiles
‑Washington Daily News (?)
‑Retail sales
‑Reasons
‑Paul W. McCracken
‑[Unintelligible]

Conversation No. 7‑5

Date:  July 26, 1971
Time:  8:05 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Requested a call to Nelson A. Rockefeller

Conversation No. 7‑6

Date:  July 26, 1971
Time:  8:05 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Nelson A. Rockefeller's location

Conversation No. 7‑7

Date:  July 27, 1971
Time:  1:14 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 547‑11A]

Requested a call to Marlow W. Cook

Conversation No. 7‑8

Date:  July 27, 1971
Time:  1:14 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 547‑11B]

Marlow W. Cook's location

Conversation No. 7‑9

Date:  July 27, 1971
Time:  2:49 pm ‑ 2:51 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Marlow W. Cook.

[See Conversation No. 548‑3A]

Cook's birthday

Space shot [Apollo 13]
‑Cook's trip to Cape Kennedy [Canaveral]
‑The President's talk with the astronauts
‑Possible problems

Lockheed bill
‑Senate debate
‑Adlai E. Stevenson, III's amendment
‑Compared to Supersonic Transport [SST] vote
‑Warren G. (AMaggie@) Magnuson
‑Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson
‑Importance
‑Clark MacGregor

Conversation No. 7‑10

Date:  July 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:51 pm and 7:42 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Cancels immediate request

Conversation No. 7‑11

Date:  July 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:51 pm and 7:42 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Requested a call to Tricia Nixon Cox

Conversation No. 7‑12

Date:  July 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:51 pm and 7:42 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Requested a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 7‑13

Date:  July 27, 1971
Time:  7:42 pm ‑ unknown before 8:07 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

The President's schedule
‑Reception
-American Society of Association Executives
‑Importance
‑Attendees
‑Size of organization
‑Reaction to trip to the People's Republic of China [PRC] and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

Briefing [George P. Shultz and John B. Connally]
‑Henry C. Cashen II
‑Clark MacGregor
‑George W. Romney
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Donald H. Rumsfeld
‑Connally
‑Johnnie M. Walters
‑Shultz
‑[Unintelligible]
‑Trade unions
‑Connally and Shultz
‑Maurice H. Stans
‑James D. Hodgson
-Outlook
‑Connally
-Arthur F. Burns

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Economy
‑Indicators
‑Stock market
‑Indicators
‑Department of Commerce
‑Trade balance
‑Budget figures
‑Connally and Shultz
‑Indicators
‑Gross National Product [GNP]
-Timing

‑Connally
‑Stans
‑Hodgson
‑Shultz
‑Peter M. Flanigan
‑PRC trip announcement
‑Impact

Conversation No. 7‑14

Date:  July 17, 1971
Time:  8:07 pm ‑ 8:09 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox.

White House operator

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Conversation No. 7‑15

Date:  July 27, 1971
Time:  8:31 pm ‑ 8:33 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Rose Mary Woods talked with the President.

White House operator

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Conversation No. 7‑16

Date:  Unknown between July 27 and July 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:33 pm, July 27 and 9:02 am, July 28, 1971
Location:  White House Telephone

A Secret Service agent [Name withheld]  talked with the White House operator.

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Conversation No. 7‑17

Date:  July 28, 1971
Time:  9:02 am ‑ 9:03 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon.

[See Conversation No. 549‑3]

Mrs. Nixon's schedule
‑Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
‑Date
‑American Legion

Conversation No. 7‑18

Date:  July 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:03 am and 5:41 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 550‑3B]

Requested a call to John B. Connally

Conversation No. 7‑19

Date:  July 28, 1971
Time:  5:41 pm - 5:43 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John B. Connally.

[See Conversation No. 550‑3C]

Federal Reserve Board [?]
‑Propose changes [?]
‑Effect
‑Wright Patman
‑Arthur F. Burns= call [to Alan Greenspan?]
‑Politics
‑Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Connally's meeting with Burns
-Propose effect

The President's schedule
‑George P. Shultz meeting
‑Connally meeting
‑Senators
‑Location

Conversation No. 7‑20

Date:  July 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:43 pm and 6:04 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 550‑3D]

Requested a call to William P. Rogers

Conversation No. 7‑21

Date:  July 28, 1971
Time:  6:04 pm ‑ 6:19 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with William P. Rogers.

[See Conversation No. 550‑3E]

Press relations
‑Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
‑H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑Trips
‑Effect
‑Compared to the President's trips as Vice President
‑Press coverage
‑Golf games
‑Amount
‑Compared with Rogers and Japanese foreign minister
‑Compared with the President
‑Taj Mahal
‑Length
‑Press reaction
‑Agnew's staff

Haldeman talked with Rogers at an unknown time between 6:04 pm and 6:19 pm.

Agnew
‑Staff
‑Scheduling
‑Bryce N. Harlow
‑Secret Service
‑Golf
‑Press stories
‑Golf partners
‑Francis A. (AFrank@) Sinatra
‑King Hassan II
‑Frequency of golf games
‑Compared with Arnold Palmer
‑Press story void
‑Scheduling
‑Rogers= experience
‑Middle East

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-Staff support
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Rogers

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The President talked with Rogers at an unknown time between 6:04 pm and 6:19 pm.

Agnew's trip
‑Press coverage
‑Compared with Rogers= trips
‑Compared with the President and Thelma C. (APat@)  Nixon's trips
‑Latin America
‑The United States Information Agency [USIA]
‑The University of Purdue Research Station
‑Leper colony in Panama

‑Press relations
‑Compared to the President as Vice President
‑Compared with Rogers= Middle East trip
‑Compared with the President and Mrs. Nixon
‑Length
‑Length
‑Golf
‑Korea
‑Greece
‑Kissinger
‑Peking
‑Korea
‑Chung Hee Park
‑Compared with the President as Vice President
‑Arrivals
‑Assistant Secretaries of State
‑John Foster Dulles
‑Christian A. Herter
‑Latin American trip
‑Dwight D. Eisenhower
‑Around the World trip
‑Walter S. Robertson
‑Latin American trip
‑Agnew=s arrival
‑Press relations
‑Comments about Africans
‑The People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑Foreign relations
‑Press
‑Middle East
‑Berlin
‑The President's visit to the Senate
‑Agnew's arrival
‑Schedule
‑Press relations

Conversation No. 7‑22

Date:  July 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:19 pm and 8:42 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Requested a call to George P. Shultz

Conversation No. 7‑23

Date:  July 28, 1971
Time:  8:42 pm ‑ 8:58 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with George P. Shultz.

Shultz's and John B. Connally=s meeting with Senators
‑Wage‑price policy
‑Davis‑Bacon Act
‑John G. Tower
‑Economic statistics
-The President=s preparation for the Bohemian Grove
‑Labor costs in manufacturing
‑Profits
‑Second quarter productivity figures
‑Retail and automobile sales
‑Connally
‑Politics
‑Support for the President
‑Clark MacGregor
‑Paul W. McCracken
‑International economics
‑Economic situation
‑Shultz's talk with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
‑Free market theory
‑Devaluation of the dollar
‑Gold supply

‑International monetary experts
‑Dwight D. Eisenhower
‑Gold supply
‑Trade balance
‑United States compared to other countries
‑Expansion
-Input
‑Depression
-Output
‑Speculation

Economy
‑Budget
‑Balance of payment
‑Steel strike
‑Timing
‑Administration action
‑Compared with automobile strike
‑Connally briefing of House members
‑Jerome H. Jaffe briefing on drugs
‑Attendance
‑Timing
‑Leaders
‑Key spokesmen
‑Retail sales
‑Automobile sales

The President's schedule

Shultz's schedule
‑Meeting with steel industry management
‑Strike compared with settlement
‑Aluminum cans
‑Inflation
‑Involvement by the President
‑Inventories
‑Effects of a strike
‑Shoreham

The President's schedule

Economy
‑Statistics
‑Stock market
‑Arthur F. Burns
‑Jack R. Miller (?)
‑Price review board
‑Positive statement by Burns
‑Retail sales
‑Rail strike
‑Trucks
‑Productivity
‑Administration action
‑Congress

Conversation No. 7‑24

Date:  July 28, 1971
Time:  8:58 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Requested a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 7‑25

Date:  July 28, 1971
Time:  8:59 pm - 9:08 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

The economy
‑Arthur F. Burns
‑Alan Greenspan
-Burns

‑Retail sales
‑Burns
‑Greenspan
‑American Society of Association Executives, July 27, 1971
‑George T. Bell
‑Henry C. Cashen II
‑Housewares Association
‑Construction
‑Boat manufacturers
‑Machine tool industry
‑Burns
‑International economics
‑Meeting
‑John B. Connally
-Paul W. McCracken
‑Maurice H. Stans
‑James D. Hodgson
‑Connally
‑The President's conversation with George P. Shultz
‑House briefing by Connally
‑Leaders briefing
‑Retail sales
‑Economic bulletins

Conversation No. 7‑26

Date:  July 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:50 pm and 6:32 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Requested a call to Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon

Conversation No. 7‑27

Date:  July 29, 1971
Time:  6:32 pm ‑ 6:33 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon.

The President's schedule

Conversation No. 7‑28

Date:  July 29, 1971
Time:  7:31 pm ‑ 7:34 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

George P. Shultz talked with the President.

Labor disputes
‑Rail strike
‑James D. Hodgson and Willie J. Usery
‑Meeting with rail leaders
‑Time and location
‑George A. Lincoln
‑John A. Volpe
‑Paul W. McCracken
‑Steel strike

[Pause]

‑James Curtis Counts
‑Administration position
‑Possible meeting

The President's schedule

Conversation No. 7‑29

Date:  July 29, 1971
Time:  7:38 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Requested a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 7‑30

Date:  July 29, 1971
Time:  7:38 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Charles W. Colson's location

Conversation No. 7‑31

Date:  July 29, 1971
Time:  7:51 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

 Requested a call to Rose Mary Woods

Conversation No. 7‑32

Date:  July 29, 1971
Time:  8:00 pm ‑ 8:19 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Call from Charles W. Colson

Rose Mary Woods= location

The President talked with Colson.

Colson's schedule
‑Weather

Economic briefing by John B. Connally and George P. Shultz
‑Senators reaction
‑Charles H. Percy
‑Howard H. Baker, Jr.
‑Robert P. Griffin

Colson's meeting with Hobart D. Lewis
‑Forthcoming articles
‑Martin S. Hayden (?) editorial
‑China initiative
‑Lewis
‑Right wing reaction
‑William F. Buckley, Jr.
‑Book on trip to the People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑Cuba comparison

Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
‑Colson's call
‑Coverage of the President
‑Scene with little girl
‑Robert Pierpoint narration
‑Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson
‑PRC
‑Compared to John F. Kennedy and Dwight D. Eisenhower
‑Dan Rather

‑Coverage of economy
‑Coverage of the President
‑Impact of Frank Stanton meeting
‑Human interest
‑Eisenhower
‑Capitol Hill 
-Scene with little girl
‑Walter Cronkite
‑Note from the President
‑Committee investigation
‑Clarence J. ("Bud") Brown, Jr.
‑Editorials

China initiative
‑Lewis
‑John G. Tower
‑Peter H. Dominick
‑Percy
‑John A. Volpe
‑Visit to Convention of Catholic Laymen
‑Prayer for the President's journey for peace

Louis Harris polls
‑Credibility
‑New survey
‑China initiative, economy

Colson's meeting with public information officers [PIOs]
‑Economic news stories
‑Wright Patman comments
‑Depression of 1929
‑Unemployment rate, 1960‑1964

Economy
-American Society of Association Executives, July 27, 1971
‑Machine tool industry
‑Arthur F. Burns
‑Positive statement
‑Alan Greenspan calls to Colson
‑Burns
‑Retail sales
‑Unemployment figures

‑Bureau of Labor Standards [BLS]
‑Percentage
‑Briefing reaction
‑Connally
‑Feedback
‑Machine tool industry
-Connally
‑Harris
‑Consumers
‑Retail sales
‑Steel strike
‑Automobiles
‑Harris meeting with Colson
‑Domestic Council poll
‑Inflation
‑Price breakdown
‑Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
‑Basic commodities
‑Paul W. McCracken
‑Food prices
‑Farm prices
‑Consumer market
‑Transportation costs
‑Basic commodities
‑Inflation
‑Compared to other countries

The President's schedule

Economy
‑Capitol Hill

Spiro T. Agnew's trip
‑Colson's talk with John A. Scali
‑Press reports
‑Newsweek
‑Timing
‑Agnew's constituency
-Scali
‑Colson's talk with "an old line Democrat Italian politician from New England"
‑Administration support

Conversation No. 7‑33

Date:  July 29, 1971
Time:  8:24 pm ‑ 8:25 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the President.

The President's schedule
‑Meeting with Kissinger

Conversation No. 7‑34

Date:  July 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:25 pm and 8:56 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Requested a call to H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Conversation No. 7‑35

Date:  July 29, 1971
Time:  8:56 pm ‑ 8:57 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman.

The President's schedule
‑Trip
‑John N. Mitchell and John B. Connally
‑Accommodations
‑Meeting with Ronald W. Reagan

‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑The Bohemian Grove
‑Mitchell, Connally

Conversation No. 7‑36

Date:  July 30, 1971
Time:  9:13 am ‑ 9:15 am
Location:  White House Telephone

George P. Shultz talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 267‑4]

Railroad meeting
‑Charles Luna, United Transportation Union
‑Stephen Ailes, American Railroad Association
‑John P. (AJack@) Hiltz, Jr., railroad negotiator
‑Impact of strike
‑The President's appearance
‑Strike
‑Collective bargaining
‑Paul W. McCracken
‑James D. Hodgson
‑Willie J. Usery
‑George A. Lincoln
‑John A. Volpe
‑The President's appearance
‑Timing
‑Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins
‑Photograph

Conversation No. 7‑37

Date:  July 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:15 am and 10:27 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 552‑1]

Requested a call to Louis Harris

Conversation No. 7‑38

Date:  July 30, 1971
Time:  10:27 am ‑ 10:34 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Louis Harris.

[See Conversation No. 552‑3A]

Proposed polls
‑Domestic issues
‑The President's talk with Charles W. Colson
‑Issue polls
‑Colson
‑Request for poll
‑Harris= talk with Colson and Edwin L. Harper
‑Foreign policy questions
‑Impact on domestic issues
‑Domestic Council
‑Foreign policy
‑Vietnam
‑The People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑Economic situation
‑Timing
‑PRC
‑The economy
‑Harris= talk with Colson
‑Food prices
‑Colson
‑Foreign policy
‑Domestic Council
‑Importance of polls
‑Defense

‑The President's use of polls
‑Possible meeting
‑Colson
‑Daniel Lufkin

Conversation No. 7‑39

Date:  July 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:34 am and 12:09 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 552‑3C]

Requested a call to Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon

Conversation No. 7‑40

Date:  July 30, 1971
Time:  12:09 pm ‑ 12:10 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon.

[See Conversation No. 552‑3D]

White House operator

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Conversation No. 7‑41

Date:  August 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:52 am and 9:42 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 553‑3A]

Requested a call to George P. Shultz

Conversation No. 7‑42

Date:  August 2, 1971
Time:  9:42 am ‑ 9:45 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with George P. Shultz.

[See Conversation No. 553‑3B]

Labor disputes
‑Steel and rail strikes
‑Steel settlement
‑Rail contract settlement
‑Back to work agreement
‑White House statement
‑Shultz's talk with the President
‑Wage increases
‑Avoidance of strike
‑Productivity in the agreements

‑The President's meeting with John B. Connally

Conversation No. 7‑43

Date:  August 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:45 am and 12:00 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 553‑6A]

Requested a call to Carl T. Curtis

Conversation No. 7‑44

Date:  August 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:45 am and 12:00 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 553‑6B]

Carl T. Curtis= location

Conversation No. 7‑45

Date:  August 2, 1971
Time:  12:00 pm ‑ 12:03 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 553‑6C]

Requested a call to Barry M. Goldwater

Carl T. Curtis= return call

The President talked with Curtis.

[See Conversation No. 553‑6D]

Lockheed amendment
‑The President's talk with Ronald W. Reagan
‑Supersonic transport [SST]
‑Impact on 1972 election
‑California unemployment rate
‑Aircraft industry
‑Defense
‑Political consequences
‑California
‑Reagan

Meeting with Curtis
‑H.R. 1 [welfare reform and social security bill]

Conversation No. 7‑46

Date:  August 2, 1971
Time:  12:04 pm ‑ 12:09 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Barry M. Goldwater.

[See Conversation No. 553‑6E]

Salutation

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The President's schedule
‑Milk producers
‑Chicago

Lockheed amendment
‑The President's talk with Ronald W. Reagan
‑Supersonic transport [SST]
‑California unemployment rate
-Goldwater=s district
‑Effect
‑Edward G. Uhl of Fairchild
‑Political impact
‑Reagan
‑Goldwater
‑Goldwater
‑Meeting with the President
‑Paul J. Fannin

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People's Republic of China (PRC)
‑Goldwater's talk with William P. Rogers
‑Japanese
‑Soviets
‑Taiwan
‑Peking
‑Chiang Kai Shek

Fannin

Conversation No. 7‑47

Date:  August 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:09 pm and 12:18 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 553‑6F]

Requested a call to George P. Shultz

Conversation No. 7‑48

Date:  August 2, 1971
Time:  12:18 pm ‑ 12:21 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

George P. Shultz talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 553‑6G]

Labor disputes
‑US Steel
‑Price increases
‑Administration position

‑John B. Connally
‑Paul W. McCracken
-Effect on competition
‑Proposed statement
-Wording
‑Productivity Commission
‑Rail announcement
‑James D. Hodgson

Conversation No. 7‑49

Date:  August 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:21 pm and 12:56 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 553‑6H]

Requested a call to George D. Aiken

Conversation No. 7‑50

Date:  August 2, 1971
Time:  12:56 pm ‑ 1:00 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with George D. Aiken.

[See Conversation No. 553‑6I]

Lockheed Amendment
‑California economy
‑Aircraft industry
‑Supersonic transport [SST]
‑The President's talk with Ronald W. Reagan

‑Nationwide application
‑William Proxmire
‑California
‑Assistance for New England

The People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑Aiken's statement
‑William P. Rogers= statement
‑Taiwan
‑United Nations [UN]

Lockheed amendment

Conversation No. 7‑51

Date:  August 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:00 pm and 1:08 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 553‑6J]

Requested a call to John B. Connally

[Pause]

Haldeman talked with Connally.

[See Conversation No. 553‑6J]

Lockheed Amendment
‑The President's calls to Carl T. Curtis, Barry M. Goldwater and George D. Aiken
‑J. Caleb Boggs
-Curtis, Goldwater and Aiken
‑Connally's call to Roman L. Hruska and Henry L. Bellmon
‑Boggs
‑Clark MacGregor's office
‑William V. Roth, Jr.

‑Conflict of interest

Conversation No. 7‑52

Date:  August 2, 1971
Time:  1:08 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 553‑6K]

Requested a call to J. Caleb Boggs

Conversation No. 7‑53

Date:  August 2, 1971
Time:  1:08 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 553‑6L]

J. Caleb Boggs= location

Conversation No. 7‑54

Date:  August 2, 1971
Time:  1:17 pm ‑ 1:18 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with J. Caleb Boggs.

[See Conversation No. 553‑6M]

Lockheed Amendment
‑The President's talk with Ronald W. Reagan
‑Supersonic transport [SST]
‑California unemployment rate
‑Delaware
-Pierre S. DuPont
‑News journals
‑William V. Roth, Jr.

Conversation No. 7‑55

Date:  August 2, 1971
Time:  1:19 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 553‑6N]

Requested a call to John B. Connally

Conversation No. 7‑56

Date:  August 2, 1971
Time:  1:19 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 553‑6O]

John B. Connally's location
‑Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 7‑57

Date:  August 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:19 pm and 11:07 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 553‑6P]

Requested a call to Clark MacGregor

Conversation No. 7‑58

Date:  August 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:19 pm and 11:07 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman talked with Clark MacGregor.

[See Conversation No. 553‑6Q]

MacGregor's location

Lockheed Amendment
‑The President's calls
‑William V. Roth, Jr.
‑John B. Connally
‑Roth
‑J. Caleb Boggs

MacGregor 
-Old Executive Office Building

Conversation No. 7‑59

Date:  August 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:19 pm and 11:07 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 554-3A]

Requested a call to John B. Connally

[Pause]

Attempts to contact Connally

[Pause]

Return call instructions

Conversation No. 7‑60

Date:  August 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:19 pm and 11:07 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman talked with John B. Connally.

[See Converstion No. 554-3B]

The President's schedule
‑Timing of meeting with Connally

Conversation No. 7‑61

Date:  August 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:37 am and 1:56 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 554‑6A]

Requested a call to John C. Stennis

Conversation No. 7‑62

Date:  August 4, 1971
Time:  1:56 pm ‑ 1:59 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John C. Stennis.

[See Conversation No. 554‑6B]

Birthday greetings

Conference report
‑Meeting with the press
‑Approval
‑Negotiating position
‑Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Letter to Stennis and F. Edward Hébert

Conversation No. 7‑63

Date:  August 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:59 pm and 3:50 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Requested a call to Gillespie V. ("Sonny") Montgomery

Conversation No. 7‑64

Date:  August 6, 1971
Time:  12:06 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 556‑8]

Requested a call to Wright Patman

Conversation No. 7‑65

Date:  August 6, 1971
Time:  12:06 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 556‑11]

Inquired about the call to Wright Patman

Conversation No. 7‑66

Date:  August 6, 1971
Time:  12:16 pm ‑ 12:17 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Wright Patman.

[See Conversation No. 556‑13]

Birthday greetings
‑The President's talk with John B. Connally

Lockheed Bill

Conversation No. 7-162

Date:  August 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:17 pm and 12:20 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with an unknown person.

No request was made 

Conversation No. 7‑67

Date:  August 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:17 pm and 12:20 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[The President conferred with an unknown person at an unknown time after 12:17 pm]

[See Conversation No. 556‑15]

Request for Henry A. Kissinger to come to the Executive Office Building [EOB] office

Call to Marvin L. Esch

Conversation No. 7‑68

Date:  August 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:17 pm and 12:20 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See conversation No. 556‑16]

Requested a call to Orval H. Hansen

Conversation No. 7‑69

Date:  August 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:17 pm and 12:20 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 556‑17]

Marvin L. Esch's location

Request to talk with Esch's secretary, Linda Davis

Conversation No.7‑70

Date:  August 6, 1971
Time:  12:20 pm ‑ 12:21 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Linda Davis, Marvin L. Esch's secretary.

[See Conversation No. 556‑18]

The President's attempt to talk with Esch

Esch's trip to Africa
‑Education and Labor Committee

Birthday greetings
‑Clark MacGregor

Conversation No. 7‑71

Date:  August 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:21 pm and 12:23 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 556‑19A]

Orval H. Hansen's location

Request to talk with Hansen's secretary, Louise H. Dagney

Conversation No. 7‑72

Date:  August 6, 1971
Time:  12:23 pm ‑ 12:14 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Louise H. Dagney, Orval H. Hansen's secretary.

[See Conversation No. 556‑19B]

Hansen's trip to Idaho

Birthday greetings
‑Clark MacGregor
‑William E. Timmons

Conversation No. 7‑73

Date:  August 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:46 pm and 8:05 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Requested a call to Tricia Nixon Cox

Conversation No. 7‑74

Date:  August 8, 1971
Time:  8:05 pm ‑ 8:09 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox.

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MRS. NIXON TALKED WITH TRICIA NIXON COX

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Conversation No. 7-163

Date:  August 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:09 pm and 8:11 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator (?) talked with an unknown person.

Request

Conversation No. 7‑75

Date:  August 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:09 pm and 8:11 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Requested a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 7‑76

Date:  August 8, 1971
Time:  8:11 pm ‑ 8:20 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

The President's schedule
‑Maine
‑Margaret Chase Smith
‑Bangor airport reception
‑Television coverage
‑New Hampshire
-Smith

Astronauts
‑Television coverage

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Television networks
‑Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
‑Economy

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-Economy
‑Colson's telephone call

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Conversation No. 7‑77

Date:  August 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:49 am and 12:01 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 557‑4]

Requested a call to George P. Shultz

Conversation No. 7‑78

Date:  August 9, 1971
Time:  12:02 pm ‑ 12:03 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with George P. Shultz.

[See Conversation No. 557‑5]

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President=s schedule 
-Bicyclists

Conversation No. 7‑79

Date:  August 9, 1971
Time:  5:47 pm ‑ 5:48 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with George P. Shultz.

[See Conversation No. 558‑10A]

Bills
‑The President's talk with John B. Connally
-Budget
‑Veto
‑Congress

Conversation No. 7‑80

Date:  August 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:48 pm and 8:06 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator. 

Requested a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 7‑81

Date:  August 9, 1971
Time:  8:06 pm ‑ 8:17 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

News media
‑Norris Cotton
‑Colson's call to Cotton
-American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC] report
‑New Hampshire
-Support for Nixon
‑Telegram to ABC
‑Television coverage
‑Ronald L. Ziegler
‑John A. Scali
‑Television networks compared
‑Howard K. Smith
‑ABC
‑William Lawrence
-Edith Efron
‑Time, Life, Look, TV Guide
‑Media book on 1968 campaign
-ABC
‑Smith and Lawrence
‑An article
‑George P. Shultz
‑Time, Newsweek

‑Columnists
‑Television
‑Efron book
‑Debate in Congress
‑Credibility of networks
‑Public opinion
‑1960 and 1968 campaigns
‑Hubert H. Humphrey
‑John F. Kennedy
‑Television networks
‑Colson's talk with John W. Chancellor
‑Economy
‑Scali
‑Chancellor
‑Walter Cronkite
‑Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
‑Change
-Vietnam war
‑Cotton=s statements
‑Networks
‑Spiro T. Agnew
‑Gil [Surname unknown]
‑Margaret Chase Smith
‑Maine
‑Bangor

Economy
‑Retail sales figures

Congress

Cotton

Conversation No. 7‑82

Date:  August 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:52 am and 9:28 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 559‑3A]

Requested a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 7‑83

Date:  August 10, 1971
Time:  9:28 am ‑ 9:30 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson

[See Conversation No. 559‑3B]

News summary
‑Retail sales figures
‑Television network coverage
‑National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC] coverage
‑George P. Shultz
‑Harold C. Passer
‑July
‑Monthly compared with weekly figures
-Size

Conversation No. 7‑84

Date:  August 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:30 am and 2:33 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 559‑15]

Requested a call to John B. Connally

Conversation No. 7‑85

Date:  August 10, 1971
Time:  2:33 pm ‑ 2:37 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John B. Connally.

[See Conversation No. 558‑16]

The economy

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COUNTRIES

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Connally's schedule

Joint Chiefs of Staff

Budget meeting

Conversation No. 7‑86

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  9:08 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 561‑2]

Requested a call to Harmon Killebrew

Conversation No. 7‑87

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  11:10 am ‑ 11:15 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Harmon Killebrew.

[See Conversation No. 561‑4B]

The President's congratulations
‑Maine visit
‑[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
‑Hitting .500
‑Willie Mays
‑Talk with Bowie Kuhn
‑Killebrew

Meeting at Herman Walker's house

Killebrew's standings
‑Compared to George H. (ABabe@) Ruth

Killebrew's health

Support for Killebrew
‑Tricia Nixon Cox and Julie Nixon Eisenhower

‑Washington fans

Killebrew's support for the President

Bob Allison
‑The President's schedule
‑Commentary

Washington Senators

A presidential gift
‑Golf ball

Conversation No. 7-164

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:15 am and 12:57 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked an unknown person.

No request was made

Conversation No. 7‑88

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  12:57 pm ‑ 12:58 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 561‑11]

The President's schedule
‑Meeting with an unknown man
‑Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger

‑Time
‑Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
‑Executive Office Building [EOB]

Conversation No. 7‑89

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:58 pm and 7:52 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator. 

Requested a call to H. R. Haldeman

Conversation No. 7‑90

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  7:52 pm ‑ 7:57 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman.

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News
-August

‑Harmon Killebrew
‑Relaxation
‑European countries

Conversation No. 7‑91

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  7:57 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator. 

Requested a call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 7‑92

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  7:58 pm ‑ 8:04 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger's briefing
‑College interns

Foreign relations
‑Kissinger's message to Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑Andrei A. Gromyko
‑Gerard C. Smith
‑William P. Rogers
‑Dobrynin and Gromyko
‑Signing ceremony

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Budget
‑The President''s talk with George P. Shultz
‑Administration policy
‑Shultz
‑David Packard
‑Tax increase
‑Forthcoming meeting
‑Joint Chiefs of Staff
‑Kissinger, Shultz and Packard
‑Melvin R. Laird
‑Kissinger's meeting with Shultz

The President's talk with Shultz
‑National Security
‑Defense
‑Berlin
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
‑The People's Republic of China [PRC]

Budget
-Defense

Conversation No. 7‑93

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  8:04 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Rose Mary Woods

George P. Shultz's return call

Conversation No. 7‑94

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  8:05 pm ‑ 8:08 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with George P. Shultz.

Budget
‑The President's talk with Henry A. Kissinger
‑Kissinger, Shultz and David Packard
‑Defense
‑National security

Economy (?)
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Peter G. Peterson
‑Peter M. Flanigan
‑H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑John B. Connally
‑Ronald L. Ziegler
‑The People's Republic of China [PRC]

Conversation No. 7‑95

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  8:09 pm ‑ 8:20 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

The President's notes
‑Unknown man
‑Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
‑Arthur Godfrey
‑Call to Woods
‑The President's procedure on plane
‑Schedule card
‑Story

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Conversation No. 7‑96

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:20 pm and 8:24 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator. 

Requested a call to Ronald W. Reagan

Conversation No. 7‑97

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  8:24 pm ‑ 8:28 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Ronald W. Reagan.

Greetings

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The President's schedule
‑California trip
‑Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
‑Dallas
‑Illinois State Fair
-Reagan=s schedule

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Reagan=s schedule
‑Henry A. Kissinger briefing

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Conversation No. 7‑98

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:28 pm and 8:36 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator. 

Requested a call to Hobart D. Lewis

Conversation No. 7‑99

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  8:36 pm ‑ 8:40 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Hobart D. Lewis.

Lewis= location

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The President's schedule
‑Lowell Thomas
‑New York
‑Knights of Columbus
‑Illinois State Fair
‑Jackson Hole, Wyoming
‑Dallas
‑Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
‑California

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Economy
‑Public concerns
‑Conservatives
‑William F. Buckley, Jr.

‑Forthcoming talk with Henry A. Kissinger

Jeff [Hart?]
‑Book
‑William L. Safire
‑Patrick J. Buchanan
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr.

The President's schedule
‑Talk with Lewis
‑Timing

Conversation No. 7‑100

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  8:43 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator. 

Requested a call to Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo

Conversation No. 7‑101

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:43 pm and 8:46 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator. 

Requested a call to Patrick J. Buchanan

Conversation No. 7‑102

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:43 pm and 8:46 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo's location

Cancellation of call to Rebozo

Call to Patrick J. Buchanan

Conversation No. 7‑103

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  8:46 pm ‑ 8:55 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Patrick J. Buchanan.

Greeting

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Conversation No. 7‑104

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:55 pm and 8:59 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator. 

Requested a call to Barry M. Goldwater

Conversation No. 7‑105

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:55 pm and 8:59 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Barry M. Goldwater's location

Return call

Conversation No. 7‑106

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:55 pm and 8:59 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator. 

Requested a call to to Richard J. Daley

Conversation No. 7‑107

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  8:59 pm ‑ 9:06 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Barry M. Goldwater.

Greetings

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Conversation No. 7‑108

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  9:15 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Attempts to contact Richard J. Daley

Conversation No. 7‑109

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  9:20 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator. 

Requested a call to James L. Buckley

Conversation No. 7‑110

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  9:29 pm ‑ 9:31 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Richard J. Daley.

The President's schedule
‑Chicago trip
‑Milk Producer's Association

World events
‑The People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑Reasons

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Daley
-Briefing by Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 7‑111

Date:  August 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:46 am and 12:0l pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

The President conferred with an unknown person at an unknown time after 8:46 am.

[See Conversation No. 562‑2A]

Requested a call to John B. Connally

Conversation No. 7‑112

Date:  August 12, 1971
Time:  12:01 pm ‑ 12:12 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John B. Connally.

[See Conversation No. 562‑2B]

Connally's schedule

The President's schedule
‑Meeting with Connally
‑Meeting with Paul A. Volcker

Gold market
‑Developments
‑Timing

‑International moves
‑Domestic moves
‑Actions
‑Leak
‑Domestic front
‑International front
‑Negotiating position
‑Wage‑price freeze
‑Investment tax credit
-Wage-price freeze
‑The President's talk with George P. Shultz
‑Congress
‑Import tax
‑Shultz
‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
‑Raw materials
‑Administrative compared with Congressional action
‑Congress
‑Budget revision
‑Investment tax credit
‑Acceleration of personal income
‑International monetary meeting
‑Negotiations
‑Psychological effects
‑Closing gold window and floating dollar
‑Panic
‑Domestic
‑Wage‑price freeze
‑Import tax
‑International effects
‑Announcement timing
‑Connally
‑Gold window
-President
‑Congress
‑Tax measures
‑Actions
‑International front
‑Domestic front
‑Shultz
‑Positive action

‑Timing
‑Arthur F. Burns
‑International bankers
‑Import tax

Connally's schedule

Conversation No. 7‑113

Date:  August 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:59 am and 12:32 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 563‑6A]

Requested a call to Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon

Conversation No. 7‑114

Date:  August 13, 1971
Time:  12:32 pm ‑ 12:33 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon.

[See Conversation No. 563‑6B]

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Conversation No. 7‑115

Date:  August 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:33 pm and 1:47 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator. 

Requested a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 7-116

Date:  August 13, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:47 pm and 1:51 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 563‑10]

The President's schedule
‑Camp David
‑Quadriad meeting

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John D. Ehrlichman's interview
‑Press
‑Distribution
‑Busing domination
‑Transcripts
‑Columnists

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Conversation No. 7‑117

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:53 pm and 9:30 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator. 

Requested a call to H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Conversation No. 7‑118

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  9:30 pm ‑ 9:39 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman.

Wage‑price freeze
‑The President's speech
‑Length
‑Impact
‑Challenges
‑Changes
-Jobs
-Inflation
‑International speculators
-Cabinet
‑Reaction
‑Margaret Chase Smith
‑Robert W. Packwood
‑Oregon
‑Surtax on imports
‑Automobile tax
‑Congressional burden
‑Howard Busey (?)
‑Effect on Stock market
‑Balance of payment
‑Clifford L. Jones, Pennsylvania State Republican chairman
‑John Rawlings
‑Lloyd B. Waring, Kidder-Peabody
‑Gustave L. Levy
‑Carl Horsheimer (sp?)
‑Mayor Henry Loeb, Memphis, Tennessee
‑George D. Aiken
‑J. Caleb Boggs
‑Labor and industry
‑Call from Delaware farmer
‑Television commentators
‑Networks= half hour shows

‑American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]
‑Paul W. McCracken interview
‑National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
‑Herbert E. Kaplow, Irving R. Levine and John W. Chancellor panel
‑John B. Connally

Conversation No. 7‑119

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  9:39 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Instructions on telephone calls

Conversation No.7‑120

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  9:39 pm ‑ 9:44 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Gerald R. Ford talked with the President.

Wage‑price freeze speech
‑Ford's reaction
‑Wilbur D. Mills
‑Tax package
‑Spending cutback
‑Foreign aid
‑International economics
‑Gold conversion
‑Wage‑price dividend controls
‑Possible public reaction
‑Ninety days

‑Wage‑price board
‑International competition
-Duties
-Timing
‑Wage‑price freeze
‑Congressional action
‑Dollar conversion
‑Special Drawing Rights [SDR]
‑Arthur F. Burns
‑Countries
‑Germany and Japan
‑France and Great Britain

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Conversation No. 7‑121

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:44 pm and 9:46 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Telephone calls
‑Dwight L. Chapin
‑William P. Rogers
‑John N. Mitchell
‑David M. Kennedy
‑James D. Hodgson

Request call to John B. Connally

Conversation No. 7‑122

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  9:46 pm ‑ 9:50 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John B. Connally.

Wage‑price freeze speech
‑Connally's reaction
‑Effectiveness
‑Paul A. Volcker
‑Ronald L. Ziegler's office
‑Television networks
‑Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
‑Robert Pierpoint
‑Daniel Schorr
‑International economics
‑Public understanding
‑Press
‑Wage‑price lead
‑Connally press conference
‑The President's talk with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman
-Timing
-Wall Street
‑International monetary factor
‑Peace
‑Jobs
‑Connally's press briefing
‑Ziegler
‑Haldeman
‑Wage‑price freeze
‑International economy
‑Psychology
‑Connally's reaction
‑Burden sharing

Conversation No. 7‑123

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  9:50 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator. 

Requested a call to William P. Rogers

Conversation No. 7‑124

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  9:50 pm ‑ 9:55 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with William P. Rogers.

Wage‑price freeze speech
‑Rogers= reaction
‑World effect
‑Rogers= talk with Eisaku Sato
‑Rogers= talk with Mitchell Sharpe, Acting Prime Minister of Canada
‑Call to Edward R.G. Heath
‑Great Britain
‑Germany and Japan
‑Canada
‑Automobile agreement
‑Draft
‑International economy
‑Peace
‑Vietnam
‑Jobs
‑Inflation
‑Foreign aid
‑Democratic reaction
‑Television commentators

‑Rogers= talk with George P. Shultz
‑Gold convertibility
‑Effect
‑New international monetary system
‑Swiss, Belgians, Dutch, and Japanese
‑US dollar
‑Japanese
‑Eisaku Sato
‑Talk with Rogers

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Conversation No. 7‑125

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  9:55 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator. 

Requested a call to John N. Mitchell

Conversation No. 7‑126

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  9:56 pm ‑ 10:02 pm

Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John N. Mitchell.

Wage‑price freeze speech
‑Mitchell's reaction
‑Preparation of speech
‑Length
‑International economy
‑Speech writers
‑International economy
‑Peace
‑Jobs
‑Cost of living
‑Mitchell's reaction
‑William F. (ABilly@) Graham
‑Arthur F. Burns
‑Stock market reaction
‑John B. Connally
‑Interest rates and dividends
‑Automobile industry
‑Cabinet meeting
‑Connally
‑Burns
‑Bankers
‑Connally's press conference
‑Mitchell's call to Connally

Mitchell's schedule

Conversation No. 7‑127

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  10:03 pm ‑ 10:05 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with David M. Kennedy.

Wage‑price freeze speech

‑Kennedy's reaction
‑Congress
‑Wilbur D. Mills
‑International monetary issue
‑Kennedy's talk with John B. Connally and Paul A. Volcker
‑Charles Coombs (?)
‑Domestic issues
‑Timing

Kennedy's schedule
‑Cabinet meeting
‑Europe

Conversation No. 7‑128

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  10:05 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator. 

Requested a call to Rose Mary Woods

Conversation No. 7‑129

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  10:06 pm ‑ 10:21 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman talked with the President.

Wage‑price freeze speech
‑The President's talk with John B. Connally
‑David M. Kennedy
‑William P. Rogers
‑Connally

‑Effectiveness
‑Speculators
‑The President's talk with John N. Mitchell
‑Media coverage
‑Congressional approval
‑United Press International [UPI] lead paragraph
‑Reactions
‑Gordon L. Allott
‑Foreign aid
‑Personal tax exemptions
-Import tax
‑Robert C. Byrd, Jr.
-Imports
-Welfare reform
‑William Whitnaugh
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
‑Ninety day freeze
‑North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] troops
‑Attrition
‑John J. Sparkman
‑Wallace F. Bennett
‑Compared with People=s Republic of China [PRC] speech
‑John J. Rhodes
‑Governor John A. Love
‑Thomas J. Meskill
‑Mayor Lawrence Kramer, Paterson, New Jersey
‑Mayor [Forename unknown) Allen, Columbus, Georgia
‑Harry Helsey (sp?), 3-M Corporation
‑Jeremiah Milbank
‑Dale Dewitt, Business Council
‑Willard Robinson, Southern Distributor of Volkswagen
‑Chauncey William Wallace Cook, Chairman of General Foods
‑Donald C. Burnham, Westinghouse
‑Robert Dunlop, President of Sun Oil
‑John Reevis (?)
‑Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.
‑Louis Harris
-Charles W. Colson
‑Frank R. Milliken
‑Rhodes
‑William H. Carruthers
‑Richard A. Moore

‑Raymond K. Price, Jr.
‑Herbert G. Klein
‑Haldeman

[Unintelligible]

‑Frederick B. Dent
‑Samuel Wyly
‑Henry Salvatori
‑Olin E. (ATiger@) Teague
‑Floyd Barger (?), New York Daily News
‑Clifford M. Hardin
‑George W. Romney
‑Business people

[Unintelligible]

Conversation No. 7‑130

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  10:21 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator. 

Requested a call to Rose Mary Woods

Conversation No. 7‑131

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  10:22 pm ‑ 10:23 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

Wage‑price freeze speech

‑Woods= reaction

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Conversation No. 7‑132

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  10:23 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Call from Clifford M. Hardin

[Pause]

Conversation No. 7-165

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  10:23 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call from Clifford M. Hardin

Conversation No. 7‑133

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  10:24 pm ‑ 10:33 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Clifford M. Hardin.

Wage‑price speech
‑Hardin's reaction
‑Cabinet meeting
‑Agricultural exemptions
‑Retail control
‑Retail import tax
‑Japanese
‑General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade [GATT]
‑Farm products
‑Items protected
‑Effect in the United States
‑Current strikes
‑Retail sales
‑Investment taxes
-Application to rural America
‑Cabinet meeting
‑John B. Connally
‑Quadriad meeting
‑Gold
‑Devaluation
‑Japanese
‑Paul W. McCracken
‑Compared to speech about the People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑Hardin's talk with Arnold R. Weber
‑Staff
‑Cabinet meeting

Conversation No. 7‑134

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  10:33 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Call from James D. Hodgson

Call to Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Conversation No. 7-166

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  10:33 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with an unknown person [the President].

[Call to Julie Nixon Eisenhower?]

Conversation No. 7-135

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  10:33 pm - 10:37 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

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[DWIGHT] DAVID EISENHOWER, II JOINED THE CONVERSATION AT AN UNKNOWN TIME AFTER 10:33 PM

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Conversation No. 7‑136

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  10:37 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Call to James D. Hodgson

Conversation No. 7‑137

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  10:37 pm ‑ 10:38 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with James D. Hodgson.

Wage‑Price freeze speech
‑Hodgson's reaction
‑International and domestic issues

‑John B. Connally
‑Timing
‑San Francisco
‑[Joseph] Lane Kirkland
‑General Motors
‑Dividends
‑Cabinet meeting

Conversation No. 7-167

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:38 pm and 10:40 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Call from Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Conversation No. 7‑138

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  10:40 pm ‑ 10:42 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked with the President.

Wage‑price freeze speech
‑Haig's reaction
‑Others' reaction
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
‑Jacob K. Javits
‑J. Kenneth Galbraith
‑Milton Friedman
‑Frank R. Milliken
‑Industry
‑Chrysler

‑Freeman Gosden

Vietnam negotiations
‑Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 7‑139

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  10:43 pm ‑ 11:01 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (ABob) Haldeman talked with the President.

Wage‑price freeze speech
‑Wire service reaction

[Pause]

‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
‑Wright Patman
‑Jacob K. Javits
‑Robert C. Byrd
‑J. Kenneth Galbraith
‑Milton Friedman
‑Frank R. Milliken
-Chrysler
-National Association of Homebuilders
‑Reactions
‑Elmer H. Bobst
‑Werner P. Gullander, National Association of Manufacturers [NAM]
‑James Suffridge, Retail Clerks
‑Negotiation
‑International Unions
‑George Meany
‑Harry Van Arsdale
‑Samuel Johnson, Johnson Wax
‑Donald McI. Kendall
‑John S. (AJack@) Knight
‑Herbert G. Klein

‑Larry Israel, WTOP
‑James S. Copley
‑Lucille Blueferd
‑Frank Stanton
‑Joseph W. Alsop
‑Murray Wright, Buffalo Daily News
‑[Forename unknown] Hagerman, State Street Bank of Boston
‑Fred Burman, Lehman Brothers
‑Walter N. Thayer
‑William Dial, First National Bank of Orlando
‑George Whitney
‑[Joseph] Lane Kirkland
‑James D. Hodgson
‑James Rademacher, Postal Union
‑Bernard J. ("Bunny") Lasker
‑Alden W. Clausen, President of Bank of America
‑Charles Winding, Chairman of Marine Midland Bank
‑George Murphy
-President, Bank of Hawaii
‑Jay Lovestone
‑President, First City National Bank of Houston
‑Stewart Sillaway, IDS (?)
‑Gabriel Hauge
‑Brady F. Black
‑Leonard Goldenson, American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
‑Martin S. Hayden
‑Wilbur D. Mills
‑Pierre Rinfret's wire services statement
‑The People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑John B. Connally
‑George P. Shultz
‑United Press International [UPI] analysis by Norm Kempster
‑Manager of Ernst and Ernst
‑Chairman of Herald Life, Jacksonville
‑J. C. Penney
‑Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
‑Robert P. Griffin
‑William B. Saxbe
‑George H. Mahon
‑Abraham A. Ribicoff
‑Joseph J. Wagner
‑Keith Wilson, Editor of Omaha World‑Herald

‑Jackson E. Betts (?)
‑Charles Schultze
‑Thomas G. Wicker

Conversation No. 7‑140

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  11:03 pm ‑ 11:05 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Herbert G. Klein talked with the President.

Wage‑price freeze speech
‑Klein's reaction
‑H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑Martin Hayden
‑John S. (AJack@) Knight
-Psychological effect
‑Media coverage
‑Television
-Haldeman
‑John B. Connally press conference
‑Columnists
‑Bureau chiefs
‑Paul W. McCracken
‑American Broadcasting Company [ABC] presentation

Conversation No. 7‑141

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:05 pm and 11:07 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Call from Hobart D. Lewis

Conversation No. 7‑142

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  11:07 pm ‑ 11:10 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Attempts to locate Hobart D. Lewis

Call from George W. Romney

The President talked with Romney.

Wage‑price freeze speech
‑Romney reaction
‑Cabinet meeting
‑Ninety‑day limit
‑Rent control
‑Dividend control
‑Romney's reaction
‑Cabinet meeting
-International monetary issue
‑Interest rates
‑John B. Connally, Arthur F. Burns
‑Public reaction
‑Jobs

Conversation No. 7‑143

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:10 pm and 11:12 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Call from Freeman F. Gosden, Jr.

Conversation No. 7‑144

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  11:12 pm ‑ 11:14 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Freeman F. Gosden, Jr. talked with the President.

Wage‑price freeze speech
‑Gosden reaction
‑Gosden's talk with Dave Marks (?)
‑Gosden's broker's reaction
‑Justin W. Dart
‑Lee Paxton (?)
‑Radio coverage
‑Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
‑Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
‑Reactions
‑Psychology
‑Mercedes-Benz
‑Chrysler

Conversation No. 7‑145

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  11:14 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Call from Pierre Rinfret

Conversation No. 7‑146

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  11:15 pm ‑ 11:17 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Pierre Rinfret talked with the President.

Wage‑price freeze speech
‑Rinfret's reaction
‑Preparation
‑Business community reaction
‑International monetary issue
‑Japanese
‑Gold
‑Income tax
‑Private enterprise
‑Rinfret's talk with John B. Connally
‑Rinfret's letter to the President

Conversation No. 7‑147

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  11:18 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator. 

Requested a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 7‑148

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  11:18 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Charles W. Colson's location

Conversation No. 7‑149

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:18 pm and 11:20 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator. 

Requested a call to William L. Safire

Conversation No. 7‑150

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  11:20 pm ‑ 11:22 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with William L. Safire.

Wage‑price freeze speech
‑Safire's reaction
‑The President's talk with Pierre Rinfret
‑Wording
‑Safire's reaction

Conversation No. 7‑151

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:22 pm and 11:24 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator. 

Requested a call to Arthur F. Burns

Conversation No. 7‑152

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  11:24 pm ‑ 11:28 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Arthur F. Burns.

Wage‑price freeze speech
‑Burns= reaction
‑Wording
‑International monetary issue
‑Burns and Paul A. Volcker
‑[James] Dewey Daane
‑Control by Burns
‑Burns= reaction
‑Democrats
‑Spending
‑Wilbur D. Mills
‑Meeting with Burns
‑The President's instructions
‑Burns= talk with [Pierre-Paul?] Schweitzer

Conversation No. 7‑153

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  9:05 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 564‑3A]

Requested a call to Wilbur D. Mills

Conversation No. 7‑154

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  9:05 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 564‑3C]

Wilbur D. Mills= location

Return call instructions

Conversation No. 7‑155

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:05 am and 10:01 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 564‑3D]

Requested a call to Nelson A. Rockefeller

Conversation No. 7‑156

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:05 am and 10:01 am
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 564‑3E]

Request for Nelson A. Rockefeller to hold the line

Conversation No. 7‑157

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  10:01 am ‑ 10:10 am
Location:  White House Telephone

Nelson A. Rockefeller talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 564‑3F]

The President's schedule
‑Knights of Columbus
H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑Breakfast with Rockefeller
‑John N. Mitchell
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Revenue sharing

Wage‑price freeze speech
‑Rockefeller's reaction
‑Public reaction
‑William Van Arsdale
‑Issues

‑International monetary issue
‑Japanese
‑Dollar stabilization
‑Imports
‑Automobiles
‑Volkswagen
‑John B. Connally
‑George P. Shultz
‑Arthur F. Burns
‑Paul W. McCracken
‑Peter G. Peterson

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President=s speech
-The President=s statement regarding the People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Effect on Democrats
-Effect on youth
-International monetary issue
‑Third World countries
‑Common market
‑Japan
‑England
‑David Rockefeller=s reaction
‑Laurence S. Rockefeller=s reaction
-David Rockefeller
-Floating of the dollar

The President's schedule
‑Breakfast meeting with Rockefeller
-Ehrlichman

‑Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
‑Welfare recipients
‑Public service jobs
‑State public service
‑Ehrlichman and Mitchell
‑Bobby Douglas

Wage‑price freeze speech
‑Writing
‑Camp David

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Speech
‑Presentation
‑Margaretta ("Happy") Rockefeller

Breakfast meeting

Conversation No. 7‑158

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:10 am and 11:48 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 564‑4A]

Requested a call to John B. Connally

Conversation No. 7‑159

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  11:48 am ‑ 11:50 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John B. Connally.

[See Conversation No. 564‑4B]

Connally's press conference
‑The President's talk with Wilbur D. Mills
‑Bipartisan leadership meeting
‑Congressional committees
‑Ways and Means, Appropriations, Banking and Currency
‑House and Senate leaders
‑Announcement
‑Credit to Mills

Cabinet meeting

Conversation No. 7‑160

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:50 am and 10:23 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 564‑4C]

Requested that Kenneth E. Belieu be called for H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Conversation No. 7‑161

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:50 am and 10:23 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman talked with Kenneth E. Belieu; the President can be heard in the background.

[See Conversation No. 564‑4D]

The President's schedule
‑Bipartisan leadership meeting
‑Time
‑Notification of participants
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
‑Hugh Scott
‑Robert P. Griffin
‑Robert C. Byrd
‑Carl B. Albert
‑[Thomas] Hale Boggs
‑Gerald R. Ford
‑Leslie C. Arends
‑Deletions
‑Griffin
‑Byrd
‑Arends
‑Chairman and ranking member of House and Senate committees
‑Banking and Currency
‑Appropriations
‑Ways and Means
‑Byrd
‑Whips
‑Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill, Jr.
‑The President's talk with Wilbur D. Mills
‑Participants
‑John W. Byrnes
‑Russell B. Long
‑Wallace F. Bennett
‑George H. Mahon
-Boggs

‑Allen J. Ellender
-Banking and currency

[Pause]

‑William Proxmire
‑Wright Patman
‑Jacob K. Javits
‑Transportation arrangements
‑Hugh Scott
-Location