Conversation No. 254-1

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:18 pm and 2:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:39 pm

Conversation No. 254-2

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:18 pm and 2:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

President=s schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:39 pm

Conversation No. 254-3

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:18 pm and 3:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

President=s schedule
-An unknown man

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:00 pm

Conversation No. 254-4

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  3:00 pm - 5:01 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman and George P. Shultz

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:00 pm

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:10 pm

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:00 pm and 3:10 pm]

[Conversation No. 254-4A]

[See Conversation No. 3-179]

[End of telephone conversation]

Proposed statute on executive pay

[The President talked with Stephen B. Bull between 3:10 pm and 3:11 pm]

[Conversation No. 254-4B]

[See Conversation No. 3-180]

[End of telephone conversation]

Executive pay
-Assistant secretaries
-H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman
-John B. Connally
-Staff needs
-Department of Transportation [DOT]
-Position levels
-Arthur [F. Burns?]
-Salaries
-Connally
-Pay increase for government employees
-Public opinion
-Level 1
-Deputies
-Amount
-Timing
-Level 1
-DOT
-Connally
-Press
-Number
-A commission
-Level 4
-Amount

-New positions
-Considerations
-Department of Treasury, Department of Commerce
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Super grades
-Connally
-Level 3, level 2

Technology
-Studies
-National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA], saline water, breeder reactor
-Peter G. Peterson
-Meetings with outside groups
-Technical issues
-Bernard Freer [?]
-Del Shriver [?], Peter M. Flanigan
-Government research and development [R&D]
-Gayford [?] Commission
-Purpose
-Recommendations
-A possible new commission
-Gayford [?] Commission
-Report
-Shriver
-Saline water
-William E. Kreigsman
-Arthur Loeb [?]
-Atomic Energy Commission [AEC], Office of Science and Technology [OST]
-Admiral Lewis L. Strauss
-John A. McCone
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Saline water
-AEC
-Department of the Interior
-NASA
-Funding, bureaucracy
-Peterson
-Assessment of report
-Bell and Howell experience
-Johnson
-Olsa Island project

-Baja California
-Problems
-Effect
-NASA
-Energy (breeder reactor, desalinization)
-Discontinuation of moon shots
-Staff
-Timing
-Staff
-Announcement
-Department of the Interior
-Breeder reactor
-Ehrlichman=s conversation with McCone
-Shriver
-Staff
-McCone
-Breeder reactor
-Shriver
-Peterson
-Reaction of John O. Pastore
-Antiballistic Missile [ABM]
-Possible meeting with President, Peterson, Shriver, and Shultz
-Time

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:11 pm

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:48 pm

Technology
-Breeder reactor

-Shriver, Peterson, Dr. Edward E. David, Jr., Flanigan, McCone meeting
-Scheduling

Peterson dinner meeting, June 2, 1971
-Ben W. Heineman
-Dr. Edwin H. Land
-Polaroid
-Patrick E. Haggerty
-Unknown person

Cancer program
-Political considerations
-Bureaucracy
-James C. Fletcher
-Experience in artificial heart and kidney work
-Roy L. Ash
-[Forename unknown] Norton
-Biological and social sciences
-Daniel P. (APat@) Moynihan
-Dr. Arnold A. Hutschnecker
-Work on violence
-Peterson=s approach

National goals
-Peterson dinner

Proposed group on domestic R&D
-Shriver
-David
-Flanigan
-Purpose

Cancer program
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]

Rogers C. B. Morton

Antitrust
-Peterson
-An option paper

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:11 pm

Peterson=s schedule

Bull left and Peterson and the White House photographer entered at 3:48 pm

Photo arrangements
-Bell and Howell camera
-Japan

The photographer left at an unknown time before 4:51 pm

Peterson=s dinner meeting
-Jack J. Dreyfus, Jr.
-Land
-A Polaroid official
-Dreyfus

Antitrust
-Peterson

Shriver and Flanigan
-R&D for domestic programs
-National Science Foundation
-A list
-McCone
-Shriver

Antitrust
-Ralph McLaren
-Administration policy
-Peterson, Flanigan, Lee Whitten [?] meeting
-Administration policy
-President, Courts
-Domestic
-Foreign
-Peterson or Flanigan
-Justice Department
-Martin C. (AMarty@) Anderson [?]

David R. Young, Jr.
-President=s signature
-Work for Henry A. Kissinger

Textiles

Shoes

President=s schedule
-Bull
-A 5:30 meeting

Textiles and shoes
-Labor position
-Quotas, investment abroad, jobs

Shoes
-Foreign action
-Common Market
-Legislation on trade
-Flanigan
-Europeans
-Italians
-Spaniards

Oil
-David
-Taiwan

Japanese
-Okinawa

Korea
-A meeting
-Exports
-Industry
-Roger Milliken
-Department of Commerce

Economy
-Steel quotas
-George [P. Shultz?]
-Testimony
-Investments
-Wages and prices
-Labor
-Protection
-Japan
-Peterson=s conversation with unknown man [George Meany?]

-Quotas
-United Auto Workers, American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-Concern for jobs
-Labor=s position
-Trade
-An unknown man
-Goals after Vietnam
-Jobs
-Future
-Republican House leaders
-American position
-Japan
-Future
-Revenue sharing
-Public opinion
-Ehrlichman
-Compared with moon shots
-Public opinion
-David
-Desalinization work with Peterson
-Goals
-Creating new and better jobs
-Markets
-Social aspects
-Desalinization and breeder reactor
-Political and social aspects
-Ehrlichman
-William L. Safire
-John A. Scali
-Richard A. Moore
-New jobs
-Investment capital
-Japan=s percent of Gross National Product [GNP] compared to US
-Industrialized countries
-Labor
-Plant modernization
-Public opinion
-Congress
-Entrepreneurs
-Public opinion
-Effect on jobs
-Building trades

-Tax break for businesses
-Labor=s position
-George Meany
-Productivity study
-Great Britain
-R&D
-Labor=s position

Antitrust
-Peterson=s meeting with Ehrlichman
-Regulations
-A study on Japan
-R&D
-High technology
-Effect on international competition
-Public opinion

Goals
-Need for planning
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Charles H. Percy
-John F. Kennedy
-Long-range plans
-Business
-Space program
-Japanese, Soviet, and Office of Price Administration [OPA] methods
-Public opinion
-Economists, scientists, businessmen
-US
-Space, defense
-Bernard Shrever [?]
-Bicentennial
-Technology and social plans
-David, Council of Economic Advisers [CEA], Shultz
-Shrever
-Credibility
-Follow-up
-1972
-Dr. Arthur A. Fletcher of Labor Department
-Pollution program
-Interim goals and monitoring
-Interim goals
-ASoft sciences@

-Environment, health, social programs
-Space programs
-Necessity for bi-partisan group
-President=s role
-Outside groups
-Press
-Youth
-1972
-Democrats
-John W. Gardner
-Position on Vietnam
-President=s role
-Need for publicity
-President=s photos with Congressional leaders
-Business Week
-US News & World Report
-Possibility of speech by President
-President=s concession speech in 1960
-Kennedy
-Television or radio series

[Machine noise - 4 seconds]

-Theme
-Johnson=s AGreat Society@ speech in Ann Arbor
-Theme
-Proposed personnel
-[Name unintelligible]
-Haggerty
-Heineman
-Ash
-Charles L. Shultze of Brookings Institute

[Machine noise - 3 seconds]

-Unknown man
-Heineman
-Advice to President
-Kissinger, Shultz

Camp David
-Possible meeting of Peterson=s group
-Domestic Council staff

Meetings
-Budget
-International events
-Dates
-Budget

Safire

Fiscal Year [FY] 1973 budget
-Policy
-Taxes
-Meetings

Peterson=s group
-Future of US

Arthur B. Laffer

US future
-Liberals
-Possible discussion with press
-Productivity, motivation

Blue-collar wage bill
-Public opinion research

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[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:48 pm and 4:51 pm]

[Conversation No. 254-4C]

[See Conversation No. 3-181]

[End of telephone conversation]

Union positions
-Public opinion

[The President talked with Alexander P. Butterfield between 4:51 pm and 4:52 pm]

[Conversation No. 254-4D]

[See Conversation No. 3-182]

[End of telephone conversation]

Unions
-Public opinion
-Railroads
-Construction industry
-A poll by Opinion Research Corporation in New York
-Legislation
-Situation
-President=s position
-Oil and steel industries
-Germany and Britain [?]
-Administration position
-Right to work, Davis-Bacon Act
-Davis-Bacon Act
-Construction trades= position
-Operation
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BRITAIN

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US position
-Unions

California meeting

Camp David meeting
-Purpose

Peterson=s schedule

Ehrlichman, Shultz, and Peterson left at 5:01 pm

Conversation No. 254-5

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:21 pm and 2:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:25 pm

Conversation No. 254-6

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:21 pm and 2:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 3-192]

Conversation No. 254-7

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 2:21 pm until 2:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person

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The unknown person left at 2:25 pm

Conversation No. 254-8

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  2:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 3-193]

Conversation No. 254-9

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  2:26 pm - 2:27 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Alexander P. Butterfield

[See Conversation No. 3-194]

Conversation No. 254-10

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:27 pm and 5:38 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:38 pm

Conversation No. 254-11

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:27 pm and 5:38 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person

[See Conversation No. 3-195]

Conversation No. 254-12

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:27 pm and 5:38 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez [?]

President=s location

Sanchez [?] left at an unknown time before 5:38 pm

Conversation No. 254-13

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:27 pm and 5:38 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person

[See Conversation No. 3-196]

Conversation No. 254-14

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:38 pm and 5:43 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 3-197]

Conversation No. 254-15

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  5:43 pm - 5:44 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 3-198]

Conversation No. 254-16

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  5:45 pm - 6:06 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 3-199]

Conversation No. 254-17

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:06 pm and 6:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:15 pm

Conversation No. 254-18

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  6:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 3-202]

Conversation No. 254-19

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:20 pm and 6:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

President=s location

President=s meeting with General Nguyen Van Thieu

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Military action
-Korea
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-People=s Republic of China [PRC]
-Henry A. Kissinger
-US policy
-Negotiations
-Russians
-Chinese
-Casualties
-Negotiations
-Military action
-Negotiations

Conversation No. 254-20

Date:  May  31, 1971
Time:  6:30 pm - 6:38 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with William P. Rogers

[See Conversation No. 3-203]

Conversation No. 254-21

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  6:38 pm - 6:42 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 3-204]

Conversation No. 254-22

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:42 pm and 6:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 3-205]

Conversation No. 254-23

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:42 pm and 6:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:50 pm

Conversation No. 254-24

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  6:50 pm - 6:52 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Tricia Nixon

[See Conversation No. 3-206]

Conversation No. 254-25

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:52 pm and 7:13 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

A request

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 7:13 pm

Conversation No. 254-26

Date  May 31, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:52 pm and 7:13 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 7:13 pm

Conversation No. 254-27

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  7:13 pm - 7:18 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Tricia Nixon

[See Conversation No. 3-208]

Conversation No. 254-28

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:18 pm and 7:21 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 3-209]

Conversation No. 254-29

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  7:21 pm - 7:22 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Tricia Nixon

[See Conversation No. 3-210]

Conversation No. 254-30

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:22 pm and 7:23 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 3-211]

Conversation No. 254-31

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  7:23 pm - 7:24 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Tricia Nixon

[See Conversation No. 3-212]

Conversation No. 254-32

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:24 pm and 10:26 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:26 pm

Conversation No. 254-33

Date:  May 31, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 7:24 pm until 10:26 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

Kissinger=s schedule

Pakistan

Chou En-lai

A memo

President=s press conference, June 1, 1971

Vietnam negotiations
-North Vietnam
-General Nguyen Van Thieu
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-An unknown man
-South Vietnamese government
-Le Duc Tho
-A proposal
-Future
-South Vietnam
-An unknown man
-Future
-People=s Republic of China [PRC]
-Future
-Thieu
-Results of war
-Proposals
-Tho
-An announcement
-PRC
-Thieu

-An item for President=s review
-Points
-Troop withdrawals
-POWs

Vietnam War
-Casualties
-Military action
-Troop withdrawals
-An unknown man

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 7:24 pm

A delivery

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 10:26 pm

Vietnam War
-Military action
-Troop withdrawals
-Future

PRC

Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

PRC
-Vietnam
-Ping-pong
-Hanoi
-A date
-Bureaucracy

State Department
-John Foster Dulles

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]

PRC

State Department

SALT

Berlin

China

Summit

Negotiations

Summit, PRC

Vietnam

Berlin

Vietnam

PRC

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

SALT

USSR
-Dr. David K. E. Bruce

PRC, USSR, Berlin
-President=s 1969 Inaugural speech

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 7:24 pm

President=s schedule
-A memo from Kissinger [?]

The President, Kissinger, and Sanchez left at 10:26 pm