Conversation No. 262‑1

Date:  July 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:26 pm and 3:00 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:00 pm.

Conversation No. 262‑2

Date:  July 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:26 pm and 3:00 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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[Duration:  7s  ]

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:00 pm.

Conversation No. 262‑3

Date:  July 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:26 pm and 3:00 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

The President's schedule

Conversation No. 262‑4

Date:  July 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:26 pm and 3:00 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

The President's afternoon schedule
‑John B. Connally

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 3:00 pm.

Conversation No. 262‑5

Date:  July 19, 1971
Time:  3:00 pm ‑ 5:05 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with John B. Connally.

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[Duration:  12m 35s  ]

PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA [PRC]

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White House staff
‑Connally's conversation with H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑Relations with Connally

Personnel
‑Department of the Treasury
‑Appointment of Blacks; women
‑Unknown woman as possible appointee
‑Charls E. Walker
‑Samuel R. Pierce, Jr. (?)
‑Internal Revenue Service
‑Hurley (?) [John?]
‑Job seeker
‑Lloyd Bentson's office
‑William Patrick (?)
‑Unknown woman
‑White House action

‑Peter O'Donnell
‑Connally's conversation with Haldeman about staff member
‑White House staff
‑Relations with Connally
‑Appointments
‑The President
‑Potential Black appointees
‑Party affiliation
‑Treasury
‑Appointment of woman
‑Connally's handling of personnel matters
‑Bypassing of channels
‑Peter [Surname not given] [O'Donnell?]
‑John G. Tower

Connally
‑Relationship with the President
‑Political judgment
‑Administration's chief economic spokesman
-Arthur F. Burns
-Caspar W. (ACap@) Weinberger
-Paul W. McCracken
‑George P. Shultz
‑Position in the Cabinet
‑John N. Mitchell
‑Peter G. Peterson
‑Secrecy compared with consultation in handling policy changes
-Shultz, McCracken
‑Personnel changes
-John A. Volpe, George W. Romney
‑White House channels
‑Haldeman

Personnel
‑Appointments
‑Peterson's assignment
‑State Department, National Security Council [NSC]

State Department
-Administration=s position
-Connally=s position
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-World Bank
-Other funds
‑George A. Lincoln

Personnel
-Appointments
-Peterson
‑NSC role
‑Peterson
‑William P. Rogers, Melvin R. Laird

Connally
‑NSC
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑Senior Review Group
-Representative
‑Briefings

Inter-American Development Bank

World Bank

Coordination of Policy in the NSC

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 3:00 pm.

Refreshments

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 4:32 pm.

‑Distribution of memorandum
‑Department of the Treasury
‑Connally's role
-NSC functioning
-Kissinger
-Connally=s role
-Mitchell=s role
‑Richard M. Helms

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[National Security]
[Duration:  1m 8s  ]

PRC	

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‑Laird

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[Duration:  22s  ]

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Lyndon B. Johnson
‑January 1969 conversation
‑Foreign policy leaks
‑State Department, Dean Rusk
‑Advisors to the President
‑The press

Connally
-Possible resignation from Cabinet
‑Connally's role as advisor
‑Wilbur D. Mills
‑George Meany
‑David Packard

‑Lockheed
‑Projected vote outcome in House, Senate

[Unintelligible]

The economy
‑Present conditions
‑Personal income, house sales, leading indicators
-Stock market
‑Burns' views
‑Quadriad meeting

Federal Reserve Board
-J. L. Robertson
‑Paul A. Volcker
-J. Dewey Daane
‑Gross National Product [GNP] for second quarter of 1971
‑Robertson=s telephone call to Connally, Shultz
‑Burns
-Volcker
‑Connally's call to Daane
-Possible vacancy
‑Interest rates
‑Dollar exchange rates
‑Burns= actions
‑Statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS]
‑Robert D. Novak
‑Incomes policy
‑Wage‑price policy
-Appointment
-Burns

Connally
‑Personnel and public relations questions
‑The White House staff
‑John D. Ehrlichman's role in domestic policy
-Personnel and public relations
-Haldeman
-Ronald L. Ziegler

-Domestic policy
-Ehrlichman
‑Peterson
‑Staff support
‑Possible duties at the Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]

Foreign relations
‑Trade and international relations
‑Congress
‑Developments in relations with the PRC
‑Vietnam
‑Organization of American States [OAS]
‑Form of US relations with Latin American countries
‑Differences in countries
‑Costa Rica, Honduras, Brazil
‑Argentina, Peru, Chile, Bolivia
‑Trade
‑Eastern Europe, the PRC
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑The PRC
‑Vietnam

Welfare
‑Work requirements
‑H.R. 1
‑Possible veto after changes
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Views

National character

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[Duration:  2m 14s  ]

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-Chico's [Surname unknown] Restaurant, Rockville, Maryland
‑President=s experience
‑Owner background
‑Owner=s accomplishments
-Work ethic
-Welfare

Tax cuts
‑Mills
-Administration=s position

Robert S. McNamara
‑World Bank presidency term
‑Tenure
‑Kissinger
‑September 1971 meeting of the IMF
‑Pentagon Papers, Kissinger
‑Possible role with the Administration

Personnel
‑Unknown woman
‑Ethnic appointments
‑Haldeman, Ehrlichman
‑Peterson
‑McCracken, Shultz
-Domestic policy

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[Duration:  1m 41s  ]

PRC

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Leadership Issue
‑Vietnam, the Pentagon Papers

Kissinger entered at 4:32 pm.

US foreign relations
‑Developments in relations with the PRC
‑Kissinger's forthcoming briefing of his staff

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[Duration:  50s  ]

PRC

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‑USSR
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑Kissinger
‑Forthcoming meeting with the President

Kissinger left at 4:35 pm.

Africa
‑Africans, Blacks
‑Comments

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
‑Judgement and beliefs
‑Second term in office
‑Henry A. Wallace comparison

‑Comments on African leaders
‑Heritage of Black Americans
‑Standing with conservatives
‑Reason for stated positions
‑Standing in 1972

Predictions for 1972
‑The Vietnam war

US foreign policy
‑The PRC
‑Initiative
‑Idanell B. (ANellie@) Connally, Connally's Children
‑Agnew
‑Taiwan, Republic of China
‑Chiang Kai‑Shek
‑Clare Booth Luce
‑United Nations [UN] membership issue
‑US public reaction
‑Quemoy, Matsu
‑Two China policy
‑Chiang Kai‑Shek
‑Security Council seat

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[Duration:  15m 20s  ]

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Issues facing the nation
‑Foreign policy
‑Economy

‑International monetary issues
-Character
‑Presidential qualities
‑Values

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Connally left at 5:05 pm.

Conversation No. 262‑6

Date:  July 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:05 pm and 5:10 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Schedule

Conversation No. 262‑7

Date:  July 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:05 pm and 5:10 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

The President's schedule
‑Meeting with John B. Connally
‑Ehrlichman's conversation with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑July 20, 1972 meeting
‑George P. Shultz
‑The President
-Henry A. Kissinger

Personnel
‑Appointment of Egil (ABud@) Krogh, Jr. to White House position
‑William P. Rogers

Schedule

Conversation No. 262‑8

Date:  July 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:05 pm and 5:10 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

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

The President's meeting with John B. Connally
‑Personnel
‑Connally's effort to hire woman for secretarial post
‑Peter O'Donnell
‑Connally's relations with John D. Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Peter G. Peterson
‑Effort to hire woman
‑Charls E. Walker
‑Handling of personnel matters through the White House
‑Haldeman's role

Conversation No. 262‑9

Date:  July 19, 1971
Time:  5:10 pm ‑ 5:35 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

US foreign relations
‑Kissinger's schedule
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑Meeting with National Security Council staff
‑Staff morale

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FOREIGN POLICY

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-Department of State
‑Dobrynin
‑Conversation with Kissinger
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑Effect of People=s Republic of China [PRC] announcement
‑Timing of subsequent trip
‑US - USSR summit
‑Timing
‑Chou En‑lai
‑John B. Connally's views on PRC developments
‑McGeorge Bundy's telephone call to Kissinger
‑David Rockefeller's telephone call to Kissinger
‑US - PRC summit

‑India, Pakistan
‑Congress
‑North Vietnam
‑Laos
‑France
‑Reporter
‑View of the US
‑Central Committee
-PRC
‑Chicago
‑[Unintelligible Name] [Capri(?)]
‑Chou En‑lai
‑Connally
‑Vietnam War
‑US stance
‑Options
‑USSR, PRC
‑Atomic Energy Commission, Joint Chiefs of Staff
‑Morning meeting with Congressional leaders
‑Carl B. Albert
‑Vietnam
‑US stance
‑President Nguyen Van Thieu
‑Andrei A. Gromyko
‑Handling of meetings
‑William P. Rogers
‑Timing of summits with the USSR, the PRC

Kissinger left at 5:35 pm.