Conversation No. 267‑1

Date:  Unknown between July 29 and July 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:50 pm, July 29 and 9:08 am, July 30, 1971
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man.

Schedule
‑Meeting

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 9:08 am, July 30, 1971.

Conversation No. 267‑2

Date:  July 30, 1971
Time:  9:08 am ‑ 9:10 am
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
‑George P. Shultz
-Meeting with railroad officials
‑Telephone call from Shultz

Butterfield left at 9:10 am.

Conversation No. 267‑3

Date:  July 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:10 am and 9:13 am
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man.

Request

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 9:13 am.

Conversation No. 267‑4

Date:  July 30, 1971
Time:  9:13 am ‑ 9:15 am
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with George P. Shultz.

[See Conversation No. 7‑36]

Conversation No. 267‑5

Date:  July 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:15 am and 9:35 am
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown woman.

Schedule

The President and the unknown woman left at 9:35 am.

Conversation No. 267‑6

Date:  July 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:24 pm and 3:04 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

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

Schedule
‑Forthcoming meeting

Conversation No. 267‑7

Date:  July 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:24 pm and 3:04 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

Speech draft for Iowa trip
‑Delivery to Woods
‑Copy for Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Typing instructions
‑Underlining of words

Conversation No. 267‑8

Date:  July 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:24 pm and 3:04 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man.

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The unknown man left at an unknown time before 3:04 pm.

Conversation No. 267‑9

Date:  July 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:24 pm and 3:04 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown woman.

Speech draft for Rose Mary Woods
‑Instructions
‑Underlining of words

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 3:04 pm.

Conversation No. 267‑10

Date:  July 30, 1971
Time:  3:04 pm ‑ 4:00 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

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

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
‑Victor Gold
‑Memorandum for the President
‑Relations between the US and the People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑Gold's impression of Agnew's position on the 1972 ticket
‑Frank Cormier's article
-PRC
‑John A. Scali
‑Meeting
‑John Roberts
‑Source of item
‑Cormier
‑Herbert G. Klein
‑Sources of rumor
‑Robert Pierpoint's report about Agnew=s involvement in PRC
‑Arthur J. Sohmer's alleged receipt of unsigned White House cable
‑Scali
‑Vice President problem
‑Involvement
-Klein
‑White House staff relations

The press
‑Pentagon Papers
‑New morality
-William P. Rogers
‑Letter to the editor of Newsweek from US ambassador to Kenya
‑Response to article about Agnew
-Scali
‑Golf course
‑Meeting with Jomo Kenyatta
-Use of limousines
‑Kakuei Tanaka
‑Newsweek
‑White House response to article
‑Lack of contact
‑Request for retraction
‑Ronald L. Ziegler, Scali
‑Henry Hubbard
‑Kenyatta article
‑White House contact cut‑off
-Ziegler
‑Retraction of article

-Presidential directive
‑Instructions to Cabinet members
‑White House staff
‑Circulation of background information and ambassador's letter to the editor
‑The Bohemian Grove
-Cancellation of trip
-Agnew
‑The President's forthcoming trip
‑Ohio
‑California
‑The Bohemian Grove
‑Telephone call to the President
‑The Gridiron dinner
‑News embargo on reporting event
-Comparison to the Bohemian Grove

The President=s schedule
‑California
‑Ronald W. Reagan
‑Milk producers speech
-Patrick J. Buchanan
‑Northern California

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Unidentified person
-Attitude
‑Haldeman=s view

[Pause]

John B. Connally
-President=s instructions
-Haldeman

Fraternal Organizations
-Secrecy
-Order of Elks
-Masons
-Lodge

Newsweek
-Haldeman=s forthcoming staff meeting
‑Letter to Cabinet members
‑Cable
‑Hubbard
‑Call by Ziegler
‑White House reaction
-Richard A. Moore
‑Letter to Cabinet members
‑Handling of distribution
‑Release of letter
-Timing
-Agnew

The President's schedule
‑July 31, 1971 travel
-Republican leaders meeting
‑Rathbun Dam dedication
‑Future forum

The economy
‑Wall Street Journal article
‑Citation by Shultz
‑Automobile sales, housing starts, production output

The Vietnam war
‑Casualty figures
‑Cambodia

The economy
‑Positive stories
‑Great Britain's unemployment rate
‑Comparison with the US
‑Germany, Japan, Italy
‑Welfare recipients in the US
‑Per Capita Income 
-Latin America, Mexico
-Africa
-South Asia
-Italy

Thomas R. Shepard
‑Speech
‑@Ding-a-ling@ era
‑Current issues
‑The environment
‑Air and water pollution
‑Participants in television show
‑Population projections
‑People concerned with environmental and social issues
-@Disaster lobby@
-Ralph Nader
‑Automobile fatalities
‑1920's to 1961
‑Automobile safety improvements
‑Nader
‑Compulsory seatbelts and shoulder harnesses
‑Automobile recalls
‑Effect on auto fatalities
‑The environment
‑Air pollution
‑Coal
‑Industry development of alternative energy sources
‑Amount of oxygen at present compared with 1910
‑Water pollution
‑1900 statistics on typhoid in Chicago
‑Comparison to the present
‑Lake Erie
‑Municipal responsibilities
‑Sewage

Environmental issues
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane [DDT]
‑Effect
‑Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
‑Malaria control
-Ceylon
‑Increase in deaths after DDT ban
-Gypsy moth
‑Copies of speech by Shepard
‑Distribution to Ehrlichman and John C. Whitaker
‑Possible future speech by the President
-Speech
‑Population growth projections
‑Disaster lobby
‑Free enterprise system
‑Daniel P. Moynihan
-Influence
-President=s view
‑Poll questions
-Charles W. Colson
-Louis Harris
‑Environmental issues
‑Jobs compared with environment
‑Harris= handling of questions
‑Compared to Thomas W. Benham

Shepard
‑Possibility of White House job
-Nader=s effect on business
‑Consumerism
‑Speech
‑Regulation
‑Kingman Brewster's comments 
-Fair trials for Black revolutionaries
‑US senator
‑Ralph Nader
‑Comparison with other eras in US history
‑Pre‑Civil War gold rush fever
‑Post‑Civil War carpetbaggers
‑1920's
‑Senator Joseph McCarthy
‑@Disaster lobbyists@

‑Quote from the President
‑Appearance, abililties
‑Comparison of writing style with the President's speaking style
‑Use of the term crackpot
‑Consumer and environmental activists
-Speech
‑Current attitudes in the US
‑Emphasis on rights of the criminal, not the victim
‑Universities
‑Draft dodgers compared with soldiers serving in the US military
‑Treatment of minorities compared with charges of racism
‑Double standards on prejudice
‑Liberal prejudice against hardhats, construction workers, career soldiers, southern Whites
‑Vietnam war
‑Action against cigarette smoking compared with the fight to liberalize marijuana laws	
‑Beliefs of Adisaster lobby@
‑Copies of speech
‑Distribution
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr. and speech writers
‑Ehrlichman, Whitaker
‑Nature of environmental issues
‑Comparison with the President's handling of the Vietnam war
-Edmund S. Muskie, Nader

Haldeman left at 4:00 pm.

Conversation No. 267‑11

Date:  July 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:00 pm and 4:17 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon

Conversation No. 267‑12

Date:  July 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:00 pm and 4:17 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

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

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Conversation No. 267‑13

Date:  July 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:00 pm and 4:17 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

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

Issues
‑Thomas R. Shepard=s speech
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Handling of environmental issues, consumerism, welfare
‑Stronger statements
‑Comparison with the President's handling of other issues such as foreign policy, crime
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr. and speech writers
‑White House domestic council staff
‑Attitudes
‑Welfare, revenue sharing

Conversation No.267‑14

Date:  July 30, 1971
Time:  4:17 pm ‑ 4:19 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Marjorie P. Acker.

Items for the President's forthoming trip

Acker left at 4:19 pm.

Conversation No. 267‑15

Date:  July 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:19 pm and 4:35 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown White House staff member.

Schedule
‑Length of meeting
‑Forthcoming meeting

Conversation No. 267‑16

Date:  July 30, 1971
Time:  4:35 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to George P. Shultz

Conversation No. 267‑17

Date:  July 30, 1971
Time:  4:35 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The White House operator talked with the President.

George P. Shultz's schedule

Conversation No. 267‑18

Date:  July 30, 1971
Time:  4:37 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to James D. Hodgson

Conversation No.267‑19

Date:  July 30, 1971
Time:  4:37 pm ‑ 4:45 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with James D. Hodgson.

Labor management
‑Report on negotiations on steel settlement
‑Productivity and work rules issues
‑Forthcoming negotiations
‑The President's schedule
‑Possible settlement
‑Inflationary impact
‑The President's role
‑The President's schedule

‑Railroad negotiations
‑Public reaction to railroads
‑Work rules issue
‑George P. Shultz

Conversation No. 267‑20

Date:  July 30, 1971
Time:  4:45 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 267‑21

Date:  July 30, 1971
Time:  4:46 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

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

Schedule
‑Meeting request

Conversation No. 267‑22

Date:  July 30, 1971
Time:  4:46 pm ‑ 5:43 pm
Location:  Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[Conversation No. 267‑22A]

Polls
-President=s conversation with Louis Harris
‑Domestic Council
‑Effect of foreign policy on domestic issues
‑Focus of questions
‑Environmental and consumer issues
‑Water pollution
‑Jobs compared with environment

H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman entered at 4:50 pm.

‑The President's possible meeting with Harris
‑Questions
‑Understanding of political ramifications

The economy
‑Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS]
‑Dan Rather's comment
‑News summary
-George P. Shultz
‑Comparison of statistics with 1970 unemployment projection

Congress
‑Action on Lockheed bailout

[The President conferred with Haldeman]

Lockheed
‑John Volpe
-Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield

[End of conferral]

Daniel P. Moynihan

John V. Lindsay
‑New York City
‑42nd Street
-Prostitution

[End of telephone conversation]

Telephone call recommendation
‑Bart Starr

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:50 pm and 5:01 pm]

[Conversation No. 267‑22B]

Call to Starr

[End of telephone conversation]

Thomas R. Shepard
-Possible meeting with the President
‑Possible White House position
‑Writing style of speech
‑Comparison with White House speechwriters
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr.
‑Abilities as speechwriter
‑Management of speechwriting staff
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
‑Focus in domestic issues

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 5:00 pm.

Shepard
‑Speech
‑Assistance to the President
‑In publishing or in the White House
-Look magazine

The President read aloud excerpts from "The Ding‑A‑Ling Era" by Shepard.

[See White House Subject Files: Executive SP6 7/1/71 ‑ 8/31/71, "The Ding‑A‑Ling Era", Thomas R. Shepard]

Shepard speech
‑Water pollution
‑Lake Erie
‑Environmentalists
‑Dichlorokiphenyl trichloroethane [DDT]
‑Effectiveness
‑Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring

-Ceylon
‑Reduction of malaria cases
‑Increases in malaria cases after imposition of DDT ban
-Penguins, pelicans

[The President talked with Bart Starr between 5:09 pm and 5:11 pm]

[Conversation No. 267‑22C]

Football
-Starr=s health
‑The President's imminent departure for Canton, Ohio
‑Football Hall of Fame inductions
‑Starr's health
‑Therapy for injury
‑Return to playing football

[End of telephone conversation]

Shepard speech
‑Population explosion
-Moynihan
‑Activists
‑Kingman Brewster's comment about fair trials for Black revolutionaries

Foreign relations
‑Pakistan
-Phone call to Kissinger
‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
-Proposed trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑State Department and the Agency for International Development [AID]
-John N. Irwin II telephone call to Haldeman
‑Briefing

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PAKISTAN

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‑Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
‑Kennedy
‑Charles A.J.M. Degaulle's funeral
‑Pakistan
‑Kenneth Keating
‑Briefing
‑The President's schedule
‑Meeting
‑Ambassadors from foreign countries

Domestic Council staff
‑Stance on domestic issues
‑Environmental consumer issues
‑Photo opportunity with Russell Train

Haldeman left at 5:20 pm.

The President's schedule
‑Cancellation of Bohemian Grove visit
‑Press insistence on coverage
‑Other visitors
‑Secretary of State, dignitaries

US foreign relations
-The US and the PRC
-Developments
-Message

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PRC

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Foreign relations
‑The Vietnam War
‑Nguyen Van Thieu
‑Forthcoming South Vietnamese election
‑Statement of principles
‑Negotiations
‑PRC
‑Developments in relations with the US
‑Public reaction
-Vietnam
‑Timing of announcements
‑Public reaction
‑Liberals
‑Reaction to foreign policy compared to domestic issues
‑Trips
‑Kennedy, Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
‑Kissinger
-The President
-Timing
-The press
-Kennedy
‑The President
-Vietnam
‑Timing
‑Kennedy
‑Left‑wing Democrats

-Chou En-lai
‑State Department
‑The press

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PRC TRIP

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‑Kennedy's possible PRC trip
‑The press
‑Effect
-Mao Tse-tung

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PRC

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			‑The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑Other visitors
‑Treatment by the PRC
‑Canada
‑Kennedy

Kissinger left at 5:43 pm.