Conversation No. 268-9/269-1

Date:  August 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 7:30 pm until 9:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with George P. Shultz and John B. Connally.
[The conversation was in progress when the recording began]

Busing
-Blacks
-Concerns
-Technical compliance with racial balance
-Compared to quality education
-Racial balance
-Black schools
-Alternatives
-Technical compliance with racial balance
-Old system
-Quality of education
-Desegregation
-Popularity
-Anti-busing statement
-Possible effect
-Dual school system
-The South
-Discussions of problems
-Quality of education
-Changes
-Compared to the North
-New Orleans
-School system
-Race
-Compared to Washington, DC

National economy
-Fiscal restraints
-Future fiscal years
-Symbolism

-Comparability
-Legislation
-House Resolution [HR 1]
-Postponement
-Defense spending
-Wage and price freeze
-Maurice H. Stans
-Railroad strike
-Impact
-Unknown person
-Wage and price freeze
-Office for Emergency Management [OEM]
-Possible action
-Psychological aspect
-President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Shultz, Connally
-Unknown option
-Timing
-September 1971
-Congress
-Possible crisis
-Possible leaks
-State Department
-Possible perception
-Hasty action
-Confidence factor
-International monetary system
-Forthcoming meeting
-President's speech
-Speechwriters
-Import tax
-Retroactivity
-Congressional action
-Unilateral action
-Devaluation of the dollar
-Unemployment
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Possible delay
-Congress
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Import tax
-Floating the dollar
-Devaluation
-Closing the gold window
-Foreign relations
-US bargaining power
-Wage and price freeze
-Fiscal restraint
-Tax repeal
-Floating the dollar
-Capital control
-Foreign investment
-Interest equalization tax
-Devaluation
-Discussion with others
-Peter G. Peterson
-Mills
-Paul W. McCracken
-President's forthcoming meeting
-Preparation
-Timing
-September 1971
-Balance of trade
-Timing
-President’s confidence in proposals
-Wage and price freeze
-Preparation of package
-Federal agencies
-Connally's conversation with McCracken
-Treasury, Commerce, Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-Post wage and price freeze
-Duration
-Post-freeze
-President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting
-Proposed action
-President's decision

Shultz and Connally left at 9:50 pm.

Conversation No. 269-2

Date:  August 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:50 pm and 9:51 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.
Harry S. Dent
-President's telephone call
-Request for information

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:51 pm.

Conversation No. 269-3

Date:  August 2, 1971
Time:  9:51 pm - 9:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

Harry S. Dent talked with the President.

Unknown problem [Busing?]
-The President's call to Barry M. Goldwater
-Political impact

Conversation No. 269-4

Date:  August 2, 1971
Time:  9:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to John D. Ehrlichman

Conversation No. 269-5

Date:  August 2, 1971
Time:  9:56 pm - 10:02 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

Busing
-President's call from Harry S. Dent
-Conversation with Edward L. Morgan
-Forthcoming White House statement
-Texas and Mississippi chairmen
-James L. Buckley [?]
-Austin case
-Possible appeal
-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]
-Marvin Gardens
-John N. Mitchell
-George P. Shultz
-Clark MacGregor
-Possible cause of action
-Ehrlichman's forthcoming call to Dent
-Partisan aspects
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Mitchell
-Plan
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming call to Dent

Conversation No. 269-6

Date:  August 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:02 pm and 10:46 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 269-7

Date:  August 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:02 pm and 10:46 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to John D. Ehrlichman

Conversation No. 269-8

Date:  August 2, 1971
Time:  10:46 pm - 10:56 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

Ehrlichman's call to Harry S. Dent

Busing
-Southern chairman
-Constitutional amendment

-John N. Mitchell
-Dent
-Amendment
-Unknown chairmen
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming call to Dent
-Partisan aspect
-Mitchell

Conversation No. 269-9

Date:  August 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:48 am and 9:53 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:53 am.

Conversation No. 269-10

Date:  August 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:48 am and 9:53 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman [?]

President's schedule
-John B. Connally
-Meeting with President
-Time
-Executive Office Building [EOB]

Conversation No. 269-11

Date:  August 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:48 am and 9:53 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 9:53 am.

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:48 am and 9:53 am.

Call to J. Curtis Counts
-Federal mediation and conciliation service

Call to Willie J. Usery, Jr.
-Labor Department

Conversation No. 269-12

Date:  August 3, 1971
Time:  9:53 am - 9:56 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Willie J. Usery, Jr.

Steel settlement
-President's appreciation for Usery's work
-Next steps

Conversation No. 269-13

Date:  August 3, 1971
Time:  9:57 am - 9:58 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with James D. Hodgson.

Steel settlement
-President's appreciation for Hodgson's work
-Call to [Willie J. Usery, Jr.]
-Call to J. Curtis Counts
-Hodgson's briefing
-Price increase
-President’s appreciation for Hodgson’s and others’ work

Conversation No. 269-14

Date:  August 3, 1971
Time:  9:59 am - 10:02 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with J. Curtis Counts.

Steel settlement
-President's appreciation for Counts’ work
-Price increase
-James D. Hodgson
-Railroad strike
-Curtis’ background

Conversation No. 269-15

Date:  August 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:02 am and 10:19 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

Busing
-Texas
-Court action
-Appeal
-Unknown person’s statement
-Possible telephone calls
-Alternatives
-Car pools
-Court action
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Regional office
-George P. Shultz

-President's instructions
-Regional office action
-Administration disapproval
-Disciplinary action

National economy
-Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. 
-Statements
-Unemployment
-Administration allies
-Arthur F. Burns
-Congress

Conversation No. 269-16

Date:  August 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:02 am and 10:19 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 10:19 am.

Conversation No. 269-17

Date:  August 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:02 am and 10:19 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 269-18

Date:  August 3, 1971
Time:  10:19 am - 10:32 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

National economy
-Strikes
-Steel price increase
-Steel industry
-Railroad industry
-Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.'s statements
-Possible administration response
-Briefing
-John B. Connally
-Clark MacGregor
-Administration policy
-Democrats' position
-Congressional recess
-William B. Saxbe
-Unknown man
-Massachusetts
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Democrats
-Retail sales figures
-June 1971
-Unemployment
-Figure
-Youth
-Talking points
-Connally
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Paul W. McCracken
-Howard H. Baker, Jr. [?]
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Wage and price freeze

-Timing
-August
-September
-Steel strike
-Psychology

Polls
-[Louis P. Harris ?]
-Presidential approval
-Iowa and Ohio
-George H. Gallup

Support for administration
-Instructions for Colson
-F. Bradford Morse
-Weicker
-Congressional Republicans
-Connally
-Liberals
-Jacob K. Javits
National economy
-Status
-Strength
-Retail sales
-Public perception
-Harris polls
-Influences
-Politicians
-Media

Conversation No. 269-19

Date:  August 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:32 am and 10:34 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Requested a meeting with Kissinger

Conversation No. 269-20

Date:  August 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:32 am and 10:34 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to Benjamin F. Biaggini of the Southern Pacific Transportation Company

Conversation No. 269-21

Date:  August 3, 1971
Time:  10:34 am - 12:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with George P. Shultz.

Busing
-Administration action
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Regional office action
-White House statement on discipline and removal
-Plan
-White House statement on President’s disapproval
-Regional office
-Plan
-President’s disapproval
-Wording
-Regional office in Austin
-White House statement
-Direction

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 10:36 am.

-Shultz’s planned trip to Austin
-Shultz's father
-Proposed amendment
-[Emergency aid program]
-Possible veto
-President’s view
-Shultz's trip

[End of telephone conversation]

Busing
-Liberals

[The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 10:40 am and 10:47 am]

[Conversation No. 269-21A]

Busing
-President's conversation with Shultz
-Proposed amendment
-Legislation
-President's possible veto
-HEW regional office
-Austin trip

Ehrlichman’s forthcoming press conference
-Railroad strike
-Family Assistance Plan
-Revenue sharing
-Congressional recess
-Timing
-Possible special session

President's instructions concerning Shultz

[End of telephone conversation]

Liberals

[An unknown person [Alexander P. Butterfield?] entered at an unknown time between 10:40 am and 10:47 am]

President’s signature

[The unknown person [Butterfield?] left at an unknown time between 10:40 am and 10:47 am]

President's forthcoming press conference

-Possible foreign policy questions
-Pakistan
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-United Nations [UN] representation issue
-Secretary of State’s statement
-Possible vote
-Conservatives
-Taiwan, Republic of China [ROC]

[An unknown person entered at an unknown time between 10:40 am and 10:47 am]

[Unknown activity]
[The unknown person left at an unknown time between 10:40 am and 10:47 am]

-Possible impact on President’s planned trip
-Trip
-Importance
-PRC interest
-Propaganda
-Communism

[An unknown person entered at an unknown time between 10:40 am and 10:47 am]

[Unknown activity]

[The unknown person left at an unknown time between 10:40 am and 10:47 am]

[The President talked with Benjamin F. Biaggini between 10:47 am and 10:50 am]

[Conversation No. 269-21B]

Railroad strike settlement
-President’s appreciation
-Legislation
-Unknown man [J. Curtis Counts?]
-Background
-Shultz
-Peter G. Peterson
-John B. Connally
-Legislation
-President’s schedule
-Bohemian Grove

[End of telephone conversation]

President’s forthcoming press conference
-Possible foreign policy questions
-PRC
-Mutual interest
-Analogy
-US-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] relations
-Edward M. Kennedy statement
-John F. Kennedy
-Chiang Kai Shek
-Possible trip
-Significance of US opening
-Foreign Relations Committee
-Trip by President
-Agenda
-Participants
-President, Secretary of State, Kissinger
-Press
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Decisions
-Channel of communications
-Possible reaction by PRC
-World peace
-Stature
-UN representation

[Unintelligible]

-Voting procedures
-Majority vote
-Expulsion of Taiwan
-Important question
-Resolution
-Spiro T. Agnew

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 10:50 am.

President's schedule
-Connally

Kissinger's schedule

Kissinger and Butterfield left at 10:59 am.

Connally entered at 10:59 am.

Busing in Texas
-President’s conversation with Shultz
-HEW regional office action
-President’s view
-Judge
-HEW staff member's plan
-Emergency aid program
-President's proposed action
-Amendment
-Court action
-Connally's talk with school board president
-Frank Ginnis (?)
-Local school board
-Austin
-Dallas
-Corpus Christi
-Houston
-Shultz
-Administration position
-Swann decision
-Black schools
-Mexican-Americans
-Necessity for time
-Proposed amendment on emergency school aid
-Reaction of black community
-Democrats
-Votes
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Edward Kennedy
-Court action
-Corpus Christi
-Woodrow Seals
-Ruling on de jure discrimination
-Dallas
-Jim Collins
-Investigation
-Use of federal funds
-As political issue
-Liberals
-Position on busing

National economy
-Proposed action
-Timing
-Presentation before Congress
-Investment tax credit
-Import tax
-Excise tax
-Wage and price freeze
-Perception of precipitous action
-Panic and irresponsibility
-Peterson
-Paul A. Volcker
-Arthur F. Burns
-Connally’s possible meeting with Shultz
-Congress’ return
-Date
-Shultz
-Budget cuts
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Family assistance plan
-Apollo space shots
-Public opinion polls
-Probe to Mars
-Lowell P. Weicker. Jr.
-Capital controls
-Shultz
-Possible program
-Floating dollar
-New economic policy
-Removal
-Opponents
-Trade
-Dollar outflow
-Exchange rates
-President's instructions
-Shultz
-Treasury Department
-Commerce Department
-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-Trade
-Export-Import Bank
-Peterson
-Wage-price freeze
-Administration
-Treasury Department
-Bureaucracy
-Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]
-Farm prices
-Lettuce
-Fruit growers
-Duration
-Shultz’s view
-60 days
-60 days compared to 120 days
-Possible criticism
-Hardship cases
-Possible reception
-Farm prices
-Hogs
-Corn
-Department of Agriculture
-Hogs
-Office of Price Administration [OPA]
-Duration
-Consumers' reaction
-Price increases
-Analogy to OPA
-Business community
-Wages
-Reexamination
-Wage and price guidelines
-1971 increases
-International competition
-Government intervention
-Subsidies
-Antitrust laws
-Import controls
-Possible delay of implementation
-Impact on 1970's
-Bicentennial celebration
-Fundamental restructuring
-Domestic economy vis-a-vis international relations
-Growth

International economics
-President’s speech to Midwestern News Media Executives in Kansas City, Missouri, July 6, 1971
-Economic superpowers
-PRC
-Reduction of military
-Impact on PRC and USSR
-Europe
-Marshall Plan
-Japan
-USSR, PRC, Japan
-Goal
-US goals
-Peterson

Wage and price freeze
-Timing
-Administration policy
-Possible criticism
-Policy change
-Secretary of the Treasury
-Possible leak
-Advantages of delay
-Analysis
-Preparation
-Budget
-Charts
-Analysis
-Capital controls
-Speech
-Congress
-Jacob K. Javits
-Incomes policy
-Volatility of economy
-Harry S. Truman
-1948 Campaign
-Republican Convention, Philadelphia
-Thomas E. Dewey
-Need to endure criticism
-Analogy
-US military action
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Effect on US casualties
-Timing
-August
-Connally's Munich, Germany speech
-Trade agreements

Possible questions at President’s forthcoming press conference
-Connally’s Face the Nation appearance
-Retail trade, construction, corporate profits, personal incomes, inflation, Gross National Product [GNP] deflator
-International monetary action
-Connally’s Munich, Germany speech
-Forthcoming World Bank meeting
-Department of the Treasury
-Tax reforms
-Connally’s possible call to unknown person
-Wage and price controls
-Permanence
-Construction industry
-Steel industry and oil industry
-Price increases
-Interest rates
-Home building
-Connally's Face the Nation appearance
-Camp David
-PRC

Congress
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Credit
-Statement
-Peterson
-Sharing credit
-Connally’s forthcoming telephone calls
-Revenue sharing, tax policy, trade
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Carl B. Albert
-Health

Arthur F. Burns
-Connally’s planned meeting
-Budget
-Postponing comparability
-Shultz
-Quadriad meeting
-Confidence

President's schedule
-Quadriad meeting
-Possible meeting with Connally and Burns

Burns
-Handling
-Need to maintain pressure
-Harold E. Stassen
-Need to say affirmative things

Economy
-Possible actions
-President’s instructions to Connally
-Peterson
-Need for delay
-No discussion
-Paul W. McCracken
-President’s schedule
-California
-Study over talk
-Shultz

Connally's schedule
-Dinner
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Dinner
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham

President's schedule
-California
-Charlotte, North Carolina
-Labor Day

Economy
-Wage and price freeze
-Timing
-Preparation
-Budget
-Shultz
-Congress
-State of the Union address
-Tax reforms
-PRC trip
-Vietnam
-Possible announcement
-Paris negotiations
-Instructions to Connally
-Business community
-Tax reform

President’s greeting

Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally

The President and Connally left at 12:00 pm.

Conversation No. 269-22

Date:  August 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:00 pm and 12:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger's schedule
-Meeting with the President

Conversation No. 269-23

Date:  August 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:00 pm and 12:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Request for meeting

Conversation No. 269-24

Date:  August 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:00 pm and 12:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Call to I[lworth] W[ilbur] Abel of the United Steelworker of America

Conversation No. 269-25

Date:  August 3, 1971
Time:  12:05 pm - 1:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Busing
-Texas schools
-John B. Connally
-George P. Shultz

[The President talked with I[lworth] W[ilbur] Abel between 12:07 pm and 12:10 pm]

[Conversation No. 269-25A]

Steel settlement
-Negotiating sessions
-Impact of possible strike
-1959 strike
-Productivity study
-President's schedule
-Possible meetings
-President’s possible involvement

-J. Curtis Counts
-News summary
-Bank and file workers
-Possible speech
-Meeting
[End of telephone conversation]

President's schedule
-Telephone calls

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 12:10 pm and 12:12 pm]

[Conversation No. 269-25B]

Call to Clark MacGregor

[End of telephone conversation]

Lockheed vote
-MacGregor’s schedule
-Telephone calls
-Notes
-John G. Tower
-J. Caleb Boggs
-William V. Roth, Jr.

[The President talked with MacGregor between 12:12 pm and 12:15 pm]

[Conversation No. 269-25C]

MacGregor's schedule

Lockheed
-Vote outcome
-Tower, Boggs, Roth, Marlow W. Cook
-Peter H. Dominick
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-[Unknown person]
-George D. Aiken
-Margaret Chase Smith
-Dominick
-PRC
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Taiwan
-President's appreciation of MacGregor's work
-Cook, Boggs, Roth
-Petrochemical deal

[End of telephone conversation]

Lockheed vote
-Note to Cook
-Motivations
-David H. Gambrell

President's schedule
-Letters
-Gerald R. Ford
-Telephone calls
-Birthday greetings

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 12:15 pm and 12:20 pm]

[Conversation No. 269-25D]

John D. Ehrlichman's schedule
-Meeting with Shultz

[End of telephone conversation]

Busing in Texas
-Shultz
-President's conversation
-Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW] regional director
-Edward L. Morgan

President's schedule
-Press conference
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Possible postponement
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Timing
-Mary McGrory
-Possible question
-Unemployment
-Timing
-Ziegler’s possible announcement
-Trip to New York

[Ehrlichman talked with the President between 12:20 pm and 12:26 pm]

[Conversation No. 269-25E]

Busing
-President's meeting with Connally
-Shultz
-Trip to Texas
-Harry S. Dent
-John N. Mitchell
-Appeal
-Haldeman
-Ehrlichman's call to Mitchell
-Texas chairmen
-Mississippi chairmen
-Mitchell’s message to chairmen
-Emergency school aid
-HEW plan
-Shultz
-Alternative
-Dallas
-Connally's comments
-HEW
-President’s view
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Possible veto of emergency school aid
-Amendment
-Congress

[End of telephone conversation]

Busing
-Statement
-Amendment

President’s schedule
-Press conference
-Ziegler
-Buchanan
-The press
-President’s location
-Old Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Connally
-Mitchell
-Press releases
-Timing

[Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 12:26 pm and 12:45 pm]

[Conversation No. 269-25F]

Call to Ziegler

[End of telephone conversation]

President's schedule
-Trip to New York City
-Press conference
-Ziegler, Buchanan
-Leaks

Busing in Texas schools
-Possible appeal
-Austin, Dallas

[Haldeman talked with Ziegler at an unknown time between 12:26 pm and 12:45 pm]

[Conversation No. 269-25G]

President's schedule
-Press conference
-Timing
-Press participation
-Pool plan
-Gerald L. Warren
-President's trip to New York City

[End of telephone conversation]

President's schedule
-Press conference
-Reporters' knowledge
-Timing of announcement
-President's preparation
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Buchanan
-News summary
-Editing
-Richard A. Moore
-John A. Scali
-William L. Safire
-Economy
-Positive spin
-Paul W. McCracken

National economy
-Administration policy
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Conservatives

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Agnew
-Trips
-Compared to President’s trips as Vice President
-Kitchen Debate
-Caracas, Venezuela
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Connally

National economy
-Proposed action
Timing
-Connally and Peter G. Peterson
-Congressional adjournment
-Appearance of panic

Kissinger entered at 12:45 pm.

PRC
-Trip
-Arthur F. Burns

President's schedule
-Meeting with [Emperor of Japan] Hirohito
-Timing
-Alaska
-California
-Emilio Garrastazu Medici
-Emperor Hirohito
-Western media briefing
-Timing
-Unknown person
-Possible conflict with football season
-Los Angeles
-Portland
-Los Angeles
-San Clemente
-Washington, DC
-Emperor Hirohito
-Alaska
-Possible visit by Prince and Princess Hitachi
-Japan House, New York
-John D. Rockefeller
-Emperor Hirohito meeting
-Effect on US-PRC relations
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Sequoia trip
-Logistics
-Trip to New Hampshire
-Nursing home
-William Loeb
-Schedule
-Nashua
-Manchester
-Dover
-Problem
-Nursing home
-Conditions
-Press
-Photographs
-Staff
-Purpose of visit
-Bangor, Maine
-Arrival
-Margaret Chase Smith
-Tourism

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-Breakfast meeting
-Speaker Carl B. Albert
-Tour
-Korea, Taiwan delegation
-Girls Nation group, August 6, 1971
-Albert
-Republican leadership
-MacGregor

[Unintelligible]

-Leslie C. Arends, Ford, Hugh Scott, Robert P. Griffin
-Television
-George Putnam
-New York City
-Knights of Columbus, August 17, 1971
-Springfield, Illinois
-State Fair
-Speech
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Texas
-Pennsylvania
-Southern Illinois
-Texas
-Dallas
-Houston
-Apollo XV
-Busing issue
-Dallas
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW] speech, August 19, 1971
-New York
-Springfield
-Houston
-New York
-Dallas
-California
-San Clemente
-Robert H. Finch
-Springfield State Fair
-Houston
-Wyoming
-Montana
-Wyoming
-Grand Tetons
-Dallas
-VFW speech
-Busing issue
-Trip to New England
-Maine, New Hampshire
-Massachusetts and Vermont

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Haldeman left at 1:15 pm.

Forthcoming press conference
-Possible questions
-Taiwan
-Resolution
-Treaty commitment
-Vietnam
-Speculation
-Vietnam negotiations
-David K.E. Bruce
-Willy Brandt
-President’s plan
-Paris
-Points
-Number
-South Vietnamese elections
-Nguyen Cao Ky
-Duong Van Minh
-Possible answer
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Peterson
-Vietnam
-Election
-Observers
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Drug traffic
-President’s comments
-General Tzu [sp?], Ky, Thieu	
-Draft
-Amendment
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Kissinger’s possible call to John C. Stennis
-President’s letter
-Statement
-Pakistan
-Pentagon Papers
-US involvement in Vietnam
-Withdrawal
-PRC
-Forthcoming talks
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Press view
-New York Times
-Administration view
-National security
-Overclassification
-Declassification
-World War II documents
-War powers
-US foreign relations
-Japan
-Announcement
-Lawrence F. (“Larry”) Eagleburger

[The President talked with Haldeman between 1:27 pm and 1:28 pm]

[Conversation No. 269-25H]

Schedule
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Connally
-Sequoia
-Briefing
-Connally

[End of telephone conversation]

Atomic tests
-Amchitka, Alaska
-Announcement
-Postponement
-Environmentalists

John D. Ehrlichman entered at an unknown time after 1:25 pm.

Busing in Texas
-Austin
-Appeal
-Republican chairmen

Ehrlichman’s schedule
-Guam
-PRC
-Guam
-Itinerary

Forthcoming press conference

Kissinger left at 1:33 pm.

Busing
-Statement
-Mitchell
-Calls to chairmen
-Amendment
-Elliot L. Richardson, Morgan
-Timing
-Wording
-Emergency School Assistance Act
-Richardson
-Justice Department action
-Notice of appeal
-Attorney General
-HEW plan
-President’s position
-Ehrlichman's conversation with Richardson
-HEW personnel
-Morgan
-Dallas case
-Federal government involvement
-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]
-School district
-District court ruling
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Richardson
-Southern chairmen
-Constitutional amendment
-Timing
-1972 Republican convention
-Connally
-Legislative process
-Republican convention
-Platform
-Polls
-Jacob K. Javits
-Press conference
-Possible question
-Answer
-Austin case ruling
-Racial balance in schools
-Busing as requirement
-Connally

Lockheed vote
-Connally
-Role
-Treasury Department
-Cook
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Delaware
-Petrochemical
-Boggs
-Roth

Busing in Texas
-White House statement
-Opponents
-[Forename unknown] Hargrave [sp?]
-Connally's trip to Texas
-Possible press conference
-Constitutional amendment
-Court action
-Austin case
-HEW plan
-White House statement

Ehrlichman left at 1:40 pm.

Conversation No. 269-26

Date:  August 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 1:40 pm until 1:47 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

President’s signature

President's schedule
-Forthcoming Cabinet meeting, August 5, 1971
-Agenda
-Blue collar employment
-James D. Hodgson
-Veteran employment
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Vice President
-Participants
-David M. Kennedy
-Elliot Richardson
-Vice President's trip to Africa
-William P. Rogers
-Robert H. Finch
-George P. Shultz
-Civil service grades
-Jack J. Dreyfuss, Jr.
-Gen. Walter R. Tkach
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Tkach
-Pierre E. Trudeau

Butterfield left at 1:47 pm.

Conversation No. 269-27

Date:  August 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:47 pm and 3:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman [?]

President's schedule
-Forthcoming press conference, August 4, 1971
-Press
-Photo opportunity
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Oval Office meeting
-William Rogers, Henry A. Kissinger, John B. Connally
-Timing

Conversation No. 269-28

Date:  August 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:47 pm and 3:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

President's schedule
-Staff memoranda
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Economic subjects
-Summaries
-William L. Safire, Richard A. Moore, John A. Scali

Conversation No. 269-29

Date:  August 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:47 pm and 3:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:40 pm.

Conversation No. 269-30

Date:  August 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:47 pm and 3:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 3:40 pm.

Conversation No. 269-31

Date:  August 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:47 pm and 3:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:40 pm.

Conversation No. 269-32

Date:  August 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:47 pm and 3:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

President's schedule
-Stephen B. Bull
-Dr. W. Kenneth Riland
-Meeting with unknown person
-Timing

[Unintelligible]

Conversation No. 269-33

Date:  August 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:47 pm and 3:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

Legislation
-George H. Mahon
-Emergency employment appropriation
-Prospects for passage

Conversation No. 269-34

Date:  August 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:47 pm and 3:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Appointments
-John B. Connally
-Treasury Department
-Announcement
-Timing
-President’s schedule
-California
-Decision

Conversation No. 269-35

Date:  August 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:47 pm and 3:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

Prayer in public schools
-Possible press conference question
-Possible opponents
-Atheists, Jews
-Constitutionalists
-Possible press conference question
-Voting by eighteen-year-olds

Conversation No. 269-36

Date:  August 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:47 pm and 3:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

Weekly news summary
-Candidates
-School of the year
-Clark MacGregor
-Unknown person
-President’s regards

Conversation No. 269-37

Date:  August 3, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:47 pm and 3:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

An unknown person talked with the President.

Unknown person's schedule