Conversation No. 272-1

Date:  August 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:55 pm and 1:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

President's schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:48 pm.

Conversation No. 272-2

Date:  August 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:55 pm and 1:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting, August 10, 1971
-Timing
-International monetary situation
-Unknown person
-Lunch
-Possible attendance

Conversation No. 272-3

Date:  August 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:55 pm and 1:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for a call to George P. Shultz

Conversation No. 272-4

Date:  August 9, 1971
Time:  1:48 pm - 1:58 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with George P. Shultz.

President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting

An unknown person entered at an unknown time between 1:48 pm and 1:58 pm.

Unknown activity

The unknown person left at an unknown time between 1:48 pm and 1:58 pm.

International monetary situation
-Status
-John B. Connally
-Texas
-Pressure for action
-Perception of crisis
-Paul A. Volcker

Pending legislation

-Possible vetoes
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Sustaining vote in Congress
-Chance
-Unknown person
-Political support
-Forthcoming meeting

National economy
-Retail sales
-President's schedule

Conversation No. 272-5

Date:  August 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:58 pm and 2:01 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting  
-Haldeman and John B. Connally

Conversation No. 272-6

Date:  August 9, 1971
Time:  2:01 pm - 2:02 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

Alexander P. Butterfield talked with the President.

President's schedule

Conversation No. 272-7

Date:  August 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:02 pm and 2:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:15 pm.

Conversation No. 272-8

Date:  August 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:02 pm and 2:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

President’s previous trip to New Hampshire and Maine
-Minot Island
-Thank you letter from the President
-Jack J. Dreyfus

-Presidential gifts

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John B. Connally

Arthur F. Burns

Woods’ forthcoming conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Appointment
-Unknown man
-Recommendation
-Nomination
-Herbert G. Klein

Conversation No. 272-9

Date:  August 9, 1971
Time:  2:15 pm - 2:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
-John B. Connally

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:30 pm.

Connally entered at 2:15 pm.

Henry S. Reuss
-Report
-Treasury Department’s response
-Loan negotiation

International monetary situation
-Currency exchanges
-Figures
-Switzerland
-Great Britain
-France
-Belgium
-Japan
-Italy
-Lira
-Ceiling against dollar
-Vatican
-Gold
-Forthcoming administration actions
-Possible leak
-George P. Shultz, Peter G. Peterson, Paul A. Volcker, Paul W. McCracken, John N. Mitchell
-Newspaper story
-Timing
-Risks
-Assets
-Switzerland
-Gold
-Erosion
-International and national mood
-Volcker
-Possible change
-Consequence
-Possible closing of gold window
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Relationship to President’s program
-President’s possible actions
-Consequences
-International markets
-Possible leak
-Paul Scott
-Drew Pearson
-Connally, Shultz, and the President
-Peterson
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Conversation with Connally, August 9, 1971
-Connally’s conversation with Wilbur D. Mills
-Devaluation
-Japan
-Trade
-Steel and textiles
-Staff inquiries
-Consequences
-Peterson
-Handling
-President's possible program
-Research
-Import tax, excise tax, investment tax credit
-Wage and price freeze

Federal budget
-Shultz
-Possible vetoes
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]

The President talked with Manolo Sanchez [?] at an unknown time between 2:15 pm and 2:30 pm.

Request for Sanchez [?]

[End of telephone conversation]

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:15 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:30 pm.

President’s schedule
-Meeting with Raymond K. Price, Jr. [?] and [Forename unknown] Eisenhower [?]

[Unintelligible]

Vietnam
-Press conference, August 4, 1971
-Negotiations
-Channels
-State Department
-Defense Department

People's Republic of China [PRC]

Leaks
-New York Times

Haldeman entered at 2:30 pm.

-Paul Scott's article
-Previous stories
-Instructions for Haldeman
-Peterson
-Export rebate
-Meeting with Shultz, Volcker, and McCracken
-Gold window closing
-Knowledge of President’s program
-Administration response

-Treasury Department
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Volcker's meeting with Connally
-McCracken
-Peterson
-Mills
-McCracken
-Peterson
-CEA
-Shultz
-Crisis with German Deutsche Mark [May 1971]
-Arthur F. Burns
-Charlie Kunz [sp?]
-Dollar contingency plan
-Scott's stories
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Scott
-Peterson
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Press relations
-Joint Subcommittee request
-Peterson
-President's program
-Haldeman's role
-Peterson's role
-Import tax, investment tax credit, wage and price freeze
-McCracken's conversation with the President
-Dollar flotation
-Burns
-Connally's conversation with the President
-Currency transactions
-Swiss
-Figure
-Possible panic
-Vietnam, PRC
-Peterson
-McCracken
-Haldeman's forthcoming calls
-McCracken, Peterson
-Scott's story
-Peterson’s knowledge
-Connally's conversation with Peterson
-Previous story
-Foreign affairs
-CEA
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Economies

Haldeman left at 2:45pm.

Anti-trust laws
-Possible amendments
-Strategic materials
-Bauxite, tin, platinum, chrome
-Possible energy crisis
-Europe
-Middle Eastern oil
-Possible encouragement of expropriation of US companies
-Constraints on competition
-Foreign government action
-Connally's meeting, August 8, 1971
-Texas Eastern
-John K. Jamieson  of Standard Oil
-John D. Harper, Chairman of Alcoa Corporation
-George B.D. Peterson of Alcoa
-Ed Speer of US Steel
-Baxter Goodrich of Texas Eastern
-Japanese and Italian Steel companies
-Speer’s concern
-French aluminum industry
-Harper’s concern
-General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade [GATT]
-Editorials concerning free trade
-Liberals
-New York Times
-Nixon Round
-"Kennedy round"
-French aluminum company

Economy
-International monetary crisis
-President's program
-Status
-Timing of announcement

Anti-trust laws
-Possible changes
-Mitchell
-Roy Ingrams, assistant General Counsel at Treasury Department
-Volcker's conversation with Burns
-Burns’ view
-Possible conversation Europeans
-Volcker’s view
-Europeans' possible actions
-French
-Gold
-Germans
-British
-French
-Volcker’s conversation with Connally
-France
-Japan
-Possible conversation with Europeans and Japan
-Burns
-Wage and price freeze
-Connally's schedule

Connally left at 2:55 pm.

Conversation No. 272-10

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:43 pm and 2:54 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

President's schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:54 pm.

Conversation No. 272-11

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:43 pm and 2:54 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

President's schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:54 pm.

Conversation No. 272-12

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  2:54 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the President.

President's schedule
-Meeting with Kissinger
-President's forthcoming call to Kissinger or Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Conversation No. 272-13

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  3:12 pm - 3:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

President's schedule
-Stephen B. Bull's call to Kissinger
-Forthcoming meeting
-Itinerary
-India-Pakistan
-Refugees
-India
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]

Thomas H. Moorer, Robert E. Cushman, John N. Irwin, Maurice J. Williams, Joseph J. Sisco, and Armistead I. Selden, Jr. entered at an unknown time after 3:12 pm.

[General conversation]

-San Clemente

India and Pakistan
-US policy
-Avoidance of war
-Media
-Humanitarian aid
-Pakistan
-Refugees
-United Nations [UN]
-President's conversation with Indian Ambassador
-Economic aid
-Political aspects
-National interests
-War
-India
-Pakistan
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-US
-PRC
-Pakistan
-India
--Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Refugees
-India
-US policy
-USSR
-US policy
-State Department
-Instructions fro Sisco
-Need to avoid war
-Neutrality
-Consequences of possible war
-President’s possible television appearance
-Appeal to Congress for economic aid cut-off
-Summarized
-Economic aid
-USSR
-Need to avoid war
-Restraint
-Yahya Khan
-US policy
-Joseph S. Farland
-Yahya Khan
-India
-Policy
-Independent Bangladesh
-Means
-Soviet-Indian Friendship Treaty
-USSR
-Visit by Andrei A. Gromyko to India
-Support for guerilla activity
-Instability in East Pakistan
-Pakistan
-Yahya Khan
-Possible action
-East Pakistan
-India
-US aid
-Political situation 
-Impact on insurgency
-Military situation
-Guerilla activity
-India
-UN
-Refugees
-East Pakistan
-US policy
-Peaceful outcome
-Yahya Khan
-Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
-Pakistan's view
-President's conversation with Farland
-Political settlement
-Relationship to refugees problem
-East Bengel
-Impact on Pakistan
-India
-Guerillas
-Yahya Khan
-Exiles in Calcutta
-Farland
-Analogy to Henry J. Tasca
-Greece	
-Williams’ possible trip to Pakistan
-Kissinger's conversations with Yahya Khan
-Refugees
-Political accommodation
-Food distribution
-Agency for International Development [AID]
-US policy
-Political issue
-Press
-Yahya Khan
-Press reports
-The President’s view

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-Humanitarian relief
-Refugees
-Aid
-Political accommodation
-Possible conversation with Farland
-Awami League
-US policy
-Farland's role
-State Department
-Refugees
-UN
-Refugee relief
-Secretary of State
-Contributions
-Figures
-India
-Forthcoming report for President

Kissinger, et al. left at 3:45 pm.

Conversation No. 272-14

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:45 pm and 3:52 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with George P. Shultz.

President's schedule
-Meeting with Shultz and Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Peter G. Peterson

Peter M. Flanigan's schedule

President's schedule
-Shultz's forthcoming conversation with Peterson

National security powers
-Textiles
-John N. Mitchell
-Flanigan

Conversation No. 272-15

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:45 pm and 3:52 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:52 pm.

Conversation No. 272-16

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  3:52 pm - 4:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

National economy
-Textiles
-Political problem
-South Carolina
-Possible import quotas
-John N. Mitchell, John B. Connally, Peter G. Peterson
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Expertise
-National security
-Steel industry
-Quota
-Congress
-William P. Rogers’ negotiations

-Takeo Fukuda

Raymond K. Price, Jr. entered at 3:55 pm.

-Mitchell's call to Haldeman
-Peterson
-Flanigan
-Peterson
-David M. Kennedy
-Mitchell’s memorandum
-Legislation
-Japan
-Kennedy
-Peterson
-Appointment with the President
-Return from Japan
-Harry S. Dent
-Flanigan
-Peterson
-Kennedy’s, Connally’s, Mitchell’s view
-Peterson’s view
-Political issue
-Flanigan's schedule
-Instructions to Haldeman
-Pull factions together
-Japan
-State Department
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Maurice H. Stans
-Decision-making process
-Kennedy
-Mitchell
-Kissinger
-Kissinger's possible call to Connally
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Rogers
-Fukuda
-Congress
-Rogers
-Summit
-Kissinger
-Kennedy
-George P. Shultz
-Administration's divisions
-Need to pull together factions
-National security
-NSC
-Kennedy	
-Connally
-Flanigan's role
-Dent
-Role
-Dent’s conversation with Mitchell
-Quotas
-Legislation
-Kennedy

President's forthcoming radio talks
-Geoffrey C. Shepard
-Content
-Theme
-America’s critics
-Audience
-Wording
-Institutions
-Jobs
-Irrationality
-Historical examples
-Gold rush, carpet baggers, Joseph McCarthy
-Content
-Themes
-America’s critics
-Public reaction
-Demand for patriotic, upbeat message
-Revision
-Preparation
-Price's role
-President’s assistance
-Style and tone
-Content
-News
-Timeliness
-Length
-Forthcoming Labor Day speech
-Dignity of work
-President's conversation with Charles W. Colson
-Labor
-Congress of Industrial Organizations [CIO]
-New York
-Leader class
-Dignity of work
-Content
-Carl Sandburg
-Literary themes
-Prairie, railroads
-Audience
-Women
-Women
-Girls Nation convention remarks, August 6, 1971
-Women’s Liberation
-Public roles
-Yvonne (Vendroux) De Gaulle
-Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle
-Winston Churchill's book
-Emperor Franz Josef of Austria
-Emperor Maximilian of Mexico
-Crown Prince Rudolf
-Archduke Franz Ferdinand
-Empress Elizabeth
-Unknown Woman
-Dignity of work
-Madame Binh
-Indira Gandhi
-Golda Meir
-Women's liberation
-President’s conversation with unknown woman
-Length
-Tone
-Preparation
-Use of previous speeches
-Shepard
-July 3, 1971 speech Lincoln, Nebraska speech
-Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman
-President's list of speeches
-Content
-Programs
-Environment
-Revenue-sharing
-President’s Iowa speech
-Response
-Ideas
-Statement regarding nurses
-Wilson
-Length
-Content
-Anecdotes

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:55 pm.

President's schedule
-Shultz

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:45 pm.

President's forthcoming radio talks
-Content
-Themes
-Economy
-Materialism
-Dorothy L. Sayers
-Unknown book
-John J. McLaughlin
-Unknown group
-Patriotism
-Religion
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Cheer lines
-Religion
-Education
-Preparation
-Timing
-Draft
-Viewing by President

President's schedule
-August 12, 1971
-Visit to Wolf Trap Farm
-August 13, 1971
-NSC and Service Secretaries meeting
-Arthur F. Burns meeting
-NSC meeting
-Burns’ meeting
-Drafts

President’s forthcoming radio talks
-Content
-Themes
-Patriotism
-Public temper
-Changes since 1968
-American spirit
-Dignity of work
-William L. Safire
-Sayers
-Preparation
-President's schedule
-Drafts
-Importance
-Preparation

Haldeman and Price left at 4:45 pm.

Conversation No. 272-17

Date:  August 11, 1971
Time:  4:45 pm - 6:31 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with George P. Shultz.

President's economic program
-Developments
-William P. Rogers’ call to Shultz, August 11, 1971
-Import surcharge

John T. Dunlop's article
-New York Times
-Paul W. McCracken

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:45 pm and 4:49 pm.

[Conversation No. 272-17A]

Request for a call to Dunlop

[End of telephone conversation]

President's economic program
-Leaks
-Structure
-Taxes
-Possible wage-price freeze

The President talked with Dunlop between 4:49 pm and 4:51 pm.

[Conversation No. 272-17B]

Dunlop's letter to New York Times
-Income policy
-President's meeting with Shultz
-McCracken

[End of telephone conversation]

President's previous conversation with Dunlop

Dunlop
-Background
-Harvard University
-Productivity Committee
-Age
-Meeting with the President
-Manner
-Harvard University

Malfunctioning office equipment

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:51 pm.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:10 pm.

President's economic program
-Possible wage and price freeze
-Effects
-Business confidence
-International situation
-Shock
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Pricing decisions
-National economy
-Taxes
-Vietnam War
-Public confidence
-Need to educate public
-Steel
-Inflation alerts
-National Committee on Productivity
-Construction trades
-Budget
-1969
-Recession
-Compared to 1958

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:51 pm.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:10 pm.

President's economic program
-Politics
-President's conversations
-Herbert Hoover
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Franklin D. Roosevelt's statements and actions
-National Recovery Administration [NRA], Agricultural Adjustment Administration [AAA], Works Progress Administration [WPA], National Youth Administration [NYA]
-Soundness
-Arthur F. Burns’ view
-Markets
-News media
-John F. Kennedy's administration
-Unemployment rate
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Unemployment
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Unemployment reporting
-Public confidence
-Possible float of dollar
-Forthcoming meeting, September 1971
-Possible wage and price freeze
-Inflation
-Possible devaluation
-Shultz's conversation with son
-Wage and price freeze
-Investment tax credit
-Possible import tax
-Possible float of dollar
-Burns’ view
-US position in world
-Japan
-Investment growth
-Trade
-Leader for peace
-Trade
-Need for economic leadership
-Parallel to foreign affairs leadership
-Closing gold window
-Justification
-Stabilization
-International monetary system
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 5:10 pm.

-US trading partners
-Economic leadership
-Foreign affairs
-People’s Republic of China [PRC], Berlin
-National interest
-Tone
-Avoiding crises
-Import tax, wage and price freeze, and investment tax credit
-Balance of trade
-Dollar problem
-Relative value of economy
-Closing gold window

Signing of Accidental War Agreement
-Kissinger's conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Foreign minister level
-William P. Rogers
-Possible impact on PRC
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Level
-PRC
-Gromyko
-Arrival in Washington, DC
-Timing
-Unknown meeting
-President’s instructions
-Radio channel
-Dobrynin
-Rogers
-Vladimir Semenov
-PRC
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Chou En-lai
-Berlin

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PRC

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US relations with Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Kissinger's conversation with Robert Anderson of Richfield Oil
-Anderson’s planned trip to USSR
-USSR attitude
-Cambodia
-President's forthcoming trip to PRC

President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Reaction of Liberals and Conservatives
-W[illiam] A[verill] Harriman
-Speech

Kissinger's conversations with Dobrynin, August 11, 1971
-Tone
-Need for secrecy

India-Pakistan
-President's previous meeting
-Joseph J. Sisco
-Joseph S. Farland
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Political accommodation
-Risk
-India
-Refugee policy
-President's previous meeting

President's Economic Program
-Textiles
-President's Conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Views of John N. Mitchell, David M. Kennedy, John B. Connally
-National security argument
-Peter G. Peterson, Rogers
-Kissinger's forthcoming calls to Mitchell and Connally
-National security argument
-Consequence
-Steel
-Possible legislation
-Mitchell
-Development of administration's program
-Forthcoming meeting
-David M. Kennedy
-Need for consensus
-Peterson's role
-Japan
-PRC
-President's conversation with Peter M. Flanigan
-Rogers
-Takeo Fukuda
-Comparison to Eisaku Sato
-Kissinger's conversation with Rogers
-Unknown Emissary
-Forthcoming visit to US
-The President’s instructor
-Leon H. Keyserling
-President's possible conversation with Fukuda

Kissinger's forthcoming conversations with Dobrynin and Rogers

Rogers
-October meeting with Gromyko

Kissinger left at 5:25 pm.

President's Economic Program
-Textiles
-Japan
-Peterson
-Fukuda
-Possible US action
-Quota bill
-Possible import tax
-Possible import tax
-Level
-Rogers’ view
-Possible Japanese revaluation
-Convertibility of dollar to gold
-Closing gold window
-Relationship to relative currency value
-International action
-Floating exchange rates
-Canada, Germany, Switzerland
-Japan
-Dollar accumulation
-Revaluation
-Possible negotiations concerning exchange rates
-Flexibility
-Parity
-Possible devaluation
-Possible import tax
-Effect on trade
-Controls
-The President's powers
-Congress
-Kenneth W. Dam’s research
-Politics
-Convertibility of dollar to gold
-Risk
-Possible import tax
-Possible investment tax credit
-Possible wage and price freeze
-Explanation
-International monetary situation
-US equities
-Gold standard
-Theodore Roosevelt
-Shultz's possible conversation with Connally
-President’s view
-Possible Treasury Department response
-Stabilizing effect
-Unilateral action
-Wage and price freeze
-Import tax
-Congress
-Investment tax credit
-Immediate actions
-Possible import quota
-Wage and price freeze
-Import tax
-Possible tariff increase
-Textiles
-Kennedy Round
-Oil
-Oil companies
-Timing
-1972 election
-Senators' vote on Lockheed
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Government revenue
-International bankers
-Convertibility of dollar to gold
-Renegotiation of exchange rate
-Possible effects
-Wage and price controls
-Devaluation
-Posible devaluation
-Interest rates
-Effect
-Interest rates
-Fear of inflation
-Possible wage and price freeze
-Administration
-Justice Department
-Exceptions
-Duration
-Possible effect on retail sales
-Follow-up program
-Possible board
-Burns
-Operation
-Industry problems
-Construction industry
-Possible strikes
-Longshoremen
-Coal miners
-Construction industry
-Cost of living increases
-Federal budget
-Shultz’s responsibilities
-National defense
-Timing
-Appropriations
-Figures
-Shultz's conversation with David Packard
-Melvin R. Laird, Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Necessity
-President's foreign policy commitments
-US-PRC relations, Berlin Agreement
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Progress
-Timing
-Middle East
-SALT
-Berlin
-SALT
-Shultz’s conversation with Kissinger
-1974
-Navy
-Air Force bases
-Economy
-1972 election

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President's economic program
-Federal budget
-Statements
-Federal employment
-Revenue estimates
-Fiscal Year [FY] 1972
-Figure
-FY 1973
-Figure
-Investment tax credit
-Estimated revenue
-FY 1972
-Figure
-FY 1973
-Figure
-Possible import tax
-Connally
-Family Assistance Program
-General revenue-sharing
-Federal pay increases
-Federal agency leasing
-Real estate equipment
-Food stamp eligibility
-Rural loan program
-Water and sewer grants
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-Space program
-Shuttle
-Public relations
-Shultz’s request for memorandum
-1972 election
-Employment
-Skylab
-Personnel
-Houston Space Center
-Cape Kennedy
-Moonshot

President's economic program
-Possible import tax
-Senate
-Haldeman
-President's legal powers
-Shultz's possible call to Rogers
-Possible congressional action
-Wright Patman
-Quota bill
-Unknown law suit
-Shultz's possible call to Mitchell
-Federal pay raise
-Timing
-Unemployment
-President’s schedule
-California
-Travel
-Burns
-Suggestions
-Meeting with central bankers
-Negotiation
-Burns
-Japanese ambassador
-Tariff
-President's possible television speech
-Public relations
-Content
-Timing
-Treasury Department action
-President’s speech
-Congress
-Shultz's possible call to Connally
-President's forthcoming conversation with Burns, August 12, 1971
-Timing of possible actions
-Convertibility of dollars to gold
-Speech
-Treasury Department
-Announcement
-Timing
-Shultz's possible call to Connally
-Federal budget
-H R 1
-Revenue sharing
-Federal employment
-Possible pay cuts
-Rural Electrification Administration [REA]
-Lobby
-Federal employment
-Figure
-Civilian and military
-Cuts
-H. R. 1 and revenue sharing
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Statement
		-Shultz's possible call to Connally
-Federal budget
-Possible federal hiring freeze
-Shultz's possible conversation with Connally
-Timing of announcement
-Possible import tax
-US position in world

School desegregation
-South Carolina
-Bob Davis’ statement
-Elliot L. Richardson's statement
-School board
-Plan in Columbia
-Busing
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Administration’s position

The President and Shultz left at 6:31 pm.