Conversation No. 273-1

Date:  August 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:20 pm and 2:31 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

President's schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:31 pm.

Conversation No. 273-2

Date:  August 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:20 pm and 2:31 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

John D. Ehrlichman
-Press conference, August 12, 1971
-Declassification of documents
-Ronald Ziegler's report to the President
-Administration’s critics

John N. Mitchell
-Textiles
-Japan

Conversation No. 273-3

Date:  August 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:20 pm and 2:31 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting, August 13, 1971
-George P. Shultz
-Itinerary
-Possible change
-John B. Connally
-Forthcoming weekend

Conversation No. 273-4

Date:  August 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:20 pm and 2:31 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

Busing
-George P. Shultz

Henry A. Kissinger
-Conservatives

Unknown story
-Vietnam
-News

Conversation No. 273-5

Date:  August 12, 1971
Time:  2:31 pm - 2:38 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

Charles W. Colson talked with the President.

John D. Ehrlichman
-Press conference

Vietnam
-US policy
-Elections

Michael J. Mansfield
-Investigation

Unknown man

National economy
-Unknown man's possible statement
-Democrats
-Prosperity
-Lyndon B. Johnson's administration
-War
-John F. Kennedy's administration
-Unemployment rate

President's schedule
-George P. Shultz

Conversation No. 273-6

Date:  August 12, 1971
Time:  2:45 pm - 3:10 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Arthur A. Shenfield
-Speech [The Roots of American Discontent]
-Rockford College

President's schedule
-Trip to San Clemente
-Work
-Budget
-Press
-Lack of news
-Lack of public appearances
-Camp David
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Press briefings
-Photograph opportunities
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Preparations for President’s forthcoming trip to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Defense budget
-Preliminary work on programs
-Activities
-Kissinger
-Public exposure
-Ceremonial activities

Paul A. Volcker
-Appointment by John B. Connally

President's schedule
-Domestic package
-Preparation

-Camp David
-Announcement of economic program
-Congress
-Haldeman's possible call to William E. Timmons
-Milk producers

Kissinger entered at 3:00 pm.

Kissinger's previous meeting with Howard Stein
-Eugene J. McCarthy
-Stock Market
-Investments
-Predictions
-US foreign policy

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International monetary situation

Vietnam
-Directive
-Timing
-Stockpile
-Response
-Melvin R. Laird
-Withdrawal of US planes
-Laos
-Thailand
-A-1's
-Laos

US relations with PRC
-Accidental War Treaty
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Gerard C. Smith
-Possible impact on PRC
-Instructions of Philip J. Farley
-Cancellation of forthcoming meeting
-Admissions of other countries
-PRC
-USSR
-PRC
-[Forename unknown] Atkins (sp?), [Forename unknown] Elliot (sp?)
-Smith

[Unintelligible]

Haldeman and Kissinger left at 3:10 pm.

Conversation No. 273-7

Date:  August 12, 1971
Time:  3:11 pm - 4:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with George P. Shultz.

Shultz's conversation with Paul A. Volcker

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:11 pm.

Request for H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman to join them

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:00 pm.

International economy

-Convertibility of the dollar
-Daily volume
-Figure
-Switzerland
-Figures
-Foreign currencies
-Swiss Franc
-Paul W. McCracken
-Speculation
-Dollar outflow
-Outlook
-Timing of decision
-Arthur F. Burns
-Daily volume
-Flexibility
-Negotiating position
-McCracken
-Volcker's view
-McCracken's call to Shultz, August 12, 1971
-Textiles
-General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade [GATT]
-John N. Mitchell
-National security option
-GATT
-Shultz's conversation with Mitchell
-Congress
-Timing
-Tariff or quota
-Imports
-Possible surcharge
-Camp David
-Timing of President's economic program
-Import tax
-John B. Connally's possible statement
-Treasury Department
-Volcker
-Wording
-International speculation
-Temporary action
-Closing gold window
-Timing of President's economic program
-Possible devaluation of dollar
-Reaction

Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 3:11 pm.

Japan
-Forthcoming textile and International Monetary Fund [IMF] meetings
-Convertibility of dollar to gold
-Separation from domestic programs
-Import tax
-Textiles
-Possible action by administration
-GATT
-Devaluation
-Impact on balance of payments problem
-Prices
-Japanese automobile imports
-Textiles
-Timing of President’s economic program
-Convertibility of dollar to gold
-Timing of possible action
-Congress
-Connally's view
-Inflation
-Counter measures
-Inflation
-Wage and price freeze
-Exchange rate
-Possible wage and price freeze	
-Tax package
-Import
-Excise
-Investment credit
-Wage and price freeze
-Devaluation
-Tax package
-Congress
-Gold window
-Import tax
-Wage and price freeze
-Tax package
-Balance of payments
-Expansionary economy
-Budget
-Import tax

Space program
-Future
-Budget cuts

President's economic program
-Burns
-McCracken
-Burns
-President's forthcoming meeting with Connally and Shultz
-Connally's possible statement concerning convertibility
-President’s view
-Televised statement
-Volcker
-Convertibility of dollar to gold
-Duration
-Speculation
-Monetary system
-Exports
-Burns
-Timing
-Wage and price freeze
-Inflation
-Imports
-Textiles
-GATT
-Balance of payments
-Possible devaluation
-Import tax
-Devaluation
-Trade
-Surplus
-Foreign aid and military aid
-Reaction by other countries
-Japan
-Revaluation of yen
-Impact on dollar
-Germany
-Deutschemark
-Convertibility of dollar to gold
-Possible announcement
-Manner
-Low-key
-Inflation
-Wage and price control
-Budget
-Possible news stories
-Hobart Rowen
-Milton Friedman
-Burns
-Possible conversation with Shultz
-President’s schedule
-Connally
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Decision-making
-Shultz, Connally, Burns, and the President
-McCracken and Peter G. Peterson
-Volcker's views
-President's schedule
-Connally
-Shultz’s forthcoming talk with Volcker
-President’s view
-Domestic economy
-Relationship to international economy
-Inflation
-Expansion
-President’s schedule
-Burns
-Connally
-Volcker's views
-Wage-price freeze

Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 3:11 pm.

Shultz's schedule
-Burns

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 4:00 pm.

-Burns’ views
-Timing of decision
-President's schedule
-Burns, Connally, Shultz, McCracken
-Herbert Stein
-Peterson
-Shultz's forthcoming meeting with Burns

Ziegler entered and Shultz left at 4:00 pm.

George C. Wallace
-School desegregation case
-Ziegler's conversations with Mitchell and John D. Ehrlichman
-Forthcoming hearing in US District Court of Northern Alabama
-Ziegler's forthcoming press briefing
-Administration’s position
-Possible statements
-Judicial status
-Constitution
-Jefferson County
-President’s previous statement
-Wallace
-Quoted
-Ziegler's forthcoming press briefing
-President’s previous statement
-Police powers
-Mitchell’s and Ehrlichman’s recommendation

Ziegler left at 4:12 pm.

-Busing
-Impact on individual student

President’s economic program
-Shultz
-Burns
-Volcker
-McCracken
-Connally
-Lt. William L. Calley, Jr.

Wallace
-Actions in desegregation case

Busing
-Supreme Court decision
-Administration position
-Democrats
-Individual case

President's economic program
-Volcker
-Connally's knowledge
-Burns’ views
-Raising gold price
-Congress
-Connally

Haldeman left at 4:20 pm.

Conversation No. 273-8

Date:  August 12, 1971
Time:  4:21 pm - 4:23 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Busing
-Unknown girl

Haldeman [?] left at 4:23 pm.

Conversation No. 273-9

Date:  August 12, 1971
Time:  4:49 pm - 4:51 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Paper on textiles

Trade
-John B. Connally
-Arthur F. Burns

President's schedule
-Wolf Trap Farm National Park performance

Item from John A. Howard
-Speech by Arthur A. Shenfield
-The Roots of American Discontent
-Payment
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr

President's schedule
-California trip
-Connally
-Wolf Trap Farm National Park performance

Richard J. Whalen

President’s schedule
-August 13, 1971

Forthcoming White House Worship service
-Guest
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham's mother
-Health

Conversation No. 273-10

Date:  August 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:51 pm and 5:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

Busing
-George C. Wallace statement
-Alabama case
-Court order
-Unknown girl
-Amendment

Unknown person

Revenue-sharing

Arthur A. Shenfield
-Speech [The Roots of American Discontent]
-Rockford College
-Copies

Conversation No. 273-11

Date:  August 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:51 pm and 5:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Arthur A. Shenfield’s speech The Roots of American Discontent
-Copies
-Cost
-Number
-John T. McCarty
-Cost

Conversation No. 273-12

Date:  August 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:51 pm and 5:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for a call to Ronald L. Ziegler

Conversation No. 273-13

Date:  August 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:51 pm and 5:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull [?]

Item for Rose Mary Woods

Bull [?] left at an unknown time before 5:05 pm.

Conversation No. 273-14

Date:  August 12, 1971
Time:  5:05 pm - 5:07 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Ziegler's press briefing
-Busing case
-President’s recent conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
-Court order
-Herbert E. Kaplow
-Donald Oberdorfer, Jr.
-John N. Mitchell

Conversation No. 273-15

Date:  August 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:07 pm and 5:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for a call to an unknown person
-Call back

Conversation No. 273-16

Date:  August 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:07 pm and 5:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 273-17

Date:  August 12, 1971
Time:  5:16 pm - 5:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

Fact sheet
-Contents
-Prosperity
-Previous administrations
-Unemployment
-Relationship to decline in size of Armed Forces

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 5:16 pm.
Unknown activity

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:20 pm.

International monetary situation

President’s forthcoming call to unknown person

Conversation No. 273-18

Date:  August 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:20 pm and 5:27 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
-John B. Connally
-George P. Shultz

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:27 pm.

Conversation No. 273-19

Date:  August 12, 1971
Time:  5:27 pm - 5:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

Peter M. Flanigan talked with the President.

International economy
-Textiles
-National security provision
-Possible legislation
-President's program
-Possible leaks
-Peter G. Peterson
-Rebates
-Industry
-Congressional and diplomatic action
-President’s program
-Preventing leaks

Conversation No. 273-20

Date:  August 12, 1971
Time:  5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule

John B. Connally and George P. Shultz entered at 5:30 pm.

Textiles

President's forthcoming economic program
-Shultz's conversation with Arthur F. Burns
-Paul W. McCracken
-Shultz's conversation with Paul A. Volcker
-Textiles
-Burns
-Stock Market
-Performance
-Figures
-Wage and price controls
-Tax

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:30 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 7:00 pm.

President's forthcoming economic program
-Burns’ views
-Stock market
-Convertibility of dollar to gold
-Federal taxes and budget
-Volcker

-Possible wage and price freeze
-Administration
-Shultz’s work
-Lack of organization
-Labor negotiations
-Strikes
-Coal miners and longshoremen
-Shultz’s view
-Coal mines
-Importance in national economy
-Energy
-Hardship relief
-Possible duration
-Labor contracts

Sanchez entered and left at an unknown time after 5:30 pm.

-Labor contracts
-Possible devaluation
-Import taxes
-Preparation
-US economic leadership
-Peter M. Flanigan [?]
-Announcement
-Timing
-Speech
-Burns
-Closing gold window
-Congress
-Backgrounders
-Congress
-Press
-Connally, Shultz
-McCracken
-Peter G. Peterson
-Burns
-Reaction
-Wage and price freeze
-Timing
-Budget
-President's conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
-Family assistance
-Department of Housing, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Legislative status
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Postponement
-International monetary crisis
-Convertibility of dollar to gold
-Possible effect
-Domestic
-International
-Connally's possible announcement
-Defense of dollar
-Speculation
-Closing gold window
-International consultation
-Stability
-Domestic program
-Wage and price freeze
-Timing of announcement
-Wage and price freeze
-Legislative package
-Border tax
-International negotiations over unilateral action
-Budget
-Closing gold window and wage and price controls
-Camp David
-Meeting
-Convertibility of dollar to gold
-Possible public reaction
-Market place
-Devaluation
-Stock Market
-News articles
-Dallas Morning News
-Sylvia Porter
-Hobart Rowen
-President's role
-Convincing American people
-President’s awareness and analysis of economic problems
-Possible reaction
-Congress
-Public
-Wage and price controls
-Investment tax credit
-Piecemeal action
-Danger
-Possible leaks
-Effect
-Timing of announcement
-Convertibility of dollar to gold
-International situation
-Acquisition of dollars by foreign governments
-Piecemeal action
-Possible perception of reacting not acting
-Congress
-Public speculation
-Polls
-US debts
-President's possible statement
-Congress
-Popular opinion
-Democrats
-Camp David
-Burns’ view
-Timing
-Entire package

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:30 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 7:00 pm.

President's forthcoming economic program
-Burns’ view
-Domestic programs plus border tax
-Effect of gold prices
-Convertibility of dollar to gold
-Convertibility of dollar to gold
-Timing
-Burns’ view
-Central bankers
-Possible wage and price freeze and board
-Burns’ view
-Volcker's views
-Domestic and international problems
-Treasury Department
-Mood
-Stock Market
-International monetary situation
-Charles A. Coombs
-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-Possible popular reaction
-Impact
-International monetary situation
-French franc, British pound, German deutschemark, Italian lira, US dollar
-Volcker’s view
-Balance of payments
-Exports
-Percentage of Gross National Product [GNP]
-Relationship to national economy
-Trade
-Administration’s goal
-Quadriad
-Budget cuts
-Growth
-Tax cut
-Possible political effects
-Conservatives
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] policy
-Budget cuts
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-PRC
-Businessmen
-Investment tax credit
-Bohemian Grove
-Unknown club
-Public opinion
-Wage and price freeze
-Inflation
-Critics
-Labor negotiations
-Possible wage and price freeze
-Duration
-Administration
-Coal industry
-Permanent structure
-World War II
-Office of Price Administration [OPA]
-Timing of announcement
-Preparation
-Shultz, Connally, McCracken
-August 16, 1971

President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting at Camp David
-Preventing leaks
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-California
-Volcker
-Burns
-President, Connally, Shultz, McCracken, Peterson
-Weinberger
-Budget
-Burns
-Volcker
-Understanding of monetary system

President’s forthcoming economic program
-Possible announcement
-Format
-Wage and price freeze
-Tax package
-Budget cuts
-Wage and price freeze
-Duration
-Analogy
-PRC announcement
-Press backgrounder
-Connally
-Purpose
-Providing context
-Import tax
-Legal aspects
-Congress
-National security
-General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade [GATT]
-Treasury Department
-Opinions
-Trading with the Enemy Act
-Trade agreements
-John N. Mitchell
-Announcement
-Timing
-Congress
-Wage and price freeze
-Possible business action
-Importation
-Effect on balance of payments
-Relationship to devaluation

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 5:30 pm and 7:00 pm.

[Conversation No. 273-20A]

President's schedule
-Request for a call to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-[Wolf Trap National Park performance]

[End of telephone conversation]

President's forthcoming economic program
-Import tax
-Devaluation
-Floatation of dollar
-Negotiations
-Timing
-Unilateral action on Congressional approval
-Impact on announcement
-Balance of payments problem
-Effect on total economic package
-Boarder tax
-Request of Congress
-Devaluation
-Shultz’s and Volcker’s view
-Congress
-Japan, Germany
-Possible US statement
-Repeal with proper exchange rate
-Figure
-Possible legislation
-Eventual revocation
-Floatation
-Use as negotiating stick
-Revaluation of yen
-William P. Rogers’ view
-Call to Shultz
-Peterson
-State Department
-Congress
-Japan
-Textiles, automobiles, steel
-National control over economy and currency
-Comparison with trade partners
-Japan, Germany, France, Italy, Great Britain
-Effect on negotiations
-Exchange rates
-Legal basis
-Balance of payments
-Political value
-Quotas
-Textiles
-National security
-Views of Mitchell, Maurice H. Stans, James D. Hodgson
-Danger as precedent
-Steel
-Gen. George A. Lincoln
-Precedent
-Import tax
-Japan
-Mitchell’s forthcoming legal opinion on GATT
-Import taxes
-Quotas
-Devaluation
-National security
-GATT
-Solutions
-Combination
-Problems
-Monetary crisis
-Short-term
-International monetary crisis
-Balance of payments
-Domestic economy
-Inflation
-Expansion
-Presidential leadership
-International leadership
-Import tax
-US negotiating posture
-Japan
-Quotas
-US leadership
-US industry
-Possible legislation
-Limitation to tax
-Veto

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:30 pm.

Unknown request by the President

-Unilateral action
-Congress
-Possible suit
-Supreme Court

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 7:00 pm.

-Trading with the Enemy Act
-Trade Agreements Act
-Timing of announcement
-Mitchell
-PRC announcement
-Preparation
-Peterson's memo to President
-Spring 1971 Deutschemark crisis
-Effect

President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting at Camp David
-Volcker
-Lawyer
-Justice Department
-Treasury Department
-Roy T. Englert
-Weinberger
-Dan Whitlay [?] [sp?]
-Burns
-Peterson
-McCracken
-Herbert Stein
-Henrik S. Houthakker
-Stein
-McCracken
-Ehrlichman
-Agenda
-Stein
-Volcker
-Preparation by participants
-Meetings
-Speechwriter

President's forthcoming speech
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Ronald L. Ziegler, Herbert G. Klein
-Speechwriter
-Stein
-The Discouraging Player
-William L. Safire
-Structure
-Safire
-Stein
-Treasury Department
-Raw material
-Stein

President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting at Camp David
-Schedule
-Agenda
-Investment tax credit
-Percentage
-Import tax
-GATT
-Meetings

President's possible speech
-Preparation
-Burns
-Possible statement
-Timing
-August 15, 1971
-Advantages
-Preempting speculation
-International markets
-Effect
-Significance of proposals

President's schedule
-Wolf Trap National Park performance
-Mrs. Nixon
-Forthcoming meeting at Camp David
-Stock market
-Possible New York Times story
-Unknown person
-Klein

Connally and Shultz left at 7:00 pm.

Conversation No. 273-21

Date:  August 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:00 pm and 7:11 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for  a call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Conversation No. 273-22

Date:  August 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:00 pm and 7:11 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

An unknown person talked with the President.

Requested the unknown person to receive something

Conversation No. 273-23

Date:  August 12, 1971
Time:  7:11 pm - 7:19 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

President's forthcoming economic program
-Timing of announcement
-John B. Connally
-Paul A. Volcker
-Camp David meeting
-Arthur F. Burns

Conversation No. 273-24

Date:  August 12, 1971
Time:  7:22 pm - 7:26 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John B. Connally.

President's forthcoming economic program
-President's previous meeting with Connally and George P. Shultz
-Import tax
-Import tax
-Politics
-Textiles
-Connally's possible conversation with John N. Mitchell
-National security
-Japan
-Us trade as percentage of Gross National Product [GNP]
-Effect of announcement
-People's Republic of China [PRC]

-Congress
-Consultation
-Connally's possible calls
-Wilbur D. Mills
-John W. Byrnes
-Russell B. Long
-Schedule

Conversation No. 273-25

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:59 pm and 5:04 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:04 pm.

Conversation No. 273-26

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  5:04 pm - 5:10 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

John N. Mitchell talked with the President.

President's previous meeting with unknown people
-Business competition
-Steel industry

President's schedule
-President’s forthcoming announcement

President's forthcoming economic program
-Provisions
-Wage and price freeze
-Taxes
-Investment tax credit
-Repeal of automobile excise tax
-Personal income tax exemption
-Budget cuts
-Revenue sharing
-Timing
-President's schedule
-Cabinet meeting, August 16, 1971
-Arthur F. Burns’ views
-Closing gold window
-Paul W. McCracken
-President's forthcoming speech
-John B. Connally's forthcoming telephone calls
-Provisions
-Wage and price freeze
-Duration
-Import tax

Conversation No. 273-27

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:10 pm and 5:26 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown woman [Marjorie Acker?].

President's forthcoming speech
-Preparation
-Text
-Rose Mary Woods
-Tape recorder
-Changes

The unknown woman [Ms. Acker?] left at an unknown time before 5:26 pm.

Conversation No. 273-28

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:10 pm and 5:26 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Requested H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman call him

Conversation No. 273-29

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:10 pm and 5:26 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

President’s schedule
-California
-Briefcase

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:26 pm.

Conversation No. 273-30

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:10 pm and 5:26 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:26 pm.

Conversation No. 273-31

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:10 pm and 5:26 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for a call to Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Conversation No. 273-32

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  5:26 pm - 5:28 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

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Conversation No. 273-33

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  5:31 pm - 5:33 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Unknown man

President's forthcoming economic program
-President's forthcoming television speech
-Live audience
-Follow-up
-John N. Mitchell's previous conversation with the President
-Informing Cabinet
-Cabinet meeting
-International speculation
-Statement
-Taxes

Conversation No. 273-34

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  5:42 pm - 5:43 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

President’s forthcoming economic program
-Follow-up
-Peter G. Peterson
-George P. Shultz

Conversation No. 273-35

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:43 pm and 7:14 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person [Rose Mary Woods?]

Copy of President's forthcoming speech
-Changes

Conversation No. 273-36

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:43 pm and 7:14 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 7:14 pm.

Conversation No. 273-37

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:43 pm and 7:14 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person [Rose Mary Woods?]

President's forthcoming speech
-Draft
-Manolo Sanchez

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Speech draft

Conversation No. 273-38

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:43 pm and 7:14 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Question
-Completion of unknown task

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 7:14 pm.

Conversation No. 273-39

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:43 pm and 7:14 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

President's forthcoming speech
-Changes
-Typing

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:43 pm.

[End of telephone conversation]

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 7:14 p.m.

Conversation No. 273-40

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:43 and 7:14 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Requested a call to William L. Safire

Conversation No. 273-41

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:43 pm and 7:14 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with William L. Safire.

President's forthcoming speech on economy
-Changes
-Foreign economic aid
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Unknown man's views
Rose Mary Woods entered at an unknown time after 5:43 pm

-Changes to draft
-Arthur F. Burns
-Dollar stabilization
-Devaluation
-Wording

Woods left at an unknown time before 7:14 pm.

Conversation No. 273-42

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:43 pm and 7:14 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

President's forthcoming speech

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 7:14 p.m.

Conversation No. 273-43

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:43 pm and 7:14 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

President’s schedule

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 7:14 pm.

Conversation No. 273-44

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:43 pm and 7:14 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President rehearsed a speech entitled "The Challenge of Peace".

[See Public Papers of the Presidents, Richard M. Nixon, 1971, pp. 886-891]

Conversation No. 273-45

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:43 pm and 7:14 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Requested a call to William L. Safire

Conversation No. 273-46

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  7:14 pm - 7:24 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with William L. Safire.

President's forthcoming speech on economy
-Content and phraseology
-Possible changes
-Foreign competition
-Distribution of text
-Content and phraseology
-Possible changes
-American Revolution
-Automobile industry
-Safire's conversation with Herbert Stein
-Unknown man's view
-Business
-Possible changes
-Devaluation

-Post-World War II world
-Rose Mary Woods
-Preparation
-President's delivery
-Rose Mary Woods

Conversation No. 273-47

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:24 pm and 7:34 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President rehearsed a speech.

[See Public Papers of the Presidents, Richard M. Nixon, 1971, pp. 886-891]

Conversation No. 273-48

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:24 pm and 7:34 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Requested a call to William L. Safire

Conversation No. 273-49

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  7:34 pm - 7:36 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with William L. Safire.

President's forthcoming speech on economy
-Content and phraseology
-Possible changes
-Convertibility
-John B. Connally
-Effect on listeners
-Herbert Stein
-Paul A. Volcker

Conversation No. 273-50

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:36 pm and 8:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President rehearsed a speech.

[See Public Papers of the Presidents, Richard M. Nixon, 1971, pp. 886-891]

Conversation No. 273-51

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:36 pm and 8:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President rehearsed a speech.

[See Public Papers of the Presidents, Richard M. Nixon, 1971, pp. 886-891]

Conversation No. 273-52

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:36 pm and 8:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person [Alexander P. Butterfield?]

Instructions
-Speech draft [?]

The unknown person [Butterfield?] left at an unknown time before 8:55 pm.

Conversation No. 273-53

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:36 pm and 8:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Speech draft
-Status

John B. Connally

Conversation No. 273-54

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:36 pm and 8:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President rehearsed a speech.

[See Public Papers of the Presidents, Richard M. Nixon, 1971, pp. 886-891]