Conversation No. 274-1

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:40 pm and 2:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:40 pm.

Conversation No. 274-2

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:40 pm and 2:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for a call to Robert H. Finch

Conversation No. 274-3

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:40 pm and 2:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for a call to an unknown person

Conversation No. 274-4

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:40 pm and 2:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting at State Department
-Departure
-George P. Shultz
-Momentum [for recent economic initiative]
-Congress
-Timing

Conversation No. 274-5

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  2:40 pm - 2:43 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

Economy
-President’s address to the National, “The Challenge of Peace”, August 15, 1971
-Reaction
-Stock market
-Volume
-Timing
-Confidence builder
-Shock value
-Confidence
-Stock market
-Forthcoming State Department briefing
-Press conference
-John B. Connally
-Performance
-Cabinet meeting, August 16, 1971

Conversation No. 274-6

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  2:43 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for a call to William L. Safire

Conversation No. 274-48

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  2:43 pm - 2:44 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

Response to knock on door

The unknown person left at 2:44 pm.

Conversation No. 274-7

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  2:44 pm - 2:49 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with William L. Safire.

Knights of Columbus speech, August 17, 1971

-Draft
-Length
-Other drafts
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-John J. McLaughlin
-Importance
-Themes
-President’s address to the Nation, August 15, 1971
-Peaceful competition
-Buchanan
-America’s critics
-Time
-John B. Connally
-Football analogy

Connally's press conference

Draft of Knights of Columbus speech

Conversation No. 274-8

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:49 pm and 2:54 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
-Unknown persons’ arrival
-William L. Safire
-Forthcoming meeting at State Department
-Departure
-Arthur F. Burns
-George P. Shultz
-Speech drafts
-Safire

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

Conversation No. 274-9

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:49 pm and 2:54 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for a call to Rose Mary Woods
-President’s schedule

Conversation No. 274-10

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  2:54 pm - 2:58 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

Call from Tricia Nixon Cox

President’s forthcoming trip
-Attendance of women
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Edward R.F. Cox

President’s address to the Nation, August 15, 1971
-Television broadcast
-Reaction
-Unknown person

Stock market

Conversation No. 274-11

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  2:59 pm - 3:01 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Robert H. Finch.

Finch's location

Cabinet meeting
-Mood

John B. Connally's press conference

Stock market figures
-Public confidence
-Call from Asa [Surname unknown]

President’s address to the Nation, August 15, 1971
-Reaction
-Call from unknown person
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Call from Freeman Gosden
-Democrats

Conversation No. 274-12

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:01 pm and 3:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule

-Forthcoming meeting at State Department
-Departure time
-John B. Connally
-Arthur F. Burns
-Paul W. McCracken
-Call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 3:05 pm.

Conversation No. 274-13

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:01 pm and 3:37 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Demilitarized Zone [DMZ]
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Duration

Conversation No. 274-14

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:01 pm and 3:37 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 274-15

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  3:37 pm - 3:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with William P. Rogers.

Japan
-Negotiations
-Arthur F. Burns
-State Department
-Cabinet
-Suggested theme
-Competition
-Mutual success
-John B. Connally
-George H.W. Bush

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Conversation No. 274-16

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:40 pm and 3:47 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

The President's schedule
-Golf
-[Knights of Columbus] speech
-Draft
-William L. Safire
-Time

Stock Market
-Figure

Conversation No. 274-17

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:40 pm and 3:47 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:47 pm.

Conversation No. 274-18

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:40 pm and 3:47 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for a call to Idanell (“Nellie”) Connally

Conversation No. 274-19

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  3:47 pm - 3:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with William P. Rogers.

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Conversation No. 274-20

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  3:48 pm - 3:49 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Stock Market
-Shares sold

The President's schedule
-Golf

Conversation No. 274-21

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  3:49 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for a call to Ronald L. Ziegler

Conversation No. 274-22

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  3:50 pm - 3:51 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Idanell (“Nellie”) Connally.

John B. Connally's press conference
-Reaction
-Nellie Connally's viewing
-Frank Stanton's comments
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]

The President's schedule
-Knights of Columbus speech
-Illinois State Fair
-Dallas
-California

Connally
-Rest
-Breakfast with the President

Conversation No. 274-23

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  3:52 pm - 3:53 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

The President's schedule
-Golf
-William P. Rogers
-Burning Tree

Ziegler's briefing
-Golf
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
-San Clemente
-President’s most recent outing

Conversation No. 274-24

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  3:53 pm - 4:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Call to Idanell (“Nellie”) Connally
-John B. Connally's press conference
-Connally
-Breakfast
-Rest

The President's schedule
-Golf
-Transportation
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Press
-William P. Rogers

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-Time
-Clubs

Economy

-Evening Star story about President’s initiatives
-Workers
-Stock exchange
-Wage and price curves
-Dollar floating
-Tax reductions
-Government employees
-George P. Shultz
-Another story
-Speech text
-Arthur F. Burns
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Extent of coverage
-Pictures
-Political effects
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Forthcoming visit
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Edward M. Kennedy
-PRC
-George Meany
-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-John Kenneth Galbraith
-Dallas
-Muskie
-Henry M.  ("Scoop") Jackson
-George S. McGovern
-Criticism
-Wage and price freeze
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Dollar floating
-Jobs
-Big business
-Congress
-International money market
-Wage and price freeze
-Stock market reaction
-Business community reaction
-Congress
-Historical precedents

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:53 pm.

Delivery of something

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:06 pm.

Economy
-Evening Star story
-Vance Hartke
-Congress
-View of President’s program
-Investment tax credit

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:53 pm.

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Economy
-Evening Star story
-PRC

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:06 pm.

Stock market
-Record
-Volume and gain
-Nixon dinner

The President's schedule
-New York
-President’s possible visit to stock market

Stock Market
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker

Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:53 pm and 4:06 pm.

[Conversation No. 274-24A]

Request for a call to Flanigan

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-New York
-President’s possible visit to stock market

Haldeman talked with Flanigan at an unknown time between 3:53 pm and 4:06 pm.

[Conversation No. 274-24B]

Flanigan's location

[End of telephone conversation]

Economy
-Stock market
-The President's schedule
-Announcement
-Stock exchange visit
-New York
-Speech

Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:53 pm and 4:06 pm.

[Conversation No. 274-24C]

Request for a call to Dwight L. Chapin

[End of telephone conversation]

Stock market visit
-Invitation

Haldeman talked with Chapin at an unknown time between 3:53 pm and 4:06 pm.

[Conversation No. 274-24D]

The President's schedule
-New York
-Announcement
-Time of departure

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time between 3:53 pm and 4:06 pm.

Letter to President of Guinea

Butterfield left at an unknown time between 3:53 pm and 4:06 pm.

-Stock market
-Time

[End of telephone conversation]

Stock market visit

The President's schedule
-Meeting with legislation leaders, August 17, 1971

-Mayor Klaus Schutz of West Berlin
-Possible meeting

Japan
-Textile negotiations
-Peter G. Peterson
-Flanigan
-Shultz and Peterson
-Statement
-Rogers
-President’s involvement
-Meeting with Roger Milliken
-Harry S. Dent
-Peterson and John N. Mitchell
-Mitchell

Economy
-Stock market
-Record volume

Japan
-Textile negotiations
-Plan
-Camp David meeting
-Quotas
-President’s efforts
-Flanigan
-Milliken
-Textile board meeting
-Timing
-President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with [Emperor of Japan] Hirohito

Haldeman left at 4:16 pm.

Conversation No. 274-25

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:16 pm and 4:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Delivery of something

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:20 pm.

Conversation No. 274-26

Date:  September 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:40 am and 10:06 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Request for Haldeman to come to the Executive Office Building [EOB]

Conversation No. 274-27

Date:  September 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:40 am and 10:06 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:06 am.

Conversation No. 274-28

Date:  September 8, 1971
Time:  10:06 am - 11:40 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

The President's schedule
-Alaska
-[Emperor of Japan] Hirohito
-Departure time

-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
-Departure
-Montana
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Hungry Horse Dam
-Glacier National Park
-Time
-Portland
-San Francisco
-Media briefing
-Alaska
-Editors conference
-Seattle, Washington
-High school convocation
-Governor
-Highway
-Dedication
-Alaska
-Walter J. Hickel
-Reception
-Anchorage
-Airport arrival
-Motorcade
-Emperor Hirohito
-Flight time
-Hickel reception
-Guests
-Analogy to President’s attendance at Daughters of the American Revolution [DAR] Congress, April 19, 1971

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-Seattle
-High school convocation
-Timing
-Rhode Island
-Economic club
-Television coverage
-Portland
-Washington
-Montana
-Time
-Media briefing
-Washington
-High school convocation
-Portland
-Media briefing
-California

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-California
-Washington
-President’s Labor Day address
-Detroit
-Montana
-Portland
-Seattle
-Detroit
-Seattle
-High school convocation
-Television
-Montana
-Dam
-Washington
-Portland
-Media briefing
-Summary
-Montana
-Portland
-Washington
-High school convocation
-Possible visit to Edward C. Nixon
-Airport arrival
-Portland
-Media briefing
-Seattle
-Accommodations
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Ehrlichman
-Mark O. Hatfield
-Media briefing
-Montana
-Washington
-San Clemente
-Church

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-Portland
-Media briefing
-Church
-Daniel J. Evans
-Alaska
-Hickel
-Reception
-Associated Press [AP]
-Constance M. (“Connie”) Stewart
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-California

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-Medical center
-San Francisco
-Santa Rosa
-San Jose
-Alaska
-Pace of planned trip
-Emperor Hirohito
-Hickel
-Maurice H. Stans
-Pipeline announcement
-John N. Mitchell
-Timing
-Hickel
-Hickel
-Book release in October
-John D. Ehrlichman
-White House staff
-California
-Yorba Linda
-Political significance compared to other states
-Santa Ana
-San Diego county
-Northern California
-San Joaquin Valley
-Compared to New York
-Spiro T. Agnew's appearance
-Japanese dinner
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-The President as Vice President
-October
-September
-State dinners
-Ohio
-Illinois
-New York
-Florida
-California
-Mailing
-Mitchell
-Meeting
-Format
-Briefing
-Social dinner
-Army chorus
-Receiving line
-Table
-Cabinet officers
-Mitchell
-States
-Texas
-John B. Connally

Press book

President’s schedule
-Charlotte
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Television coverage
-Florida

Press
-Haldeman

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-Administration relations
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Ziegler
-Edmund S. Muskie
-1968 campaign
-Instruction to Haldeman
-Unknown television book
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-William L. Safire
-Staff
-Publicity
-Problems
-Events
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Economy
-Wedding
-Economy
-War
-Public support
-Harry S. Dent
-Alabama
-PRC
-Ziegler
-Herbert G. Klein
-Herbert C. Hoover
-Supporters
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Solutions
-Charles W. Colson

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 10:06 am.
Delivery of something

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:40 am.

Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo

Press
-Newspaper association publishers
-Alaska
-Washington
-Oregon
-Montana
-Idaho
-Utah

The President's schedule
-Anchorage, Alaska
-Robert Atwood
-Reception
-Hickel reception
-Atwood reception
-Importance compared to Hickel’s

Press
-News magazines
-Wire services
-Robert Pierpoint
-Woodrow Wilson event
-Wire services
-Chicago
-Relations with administration
-The President's schedule
-Florida
-Advance notice
-Buchanan
-Television
-Columnists
-News summary
-Change of format
-America
-Human Events
-National Review
-The Reporter
-T.V. Guide
-Television
-Significance
-Relations with administration
-Robert J. Dole
-Barry M. Goldwater
-President’s meetings with Senators and Congressmen
-Nixon loyalists
-Loyalists
-Strategy planning committee
-Staff
-Buchanan
-Colson
-Cabinet and sub-cabinet

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 10:06 am.

Delivery of something

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:40 am.

George P. Shultz
-Meeting

[Pause]

The President's schedule
-Meeting
-Time

Economics
-Quadriad session
-Time
-Shultz's meeting with the President
-Phase II
-Consultation process
-Group meetings with the President
-Labor
-Business
-Agricultural
-Congressional
-Cost of Living Council [COLC] members
-Speech
-Consultation process
-Price
-Shultz
-Connally
-Price
-Arthur F. Burns
-Shultz
-Connally
-Group meetings
-Cabinet
-COLC
-Size
-Time
-Price
-Speech
-Paragraph
-Contact with groups
-Shultz
-Virginia H. Knauer
-Consumer groups
-Vice president
-Governors and mayors
-Labor, business, agriculture, Congress
-Congress
-Mansfield's letter

The President's schedule
-Connally
-Afternoon events
-Evening events
-November
-Weather
-Cabinet meeting
-Church services
-Graham's mother
-Minister
-Chattanooga, Tennessee
-October 10 and November 21, 1971

President’s address to Congress on economic stabilization, September 9, 1971
-Copy
-Press
-Rogers
-Announcement
-September 7, 1971

Vietnam
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Trip to Hanoi
-Negotiations
-PRC
-Problems
-Secrecy
-Risk of failure
-Fertility
-Fear of trap
-North Vietnam
-Tactics
-Pham Van Dong
-Troop withdrawal
-Announcement
-Timing
-Television

Trip to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Press conference announcement
-October 1971

President's schedule
-Detroit meeting
-Timing
-Economic Club members
-Size
-Executive board
-Questions
-New York Economic Club
-Detroit
-Public relations
-Automobile industry
-Catholic schools example
-Michigan
-Automobile industry

Press
-Colson
-Muskie tax proposal
-Dole
-Muskie press conference
-San Francisco
-Busing comments
-Equivocation
-George W. Romney
-Busing
-President’s position
-Ehrlichman
-George C. Wallace
-Position
-Effect on the President
-Warren E. Burger
-Shultz

Economic speech
-Price
-Talk with Shultz and Connally
-Peter G. Peterson
-Quadriad
-Tax reforms
-Connally
-Shultz
-Technology
-Ehrlichman

Busing
-Muskie
-Position
-Republican strategy
-Democrats
-Dent
-Ambiguity
-Press
-Romney
-Republican strategy

President’s schedule
-Call from Connally
-Raymond Shafer
-Marijuana commission
-Trip to Europe
-Mitchell
-Connally
-Timing
-Japanese cabinet
-Call from Haldeman
-Price

Press
-John A. Scali
-Ziegler
-Colson
-Buchanan
-Klein
-Scali
-Ziegler
-Colson
-Ziegler
-Reporter level
-Bureau chief level
-Klein
-Press secretary
-Role
-Unknown book
-Reports
-For and against the President
-[Forename unknown] Sanders article
-Democrats
-Congressional Treaty event
-Attendance

Dramatic arts
-Democrats
-Leonard Bernstein
-Kennedy Center show [Mass]
-Treatment of audience
-"Jesus Christ Superstar"
-"Hair"
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Attendance
-Pace
-Length
-Unknown woman
-Reception
-Kennedy family
-Ticket order
-Clark MacGregor
-National Cultural Center
-Name change
-Ticket order

Congress
-Mood
-The President's talk with Colson
-Price
-MacGregor

Cabinet
-Connally

Staff
-MacGregor
-Colson
-Scali
-Summit with USSR

Press
-Publicity
-Trips
-PRC
-USSR
-Significance

Economy

Vietnam
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Defense Department
-Reported deaths
-Press story
-Deaths
-Compared to New York City
-Hand guns
-Ehrlichman
-National Rifle Association [NRA]
-President’s view
-Burger
-Gun lobby
-Richard S. Schweicker
-President’s view
-Children
-President’s and Haldeman’s experiences
-Hancock Park
-Rose Mary Woods

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Haldeman left at 11:40 am.

Conversation No. 274-29

Date:  September 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:40 am and 1:27 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

President’s address to Congress on economic stabilization, September 9, 1971
-Draft
-Editing

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:27 pm.

Conversation No. 274-30

Date:  September 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:40 am and 1:27 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man.

Request to deliver speech draft for editing

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 1:27 pm.

Conversation No. 274-31

Date:  September 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:40 am and 1:27 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 8-47]

Request for Raymond K. Price, Jr. to come to the Executive Office Building [EOB]

Request for a call to Price

Conversation No. 274-32

Date:  September 8, 1971
Time:  1:27 pm - 1:28 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Raymond K. Price, Jr.

[See Conversation No. 8-48]

Economic speech draft
-Editing

Price's meeting with the President

Conversation No. 274-33

Date:  September 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:28 pm and 1:34 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The White House operator talked with the President.

Request for a call to an unknown person

Conversation No. 274-34

Date:  September 8, 1971
Time:  1:34 pm - unknown before 3:03 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Raymond K. Price, Jr.

President’s address to Congress on economic stabilization, September 9, 1971
-George P. Shultz
-Talk with Price
-Meetings with the President
-John B. Connally
-Phase II
-Meetings
-Business
-Labor
-Farmers
-Congress
-Paragraph re-write
-Wording
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Price's memorandum
-Tax cuts
-Research
-Ehrlichman
-Tax cuts
-Shultz
-Connally
-Congress
-The President's reading of draft

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:34 pm.

Economic speech
-Sanchez
-Delivery of retyped pages

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:46 pm.

The President talked with Ehrlichman between 1:46 pm and 1:47 pm.

[Conversation No. 274-34A]
[See Conversation No. 8-49]

Economic speech
-The President's talk with Price
-Research
-Taxes
-Shultz

[End of telephone conversation]

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:47 pm.

Delivery of retyped pages of the President's economic speech

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:24 pm.

Economic speech
-The President's reading of draft
-Price's suggestions
-Wording
-Woodrow Wilson
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Delivery of page 4 of economic speech

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:24 pm.

Economic speech
-Page 4
-The President's reading of draft
-Wording
-Democrats in Congress
-Acceptance
-Page 5
-Congress

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Economic speech
-Page 5

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Economic speech
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Bipartisan leadership meeting
-Russell Long

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Delivery of page 5 of economic speech

Pipe and matches

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Economic speech
-Tax cuts
-Page 6
-Wording
-The President's reading of draft
-Edmund S. Muskie and Long
-Price's suggestions on wording
-Cost of living
-Tax cut language
-Federal budget

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Shultz
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Economic speech
-Page 7
-Price's material
-Page 8
-Wording

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Page 9 of economic speech

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Economic speech
-Wording
-Inflation
-The President's reading of draft
-Technology
-Congress
-Welfare reform
-Revenue sharing
-Welfare
-Funding
-Postponements
-Page 16

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:47 pm.

Economic speech
-Delivery of draft
-Request

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:24 pm.

Economic speech
-The President's reading of draft
-Competition
-Health, housing, education, environment, opportunity
-Page 9
-Tax reform
-Employment
-Goals
-Meeting language
-Copy
-Meeting
-Earlier draft
-Credit
-Wording
-Credit
-Peace
-Credit
-Congress

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 2:24 pm.

Price left at 2:24 pm.

President’s schedule
-George E. Allen

-Japanese dinner
-Speech
-Questions
-Takeo Fukuda meeting
-Time
-Location
-Yellow Room
-Guests
-Peter G. Peterson
-William P. Rogers
-Wives
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew and Elinor I. (Judefind) Agnew
-Press
-Toast
-Cabinet members
-George P. Shultz
-Peterson
-George W. Romney
-Photograph opportunity
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Fukuda
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-White House worship service, September 12, 1971
-Guests
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham’s family
-Soloist
-Paul Yu Pin
-Taiwan
-John Cardinal Krol

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Conversation No. 274-35

Date:  September 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:24 pm and 3:03 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:03 pm.

Conversation No. 274-36

Date:  September 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:24 pm and 3:03 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler [?]

Vietnam
-Press report
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Casualty rate

President’s address to Congress on economic stabilization, September 9, 1971
-Changes
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Copy

Conversation No. 274-37

Date:  September 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:24 pm and 3:03 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 8-50]

Request for  a call to Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Conversation No. 274-38

Date:  September 8, 1971
Time:  3:03 pm - 3:04 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Raymond K. Price, Jr.
[See Conversation No. 8-51]

The President’s address to Congress on economic stabilization, September 9, 1971
-The President's schedule
-Draft
-Deadline
-President’s location
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Deadline
-Other draft
-John B. Connally
-Telephone conversation with the President

Conversation No. 274-39

Date:  September 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:04 pm and 3:06 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 8-52]

Request for a call to Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Conversation No. 274-40

Date:  September 8, 1971
Time:  3:06 pm - 3:08 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Raymond K. Price, Jr.

[See Conversation No. 8-53]

The President's address to Congress on economic stabilization, September 9, 1971
-Talk with Henry A. Kissinger
-Foreign policy section
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Wording
-Vietnam war
-Generation of peace

Conversation No. 274-41

Date:  September 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:08 pm and 3:26 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

President’s schedule
-Labor union meeting [?], September 10, 1971
-Meeting with Takeo Fukuda [?]
-Time

Conversation No. 274-42

Date:  September 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:08 pm and 3:26 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

President’s address to Congress on economic stabilization, September 9, 1971
-Draft

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Ehrlichman

Conversation No. 274-43

Date:  September 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:08 pm and 3:26 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

President’s address to Congress on economic stabilization, September 9, 1971
-Marjorie P. Acker
-Nellie L. Yates
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Draft
-Typing
-Deadline

Conversation No. 274-44

Date:  September 8, 1971
Time:  3:26 pm - 5:10 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.

Busing
-John N. Mitchell
-Edward L. Morgan
-Austin case
-Possible meeting with Ehrlichman

Anti-trust
-Richard W. McLaren
-Airlines
-Possible resignation
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Ralph Nader
-Position
-American Bar Association [ABA]
-Replacement
-Anti-trust issues
-Forthcoming study
-Webb-Pomerene Act

-Anti-trust of Department of Justice [DOJ]
-Webb-Pomerene
-Cartels
-Peter G. Peterson
-Replacement
-Mitchell

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Busing
-Mitchell
-President’s objectives compared with DOJ’s
-Austin case
-Appeal
-Mexican-American schools
-De jure segregation
-Morgan
-Possible political impact
-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]
-Civil rights cases
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW] and DOJ
-DOJ
-David L. Norman
-Jerris Leonard
-Morgan’s view
-Regional director of HEW a Justice Department lawyer
-Choice
-Brief
-Press
-Circuit Court ruling
-Supreme Court
-Morgan
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Haldeman
-Letters
-Prince George's County, Maryland
-Jim Naughton article in New York Times
-The South
-Federal money
-Amendment
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-George P. Shultz
-Austin
-Mitchell
-Procedures
-Possible meeting with the President
-Mitchell and Ehrlichman

Airlines
-Haldeman

Office of Intergovernmental Relations
-Ehrlichman's talks with Spiro T. Agnew
-Director
-Agnew
-Relationship with Democratic governors
-Unknown people

Agnew
-Senate
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Concern
-Staying informed
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Compared with John B. Connally

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-Connally
-State Department
-Vice President
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Portfolio
-Senate
-Constitutional duty

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-Princeton University student body president
-Letter
-Conversation with Ehrlichman
-Campus residence
-Yale University
-Connally
-Personality
-Bearing
-Possible residency
-Events
-Preference

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[Duration:  2m 23s  ]

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Appointment
-Phillip V. Sanchez
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-Background
-Fresno

Support for the President
-Sanchez
-Thomas W. Fletcher, Sr.
-Sidney P. Marland, Jr.
-Commissioner of Education
-Busing
-Warren E. Burger
-Marland
-Relationship between busing and education
-Letter from the President
-Sanchez
-Letter from the President
-Marland
-James E. Allen, Jr.

Austin busing issue
-Mitchell
-Justice Department lawyers
Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Retirement
-Ehrlichman's call to Haldeman
-Mitchell
-Delay
-Consequence
-Age
-Patrick L. Gray, III
-Mitchell
-Meeting with the President
-Possible position
-Consultant
-William C. Sullivan
-Dinner
-Medal of Freedom

House Resolution [H. R.] 2
-Congressional questions
-President's conversation with F. Edward Hébert
-Melvin R. Laird
-Meeting with Gerald R. Ford and Hébert
-Pentagon Papers
-Call from the President
-Hébert request
-HEW
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Ehrlichman's talk with Laird

Legislation
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Talks with Ehrlichman
-President’s forthcoming speech to Congress
-Revenue sharing, H.R. 1
-Richard P. Nathan
-OMB
-HEW
-New position
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Announcement
-Agenda
-Russell B. Long
-Senate Finance Committee
-HEW
-H R 1

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Refreshments

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H.R. 1
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Speech
-Nathan ("Nick") K. Kotz
-Washington Post
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-Talk with Ehrlichman
-Revenue sharing
-Congress
-Meeting with Long
-Richardson
-Mills
-Welfare action
-Hearings
-Richardson's memo

Busing
-San Francisco
-Michigan
-Burger
-George C. Wallace
-President’s position
-Wallace
-Bureaucrats
-Executive branch action
-Burger
-Courts
-Judges
-Democrats
-Courts
-Hugo Black
-William O. Douglas
-Election
-Supreme Court
-Justices’ deaths
-Thurgood Marshall
-John M. Harlan
-Morgan
-Mitchell
-Future
-Egil G. (“Bud”) Krogh
-Narcotics assignment
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Declassification
-Meeting with Ehrlichman

Ehrlichman's schedule
-General Counsel from the Department of Defense [J. Fred Buzhardt]
-Robert C. Mardian
-Unknown man from the State Department
-Krogh
-David R. Young, Jr.

Pentagon Papers
-Ellsberg
-Changes
-New York Times
-Leslie H. Gelb
-Brookings Institution
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Morton H. Halperin
-FBI
-Department of Defense investigators
-New York Times
-Gelb
-Brookings Institution
-Gordon Gray
-Executive committee
-Krogh
-Young
-Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [FIAB] meeting
-Los Angeles
-Investigation
-Activities
-Columnists
-Jerald terHorst
-Conspiracy information
-Ellsberg lawyer
-Bay of Pigs
-terHorst
-Bay of Pigs documents
-Richard M. Helms
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] resistance
-Allen W. Dulles
-Knowledge
-Reasons for CIA resistance
-Ellsberg group’s knowledge
-Ngo Dinh Diem assassination
-Release of information
-Timing
-Vietnam elections

Camp Pendleton Beach
-Execution of lease
-Story release
-Nixon Foundation land
-Legal opinion
-Legislation
-House
-Armed Services Committee
-F. Edward Hébert
-Land
-Timing

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-Edward C. Nixon
-Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC]
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-J. William Middendorf, II
-Netherlands

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Press
-Los Angeles Times story
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Newsday story
-Possible questions
-Possible administration response
-John W. Dean, III's associate
-Rebozo
-Rebozo and George A. Smathers
-The President
-Interests
-Small Business Administration [SBA]
-Fisher’s Island stock
-Smathers
-Bay Lane house
-Ehrlichman’s advice
-Fisher's Island
-Rebozo
-Stock value
-Smathers
-Government
-Fisher's Island
-Key Biscayne
-Coco Lobo
-Edward O. Sullivan, III case
-Smathers and Rebozo
-Los Angeles Times story
-Investigation
-William Moyers
-Phillip Edward Gutman [?]
-Carl Greenberg
-Managing editor
-Rebozo
-White House action
-Rebozo
-Smathers
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Robert D. (“Bobby”) Baker
-Fisher's Island
-Newsday story
-Possible administration response
-President’s costs
-Law firm
-Fisher's Island
-Stocks
-New York apartment
-Law firm
-Haldeman

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Press inquiries
-San Clemente
-Kalmbach
-Title
-Title Insurance Trust Bank
-Rocco C. Siciliano
-Press inquiries
-Rebozo
-Partnership
-Response to press inquiries
-Ownership
-House and immediate grounds
-Trusts
-Ehrlichman’s comments to press
-Foundation
-Golf
-Orange County, California
-Foundation
-Possible responses
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Dean
-Value
-Rebozo
-Robert H. Abplanalp
-Disclosure of information
-Ziegler
-Johnson residence
-Dwight D. Eisenhower residence
-Possible approach to Congress
-Hébert
-Abplanalp
-Rebozo
-Uses for land
-Foundation
-Houses
-Kalmbach
-[Forename unknown] Almore
-Tenancy
-Foundation
-Hotel
-San Clemente
-Golf course
-Profit
-Investment
-Government
-Question
-Johnson
-Development
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Property question
-Tax shelter
-Dean
-Announcement
-Foundation site
-Irvine and Whittier Colleges
-Speculation
-The President’s view
-Responses
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-John F. Kennedy
-Key Biscayne
-Rebozo
-Press inquiries
-Smathers
-Divorce
-Rebozo
-Fisher Island
-Profit
-Additions
-Stock
-Press inquiries
-Trustee
-Interest
-Purchases
-Press inquiries
-The President’s response
-Rebozo
-Smathers
-Divorce
-Public records
-Sons
-Property settlement
-Bay Lane property
-Government leasing
-Abplanalp
-Secret Service
-White House Communications Agency [WHCA]
-Johnson experience
-Helicopter pad
-Hannah Nixon's house
-Worth
-The President’s worth
-Effect of government service
-California
-San Clemente
-Value
-Sullivan case
-Theodore Roosevelt
-Libel
-Fisher Island
-Stockholders option
-Rebozo

Contributors
-White House investigation
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS] past investigations
-Abplanalp
-Hobart D.  (“Hobe”) Lewis
-John Wayne
-Paul Keyes
-Barry M. Goldwater
-New IRS Commissioner
-Audits
-IRS
-The President
-1962 taxes
-John N. Mitchell
-IRS
-Muskie
-Humphrey
-Investigations
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Pakistan
-Investigation
-Hawaii
-Convention
-Hawaii
-Hyannis
-Muskie
-Lifestyle
-Family
-Kennedy
-Chappaquiddick
-Use of
-Divorce
-Nelson A. Rockefeller's divorce
-Nicholas P. Thimmesch

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Ehrlichman left at 5:10 pm.

Conversation No. 274-45

Date:  September 8, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:10 pm and 5:35 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Request for Raymond K. Price, Jr. to come to the Executive Office Building [EOB]

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:35 pm.

Conversation No. 274-46

Date:  September 8, 1971
Time:  5:35 pm - 6:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Raymond K. Price, Jr.

President’s address to Congress on economic stabilization, September 9, 1971
-Editing draft
-Revenue sharing
-Congress
-Page 14
-Taxes
-Page 2
-Paragraph removal
-Page 7
-Phase II
-End of freeze
-Price stabilization
-Text
-Congress
-Page 9
-State Department
-Revenue sharing
-Welfare reform
-Sales tax
-Page 6
-Typing
-Page 4
-Page 6
-Page 7
-Congress
-Inflation

Alexander P. Butterfield and Nellie L. Yates entered at 5:55 pm.

-Corrections
-Typing
-Welfare
-Typing
-Deadline

Butterfield and Yates left at 6:01 pm.

Kennedy Center show
-Time
-Mass
-Script
-Leonard Bernstein
-Haldeman
-Catholics
-Hebrew
-Protestant ministers
-Catholic priests
-Latin
-Protestants
-Greek

Economic speech

Kennedy Center

Country Club

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An unknown man's location

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 6:05 pm.

Special session

Economic speech
-Court
-Political
-Congress

Price left at 6:05 pm.

Conversation No. 274-47

Date:  September 8, 1971
Time:  6:05 pm - 6:06 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Speech
-Out box

The President and Sanchez left at 6:06 pm.