Conversation No. 275-1

Date:  September 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:00 pm and 12:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for a call to Brig. Gen. James D. ("Don") Hughes [?]

Conversation No. 275-2

Date:  September 7, 1971
Time:  12:16 pm - 12:17 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Brig. Gen. James D. ("Don") Hughes.

Camp David
-Housekeeping situation
-Carpet removal
-Porch

Conversation No. 275-3

Date:  September 7, 1971
Time:  12:20 pm - 12:26 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon.

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Conversation No. 275-4

Date:  September 7, 1971
Time:  12:26 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

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

Conversation No. 275-5

Date:  September 7, 1971
Time:  12:26 pm - 12:27 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Meeting with the President
-Executive Office Building [EOB] office

Conversation No. 275-6

Date:  September 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:27 pm and 12:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger's schedule
-Kissinger's questions

Meeting with the President
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Conversation No. 275-7

Date:  September 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:27 pm and 12:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Pens

The President's schedule
-Time
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Henry A. Kissinger

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:30 pm.

Conversation No. 275-8

Date:  September 7, 1971
Time:  12:30 pm - 12:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Soviet Union
-Announcement of summit meeting
-Timing
-October 12, 1971
-Soviets
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Call to Kissinger
-Time span between calls
-State Department
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Communique
-Agreement
-Place of meeting
-Moscow
-Visit
-Progress in relations
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Press conference
-Summit
-Berlin agreement
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Announcement
-Announcement of communique
-Timing
-US
-Soviet Union
-Questions
-Press

-Kissinger's staff
-Preparation of questions and answers
-Compared with PRC announcement
-The President's actions
-Other news

Kissinger's schedule
-PRC
-Kissinger's postponement
-Attendance at Japanese dinner
-Japan
-William P. Rogers, U. Alexis Johnson
-Takeo Fukuda
-Proposed meeting with the President
-Kissinger’s attendance
-Relations with the President

Forthcoming United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan, Republic of China
-George H.W. Bush
-Security Council
-Expulsion
-US actions at the UN
-Albanian resolution
-PRC admission
-Retention of Taiwan
-Guatemala
-Costa Rica
-Great Britain
-Position
-Background
-Bush
-Voting analysis
-Important questions
-Issue of Security Council seat
-Taiwan
-Expulsion

The President's opponents

[Unintelligible]

Howard Stein
-Dinner
-Eugene J. McCarthy

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South Vietnam Presidential elections
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Referendum effect of unopposed election
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Administration's opponents
-American public
-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
-[Forename unknown] Simon
-Dinner
-John B. Connally
-Strategy
-Timing
-Berlin

US foreign relations
-PRC
-Dobrynin
-US-PRC relationships
-Southeast Asia
-US-Soviet relations
-Meeting
-Possible summit
-PRC
-Possible actions
-Vietnam peace settlement

Vietnam
-Peace negotiations
-Prisoner of war [POWs]
-Forthcoming elections in South Vietnam
-Thieu
-Effect on negotiations
-Compromise
-Temporary government
-Duration
-Thieu
-Press handling of issue
-Editorial
-Warning against involvement in South Vietnamese elections
-North Vietnamese
-Compared with South Vietnamese military forces
-Casualties
-North Vietnam
-Floods
-Effect
-Supplies
-Infiltration

Soviet Union
-Signing of Accidental War, Hotline Agreements
-Date
-Ceremony
-Gromyko
-Signing
-Public [press?] opinion
-US position
-Democrats
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman's conversation with the President
-Willy Brandt letter

Kissinger's schedule
-Lunch
-Connally
-Soviet Union developments
-Rogers
-Kissinger's conversation with Rogers

Rogers
-Information about negotiations
-Summit Meeting
-Dobrynin
-Relations with Kissinger

Kissinger left at 12:55 pm.

Conversation No. 275-9

Date:  September 7, 1971
Time:  12:56 pm - 2:10 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Draft of economic speech to Congress, September 9, 1971
-The President's perusal
-John B. Connally
-Cost of living
-Comments and criticism
-Revision
-Line
-Multiple use
-Tax proposal
-Tax cut
-Revisions
-Job development credit
-Justification

-Deletion of sentences
-10% cut
-Point previously made by Connally, Paul W. McCracken
-Controversial nature of program
-Working force
-Points of speech
-Business
-Incentives, competition
-Workers
-Wage earners
-Productivity
-Making America competitive
-World market
-The President's August 15, 1971 address
-Reiteration of arguments
-New jobs
-Number
-Emphasis
-Use of figures
-Problems
-Need
-Proposals
-Creation of 500,000 new jobs
-Estimates
-Congressional cooperation
-Wording
-90-day freeze
-Five billion dollar spending cut
-Creation of jobs
-Tax reductions
-Figures
-Separation of Congressional and Presidential action
-Explanation of actions
-Sequence of actions ordered in August 15, 1971 speech
-Freeze on wages and prices
-International front
-Revenue sharing and welfare reform
-Status
-Reduction in government cost
-Reason
-Cooperation from Congress
-Restraint in budget expenditure
-Tax cuts
-Spending outs
-Restraint of inflation
-Rise in cost of government
-Tax cuts
-Postponement of effective dates of revenue sharing and welfare reform
-Spending cuts
-Reduction of government personnel
-10% on foreign economic aid
-Revenue sharing
-Welfare reform
-Tax reform
-Proposed action
-Priorities
-August 15, 1971 speech
-Congress
-Enactment of tax proposals
-Structure of speech
-Postponement
-Budget
-Restraint
-Postponement
-Adjust budget
-Prosperity without inflation
-Second draft
-Progress in international relations
-Generation of peace
-Poker analogy
-Image
-Perceptions
-Harry S. Truman
-The President's background
-International context
-Latin America
-Japan
-Forthcoming Japanese visit to Washington
-Economic competition
-National greatness
-Poker game analogy
-Use of theme
-Use of images
-Public memory
-Public sacrifice, challenges
-Focus of speech
-"Blood, sweat, and tears"
-Relation of phrase to the President's speech
-Reality of situation
-Structure of speech
-Focus
-Wage and price freeze
-Spirit of American people
-Cooperation
-Cost of living
-Challenges
-Economic controls, free enterprise system
-Input from Peter G. Peterson, John D. Ehrlichman
-Creation of 100 million new jobs
-Wage and price stabilization in post-freeze period
-Control
-Governmental role
-Business
-Labor
-1980
-New jobs
-Price’s conversation with unknown man
-Application of technology to solve problems
-Research and development as percentage of Gross National Product [GNP]
-Compared with other countries
-National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
-Nuclear breeder reactors
-Industry
-Focus, planning
-Free enterprise system
-Japan
-Planning of research and development
-US position in the world
-Successful US lunar landings
-Application to economic problems
-Congress
-Cooperation
-Wage and price controls
-Program implementation
-American work ethic
-Perceptions of the good life
-Wage earners, welfare recipients
-State of the economy
-Challenges
-US position
-Healthy economy, government
-Congress
-Postponement in reform implementation
-The US and the world
-Tariffs and quotas
-Image of wall
-Competition
-Reaction to challenges
-American past history
-Discovery of New World
-Space exploration
-Image of wall
-The US as a great power
-Ehrlichman, George Shultz

The President talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 12:56 pm and 2:10 pm.

[Conversation No. 275-9A]

The President's speech on economic stabilization
-Meeting with Price
-Projections and goals
-100 million jobs
-Reform proposals
-Tax cuts
-Research and development
-American accomplishment
-Apollo program
-Ehrlichman's possible meeting with Price
-NASA
-Forthcoming  State of the Union address
-Tax reform
-Shultz
-[Connally’s] recommendations
-August 15, 1971 speech
-Time factor
-Ehrlichman's forthcoming conversation with Price
-Connally
-Scheduling

[End of telephone conversation]

Draft of economic speech
-Congress
-Tax bill
-Competition
-Inflation
-Effects
-Virus metaphor
-Differentiation between ideas and programs
-Tax reform
-Creation of jobs
-Use of technology to meet challenges
-NASA
-Wage and price stabilization
-Way-station analogy
-Tax reform
-US competitive position in the world
-Astronauts as symbol of accomplishment
-Draft revisions
-Forthcoming meeting with the President in the evening

Price left at 2:10 pm.

Conversation No. 275-10

Date:  September 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:10 pm and 3:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:55 pm.

Conversation No. 275-11

Date:  September 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:10 pm and 3:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with unknown secretary

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:55 pm.

Conversation No. 275-12

Date:  September 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:10 pm and 3:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with unknown secretary

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:55 pm.

Conversation No. 275-13

Date:  September 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:10 pm and 3:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Instructions on copies of speech draft

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:55 pm.

Conversation No. 275-14

Date:  September 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:10 pm and 3:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Draft of speech

Meeting with the President at the Executive Office Building [EOB]

Conversation No. 275-15

Date:  September 7, 1971
Time:  3:55 pm - 4:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Stock market
-Status at close of trading
-17 million shares
-Dow Jones average
-Friday's rise in market
-Anticipation of presidential announcement
-Labor Day's speech

George P. Shultz
-Views
-Profits

Public
-Labor Day weekend
-Television programs
-Advertisement
-Effect

Press
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Pictures of trip
-Robert Dole
-Letter

-Publicity
-Time magazine article
-Evaluation of the President's actions
-White House staff
-Frank Leonard
-New ideas
-New prosperity
-Generation of peace
-Media
-Congressmen
-Approval for Presidential actions
-The President's trips
-24 cities
-15 states
-National trust
-Summer of 1971
-Writing
-Parochial schools
-Senior citizens
-Parks
-International drug traffic
-War on crime
-Bureaucracy
-Workfare
-Human dignity
-Peacetime prosperity
-Environment
-26th Amendment
-Signing
-Dynamic balance between farms and cities
-Equal rights laws
-Alliance of generations
-Veterans
-Redemption of national spirit
-Effect on public
-Speakers
-Copies of Time article
-Distribution
-Clark MacGregor
-Congress
-Source
-Dole
-Cabinet members
-Administration spokesmen
-Pictures of the President
-Quotes
-Washington Post
-New York Times
-Time magazine
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Michael J. Mansfield
-July
-Economy
-August
-Quote
-Author
-Franklyn C. (“Lyn”) Nofziger
-American people
-Spending
-Pictures
-Quality
-First Monday distribution

The President's schedule
-Mrs. Nixon
-Far West trip
-John N. Mitchell's advice
-Flight time
-San Francisco
-Oregon
-Early arrival
-Morning
-San Francisco
-Night arrival
-Problems
-Organization
-San Jose
-Logistics
-Briefing
-Public expectations
-Schedule
-Monday
-Japanese visit

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:55 pm.

The President's calendar
-Location

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:55 pm.

The President's schedule
-Far West trip
-Site of media briefing
-Montana
-Weather
-Delaware

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 3:55 pm.

Draft of economic speech
-Numbering

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 4:55 pm.

Speech writing
-The President's meeting with Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-The President's role
-Haldeman's copy
-Fifth draft
-Delivery of drafts
-First draft
-Compared with other drafts
-Quality
-Congressional leaders meeting
-Price
-William L. Safire

Economic briefing
-Women in government
-Cabinet wives
-John B. Connally
-Anecdote
-Paul W. McCracken

Julie Nixon Eisenhower's schedule

High school event
-List of possibilities

Book
-Price
-Dorothy L. Sayers, Creed or Chaos?
-Bookstores
-Photostatic copy

Policy

Jonathan C. Rose
-California memorandum follow-up
-100,000 jobs
-Caspar W. (Cap”) Weinberger

Julie Eisenhower
-Letters

Peter Drucker

Thomas R. Shepard, Jr.
-Speeches
-Claremont College
-Speechwriter

Issues
-Drugs and crime

President’s schedule
-Visit by astronauts to Camp David
-Date of visit
-Florida
-Dinner for astronauts
-Dates
-Florida
-California
-Working weekend
-Astronauts' schedule
-The President's trip to Camp David
-Date

Forthcoming Head of State Visits
-Indira Gandhi
-Possible visit to Camp David
-Josip Broz Tito
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Nature of visits
-State dinner

The President's schedule
-Florida
-Camp David
-Airport
-Time of arrival
-The President's schedule
-California
-Possible changes in trip's schedule
-Detroit
-California
-Dinner
-New York
-Chicago
-West Coast
-Time difference
-Length
-Telecast
-Live broadcast
-Time difference
-New York people
-Receptions
-Telecast
-Dinner organizers
-Reasons
-Simultaneous telecast
-Chicago
-Los Angeles
-Chicago
-New York
-Dinner
-The President's speech
-Timing
-New York
-Chicago

Ford Foundation
-Connection with Brookings Institute
-Problems
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-Two unknown men
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Vice President's proposed speech
-Establishment

Young Americans for Freedom [YAF]
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Telephone
-Publicity
-Agnew
-Letter

[Peter G. Peterson]
-Economic presentation
-College circuit

President’s schedule
-Opening of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
-Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
-Media
-The President's action concerning the Presidential box
-Kennedy family
-Attendance at opening concert
-Symphony orchestra
-Good public relations
-Leonard Bernstein’s Mass
-Review
-Criticism
-Effect on the President's actions
-Attendance
-Haldeman
-White House staff
-Cabinet
-Preview performance
-General public
-Congressional preview
-Opening performance
-Previous night's performance
-Audience's reaction
-Bernstein's reaction
-Joan [Mrs. Edward M.] Kennedy's action
-Review
-Criticism
-Architecture
-Cost
-Delays in construction
-Kennedy family
-Government contribution
-Private subscription
-Bernstein’s Mass
-The President’s attendance
-Reaction
-Official opening
-Review
-Symphony
-Opera House
-Alberto Ginastera
-Ballet
-Bernstein's Mass
-The President's attendance
-Type
-Completion
-Prelude
-Endings
-Kennedy family
-Parts
-Ballet company
-Boys' choir
-Two choruses
-Chorale
-Symphony orchestra
-Percussion section
-Latin
-Hebrew
-Forms of music
-Classical
-Liturgical
-Rock
-Pop
-Country
-First of its kind in Washington, DC
-Cultural importance
-Comparison with University of California, Los Angeles [UCLA] Music Center
-Public reaction
-Architecture
-Edward Durrell Stone
-Airline terminal
-Magazine article
-Lyndon B. Johnson Library comparison
-Evaluation of Kennedy Center, Johnson Library
-Monuments
-History
-Architecture
-Bernstein’s Mass
-The President’s attendance
-Dedication of John F. Kennedy's bust
-The President’s attendance
-John Kennedy
-Arts
-The President's support for the Kennedy Center
-Public opinion on the President
-Comparison with opinion of Kennedy
-Mass
-Bernstein
-Kennedy family
-Jacqueline Onassis
-Media
-Newsweek
-The President's action
-Jacqueline Onassis
-Attendance
-Difficulties
-Kissinger
-Views
-Gregory Peck
-Kennedy Center
-Roger L. Stevens’ invitation
-Reception
-Kennedy people
-The President's attendance
-The President's reception
-Intermission
-Financial aspects
-Stevens
-Sell-out performances
-Number required
-Opera
-Ballet
-Big names
-Private subscription
-Comparison with other performing centers
-UCLA [?]
-Financial situation
-Tickets
-Price

Haldeman left at 4:55 pm.

Conversation No. 275-16

Date:  September 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:55 pm and 5:09 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
The President's forthcoming trip
-Montana
-Saturday
-Seattle
-Airport reception
-Alaska
-The President's schedule
-Montana
-Anchorage
-Options

Conversation No. 275-17

Date:  September 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:55 pm and 5:09 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

President’s schedule
-Possible Delaware trip
-John W. Rollins
-Possible reception
-Timing
-Guests
-Dinner chairmen
-[Republican National Committee [RNC]] State finance people
-Dinner

The President's forthcoming call to Maj. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes

Conversation No. 275-18

Date:  September 7, 1971
Time:  5:09 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 8-32]

Conversation No. 275-19

Date:  September 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:09 pm and 5:11 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 8-33]

Conversation No. 275-20

Date:  September 7, 1971
Time:  5:11 pm - 5:12 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Col. Ralph D. Albertazzie.

[See Conversation No. 8-34]

Conversation No. 275-21

Date:  September 7, 1971
Time:  5:12 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator. 

[See Conversation No. 8-35]

Conversation No. 275-22

Date:  September 7, 1971
Time:  5:13 pm - 5:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat”)Nixon.

[See Conversation No. 8-36; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 275-23

Date:  September 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:20 pm and 5:32 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Schedule
-Seattle and Montana
-Seattle
-Length of stay
-Sunday
-Saturday
-Return flight
-Dinner for Mamie G.D. Eisenhower
-Radio and television
-Arrival time
-Unknown person's forthcoming conversation with Mrs. Nixon
-Constance (“Connie”) Stuart
-Dinner for Mamie Eisenhower
-Reception
-Time
-Schedule
-Media briefing

The President's schedule

Mrs. Nixon
-American Women in Radio and Television dinner for Mamie Eisenhower
-Arrival time

Conversation No. 275-24

Date:  September 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown time between 5:20 pm and 5:32 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 8-37]

Conversation No. 275-25

Date:  September 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:20 pm and 5:32 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

[Unintelligible]

Conversation No. 275-26

Date:  September 7, 1971
Time:  5:32 pm - 5:43 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson

[See Conversation No. 8-38; two items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 275-27

Date:  September 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:43 pm and 5:49 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Request for a call to an unknown person

Conversation No. 275-28

Date:  September 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:43 pm and 5:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 8-39; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

The President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon between 5:49 pm and 5:50 pm.

Conversation No. 275-29

Date:  September 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:50 pm and 5:56 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 8-40]

Conversation No. 275-30

Date:  September 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:50 pm and 5:56 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 8-41]

Conversation No. 275-31

Date:  September 7, 1971
Time:  5:56 pm - 6:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John B. Connally.

[See Conversation No. 8-42

Conversation No. 275-32

Date  September 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:00 pm and 6:04 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

The President's previous conversation with John B. Connally
-Connally's conversation with Kissinger
-Connally's views

-Meeting
-The President's speech

International monetary policy
-Peter G. Peterson's staff
-Aspects involved
-Economics
-Political strategy
-Kissinger's talk with Connally
-The President's call to Willy Brandt and Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Connally's views
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Conversation No. 275-33

Date:  September 7, 1971
Time:  6:04 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Tricia Nixon Cox.

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The President and Tricia Cox left at 6:04 pm.