Conversation No. 284-1

Date:  October 6, 1971
Time:  3:11 pm - 3:12 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 10-90; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 284-2

Date:  October 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:12 pm and 3:14 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator 

Request for a call to Rose Mary Woods

[See Conversation No. 10-91]

Conversation No. 284-3

Date:  October 6, 1971
Time:  3:14 pm - 3:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

[See Conversation No. 10-92]

Conversation No. 284-4

Date:  October 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:15 pm and 3:41 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

The President's schedule
-October 8, 1971
-John D. Ehrlichman
-John N. Mitchell
-Busing
-Robert J. Dole
-William L. Safire
-George P. Shultz

Conversation No. 284-5

Date:  October 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:15 pm and 3:41 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

The President's schedule

Conversation No. 284-6

Date:  October 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:15 pm and 3:41 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

The President's schedule

Conversation No. 284-7

Date:  October 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:15 pm and 3:41 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator 

Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

[See Conversation No. 10-93]

Conversation No. 284-8

Date:  October 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:15 pm and 3:41 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:41 pm.

Conversation No. 284-9

Date:  October 6, 1971
Time:  3:41 pm - 4:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 10-94; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:41 pm.

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

[End of telephone conversation]

Conversation No. 284-10

Date:  October 6, 1971
Time:  4:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule
-Telephone call from unknown person

Sanchez left at 4:00 pm.

Conversation No. 284-11

Date:  October 6, 1971
Time:  4:00 pm - 4:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with William L. Safire.

The President's schedule
-Speech draft

Safire's schedule

Speech draft
-Language of text

Safire left at 4:05 pm.

Conversation No. 284-12

Date:  October 6, 1971
Time:  4:06 pm - 4:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Senate
-J. William Fulbright amendment
-Vote
-Robert C. Byrd amendment
-Vote
-Application delay
-The President's previous conversation with Robert Dole

Foreign policy
-Allies

-William P. Rogers
-Nixon’s role

Vietnam
-Forthcoming election
-John G. Gorton’s visit to Vietnam
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-The President's schedule
-Forthcoming announcement on Vietnam War

Announcement of Kissinger's PRC trip
-Barry M. Goldwater, Sr.
-Hugh Scott
-Rogers
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-The President's activities

PRC announcement
-Chou En-lai
-Press responses
-United Nations [UN]
-Union of Socialist Soviet Republics [USSR]
-Taiwan

Foreign policy
-New York Times editorial
-Kissinger’s conversation with Stewart J.O. Alsop
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Berlin
-Antiballistic missiles [ABM]
-Cambodia
-Rogers [?]
-John B. Connally
-Harry S. Truman
-PRC announcement
-Vietnam
-Troop withdrawal announcement
-Alsop
-Summit
-USSR
-Laos military action
-Chou En-lai
-Domestic concerns
-UN Vote
-Political concerns
-The President’s instructions
-Kissinger’s comments

Kissinger’s comments to Chou En-lai
-Vietnam
-North Vietnamese
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-The President’s policy
PRC
-Newsweek
-Time

The President's conversation with William L. Safire
-World outlook
-Berlin, Middle East, Vietnam
-Hotline

Alsop
-The President’s policies
-Economy

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Kissinger's conversation with Alsop
-Thieu
-Vietnam election
-Effect
-Communion

The President's foreign policy record
-John F. Kennedy
-Johnson
-Eisenhower

Byrd Amendment

Kissinger's schedule
-India and Pakistan
-Forthcoming meeting
-Joseph J. Sisco

Alsop
-Rogers
-USSR

The President's objectives with the USSR
-SALT
-Trade
-Middle East
-Possible conversation Rogers
-Jewish vote

Kissinger left at 4:30 pm.

Conversation No. 284-13

Date:  October 6, 1971
Time:  4:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 10-95]

Conversation No. 284-14

Date:  October 6, 1971
Time:  4:40 pm - 5:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with William L. Safire.

Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Letters for speech, October 7, 1971

Forthcoming speech
-Phase II wage and price controls
-Figures
-Herbert Stein
-House
-Tax bill
-Unemployment
-Text changes
-International front
-World trade
-International monetary stability
-Jobs
-Full employment
-Statement by Edmund S. Muskie

-George Meany
-Letters
-Assignment
-Consultations
-90 day freeze
-Wage and price restraints
-Interest group
-Price Board
-Cooperation
-Muskie
-The President's request of the Congress
-Economic Stabilization Act extension
-Housing
-Prices
-Profits
-Stein
-Windfall
-Stein
-Restraints
-Wording
-Inflation
-Future
-Markets abroad
-Examples
-Wording
-Henry A. Kissinger
-John B. Connally
-Paul A. Volcker
-Text changes
-Connally
-George P. Shultz
-Stein
-Paul W. McCracken
-Peter M. Flanigan, John D. Ehrlichman, H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Arthur F. Burns
-Connally
-Stein
-Kissinger
-Connally

The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 4:40 pm and 5:18 pm.

[Conversation No. 284-14A]

[See Conversation No. 10-96]

[End of telephone conversation]

-Price
-Ronald L. Ziegler

The President talked with John B. Connally between 5:18 pm and 5:19 pm.

[Conversation No. 284-14B]

[See Conversation No. 10-97]

[End of telephone conversation]

-Safire's schedule
-Wholesale prices

The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 5:18 pm and 5:19 pm.

[Conversation No. 284-14C]

[See Conversation No. 10-98]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President talked with Charles W. Colson between 5:19 pm and 5:22 pm.

[Conversation No. 284-14D]
[See Conversation No. 10-99]

[End of telephone conversation]

-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Safire's schedule
-The President's schedule
-White House operator
-Lincoln Room
-Rose Mary Woods

Safire left at 5:25 pm.

Conversation No. 284-15

Date:  October 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:25 pm and 5:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:30 pm.

Conversation No. 284-16

Date:  October 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:25 pm and 5:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Haldeman's schedule
-The President's schedule

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 5:25 pm.

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:30 pm.

[End of telephone conversation]

Conversation No. 284-17

Date:  October 6, 1971
Time:  5:30 pm - 5:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Wholesale prices
-Rate of increase
House
-Tax bill

Senate
-The President's speech
-Filibuster possibility
-Clark MacGregor
-Hugh Scott

Draft of speech for October 7, 1971
-William L. Safire
-George P. Shultz
-Herbert Stein
-Ronald L. Ziegler, Peter M. Flanigan, John D. Ehrlichman
-Staff people
-Editors
-Arthur F. Burns
-John B. Connally, Shultz, Stein, and the President
-Wholesale prices
-Stock market
-Albert H. Gordon
-Shultz
-Windfall profits
-Possible effect
-Price reductions
-Stock market

The President's schedule
-Cabinet
-Russell B. Long

Polls
-Unnamed pollster
-Issues
-US election
-Nixon support
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Methodology
-Problems
-George H. Gallup
-Undecided
-Schedule
-Approval ratings
-Louis P. Harris
-Approval ratings
-Henry A. Kissinger
-PRC announcement
-Burns
-Gallup poll
-Union of Socialist Soviet Republics [USSR]
-Phase II
-Developments of the President's administration

Popular opinion
-Busing
-Issues
-Effect on President
-Housing
-War
-Cambodia
-William Proxmire

Reviews of book
-[Forename unknown] Wallace
-George [Shultz ?]
-Wallace

Personnel
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Walter J. Stoessel, Jr.

The President and Haldeman left at 5:45 pm.

Conversation No. 284-18

Date:  October 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:00 pm and 8:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 10-102]

Conversation No. 284-19

Date:  October 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown time between 8:00 pm and 8:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 10-103]

Conversation No. 284-20

Date:  October 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown time between 8:00 pm and 8:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

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Conversation No. 284-21

Date:  October 6, 1971
Time:  8:39 pm - 8:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

William L. Safire talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 10-104]

Conversation No. 284-22

Date:  October 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:40 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with William L. Safire.

Draft of speech for October 7, 1971
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Letters

-Price Board
-Price Commission
-George P. Shultz
-Herbert Stein
-George W. Romney
-Maurice H. Stans [?]
-Letters
-Inflation
-Dr. W. Allen Wallis
-John B. Connally
-Wording
-Shultz
-Wage Commission
-Price Commission
-Congress
-Standby controls
-Connally
-Profits
-Prices
The President talked with Nellie L. Yates between 8:54 pm and 8:55 pm.

[Conversation No. 284-22A]

[See Conversation No. 10-105]

[End of telephone conversation]

-Connally
-Price reductions
-Price Commission
-Responsibilities
-Wording
-Page nine
-Political connotation
-Wording

Conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 11:59 pm.