Conversation No. 286-1

Date:  October 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:10 pm and 5:36 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President rehearsed a speech.

[A transcript of the final broadcast of this speech appears in Public Papers of the Presidents, Richard M. Nixon, 1971, pp. 1022-1026]

Conversation No. 286-3

Date:  October 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:10 pm and 5:36 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President rehearsed a speech.

[A transcript of the final broadcast of this speech appears in Public Papers of the Presidents, Richard M. Nixon, 1971, pp. 1022-1026]

Conversation No. 286-4

Date:  October 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:10 pm and 5:36 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Request for meeting

Conversation No. 286-5

Date:  October 7, 1971
Time:  5:36 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 11-1]

Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 286-6

Date:  October 7, 1971
Time:  5:36 pm - 6:10 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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[Duration:  33s  ]

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H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 5:36 pm.

Donald H. Rumsfeld’s new position

-The President's schedule
-Possible announcement
-Arnold R. Weber
-Director of operations
-Cost of Living Council

Charles W. Colson entered at 5:37 pm.

Rumsfeld
-William L. Safire
-Drafting of statement
-Director
-Cost of Living Council

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:49 pm.

-John B. Connally
-George P. Shultz
-Rumsfeld

Administration procedures
-William P. Rogers
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Cabinet secretaries
-Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
-Connally
-Cabinet

Consultations

Consumer Federation meeting
-Virginia H. Knauer

Speech revision
-Windfall profits
-Price Commission
-Prices
-Safire
-Industrial prices
-Wholesale prices

The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 5:36 pm and 5:49 pm.

Request for a call to William L. Safire
[Conversation No. 286-6A]

[See Conversation No. 11-2]

[End of telephone conversation]

-Industrial prices
-Decline

The President talked with William L. Safire between 5:49 pm and 5:50 pm.

[Conversation No. 286-6B]

[See Conversation No. 11-3]

[End of telephone conversation]

-Inflation

Colson's schedule

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[Duration:  5m 23s  ]

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Polls
-Policy  issues
-Busing
-Coverage of actions
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Economic issue

Press coverage
-Vietnam War
-People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Kissinger

Public Support

Economic policy
-Businessmen
-Stock market

Taiwan

Safire
-Speech draft

Economic statistics
-Unemployment
-Decreases
-Effect

The President's schedule
-Network news
-Haldeman's assignment
-West coast evening news

Haldeman and Colson left at 6:10 pm.

Conversation No. 286-7

Date:  October 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:10 pm and 7:11 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President rehearsed a speech.

[A transcript of the final broadcast of this speech appears in Public Papers of the Presidents, Richard M. Nixon, 1971, pp. 1022-1026]

Conversation No. 286-8

Date:  October 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:10 pm and 7:11 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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[Duration:  8s  ]

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 7:11 pm.

Conversation No. 286-9

Date:  October 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:10 pm and 7:11 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

Entry

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 7:11 pm.

Conversation No. 286-10

Date:  October 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:10 pm and 7:11 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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[Duration:  2s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 7:11 pm.

Conversation No. 286-11

Date:  October 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:10 pm and 7:11 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President rehearsed a speech.

[A transcript of the final broadcast of this speech appears in Public Papers of the Presidents, Richard M. Nixon, 1971, pp. 1022-1026]