Conversation No. 292-1

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:45 pm and 2:53 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:53 pm.

Conversation No. 292-2

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:45 pm and 2:53 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:53 pm

Conversation No. 292-3

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown time between 1:45 pm and 2:53 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:53 pm.

Conversation No. 292-4

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:45 pm and 2:53 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 11-136]

Request for a call to Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

Conversation No. 292-5

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:45 pm and 2:53 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting on budget
-Location

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William P. Rogers

Conversation No. 292-6

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  2:53 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 11-137]

Request for a call to John N. Mitchell

Conversation No. 292-7

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:53 pm and 3:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-John D. Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz, Casper W. (“Cap”) Weinberger, Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:00 pm.

Conversation No. 292-8

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:53 pm and 3:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Polls
-Don [Rumsfeld's ?] figures
-Presidential approved ratings
-Louis P. Harris
-George H. Gallup
-Approval ratings
-Timing
-Soviet Union summit announcement
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Harris
-Washington Post coverage

Conversation No. 292-9

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  3:00 pm - 3:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John N. Mitchell.

[See Conversation No. 11-138]

Conversation No. 292-10

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  3:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule

Bull left at 3:05 pm.

Conversation No. 292-11

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  3:05 pm - 5:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman, Alexander M. Haig, Jr. Casper W. (“Cap”) Weinberger, and George P. Shultz.

John B. Connally's health

Federal budget
-School lunches
-Criteria

Pending legislation
-Michael J. Mansfield amendment
-Leslie C. Arends actions
-Vote

Federal budget Fiscal Year [FY] 1972

-Deficit

FY 1973 budget

The President's previous meeting with Republican Congressmen
-Hugh Scott
-Clark MacGregor
-Mansfield
-Revenue sharing
-Welfare reform
-Public relations
-Congress adjournments
-Timing
-White House position

Congress's schedule
-Adjournment
-Revenue sharing and welfare reform
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Letter to the President
-Ways and Means Committee staff's efforts
-Russell B. Long’s position
-Conversation with Ehrlichman
-White House public relations efforts
-The President's possible speech
-Spiro T. Agnew's speech on revenue sharing

Welfare reform
-Ehrlichman's conversation with Long and Wallace F. Bennett
-Possible experiment
-Abraham A. Ribicoff's action
-Long’s view

FY 1973 budget
-Defense spending
-Revenue sharing
-Alternatives
-The President's economic program
-Outlay management
-Shultz’s assessment
-Defense spending
-Revenue spending

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:05 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:05 pm.

FY 1973 budget
-Alternatives
-Outlay management
-Revenues
-Economy
-Arthur F. Burns's efforts
-Money supply
-Effect
-General revenue sharing
-Burns's role 
-Money supply
-Economy and spending
-Roles of private and public sectors
-2nd and 3rd quarter figures
-Pending legislation
-Government spending
-Strategy
-Full employment
-Pending legislation
-General revenue sharing
-Welfare reform
-Revenue sharing
-White House public relations efforts
-Strategy

The President's domestic programs
-Political value
-Environmental programs
-Revenue sharing
-White House strategy
-Congress
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Supporters
-Welfare reform
-Daniel P. Moynihan
-Alternatives
-Property tax
-Value Added Tax [VAT]
-Revenue sharing
-Political value
-Welfare reform
-FY 1973 budget
-Revenue sharing
-Timing
-The President's possible message to Congress
-Revenue sharing
-FY 1973 budget
-Political issue
-Alternatives
-Property tax relief
-Education
-Property tax relief

FY 1973 budget
-Full employment
-Revenue sharing
-Lobbying
-Mills's possible action
-Possible veto
-Congressional action
-Administration's efforts since 1969
-Burns
-Possible veto
-Size
-Revenue sharing
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Congress
-The President's possible actions
-Weinberger's possible actions
-The President's possible actions
-Congress
-Welfare reform
-Legislative prospects
-Long
-President’s conversation
-White House strategy
-Long and Bennett's possible action
-Ribicoff
-Effect on federal employment
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-Family Assistance Plan
-Long's possible meeting with Connally

National economy
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Louisiana sugar cane growers
-Long
-Unemployment Insurance Bill
-Shultz's conversation with Long
-Job corps center in St. Louis

FY 1973 budget
-Revenue sharing
-Welfare reform
-The President’s view
-Congressional action
-Education
-Property tax reform
-Administration's philosophy of government
-Benefits
-Post practices
-1973 enactment of sales tax
-Special revenue sharing
-Model cities
-Urban renewal
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Governors support
-Legislative prospects
-Samuel L. Devine
-The President’s position
-Congressional appropriations
-Education
-Education
-Ehrlichman’s view
-VAT
-Benefits
-State school support programs
-Court decisions
-California
-Taxes
-National defense
-Melvin R. Laird's statement
-Henry A. Kissinger's views
-Spending level
-Spending levels
-National Security Council [NSC] view
-Navy
-Interceptor Aircraft
-Safeguard Missiles
-Ground Forces
-Aircraft Carriers
-Air Wings
-Ground forces level
-Previous NSC meeting
-Air craft carriers
-Air wings
-Haig’s view
-Base closings
-Possible political effect
-Effect on national economy
-California
-Other program spending
-Possible increase in defense spending
-Model cities
-Shultz’s view
-Weinberger’s view
-Laird
-David Packard’s view
-Previous meeting with Shultz
-Laird's views
-Navy
-Expenditures in California
-Employment
-Peter M. Flanigan's analysis
-Air sorties in Vietnam
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM]
-Effect on national economy
-Effectiveness
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Soviet of Union
-Modernization of army
-Effect on national economy
-Shultz’s view
-Effectiveness of spending
-Politics
-Laird's views
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Effectiveness of spending
-Defense Department's fiscal guidance
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB] budget exercises
-Kissinger, Packard, Shultz
-Gardiner L. Tucker
-Kenneth W. Dam
-Shultz’s view
-Kissinger's role with Laird
-NSC views
-Obligatory authority
-Jackson's possible views
-Laird's role in Defense Department
-Expenditures on human resources
-Defense expenditures
-Decreases
-Opposition
-USSR
-Military plans and activities
-Offensive capability
-US response
-Air force
-Haig’s view of readiness
-SALT
-Effect on budget
-Multiple Independently-targeted Reentry Vehicles [MIRV]

SALT
-First strike capability
-MIRV, Polaris, Minuteman
-Deterrence effect
-Haig’s view
-Negotiations
-Budget

1973 budget
-National defense
-Laird's forthcoming meeting with Kissinger and Haig
-Air power
-New initiatives
-Existing programs
-Veto strategy
-Outlay management
-New initiatives
-Research and development
-Domestic issues
-Political value
-Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy
-Property tax
-Aid to parochial schools
-Constitutionality
-Tax reform
-VAT
-Revenue sharing
-Joseph A. Califano's article in New York Times
-Research and development
-Congress's possible role
-Veto strategy
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO] extension
-1972 campaign
-Democratic candidates
-Water quality bill
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Political analysis
-The President's schedule
-Haig
-John N. Mitchell
-Robert J. Dole
-Charles W. Colson
-Connally
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Laird
-William P. Rogers

National growth policy

FY 1973 budget
-New initiatives
-Effect
-Education
-Research and development
-Tax increase
-Mills
-VAT
-Balance
-Full employment
-Taxes
-The President's schedule
-Connally
-Unknown people
-Veto strategy
-OEO extension
-State of the Union message
-Strategy
-House of Representatives
-Child development program
-Strategy
-Richard H. Poff, Devine, John J. Rhodes
-Taxes
-The President's schedule
Connally
-Treasury's previous proposals
-Parochial school aid
-Constitutionality

Parochial school aid
-Possible constitutional amendment
-National Education Association [NEA]
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham

1973 budget
-Parochial school aid
-Cost
-VAT
-Voucher program
-Busing

School buses

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The President's schedule

International narcotics control
-Defense Department's cooperation

Pentagon Papers
-Defense Department damage assessment
-Daniel Ellsberg case
-Adm. Noel Gayler's views
-Ehrlichman's forthcoming call to Laird
-International narcotics
-NSC

1973 budget
-Full employment balance
-Congress's schedule

Congress
-Forthcoming vote
-The President's meeting with Congressmen, October 19, 1971
-Vietnam

Vietnam
-Mansfield resolution
-Soviet Union Summit
-PRC Summit
-Administration policy
-Congress
-The President’s view
-Mansfield resolution
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-The President’s assessment
-Negotiations
-Options
-Effect on POWs
-Casualties
-Motives of the President's opponents
-Nguyen Van Thieu's election
-Effect
-North Vietnamese casualties
-Possible results of communist takeover
-The President's conversation with the bishop of Da Nang
-POWS
-Possible raid
-Mansfield amendment
-Negotiations
-Possible bombing
-Cambodia, Laos
-Soviet Union, PRC
-Actions of the President's opponents
-W. Averill Harriman
-William V. Shannon's October 19, 1971 editorial
-John F. Kennedy
-Dean Rusk
-Schedule
-Bay of Pigs

Shannon

Life

New York Times
-Ehrlichman's possible actions

Ehrlichman, et al. left at 5:05 pm.

Conversation No. 292-12

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  5:08 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 11-139]

Request for a call to Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

Conversation No. 292-13

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:08 pm and 5:09 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

The President's schedule
-John B. Connally

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:08 pm.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:09 pm.

The President's schedule
-Connally
-Connally’s health

The President's schedule
-Camp Hoover

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Conversation No. 292-14

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:08 pm and 5:09 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 11-140]

Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 292-15

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  5:09 pm - 5:27 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 11-141]

Conversation No. 292-16

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  5:27 pm - 5:38 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:38 pm.

Conversation No. 292-17

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:27 pm and 5:38 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 11-142]

Request for a call to John N. Mitchell

Conversation No. 292-18

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  5:38 pm - 5:43 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John N. Mitchell.

[See Conversation No. 11-143]

Conversation No. 292-19

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:43 pm and 5:49 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 11-144]

Request for a call to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Conversation No. 292-20

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:43 pm and 5:49 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 11-145; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 292-21

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:43 pm and 5:49 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

Message to unknown man

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:49 pm.

Conversation No. 292-22

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  5:49 pm - 5:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 11-146; two items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 292-23

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:50 pm and 6:04 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:04 pm.

Conversation No. 292-24

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:50 pm and 6:04 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

1973 budget
-New initiatives
-The President's schedule
-John B. Connally's schedule
-Taxes
-Casper W. (“Cap”) Weinberger's views

The President's schedule

Conversation No. 292-25

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:50 pm and 6:04 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 11-147]

Request for a call to William F. (“Billy”) Graham

Conversation No. 292-26

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  6:04 pm - 6:09 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with William F. (“Billy”) Graham.

[See Conversation No. 11-148; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 292-27

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:09 pm and 6:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 11-149]

Request for a call to Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo

Conversation No. 292-28

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  6:16 pm - 6:20 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo.

[See Conversation No. 11-150; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 292-29

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:20 pm and 6:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:30 pm.

Conversation No. 292-30

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:20 pm and 6:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:30 pm.

Conversation No. 292-31

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  6:30 pm - 6:34 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Unknown man

Butterfield left at 6:34 pm.

Conversation No. 292-32

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:34 pm and 6:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:45 pm.

Conversation No. 292-33

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:34 pm and 6:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:45 pm.

Conversation No. 292-34

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:34 pm and 6:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:45 pm.

Conversation No. 292-35

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:34 pm and 6:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 11-151]

Request for a call to Paul W. Keyes

Conversation No. 292-36

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:34 pm and 6:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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The President talked with Paul W. Keyes between 6:45 pm and 6:47 pm.

[Conversation No. 292-36A]

[See Conversation No. 11-152]

Sanchez left at 6:45 pm.

[End of telephone conversation]

Conversation No. 292-37

Date:  October 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:47 pm and 7:49 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 7:49 pm.