Conversation No. 304-1

Date:  October 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:10 pm and 2:37 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:37 pm.

Conversation No. 304-2

Date:  October 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:10 pm and 2:37 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

The President's schedule
-Josip Broz Tito
-Reschedule meeting
-Indira Gandhi

Conversation No. 304-3

Date:  October 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:10 pm and 2:37 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:37 pm.

Conversation No. 304-4

Date:  October 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:10 pm and 2:37 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:37 pm.

Conversation No. 304-5

Date:  October 25, 1971
Time:  2:37 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 12-112]

	Request for a call to William P. Rogers

Conversation No. 304-6

Date:  October 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:37 pm and 2:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 12-113]

Conversation No. 304-7

Date:  October 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:37 pm and 2:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 12-114]

	Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 304-8

Date:  October 25, 1971
Time:  2:40 pm 2:59 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 12-115; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 304-9

Date:  October 25, 1971
Time:  3:01 pm 3:11 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with William P. Rogers.

[See Conversation No. 12-116; two items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 304-10

Date:  October 25, 1971
Time:  3:12 pm 3:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

[See Conversation No. 12-117]

Conversation No. 304-11

Date:  October 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:15 pm and 3:29 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

The President's schedule
-Ehrlichman
-George P. Shultz

Conversation No. 304-12

Date:  October 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:15 pm and 3:29 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

Rose Mary Woods's schedule
-Executive Office Building [EOB]

Conversation No. 304-13

Date:  October 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:15 pm and 3:29 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:29 pm.

Conversation No. 304-14

Date:  October 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:15 pm and 3:29 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 12-118]

	Request for a call to Patrick J. Buchanan

Conversation No. 304-15

Date:  October 25, 1971
Time:  3:29 pm 3:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Patrick J. Buchanan.

[See Conversation No. 12-119]

Conversation No. 304-16

Date:  October 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:30 pm and 4:35 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

Weather

Demonstrations
-Rennie Davis
-Manolo Sanchez
-George Washington University
-White House
-Unknown North Vietnam leader

The President talked with an unknown person [John D. Ehrlichman ?] at an unknown time between 3:30 pm and 3:35 pm

[Conversation No. 304-16A]

The President's schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

Booklets as gifts
-The President's instructions

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Schedule
-People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Possible announcement

Ehrlichman entered at 3:35 pm.

Demonstrations
-Davis
-Permit
-John W. Dean, III

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with George P. Shultz

Ehrlichman left at 3:37 pm.

The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Mrs. Nixon
-Secretaries
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Mrs. Nixon
-Chou En-lai, Mao Tse-tung
-Wives
-George E. Allen
-Mrs. Nixon
-Sentiments
-Possible itinerary
-Kissinger

Woods's conversation with unknown friend of Joseph Woods
-The President's attitude toward the press

Administration relations with the media
-Kissinger
-Background interviews
-Supreme Court
-Arlin M. Adams
-Hugh Scott
-Richard S. Schweiker
-Helen Thomas [?]
-Martha Mitchell
-Woods

Condolence instructions
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Father's death

Roger E. Johnson
-Richard Funkhouser
-The President's possible instructions to Woods
Kissinger
Peter M. Flanigan
-Ambassadorial interests
-Flanigan

The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Mrs. Nixon
-Kissinger
-Staff composition
	-Support staff
-Mrs. Nixon
-Staff
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-John A. Scali
-Constance M. Stuart
-Ziegler
-Secret Service
-White House Communication Agency [WHCA]
-James D. (“Don”) Hughes
-Mrs. Nixon

The President's past efforts

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming visit of Josip Broz Tito
-Florida
-Preparation
-Mrs. Nixon
-Florida
-Italian Foreign Minister
-Columbus Day
-Haldeman
-White House staff vacation policies
-The President's instructions
-Haldeman

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[An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 3:37 pm]

[The unknown person left at an unknown time before 4:35 pm]

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	Public relations
-Logistics
-Charles W. Colson

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Rose Mary Woods left at an unknown time before 4:35 pm.

Conversation No. 304-17

Date:  October 25, 1971
Time:  4:35 pm 6:01 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with George P. Shultz and John D. Ehrlichman.

Salutations

American economics
-John B. Connally, Shultz, Paul W. McCracken, Henry A. Kissinger
-Surcharge

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:35 pm.

Refreshments

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 6:01 pm.

Economics
-Surcharge
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-William P. Rogers
-General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs [GATT]
-Currency revaluation
-Connally's schedule
-Peter G. Peterson, Paul A. Volcker
Policy development
-Connally
-Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Kissinger
-Foreign policy implications
-Japan
People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Germany
-Europeans

-Kissinger
-Great Britain
-France
-Germany
-Arthur F. Burns
-Charles W. Colson
-Adolf Hitler
-Peterson, Connally
-Shultz's role
-Connally, Peterson
-Surcharge
-Peterson
-Activities
-Proposal for International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-OMB
-Shultz's conversation with Connally
-The President's cabinet discussions
-Milton Friedman
-Shultz's activities
-Peterson
-Volcker
-Connally
-Peterson
-Connally
-Shultz's assignment
-Camp David
-Volcker
-Burns
-Peterson
-Relationship with Connally, Rogers
-Compared with Kissinger's relationship
-Rogers
-Laird
-Camp David
-Background
-Wage and price freeze
-Logistics of policy decisions
-The President's meetings with Ehrlichman
-Shultz
-Peterson
-Connally
-Federal Reserve
-Volcker
-Staff
-Connally
-Treasury Department
-Gold issue
-Volcker
-Connally
-Friedman
-Connally
-Treasury staff
-Peterson
-Connally
-Monetary affairs
-Surcharge
-Peterson
-Possible concerns
-Connally
-Exchange rates
-Europeans
-Bankers
-J. Dewey Daane
-Burns
-Convertibility
-Gold
-Special drawing rights [SDR]
-Effect on domestic economy
-Balance of payment
-Strength of dollar
-Flexibility
-Balance of payment
-Paul Anthony Samuelson
-Friedman
-Effect on domestic economy
-Gold
-SDR
-Balance of payments
-Prices
-Inflation
-Unemployment
-The President's August 15, 1971 decision
-Burns
-Money supply
-Interest rates
-Balance of payments
-Convertibility
-Connally
-US international economic relations
-Gold
-Burns
-Volcker
-Connally's staff
-Volcker
-[Unintelligible name]
-Arnold R. Weber
-Price of gold
-Convertibility
-Burns
-Europeans
-France
-Francs
-Convertibility
-Possible staff meeting
-Peterson
-Connally
The President's schedule

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:35 pm and 5:22 pm.

[Conversation No. 304-17A]

[See Conversation No. 12-120]

[End of telephone conversation]

US economics
-Burns
-Monetary strategy
-Gross National Product [GNP]
-Money supply
-Friedman's opinion
-Connally
-Quadriad
-Burns
-Friedman
-Federal Reserve
-Wage and price controls
-Money supply compared to interest rates

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:35 pm and 5:22 pm.

[Conversation No. 304-17B]

[See Conversation No. 12-121]

[End of telephone conversation]

Schedule
-Forthcoming meeting

The President's schedule
-Wallace F. Bennett
-Clark MacGregor
-Connally
-Bennett
-Connally

The President talked with Alexander P. Butterfield between 5:22 pm and 5:25 pm.

[Conversation No. 304-17C]

[See Conversation No. 12-122]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Connally
-Connally's schedule

Economics
-Burns
-Connally
-Nobusuke Kishi dinner
-Andrew F. Brimmer
-United Nations [UN]
-Burns
-Appointments to Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
Connally's opinion
-FRB
-Brimmer
-Appointment
-Japan
-Yen
-Trade restrictions, surcharge
-Connally
-Kissinger, McCracken, Connally, and Shultz
-Europeans
-Connally
-Burns
-International compared with domestic economics
-Convertibility
-Canada
-Japan
-Germany
-France
-Japan
-FRB appointment
-Arthur B. Laffer
-Burns
-Warren E. Burger
-Supreme Court appointments

International economics
-Germans
-Connally's press conference
-Charles Bluhdorn

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-Japanese
-Italians
-Connally
-Peter G. Peterson
-Burns
-Rogers
-State Department's concern over surcharge
-Japan
-Armin H. Meyer
-Iran

New ambassador of Japan
-Requirements
-Kenneth D. Rush
-Charles D. (“Tex”) Thornton
-US embassy
-Kissinger

The President's trip to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-US embassy personnel
-Kissinger

US representative in Hong Kong
-Ambassador of PRC

US ambassador to Vietnam Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Saigon
-Wife, Carol Bunker

The President's schedule
-Connally
-Butterfield
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

International monetary policy
-Peterson
-Connally
-Volcker
-Burns

New economic policy
-Burns

Burns
-Penn Central decision
-Wage Price Board

George H. Boldt
-Arnold R. Weber, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Peter M. Flanigan
-Connally

Rumsfeld
-Job performance

The President's economic policy
-Herbert G. Stein
-Office of Price Administration [OPA]

Boldt
		-Dave Beck
		-Mickey Cohen
-George Meany
-Labor Board

Adams
-Leak
-Hugh Scott
-Public relations efforts
-Scott, Richard S. Schweicker
-William French Smith
-William H. Mulligan

White House staff story by Scott
-Adams
-Ehrlichman's conversation with reporter
-Harry S. Dent
-MacGregor
-Leonard Garment

Lewis F. Powell

William H. Rehnquist
-Ehrlichman's meeting with Stanford law school dean
-Stanford establishment's reaction
-Linwood Holton's telephone call to Ehrlichman
-Background
-Arizona

Federal Reserve Board appointment
-Connally
-Requirements
-Burns

US economy
-Inventory boom
-Buying power
-Tax bill
-Burns
-Money supply
-Money supply figures

The President's schedule
-Spiro T. Agnew

Agnew
-Office of Intergovernmental Relations
-Executive director
-Haldeman
-Frederick V. Malek's efforts
-Clarence D. Ward

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods [?] at an unknown time between 5:25 pm and 6:01 pm.

[Conversation No. 304-17D]

The President's schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

	US flag

Weather

The President, et al. left at 6:01 pm.