Conversation No. 306-1

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:35 pm and 1:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

Approval

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:45 pm.

Conversation No. 306-2

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:35 pm and 1:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 15-154]

Conversation No. 306-3

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  1:45 pm - 1:46 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 15-155; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 306-4

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:46 pm and 3:08 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:08 pm.

Conversation No. 306-5

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:46 pm and 3:08 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:08 pm.

Conversation No. 306-6

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:46 pm and 3:08 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

Meeting with the President
-The elderly
-Time

Conversation No. 306-7

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:46 pm and 3:08 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 15-156]

Conversation No. 306-8

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  3:08 pm - 3:11 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Clark MacGregor.

[See Conversation No. 15-157]

Conversation No. 306-9

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:11 pm and 3:53 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

The President's schedule
	-December 1971
		-January-May 1972
-Congress
-Schedule

Conversation No. 306-10

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 3:11 pm &&5:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.

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White House Conference on Aging
-News summary
-Lobbyists
-The President's speech
-Draft
-Analysis of issues
-James W. McLane
-Previous work with Robert H. Finch
-Francis W. Sargent
-Arthur S. Flemming

White House speechwriters
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-William L. Safire
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-John K. Andrews, Jr.

The President's forthcoming speech to White House Conference on Aging
-McLane
-Draft
-Analysis of issues
-Congress
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-George P. Shultz’s views
-Recommendations
-Long range goals
-The President’s concern about the elderly
-Administration's options
	-Flemming
	-Domestic Council
-Problems of elderly
	-Goals
-Economic considerations
	-Budget constraints
	-Support for the Administration’s economic policies
		-Polls
-Property taxes
-Federal budget
-Inflation
		-Candor
		-Problems of elderly
-The President's commitment
-Minority groups
	-“Forgotten Americans”
	-Youth
-Election year promises
		-Possible reaction
			-Nelson H. Cruikshank
		-The President’s standard speech
			-Labor

HR 1
-Medical care costs
-The President's conversation with H. R. Haldeman, November 29, 1971
-Senior citizen discounts
-Medicare
-Congress's possible action
-Prescription drugs
-Possible federal subsidy under Medicare
	-Cost-sharing
-Haldeman's views

The President's forthcoming speech
-McLane's recommendations
-Administrations' options
-Volunteer program
-Costs
-Foster Grandparents program
-Costs
-Pension reform
-Value to elderly
-Andrews's work
-Price
-McLane's recommendations
-Administration's options
-Medicare coverage
-Eyeglasses, dentures, and hearing aids
-HR 1
-Costs
-Compared with prescription drugs
-Prescription drugs
-Costs
	-Deductibles
	-British program
-Destitute people compard to others
-Shultz
-Ehrlichman's forthcoming call to Andrews

The President's schedule
-Camp David
-Meeting with Golda Meir, December 2, 1971
-Key Biscayne
-Staff
-Ehrlichman's schedule
	-North Carolina
-Shultz
-Ehrlichman’s schedule
	-Staff meeting
		-Haldeman
-Estate matters

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Water filtering system
-Unknown Navy captain's development
	-Oil and water
-Possible purchase by Navy
-The President's previous conversation with F. Donald Nixon
-John C. Whitaker

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Busing
-Ehrlichman's memorandum
-Article by Alexander M. Bickel
-Possible meeting between Bickel and the President
-The President’s forthcoming State of the Union address

The aged
-Administration's actions
-Property taxes

Education and tax issues
-Washington Post article, November 28, 1971
-Unknown reporter
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Vagueness

Administration's accomplishments
-Publicity
	-Individuals

	Appointments
	-Supreme Court nominations
		-Robert C. Byrd
		-Unknown person
	-Treatment by press
	-White House response
	-Compared with Earl L. Butz nomination as Secretary of Agriculture

Butz
-Popularity
-Confirmation
-Vindication
-Alternative choice as Secretary
-Herman E. Talmadge

John B. Connally
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] program, November 28, 1971

	Talmadge
		-Relations with the President
-Agricultural background
-Gene [surname unknown]
-Possible position as Secretary of Agriculture

	Connally
-CBS program
	-News summary
-Ehrlichman's previous conversation with Mike Wallace
-Connally's brother
-Appearance on program
-Brother's statement concerning Connally
	-Successes
-Jake J. Pickle
-George E. Christian
-Brother's statement
-Democrats
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Comments regarding possible Vice Presidential spot for Connally on Democrat ticket
-Relationship
-Brunch for Texas friends, December 4, 1971
-Perry R. Bass and Phil [Surname unknown]
-Ehrlichman
-Trip to Florida

Texans
-Connally
-Johnson

Connally
-Compared with Johnson
	-Speaking style
-Performance
	-Views on issues

Value Added Tax [VAT]
-Egil G. (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Treasury Department's views
-Connally
-Schedule for passage
	-Timing
-Work by White House staff
-Charles W. Colson, Haldeman and Ronald L. Ziegler
-The President's speech on the aged
-Property tax relief
-Lee W. Huebner's work on draft
-Home ownership
-Democrats
-Aid to education
-Article by Newbold (“Newby”) Noyes, Jr.
-Democrats' fears
-Joseph W. Alsop
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Alsop
	-Possible article
	-Neil H. McElroy report
	-State of the Union address
	-Probable conclusions
		-Crisis in public and private schools
	-Significance of the President’s actions
	-Burden shifting
-McElroy
-Lewis A. Engman
	-Cincinnati
-Administration's stance
-Mills's work

The President talked with the White House operator at 3:53 pm.

[Conversation No. 306-10A]

[See Conversation No. 15-158]

[End of telephone conversation]

-Mills's work
-Alsop
-Message from the President
-Connally
-Tax reform
	-Significance of the President’s actions
		-Compared to adoption of income tax

The aged
-Haldeman's views
-Congress
-Compared with environment as an issue
-Votes

Colson entered at 3:55 pm.

Busing
-Bickel
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
-Views
-Legislative route
-Ehrlichman's views
-Paper on issue
-Legislative route
	-Timing
	-Possible message
-Constitutional amendment
	-Prospects
-Brown vs. Board of Education
-Civil Rights Act of 1964
-Bickel's views
-Meeting with the President

The President left at an unknown time before 4:00 pm.

Pay increase for federal employees
-Shultz
-Meeting with Colson, November 29, 1971
-Views
	-Amendments
		-Possible compromise
		-William L. Gifford

The President entered at an unknown time after 3:55 pm.

-Amendment
-Congress's possible action
	-Comparability
		-Timing
		-White House position
		-Budget
-Pay Board
-Average ceiling
-Deferral
-Pay Board
-White House position
		-Congressional legislation
			-Shultz's proposals
	-Compromise
		-Timing
-Clark MacGregor's views on passage
-Delay
-Freeze

The President's schedule
-Budget
-Ehrlichman's schedule
	-Duke University
	-Forthcoming call
		-[Robert H. Finch?]

Ehrlichman left at 4:00 pm.

Stock market
-Closing figures
-MacGregor's statement

Economy
	-Public attitude
	-Market
	-Purchase of mutual fund shares
	-Increase
	-Leading business indicators
	-Expected freeze
	-International monetary situation
		-The President’s meetings
	-MacGregor's statement
-Compared with John F. Kennedy administration
	-Business community
		-Investment tax credit
-Automobile excise tax
-Tax Bill veto
-Work by Henry C. Cashen, II and Howard A. Cohen
-Automobile industry
-Colson's conversation with Archibald K. Davis
-Foreign cars
-American Motors Corporation
-Consumers
	-Refunds
-Possible attack by Washington Post
-Check-off for political campaigns
-Past spending
-Democrats
-Connally's press conference

George Meany
		-Hostility towards the President at American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] convention
-Colson's meeting with Maurice A. Hutcheson [?]
	-Unknown woman (doctor)
		-Meany’s reaction to public response
-Public response
-Letters to the editor
-Los Angeles Times
-Political cartoons
-Victor Riesel article
-Labor's views
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Fitzsimmons’s views
-Meany’s entourage
	-Action
	-Meany’s comments
		-Media coverage

James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa
	-Pay board
-Executive clemency
-Parole Board
-Fitzsimmons
-Possible poll
-Meany
-Parole Board
-Fitzsimmons's views
-Christmas release
-Parole Board
-Meany
-Conflict with administration

Meany
-Hostility towards the President at AFL-CIO convention
-Editorials
	-Discourtesy
-Comments on the President's courage

	Campaign practices
	-Edward M. Kennedy
	-Cartoon
	-Reprint
	-Distribution

Edmund S. Muskie
-Statement in defense of Meany
-Supportive editorial
-White House backing
-Public opinion
-Viability
-Stand on busing
-White House write-in campaign
-Polish-Americans in Chicago
-The Committee for Fairer Education through Busing
	-Philip [Surname unknown]
-Success
-Statement in defense of Meany
-White House mailing
-Target groups
-Business
-Jews
-Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker
-Democrat candidates' silence
-Labor

Economy
-Stock market
-Trade deficit
-News coverage
-CBS
-Christmas sales
-Federal Times
-Consumer confidence
-Effect on Democrats
-Tax Bill
-Congress's actions
	-Excise tax
		-Automobiles
-Personal exemption tax credit
-Compared to investment tax credit
-Paul W. McCracken's views
-Christmas sales
-Arthur F. Burns
-Statement on meeting with the President
-Connally
	-Henry A. Kissinger and Shultz
-Money supply
-Compared to investment tax credit

Education
-Aid to parochial schools
-Democratic candidates with children in private schools
-Attack on administration
-Double standard
	-Analogy to discrimination
		-The President’s schedule
			-Unknown country club
		-Unknown place in Baltimore
			-Jews
-Burning Tree
	-W[illiam] Stuart Symington
	-J. William Fulbright
	-The President's membership

Education
-Democrat candidates with children in private schools
-Use in busing issue
-Muskie
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Muskie
-Kennedy

Democratic candidates
-Attack by White House on domestic issues
-Buchanan
-Louie B. Nunn
-Colson's work
-Spokesmen

Public relations
-Douglas L. Hallett
	-Writing
		-Youth
	-Analysis
-The President's previous conversation with Haldeman
-Press conference
-Butz
-Meany
-Phase II
-Federal pay increase
-Timing
	-People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Value
-Compared with Richard A. Moore and John A. Scali
	-Colson’s conversation with Haldeman
-Romana A. Banuelos
	-Confirmation
	-Signing dollar bills
-Domestic programs
	-Packaging
-Colson's use
-Feelings about work
-Compared with senior staff
	-Judgment
-Herbert G. Klein and staff
-Hallett's work
-Environmental issues
-Views regarding the President's involvement
-Colorado River trip
-One-on-one television appearances
	-Press conferences
		-Students
		-Workers
-“Day in the Life of the President”
-Scali's claim for credit
-Views on the President's strengths
	-Candid formats

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Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:00 pm.

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:52 pm.

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The President talked with an unknown person in Haldeman's office at an unknown time between 4:00 pm and 4:52 pm.

[Conversation No. 306-10B]

	Forthcoming announcement
		-Date of the President’s trip to the PRC
			-Timing

[End of telephone conversation]

The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 4:00 pm and 4:52 pm.

[Conversation No. 306-10C]

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Finch
-Kissinger's schedule
-Briefing, November 30, 1971
-Announcement
-State Department announcement

[End of telephone conversation]

The President talked with Haldeman at an unknown time between 4:00 pm and 4:52 pm.

[Conversation No. 306-10D]

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Finch and Klein, November 30, 1971
-Kissinger's schedule
-Finch’s trip

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-Colson
-Report on stock market
-Tax Bill veto

Stock market
-Closing figures
-Public attitudes
	-California
-Closing figures

[End of telephone conversation]

Stock market
-Closing figures
-Predictions
-Inflation
-Unemployment
-Consumers

	Unemployment
		-John F. Kennedy Administration
		-Louis P. Harris poll
			-Vietnam veterans
				-Use of unemployment benefits

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:00 pm and 4:52 pm.

[Conversation No. 306-10E]

[See Conversation No. 15-159]

[End of telephone conversation]

Unemployment figures
-Vietnam veterans
-Harris poll
-Exclusion from figures
-Compared with previous years

The President talked with Finch between 4:52 pm and 4:54 pm.

[Conversation No. 306-10F]

[See Conversation No. 15-160]

[End of telephone conversation]

Administration officials
-Foreign trips
-1972
-The President’s schedule
-Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration
-John Foster Dulles
-Reports to William P. Rogers
-Maurice H. Stans
-Trip to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Japan
-Connally
-Colson’s office
-Peter G. Peterson
-Connally

Economy
	-Business community
		-Connally
		-Stans
	-Connally's press conference
	-Peter M. Flanigan
	-Report to Chamber of Commerce
-Mood
-Recession
	-Public psychology
-Automobile sales
-Christmas sales
	-1970
-Forthcoming poll
-Press conference of November 27, 1971
-Advertisers
	-Colson's visit to grocery store

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger at an unknown time between 4:54 pm and 5:02 pm.

[Conversation No. 306-10G]

William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Forthcoming trip to Taiwan, Republic of China
-Chiang Kai-shek
-Briefing paper
-[National Security Council [NSC]]

[End of telephone conversation]

Hoffa
-Possible executive clemency
-Timing
-Meany
-Fitzsimmons
-Parole Board
-Meany

The President talked with an unknown person [Manolo Sanchez?] at an unknown time between 4:54 pm and 5:02 pm.

[Conversation No. 306-10H]

The President’s schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:54 pm and 5:02 pm.

[Conversation No. 306-10I]

[See Conversation No. 15-162]

[End of telephone conversation]

Unknown person [Hoffa?]
-Administration support

The President talked with John C. Whitaker between 5:02 pm and 5:05 pm.

[Conversation No. 306-10J]

[See Conversation No. 15-163]

[End of telephone conversation]

Public housing
-Conditions
-Blacks
-Whites and Puerto Ricans
-Washington, D.C.
-Southwest
-Northeast
-Trash pick-up

Business leaders
	-Unknown man
		-Unknown action
			-Increase

Labor
-Current legislation
-James D. Hodgson
-Dock strike
-Fitzsimmons
-Meany
-Ehrlichman
	-Domestic Council
-Meany
-Labor Bill
-Public opinion
-Meany's actions
				-Timing
-Possible strike
-Public fears
	-Unemployment
-Congress
-Ehrlichman's, Shultz's and Hodgson's work
-Wage increases
-Meany
	-Letter
-Local unions
	-Editorials
	-Speeches
-Business
-Peter J. Brennan
-Support
	-Editorial
-Meany
-Representation of labor
-The Administration’s position
-Shultz's and Colson's work
-Dale K. (“Kent”) Frizzell [?]
	-Column

	Education
		-Parochial school aid

Young people
-Support of administration
	-Polls
-PRC trip
-Vietnam
-Drafting military inductees
-Mood
-Colson's son's comments
-Haldeman's views
-PRC policy
-Blue collar workers
-Hallett's views
	-Aged

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The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 5:05 pm and 5:35 pm.

[Conversation No. 306-10K]

[End of telephone conversation]

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Environmental issues
-Spokesperson position
-Offer to unspecified television commentator
-Russell E. Train
-Unknown member of committee
-Colson's conversation with Frederic V. Malek
-List of names
-Television personality
-Ability to inform public
-John A. Scali
-Daniel Schorr
-Malek
	-Creation of position
-White House consultant for TV
-Train
-Unknown American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC] producer
-Robert Pierpoint
-CBS and National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
-Herbert E. Kaplow
-Scali
-Schorr
-Television personality
-Slogan
-Handling
	-Television
-Compared with Department of Agriculture
-Film

Butz
-Confirmation
-Democrats
-Public contact
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Compared with Walter J. Hickel
-Confirmation

Unknown announcement
	-Edward Kennedy

Labor
-Dock strike
-Forthcoming call from Colson

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The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:05 pm and 5:35 pm.

[Conversation No. 306-10L]

[See Conversation No. 15-164]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President’s reaction to unknown event

	Colson’s schedule

The President talked with Ziegler between 5:35 pm and 5:39 pm.

[Conversation No. 306-10M]

[See Conversation No. 15-165]

Colson left at 5:35 pm.

[End of telephone conversation]

Conversation No. 306-11

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:39 pm and 5:43 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Briefcase

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:43 pm.

Conversation No. 306-12

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:39 pm and 5:43 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Request that Haldeman join him

Conversation No. 306-13

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:39 pm and 5:43 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 15-166]

Conversation No. 306-14

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 5:39 pm until 6:14 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

The aged
-Legislation

	Richard A. Moore [?]

	Charles W. Colson

	John D. Ehrlichman

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower between 5:43 pm and 5:44 pm.

[Conversation No. 306-14A]

[See Conversation No. 15-167; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

Colson
	-Julie Eisenhower
	-William P. Rogers

The President talked with the White House operator at 5:45 pm.

[Conversation No. 306-14B]

[See Conversation No. 15-168]

[End of telephone conversation]

Clark MacGregor
-Schedule
	-New York
		-Introduction of George H.W. Bush

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:45 pm and 5:47 pm.

[Conversation No. 306-14C]

[See Conversation No. 15-169]

[End of telephone conversation]

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The President talked with William E. Timmons between 5:47 pm and 5:50 pm.

[Conversation No. 306-14D]

[See Conversation No. 15-170]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
	-Congress
		-Possible call back by the President
			-Florida
			-New York
-Florida
	-Edward R.G. Heath
-Christmas

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
-Forthcoming trip to Africa
-Reception for accompanying staff
-New Year's Eve
-Parties
-Value
-Return from trip
-Congress schedule
	-State of the Union address

The President's schedule
-State of the Union speech
-Inaugural anniversary
-Foreign visitors
	-[Emilio Colombo?]
		-Timing of visit
			-State of the Union address
-Henry A. Kissinger

The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 5:50 pm and 6:00 pm.

[Conversation No. 306-14E]

Kissinger's schedule
-Unknown meeting
-The President's current meeting with Haldeman

[End of telephone conversation]

	Kissinger’s schedule

The President's schedule
	-Christmas tree lighting

Julie Eisenhower's schedule
-Christmas television special

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Government workers' pay raise
-Credit for administration

The President's schedule
	-Florida
		-George P. Shultz
-Spanish Ambassador

US Ambassador to Spain
-Cornelius V. (“Sonny”) Whitney
-Visit to Spain
-Children
-Prince Juan Carlos
-Gregorio Lopez Bravo de Costro
-Age
-Gen. Francisco Franco
-Rogers and Kissinger

	Campaign financing
		-Whitney
		-Campaign contribution
-John N. Mitchell and Lee R. Nunn
-Return to Whitney

Kissinger entered at 6:00 pm.

Kissinger's schedule
-Meeting with Jerrold L. Schecter et al.
-Report to Congress on US foreign policy
-The President's policies
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-The President's previous press conference
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Reporters' response to answers from Kissinger
-Information from State Department
-PRC
-Rogers
-PRC, USSR and Vietnam
-The President's policies
			-Article

The President's schedule
-Possible interview with Time
-Photograph

Kissinger left at 6:04 pm.

-Drawing
-Tie-in of key issues

	Campaign financing
		-Whitney
		-Campaign contribution
-Return of money
-Probable revelation
-Senate confirmation
	-Spain’s position
-Mitchell
-Candidates
-[Unintelligible]

Earl L. Butz
-Confirmation as Secretary of Agriculture
-The President's work
-Check on background
-Carl T. Curtis
-Milton R. Young
-John C. Whitaker's work
-MacGregor

	Campaign financing
-Whitney
-Campaign contribution
-Return of money
-Senate confirmation
-Mitchell's views
-Spain’s position
-Mitchell's view
-Spain’s position
				-Mitchell’s view
					-Return of money
				-Spain’s position
-Children
-Age
-Senate confirmation
-Butz example

Senate
-Special session
-Rules
-Calendar year

An unknown man [Secret Service agent] and Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 6:04 pm.

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The unknown man [Secret Service agent] and Sanchez entered at an unknown time before 6:14 pm.

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Senate
-Special session
-Scheduling
-Effect
	-Christmas
	-New Year’s
-The President’s schedule
-Retiring Congressmen
-House Resolution [HR] 1

The President's schedule
-Speeches
	-Value
	-Chicago
-Elderly issue
-TV appearances
-Question and answer sessions
-Major announcements

Haldeman left at 6:14 pm.

Conversation No. 306-15

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:14 pm and 6:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

[Unintelligible]

Conversation No. 306-16

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  6:15 pm - 6:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

[See Conversation No. 15-171; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 306-17

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:16 pm and 6:22 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Economy
	-Stock market [?]
		-Number of share traded
	-Gold

Conversation No. 306-18

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:16 pm and 6:22 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Thanks

Conversation No. 306-19

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:16 pm and 6:22 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 15-172]

Conversation No. 306-20

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  6:22 pm - 6:28 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 15-173]

Conversation No. 306-21

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:28 pm and 6:29 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

Woods's schedule
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  18s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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-Meeting the President
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