Conversation No. 452-1

Date:  February 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:03 am and 9:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

The President=s schedule
-George P. Shultz
-Paul W. McCracken
-Peter G. Peterson

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 9:05 am

Conversation No. 452-2

Date:  February 19, 1971
Time:  9:05 am - 9:06 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon

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Conversation No. 452-3

Date:  February 19, 1971
Time:  9:30 am - 10:06 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Interior Department
-Fred J. Russell
-Resignation
-Press story
-Staff
-Russell
-Press story
-William L. Rogers, Deputy Under Secretary
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-President=s position
-Press story

News media
-Coverage of the President=s speech at dedication of [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Washington Post coverage
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] radio coverage
-Morley Safer
-Use of media
-White House efforts
-Possibilities
-Prayer breakfast remarks
-Editorials
-William F. (ABilly@) Graham
-Arthur S. Flemming
-Administration efforts
-The Vice President
-John B. Connally
-Herbert G. Klein
-Robert H. Finch
-The President=s Wilson Center speech
-Distribution

-News value
-Dean Francis B. Sayre
-Support for President
-Laos operation
-Coverage of administration
-Connally
-Vietnam war issue
-CBS television
-Hawks
-Charles W. Colson

Personnel
-Possible changes
-Colson
-Ehrlichman=s conversation with the President
-Colson and the Vice President
-Intergovernmental relations responsibilities
-The Vice President=s staff
-Compared to Connally
-Scheduling
-Fund-raising event for William H. Ayres
-Victor Gold
-J. Roy Goodearle
-L. Nicholas Ruwe
-Public relations efforts
-Ruwe
-Blair House

Head of State visits
-Emilio Colombo
-Television coverage
-Mexican dinner
-Dinner with Josip Broz Tito
-Future dinners
-Entertainment at dinner
-Anna Maria Alberghetti
-Performance
-Background
-Songs
-Entertainment at the White House
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Alberghetti
-Role

-Guests at Colombo dinner
-Introductions
-Jean Rotondi, daughter of John A. Volpe
-Henry Salvatori
-Melvin R. Laird
-Connally
-William P. Rogers
-Salvatori
-Tricia Nixon

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-State dinners
-White House efforts
-Schedule
-Unknown person=s opinion
-Joe Young
Conversation with the President
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Future meeting with the President

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HEAD OF STATE DINNERS

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Public relations
-Use of anecdotes
-The President=s speech at Wilson Center
-Colombo toast
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Ziegler entered at 9:57 am

News stories
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-President=s policy
-Paul W. McCracken and George P. Shultz
-Appearance at press briefing
-William L. Safire
-President=s view
-Health policy
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC] and CBS stories
-The President=s speech at Wilson Center
-Coverage
-White House efforts
-Dean Richey=s [sp?] article
-Radio
-Media attention
-CPI
-Safire
-President=s policy
-Public relations efforts
-Russell

-Resignation
-News story
-President=s position
-Ziegler=s forthcoming statement

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:57 am

Ziegler left at 10:04 am

The President=s schedule
-Peter G. Peterson, Shultz, and McCracken
-Blair House
-Colombo
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Shultz and McCracken
-Meeting attendance
-Blair House
-Meeting with Colombo
-Egidio Ortona
-Aldo Moro
-Haldeman

Haldeman and Bull left at 10:06 am

Conversation No. 452-4

Date:  February 19, 1971
Time:  10:07 am - 10:48 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with George P. Shultz, Paul W. McCracken, Peter G. Peterson, Hedley W. Donovan, Robert Lubar, Daniel Seligman, William Bowen, Gilbert Burck, Lawrence Mayer, and Louis Banks; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Introductions

Beach site

Photograph of meeting
-Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins

Beach area
-Site
-Unknown person
-The President=s forthcoming meeting with President=s Council on Physical Fitness
-Exercise
-Importance
-Swimming as exercise

Economy
-Purpose of meeting
-McCracken
-Views of participants
-Wage and price controls
-Proposal in Congress
-Administration=s position
-Herbert Stein
-Spending restraint
-Peterson=s efforts
-Full employment
-Executive branch reorganization
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Shultz
-Ash Council recommendations on regulatory agencies
-Creation of Council on International Economic Policy [CIEP]
-President=s position
-Example
-Departments of Transportation and State
-Defense Department
-Lockheed contracts
-David Packard
-Trans World Airlines
-Effect of Lockheed=s financial problems
-Subcontracts
-General Electric and Rolls Royce
-Need for international economic policy coordination
-National Security Council=s [NSC] role
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Domestic Council=s role
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Participation
-Commerce, Transportation, Treasury, and State Departments
-Regulatory agencies
-Quotas

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ITALY

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-The President=s role in policy making
-Quotas
-Industries
-Cabinet departments
-Foreign trade
-Need for coordination
-State Department role
-Balance of payments and quotas
-Peterson
-Role of subordinates
-Peterson, Ehrlichman, Kissinger, Shultz, and McCracken
-Shultz=s speech in New York
-Fortune magazine
-Businessmen
-Wage and price controls
-Government efforts at controlling economy
-Inflation and employment
-Government spending during 1950s and 1960s
-Wage and price controls
-Construction
-The President=s conversation with Colombo
-Free trade
-Great Britain=s role in Europe
-European Economic Community [EEC]
-Agriculture
-United States
-Free trade

-Textile and steel industries
-Agricultural trends
-The President=s conversations with Colombo and Edward R. G. Heath
-Public concerns
-Employment
-Possible statements by President
-Inflation
-Wage and price controls
-Construction industry
-Possible steel strike
-Labor leaders
-Federal government spending
-The President=s meeting with labor leaders
-James D. Hodgson
-Administration=s policy
-Operation below capacity
-Increased spending option compared to restraint
-Inflation
-Budget
-President=s policy
-Effect on inflation
-Possible veto of health bill
-Deficit
-Recommended government action
-Food prices
-Imports
-Removal of controls from corn prices
-Percentage of Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Agriculture in major industrial countries
-Colombo
-Japan and Great Britain
-Food prices in CPI
-Wholesale Price Index [WPI]
-Corn supply
-Inflation as major concern
-Unemployment
-Creation of public service jobs
-Manpower training
-Administration policy
-Goals
-The President=s meeting with press
-Laos

-Number of questions on economy
-President=s preparation
-Importance of manpower training
-Need for public relations efforts
-Welfare reform
-Assistance to the working poor
-Compared to Laotian and Cambodian operations
-President=s policy
-Manpower training
-Focus of government action
-Inflation and unemployment
-Possible Presidential statement
-Administration policy
-Manipulation of the money supply
-Aerospace industry=s unemployment situation
-Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
-The President=s conversation with an unnamed labor leader
-Outlook of highly educated people
-International trade
-Creation of CIEP
-Peterson
-Businessmen=s views on free trade
-Trade policy
-Quotas
-Controls
-Fortune editor=s view
-Balance of payments
-Arthur F. Burns
-Japan
-Effect of Japanese imports into United States
-Auto industry
-Trade barriers to foreign imports into Japan
-Okinawa Agreement
-Role
-Future
-Republic of China
-Discussions with Eisaku Sato
-Textile industry
-Europe
-EEC
-Free Trade versus Protectionism
-The President as college student, 1933
-President=s view

-EEC agricultural policy
-British
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Japanese
-US policy
-As political issue
-United States= position vis-a-vis Europe and Japan compared with Japanese position vis-a-vis Europe
-United States= industry
-Problem of dislocation
-Fortune editor view
-Latin America
-Nelson A. Rockefeller mission
-Diplomacy
-EEC
-Trade in areas with special relationship
-President=s policy
-Latin America
-Economic problems
-Role of government
-Administration=s policy
-Wage and price situation
-Germany, Japan, and Italy
-The President=s conversation with Sato
-Inflation
-Role of government in controlling inflation
-Fiscal policies
-Leverage with business and labor
-President=s view
-Steel settlement
-Labor
-Construction industry
-Possible wage and price freeze
-Construction industry
-Davis-Bacon Act
-Effect of governmental policies
-Hodgson
-George Meany
-Davis-Bacon Act
-Influence on industry decision makers
-Responsibility of business and labor
-Regional bargaining
-Construction industry

-Wages
-Government=s anti-trust policy
-President=s view
-Diversification
-Corporations= situation compared to government reorganization
-Cartels and combinations
-United States= position
-Airlines
-Pam Am, Eastern, American, and United
-President=s policy
-Japan and Europe
-Interstate Commerce Commission [ICC]
-Wage and price controls
-The President=s work at the Office of Price Administration, 1942
-Unknown man
-Meany
-Effectiveness of controls
-1946 election
-Price and wage controls as election issue
-Rationing
-Effectiveness in wartime compared to peacetime
-Justification
-Rationing
-Public opinion
-Polls
-Potential effect
-Inflation in United States
-Compared to other countries
-Italy, France, and Great Britain
-Brazil
-Congressional action
-President=s view
-Administration view
-Options
-Construction
-As political issue
-Administration by federal bureaucracy
-The President=s conversation with members of the Business Council
-Fortune magazine
-Questions for President
-Wage controls as administrative problem
-Prices
-Linkage between wages and prices

-Market competition
-Role of unions
-Great Britain compared with United States
-Heath
-Hodgson=s report to President
-Union membership
-Significance of economic issue
-Effect on foreign policy
-South Africa and Sudan
-Future world role
-Heath=s efforts
-Denmark
-Inflation
-Policies of the 1960's
-CPI
-1968
-Effect on President=s policies
-Public perception
-Unemployment
-Effect of President=s policies
-Decreases
-Economic growth
-Price stability
-Effect of Vietnam War
-Effect on President=s policies
-Psychological effect on the public
-Unemployment
-Future leaders
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Industry
-The President=s prediction on economy
-Unemployment
-Growth and productivity
-CPI
-Wages
-Inflationary psychology
-Stock market
-Importance of action against inflation
-Wage control
-Forum of possible presidential statement
-Need for informing the public
-Possible press conference
-Fortune editor=s view

-Productivity
-Steel industry
-Germany and Japan
-President=s view
-Balance of payments

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:07 am

Schedule

Presidential gifts
-Golf balls

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:48 am

Economy
-Priorities and problems
-President=s view
-Productivity
-Prices
-Position vis-a-vis world markets
-The President=s forthcoming Quadriad meeting in afternoon
-Burns and Connally
-Switzerland
-Domestic policies
-Opening markets abroad

Presidential golf balls
-Anecdote

[General conversation]

Shultz, et al. left at 10:48 am

Conversation No. 452-18

Date:  February 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:41 pm and 12:44 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man [Stephen B. Bull?]

The President=s schedule

[Unintelligible]

The unknown man [Bull?] left at an unknown time before 12:44 pm

Conversation No. 452-5

Date:  February 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:41 pm and 12:44 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

The President=s schedule
-Press coverage
-Forthcoming meeting with Lionel Hampton
-Harriet Elam
-Presentation of gift by the President

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:44 pm

Conversation No. 452-6

Date:  February 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:41 pm and 12:44 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

The President=s schedule
-Forthcoming meetings during Open Door Hour
-Photographs by Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:44 pm

Conversation No. 452-7

Date:  February 19, 1971
Time:  12:44 pm - unknown before 1:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Leah McReynolds, William E. Casselman, II, and David N. Parker; the White House photographer was present during the meeting

Service on White House staff
-The President=s appreciation
-Presentation of gifts by the President

McReynolds, et al. left at an unknown time before 1:02 pm

Conversation No. 452-8

Date:  February 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:44 pm and 1:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Mr. and Mrs. John R. Brown, III, Alexander P. Butterfield, and David N. Parker; the White House photographer was present during the meeting

John R. Brown, III
-Service on White House staff
-The President=s appreciation
-Brown=s new job at Koppers Company
-The President=s recollection of contract during World War II
-Commemorative photograph

Brown, et al. left at an unknown time before 1:02 pm

Conversation No. 452-9

Date:  February 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:44 pm and 1:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Harriet Elam, Mrs. Robert H. Elam, Harry Elam, Clarence Elam, Dwight L. Chapin, and David N. Parker; the White House photographer was present during the meeting

Harriet Elam=s service on White House staff
-The President=s appreciation
-Career advancement
-Presentation of gifts by the President
-Government service
-Appreciation

Harriet Elam, et al. left at an unknown time before 1:02 pm

Conversation No. 452-10

Date:  February 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 12:44 pm until 1:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with George Black, Jr., Evelyn Abrams, Delores McGee, Lawrence Smith, Robert J. Brown, Dr. John A. Hannah, Harvey J. Witherell, and David N. Parker; the White House photographer was present during the meeting

Black
-Brickmaking work
-Age
-President=s appreciation
-Family
-Background

North Carolina
-The President=s attendance at Duke University Law School
-Wake Forest
-Treatment of racial minorities
-Percentage figures of school attendance

-Effect of desegregation
-Compared to northern states

Black
-Commemorative photograph
-Forthcoming trip to Africa
-Background
-Presentation of gifts by the President
-Brickmaking work

Black, et al. left at 1:02 pm

Conversation No. 452-11

Date:  February 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:02 pm and 1:04 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

The President=s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Lionel Hampton
-Press coverage

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:04 pm

Conversation No. 452-12

Date:  February 19, 1971
Time:  1:04 pm - 1:08 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Lionel Hampton, Harry Yeates, William Tipone, Henry C. Cashen, II, and John Richardson, Jr.; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Hampton=s schedule
-Trip to Europe
-Warsaw, Bucharest, and Budapest
-Prague
-Warsaw
-Bucharest and Budapest
-Presentation of gifts by the President
-Hampton=s support for the President
-Hampton=s band

Hampton, et al. left at 1:08 pm

Conversation No. 452-13

Date:  February 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:08 pm and 1:09 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

The President=s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with officials of the Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Length
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and Charles W. Colson

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:09 pm

Conversation No. 452-14

Date:  February 19, 1971
Time:  1:09 pm - unknown before 1:39 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Cooper Holt, Herbert R. (AChief@) Rainwater, Donald E. Johnson, Charles W. Colson, and General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Trip to California

Vietnam War
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Support for administration=s policies
-Laos
-South Vietnamese position
-VFW leader=s trip to Southeast Asia
-United States= Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Administration=s actions
-Raid on alleged POW camp
-Information on camp
-VFW leader=s trip to Southeast Asia
-Report
-VFW leader=s view
-Negotiations to end war
-Laos and Cambodia
-Release of POWs
-Withdrawal of United States= troops
-Administration policy
-Vietnamization
-President=s statement
-President=s policy
-United States= options
-Public discussion
-Military action in Cambodia
-VFW leader=s view
-Effect on United States= casualties
-Efforts to end the war
-VFW leader=s views
-Paris peace talks
-President=s position
-United States= military action
-Bombing
-United States= POWs
-Protests and critics of war
-Laos and Cambodia
-George S. McGovern=s comments
-Domino theory
-Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Indonesia
-Philippines
-McGovern=s remarks
-VFW=s press releases
-Protesters

The President=s schedule
-VFW convention
-American Legion convention
-Date and location
-The President=s possible appearance

VFW
-Composition of organization
-Membership
-Veterans
-Racial composition
-Blacks
-Inclusion
-Desegregation
-President=s view
-Inclusion
-Efforts

Composition of armed forces
-Melvin R. Laird
-Views of military service
-Conscientious objectors
-Quakers= view of war
-President=s World War II service
-Hannah Milhous Nixon
-Comparison to World War II
-Differences
-President=s view
-Effectiveness of draft
-Recruitment efforts
-Attitudes on service by draftees
-Changes since World War II
-Public attitudes

POWs
-Possible legislation
-Retirement
-Physical condition
-Care upon return
-Brigadier General Daniel (AChappie@) James, Jr.

VFW dinners
-The Vice President
-National convention
-President=s schedule

Veterans
-Jobs for veterans
-Unemployment
-Administration efforts
-Training
-Department of Veterans= Affairs responsibility
-Johnson
-Blacks
-Qualifications for skilled jobs
-Training
-Department of Labor statistics
-Compilation
-Status
-Comparison to disadvantaged United States= citizens
-Minority hiring
-President=s policy
-Classification of veterans
-Vietnam veterans
-Department of Labor
-George Meany, James D. Hodgson, and George P. Shultz
-Hospital facility
-Samuel W. Yorty and [Name unintelligible]
-California earthquake
-Resolution on jobs for veterans
-Creation of jobs for categories
-President=s position
-Preferences
-Classifications
-President=s policy

Holt and Rainwater left at 1:38 pm

Johnson=s efforts

Legislation
-Jobs for veterans
-White House statement
-Public relations

-California
-Johnson

Colson, Haig, and Johnson left at an unknown time before 1:39 pm

Conversation No. 452-15

Date:  February 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:38 pm and 1:39 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

The President=s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:39 pm

Conversation No. 452-19

Date:  February 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:38 pm and 1:39 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

The President=s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:39 pm

Conversation No. 452-16

Date:  February 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:38 pm and 1:39 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

Call to Dr. Thomas E. (ADoc@) Morgan

Conversation No. 452-17

Date:  February 19, 1971
Time:  1:39 pm - unknown before 2:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Economy
-Ronald L. Ziegler=s press briefing
-Fortune magazine
-Cost of living statistics
-News reports
-Statistics
-George P. Shultz

Media
-McCalls= article on Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon
-Sarah McClendon
-Appointment with the President
-Purpose
-Format

Henry A. Kissinger=s staff
-Ideology
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Morton H. Halperin

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:39 pm and 1:42 pm]

[Conversation No. 452-17A]

Dr. Thomas E. (ADoc@) Morgan=s secretary

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger=s staff
-Scrutiny
-Liberals
-Security against leaks
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Staff loyalty
-Liberals
-Richard M. Moose
-William A. K. (ATony@) Lake
-Moose
-Brookings Institute
-J. William Fulbright

[The President talked with Gertrude King between 1:42 pm and 1:43 pm]

[Conversation No. 452-17B]

Morgan=s health
-Importance of role on foreign affairs committee

[End of telephone conversation]

Personnel
-Kissinger=s staff
-Requirements
-Qualifications
-Fred J. Russell
-Ziegler=s statement
-President=s orders
-Department of Interior
-Rogers C. B. Morton

The President=s schedule
-Open Door Hour
-Record of meetings
-Taping system
-Staff members= color notes

-Audio recordings in Oval Office
-The President=s notes
-The President=s instructions on transcription
-Staff members= notes
-Staff role in meetings
-Problems
-Physical Fitness Conference
-Role of White House advance staff
-Attendance
-White House staff
-Reliance on government staff
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Role
-The President=s Health message
-Encouragement of participation in physical fitness programs

Economy
-Shultz
-Presentation of economic news
-Administration policies

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The President=s schedule
-Bohemian Grove
-AToday@ show
-Joe Garagiola
-Audience
-Haldeman=s example
-Entertainment at the White House
-Henry Mancini
-Acoustics in East Room

-Les Brown
-Richard Rogers and Mancini
-Young Republicans group meeting with the President
-Press coverage
-Photo

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News summary
-Buchanan
-Southeast Asia story

President=s possible appearance on AToday@ show
-Garagiola
-Sports knowledge
-White House strategy
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Richard A. Moore

Public relations
-President=s remarks
-Prayer breakfast
-Mailing
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
-Dean Francis B. Sayre
-Distribution of the President=s remarks
-William L. Safire
-Anecdote

President=s schedule
-Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion conventions
-The President=s attendance

Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 2:25 pm