Conversation No. 454-1

Date:  February 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:11 and 4:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Alexander P. Butterfield met with Manolo Sanchez and Ronald L. Ziegler [?]

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[Non-historical]
[Duration:  1m 18s  ]

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President=s schedule

The President entered and Butterfield and Ziegler [?] left at 4:52 pm

Rose Mary Woods
-Telephone call

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:52 pm and 4:53 pm]

[Conversation No. 454-1A]

Call to Rose Mary Woods

[End of telephone conversation]

Woods= health

[The President talked with Woods between 4:53 pm and 4:54 pm]

[Conversation No. 454-1B]

Joseph E. Parker

[End of telephone conversation]

[The President talked with an unknown man [John D. Ehrlichman?] at an unknown time between 4:54 pm and 4:59 pm]

[Conversation No. 454-1C]

Parker
-Work experience
-Congress
-Farming
-Bryce N. Harlow

[End of telephone conversation]

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:59 pm

Conversation No. 454-2

Date:  February 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:54 pm and 4:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

The President=s schedule
-Quadriad meeting

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:59 pm

Conversation No. 454-3

Date:  February 19, 1971
Time:  4:59 pm - 5:08 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Inflation rate
-Press stories
-Washington Star
-Administration policies

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-Accuracy
-Haldeman=s figures
-New York Times
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Washington Post
-CBS
-Charles W. Colson

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[Duration:  2m 42s  ]

[The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 4:59 pm and 5:08 pm]

[Conversation No. 454-3A]

[End of telephone conversation]

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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:59 pm

The President=s schedule
-John B. Connally
-Forthcoming meeting

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:08 pm

Quadriad
-Connally
-Role
-Arthur F. Burns

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[Duration:  2m 8s  ]

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Attack on car of Soviet diplomat
-News story

President=s schedule
-Quadriad

Haldeman left at 5:08 pm

Conversation No. 454-4

Date:  February 19, 1971
Time:  5:08 pm - 6:34 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with George P. Shultz, Paul W. McCracken, Arthur F. Burns, John B. Connally, Ronald L. Ziegler, and Rose Mary Woods; the White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting

[General conversation]

The President=s meeting with Young Republicans

[General conversation]

George Black, Jr.
-Great grandchildren
-Forthcoming trip to Africa
-President=s aunt
-Purpose

Ziegler, Woods, and the press left at an unknown time before 6:34 pm

Quadriad
-History
-Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
-Procedure
-Frequency of meetings with the President
-McCracken=s Congressional testimony
-Revenue sharing
-Meetings with the President

-Purpose
-Full employment budget
-Cooperation
-Format
-Council on International Economic Policy [CIEP]
-Peter G. Peterson
-International monetary policy
-Meeting with Quadriad

National economy
-Growth
-Inflation
-Growth
-Retail sales
-Unemployment
-Improvement
-Cities
-Effect on individuals
-White collar/Aerospace industry
-Problem
-Importance to nation
-White House meeting
-Administration position
-National Science Foundation [NSF]
-Grants
-Scientists
-University professors
-Administration=s budget
-Administration efforts
-Impact
-Number
-Need for government coordinator
-David Packard
-Administration efforts

Inflation
-Administration efforts
-Business
-Wage concerns
-Steel and oil
-Labor
-Hubert H. Humphrey and Hugh Scott
-Edmund S. Muskie and George Meany

-Possible wage and price freeze
-Davis-Bacon Act
-Analysis
-Effect
-Governors
-Impact
-California
-New York
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Florida
-Illinois
-Ohio
-Michigan
-President=s position
-Governors
-Effect on steel negotiations
-Shultz=s position
-Federal construction contracts
-Importance of timing
-Effects on construction industry
-Unemployment
-Possible effect on mortgage rates
-Importance
-Unions
-Connally=s view
-Minorities
-Options
-Wage and price freeze
-President=s view
-Construction industry
-Steel
-History
-Effect on wages
-Federal budget deficit
-Administration=s policy
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-The President=s vetoes
-Effect on inflation
-Administration=s policy
-Spending lid
-Economic forecast
-Full employment budget
-Revenue sharing

-Number of grants
-Administration=s policy
-Relations with Congress
-Effect
-Washington Post story
-David S. Broder
-Connally=s view
-Administration position
-Walter W. Heller
-Statement in California
-The President=s conversation with Humphrey
-Reform efforts
-Full employment budget
-Possible congressional action
-Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy=s health program
-Burns= view
-Shultz=s view
-Relationship between currency and gold
-Views of business community
-Federal Reserve Board governors
-Fiscal versus monetary policy
-Use of balance of payments
-Effects
-Results of possible failure of the President=s economic policy
-Effect on future
-Liberal spending policies
-John Kenneth Galbraith
-Budget deficits
-Wage and price controls
-Polls
-Policies of the 1960s
-Employment
-Impact of President=s policy

Balance of payments
-Deficits
-Commercial trade
-Foreigners= concern and aid
-State of Union message
-President=s budget proposal
-Paul A. Volcker
-Domestic economic policy
-International concerns

-Administration statements
-Possible effect on US economy and policy
-Connally=s visit to Europe
-Schedule
-International Bankers Association
-Possible meetings with bankers
-Purpose
-US policy
-Domestic political repercussions

Interest rates
-California
-President=s property
-Popular view of interest rates
-The President=s conversation with Samuel W. Yorty
-Effect on housing
-Deposit interest rates
-Money supply
-Compared with the President=s Laos decision
-Recent decline
-Popular opinion
-Need for public relations efforts
-Money supply
-Need for public confidence
-Economic recovery
-Burns= view
-Inflow of deposits
-Public confidence
-Increase in money supply
-Treasury Department=s role
-Power of Federal Reserve
-Transaction demand
-Savings

The President=s schedule
-Money supply

Economic policy
-Federal Reserve Board
-Interest rates
-Effects of decisions
-Monetary effect
-Supply and demand

-Effect on economy
-Future meeting on monetary policy
-Briefing paper
-Future meeting
-Problem
-Uncertainty
-Administration=s policy
-Economists
-Public confidence
-Administration efforts
-Market-oriented policies
-Stock market
-Ripples of influence
-Factors
-Expectations of profit
-Increased productivity

The President=s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting on monetary policy

Wage and price controls
-Press questions
-Connally=s possible response to questions
-Participant=s views

Shultz, McCracken, and Burns left at an unknown time before 6:34 pm

State dinner
-Connally=s observations
-Entertainment

Previous Quadriad meeting
-Monetarists
-Burns
-President=s policies
-McCracken

Washington Post story
-Connally=s comments
-Administration policy
-Compromises
-Connally=s view
-John A. Burns

Democrats
-Economic meeting
-Allen J. Ellender
-Comments on the President=s programs
-Revenue sharing
-Government reorganization

Connally left at 6:34 pm

Conversation No. 454-5

Date:  February 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:34 pm and 6:46 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

The President=s schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Call from the President

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:46 pm

Conversation No. 454-6

Date:  February 19, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:46 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull met with unknown people

[Unintelligible]

Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 11:59 pm

Conversation No. 454-8

Date:  February 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:32 am and 10:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator [?]

Peter M. Flanigan

Conversation No. 454-9

Date:  February 20, 1971
Time:  10:58 am - 2:42 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President=s schedule
-Meeting with Italian delegation
-Camp David

Peter M. Flanigan entered at 10:59 am

Possible appointment in State Department
-Flanigan
-William P. Rogers
-Purpose
-Pros and cons
-International economic issues
-President=s decision
-White House role
-Peter G. Peterson
-Council on International Economic Policy [CIEP]
-Issues
-Nathanial Samuels
-Rogers= strategy
-John N. Irwin, II
-U. Alexis Johnson
-George P. Shultz

-Herbert C. Hoover, Jr., John Foster Dulles, and Elliot L. Richardson
-Irwin
-Flanigan=s capabilities
-State Department bureaucracy
-Compared with other departments
-Department of Commerce
-James T. Lynn
-Maurice H. Stans
-Flanigan=s role
-Government reorganization
-President=s policy
-Ash Council report
-Mary Gardiner Jones
-Business community
-Flanigan=s future prospects
-Fred J. Russell
-Position
-Department of the Interior
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Alaska pipeline
-Canada pipeline
-Robert B. Anderson

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:59 am

Unknown item

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:10 am

Value of pipeline to Alaska
-Importance
-Environmentalists
-Morton
-William S. (ABill@) White=s article
-Canadian pipeline

Presidential appointments
-Flanigan
-Kissinger
-State Department=s role in economic policy
-Peterson
-Ambassador to New Zealand

-Russell
-Kenneth Franzheim, II
-William B. Macomber, Jr.
-Russell
-Ability
-Franzheim
-Campaign contribution
-Service
-Frank J. Shakespeare
-John M. Shaheen
-Possible appointment to US Advisory Commission on Information
-Shakespeare
-Clark MacGregor=s efforts
-Leslie C. Arends
-Flanigan
-Possible nomination

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[Privacy]
[Duration:  35s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 20

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-MacGregor
-Congress

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[Privacy]
[Duration:  13s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 21

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-William J. Casey
-Chief Executive Officers
-Bert S. Cross
-Robert C. Tyson
-World Radio Conference
-Details
-Qualifications for position
-Joe McConnell [?]
-Earl H. Blaik
-Rose Mary Woods= list
-White House
-Charles D. (ATex@) Thornton
-J. Willard (ABill@) Marriott, Jr.
-Tyson
-Thornton
-Blaik
-Frederic V. Malek
-State Department appointment
-Flanigan
-Roy L. Ash
-Peterson
-Cabinet level
-John B. Connally
-Need for potential presidential candidates and salesmen
-John A. Volpe and George W. Romney
-Connally
-Stans
-Connally

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:59 am and 11:10 am]

[Conversation No. 454-9A]

Call to Tyson

[End of telephone conversation]

Presidential appointments
-Offer of position to Tyson
-Tyson=s qualities
-Work experience
-Roger M. Blough

Flanigan=s conversation with former chairman of General Motors

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 11:10 am

Repair of fountain pen

Butterfield left at 11:11 am

Product safety legislation
-Need
-Administration=s position
-Administrative control
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Stans= view
-Department of Commerce
-Office of Management and Budget=s [OMB] view
-Flanigan=s view
-President=s position
-HEW
-Richardson
-Punitive actions

Arthur F. Burns
-Previous meeting with the President
-Differences with the Administration
-Economic forecast
-Potential press stories
-Washington Star

[The President talked with Tyson between 11:29 am and 11:30 am]

[Conversation No. 454-9B]

Offer of appointment to World Radio Conference
-Flanigan
-Tyson=s role
-Importance

The President=s Vietnam policy

[End of telephone conversation]

Personnel
-The President=s previous call to Tyson
-Blaik
-Flanigan=s call to Tyson
-Cross
-Flanigan=s role
-Thornton
-Ash
-Role in administration
-Flanigan=s role in administration
-State Department staffing
-Flanigan
-Philip H. Trezise
-Samuels
-Thornton
-Economic affairs
-Johnson
-Irwin
-Rogers
-Flanigan=s call
-President=s decision
-Peterson

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 11:30 am and 11:36 am]

[Conversation No. 454-9C]

Call to Rogers

[End of telephone conversation]

Burns
-Connally
-Meeting with the President
-Statements on economy
-President=s orders
-Potential problems
-Confidence
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Herbert C. Hoover
-Stans

[The President talked with Rogers between 11:36 am and 11:44 am]

[Conversation No. 454-9D]

Appointment to State Department
-Flanigan
-Role in White House
-Businessmen
-Thornton
-Qualifications

Butterfield entered at 11:40 am

-Ash
-Compared to Robert S. McNamara
-Upgrading of position by Congress
-Samuels

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[National Security]
[Duration:  3s  ]

PERSONNEL

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-Thornton
-The President=s dinner for Alice Roosevelt Longworth
-Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Alsop
-Forthcoming conversation between Flanigan and Rogers
-Irwin

J. B. and Idanell (Brill) (ANellie@) Connally

[End of telephone conversation]

J. B. Connally
-Tee time
-Rogers, Melvin R. Laird, and Winton M. (ARed@) Blount
-Ash Council meeting
-I. Connally

Butterfield left at 11:45 am

Personnel
-State Department appointment
-Flanigan=s call to Rogers
-Thornton
-Upgrading of position by Congress
-Thornton
-Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC]
-Casey
-Senate hearings
-William Proxmire

-Mitchell
-Cross
-Qualifications
-Hamer H. Budge
-Compensation
-James W. Hargrove
-Qualifications
-Cross
-Qualifications
-Charles Marren
-Mitchell=s view
-John H. Alexander
-Previous experience
-Federal Trade Commission [FTC]
-Miles W. Kirkpatrick
-Political sense
-Qualifications
-Compared to SEC
-Marren
-Casey
-Marren
-Mitchell=s view
-George McKenna
-Qualifications
-Present and possible term and salary
-Present judicial appointment
-American ability to raise capital
-Casey
-John W. Dean, III
-Mitchell

Stans
-Department of Commerce
-Subordinate who disagreed with administration
-Ehrlichman
-Speech
-Trade with Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
-President=s position
-Negotiations

Flanigan=s forthcoming conversations
-Stans
-Support for Administration

-Burns
-Previous statement on economy
-Administration policy
-Economic confidence
-President=s view

Personnel
-Support for Administration=s policies
-Russell
-Department of Commerce personnel
-Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS]
-[Leon Greenberg]
-President=s view

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 12:00 pm

-Thornton
-President=s view
-Change of position
-Samuels

Flanigan left at 12:02 pm

-Morton
-Thornton
-Volpe
-Possible post

The President left at an unknown time before 12:15 pm

Position in State Department
-Flanigan
-Samuels
-Qualifications

The President entered at an unknown time after 12:02 pm

-Flanigan
-President=s position
-Irwin
-Rogers
-Irwin
-Johnson

-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Previous work with Kissinger

Personnel
-Robert F. Ellsworth
-Plans to resign
-Successor
-US Ambassador to Italy
-Henry Salvatori
-Volpe

The President=s meeting with Emilio Colombo
-Aldo Moro
-Italian domestic politics
-Graham A. Martin
-The President=s handling of foreign visitors
-Conversation topics
-Discussions
-Policy issues
-Chile
-Moro
-Presidency of Italy
-Upcoming elections

The President=s schedule
-Foreign Ministers
-Portugal, Spain, and Greece
-Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, and Japan
-Latin America, Asia, Africa

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[Duration:  4s  ]

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-United States/Japanese relations

Vietnam
-Military situation
-Laos operation

The President=s meeting with Colombo
-Italian political situation
-President=s comments

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[National Security]
[Duration:  10s  ]

ITALY

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Ehrlichman=s schedule

[Haldeman talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 12:02 pm and 12:15 pm]

[Conversation No. 434-9E]

The President=s request for meeting

[End of telephone conversation]

Ehrlichman=s schedule

The President=s schedule

Haldeman left at 12:15 pm

Nixon=s influence on foreign Heads of State
-Media coverage
-Kissinger=s role
-Stewart J. O. Alsop
-John McCarty
-Difficulties of meetings
-Compared to other Presidents
-Absence of Secretary of State

Vietnam
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] story
-Negative reporting
-Kissinger=s conversation with Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
-Tendencies of soldiers
-Military operations
-Developments
-John A. Scali=s story
-Successes
-North Vietnamese attack
-Casualties
-B-52's
-B-26's
-President=s order
-CBS story
-Public information from Saigon
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Public relations efforts
-Media coverage
-United States= Information Agency [USIA]
-Defense Information Office [DIO]
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman=s statements
-President=s opinion
-Military operations
-Prospects
-President=s view of war
-Military operations
-Bombing of North Vietnam
-Results

[Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon talked with the President between 12:22 pm and 12:23 pm]

[Conversation No. 454-9F]

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[Duration:  1m  ]

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[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Battlefield situation
-Possible future developments
-Report of Japanese correspondent
-Problems in North Vietnam
-Food shortages
-Morale

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[Duration:  47s  ]

PEOPLE=S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

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-President=s news summary
-President=s position
-Public relations efforts
-Rogers

-The President=s news conference
-Media coverage
-Max Frankel
-James B. (AScotty@) Reston
-Frankel=s story
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Foreign policy issues

National Security Council [NSC] staff
-President=s conversation with Haldeman
-Liberals/intellectuals
-Haig
-Morton H. Halperin
-William A. K. (ATony@) Lake
-Halperin
-John W. Gardner

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[Duration:  9s  ]

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Media coverage
-The Alsops and Richard L. Wilson
-Mary McGrory
-Vietnam
-Alsop
-Rowland Evans
-Frankel
-Administration efforts
-Administration retaliation after 1972
-J. W. Alsop
-Stories
-John F. Kennedy

The President=s intellectual opponents
-Vietnam War
-Draft peace treaty
-Laos
-Timetable
-US/Soviet relations

Kissinger=s schedule

Ehrlichman entered at 12:32 pm

Peterson
-Role on White House staff
-Inner group
-Ehrlichman, Kissinger, Shultz, Haldeman, and Flanigan
-Paul W. McCracken and Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
-Connally
-Mitchell
-State Department
-Samuels
-Areas of responsibility
-Quotas
-Middle East oil
-Rolls Royce
-Balance of payments
-David M. Kennedy
-Shultz
-Kissinger as political analyst

Stans
-Statement on Soviet trade
-Administration policy
-Soviet interests/United States= attitudes
-Shultz and Peterson
-President=s view
-Trade issues
-Negotiations
-Role in government
-Need to support Administration position

Kissinger left at 12:39 pm

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[Duration:  2m 8s  ]

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Democrats= policy committee meeting
-Regionalism
-Revenue sharing
-Administration=s response
-Press
-Differences between Democratic proposal and revenue sharing

Haldeman
-Meeting

Weather

Television coverage of the President, 2/19
-President=s meeting
-Young Republicans
-President=s Council on Physical Fitness
-President=s comments

Haldeman entered at 12:43 pm

-George Black, Jr.
-Forthcoming trip to Africa
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Vietnam
-CBS
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars speech
-Robert Pierpoint and AToday@ Show
-David

Burns
-Previous meeting with the President
-Statements on economic forecast
-Confidence
-McCracken
-Stans
-Money supply
-Effect on Administration
-Ehrlichman=s view
-News coverage
-Quadriad meeting, 2/19
-Shultz
-Position in administration
-Policy differences
-Wage and Price Board
-Shultz
-Connally
-Role in economic policy
-Peterson
-Role
-Public relations
-Hobart Rowen
-Edward Dale
-Previous meeting with President and Fortune editors
-Meeting with Ehrlichman and Shultz
-Role
-Consultation with Kissinger
-International economic matters
-Flanigan
-Political sense
-White House dissatisfaction
-President=s view
-Forthcoming call to Burns
-Effect of statement
-Press reports
-Forthcoming call to Burns
-President=s view
-Meetings with President
-Quadriad
-Social events

Morton
-Alaska pipeline
-Statement to the press
-Status
-Flanigan=s view
-Canada
-Statement to the press
-Ehrlichman=s view
-Forthcoming call to Morton
-Ehrlichman and Robert J. Hitt
-Ehrlichman=s conversation with Walter J. Hickel
-Hickel=s comments
-Alaska pipeline
-President=s position
-Morton=s comments
-Environmentalists
-Florida canal [?]
-Role
-Ehrlichman=s forthcoming meeting with William D. Ruckelshaus
-Dr. James R. Schlesinger
-Possible appointment
-Laird
-Conversation with Morton
-Meeting between the President and Morton
-Agenda
-Schedule
-Florida

Paul N. (APete@) McCloskey, Jr.
-Los Angeles Times
-Impeachment of President
-News summary
-Recall petition
-Ehrlichman
-Redistricting
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Charles S. Gubser
-Demand for resignation
-Public relations efforts
-Call for the President=s impeachment
-Vietnam policy

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[Privacy]
[Duration:  23s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11

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[Duration:  4m 37s  ]

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The Vice President
-Haldeman=s conversation with Charles W. Colson
-Employment
-Office of Inter-Governmental Relations
-Nils A. Boe and Wendell E. Hulcher
-Refusal to speak to Young Republicans meeting
-Workload
-Revenue sharing
-Domestic policy

Boe
-Ehrlichman=s conversation with Roy Carroll [?]
-Judgeship
-Mitchell

Personnel
-Court of Military Appeals
-Appointment of Black
-Ehrlichman=s conversation with Edward W. Brooke

-Discussions
-Ehrlichman=s call to Whitney M. Young, Jr.
-President=s policies
-Blacks
-Admiral
-Secretary in President=s office
-Qualifications
-Terry L. Decker
-Previous work
-Age
-Woods

Shelley A. Scarney
-Forthcoming marriage to Patrick J. Buchanan
-Role on White House staff
-Importance
-Federal regulations

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Personnel
-Blacks
-Admiral
-Court of Military Appeals
-Brooke=s appreciation
-Federal court judgeship vacancy
-Clarence C. Ferguson, Jr.
-Young
-Mitchell=s view
-Brooke
-Ehrlichman=s forthcoming call to Young
-President=s view

-The Vice President
-Boe
-Staff
-Colson assignment
-Role
-Herbert G. Klein
-Haldeman=s previous conversation with Klein
-Office responsibilities
-Colson
-Assignment
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Robert C. Odle, Jr.
-Young Republicans meeting
-Staff responsibilities
-Public relations
-Revenue sharing

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[The President talked with Stephen B. Bull at an unknown time between 12:43 pm and 1:19 pm]

[Conversation No. 454-9G]

The President=s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting

[End of telephone conversation]

The Vice President
-Staff
-Personnel changes
-Public statements

-Public relations

[The President talked with Mrs. Nixon between 1:19 pm and 1:20 pm]

[Conversation No. 454-9H]

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 14
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  7s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 14

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[End of telephone conversation]

The Vice President
-Staff
-Role
-Possible presidency
-Staff
-Problems
-Secret Service

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:20 pm and 1:21 pm]

Call to Woods

[End of telephone conversation]

The Vice President
-Haldeman

[The President talked with Woods between 1:21 pm and 1:22 pm]

[Conversation No. 454-9I]

Trip to Camp David
-Schedule
-Call to Mrs. Nixon

[End of telephone conversation]

The Vice President
-Staff
-Forthcoming meeting between Haldeman and Vice President

Revenue sharing
-Connally
-Comments in Quadriad meeting
-Role in selling the President=s program
-Role of Congress
-Administration position
-Public relations
-Administration efforts
-Public relations plan
-Shultz, Connally, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, MacGregor
-MacGregor

Shultz
-Colson
-Speech to American Enterprise Institute [AEI]
-President=s role
-Policies
-Efforts
-Ehrlichman=s speech
-Public relations
-Speeches
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-William L. Safire
-T. W. Wilson Center speech
-Buchanan
-Style

Demolition of Navy Building
-Speech given by Ehrlichman
-The President=s opposition to bureaucracy
-Content
-Effect on public relations
-President=s image
-J. F. Kennedy=s image
-Connally

Revenue sharing
-Connally=s view
-President=s efforts
-Identification with the President
-Forthcoming meeting with Connally
-Media efforts
-Governors
-White House staff
-Congress
-Citizens= organizations
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Advocacy groups

Labor
-Opposition to the President
-Alfred W. Friendly=s column
-British labor
-Compared to the United States
-Davis-Bacon Act
-Administration=s position
-Colson
-Relations with labor leaders
-Administration opposition to leadership
-Possible Presidential statement
-Roosevelt
-Davis-Bacon Act
-Support for country
-Differences between leaders and members
-Service organizations
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-American Legion

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 16
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  1m 3s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 16

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White House staff
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Reorganization
-Need for better public relations
-Klein
-Colson

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 26
[Privacy]
[Duration:  26s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 26

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-The Vice President

Ehrlichman=s schedule

Ehrlichman left at an unknown time before 1:48 pm

Ehrlichman
-Arrangement of responsibilities
-Delegation
-Kissinger
-President

The President=s arrangement of responsibilities
-Connally
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-McCloskey
-Haldeman
-Edward L. Morgan
-Ehrlichman

Public relations
-Adlai E. Stevenson, III statement
-Buchanan

Mrs. Nixon
-Press
-Questions
-President=s responses
-Role of politicians= wives
-Compared to men
-Negative press
-Effect on President and Mrs. Nixon

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:22 pm and 1:48 pm]

[Conversation No. 454-9J]

Request that Colson join him

[End of telephone conversation]

Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:22 pm

The President=s schedule
-David Shriver
-R. Sargent Shriver
-John C. Whitaker

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:48 pm

The President=s willingness to meet with staff and congressmen
-Possible press story
-Haldeman

Whitaker, Elizabeth Bradley Whitaker, two of their sons, and D. Shriver entered at 1:48 pm; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Introductions

Presentations of gifts by the President

The Whitakers and D. Shriver left at 1:50 pm

Media coverage
-President=s role
-Klein
-Colson
-DeVan L. Shumway
-Additional staff
-Efforts
-Example to Cabinet
-Secretaries
-Dealing with subordinates in other offices
-Purpose
-Woods= role

Colson entered at 1:50 pm

The Vice President
-Staff
-Buchanan
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Safire
-Forthcoming meeting with Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Harlow

State Department translator
-The President=s meeting with Colombo
-Possible position

[The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 1:50 pm and 1:57 pm]

[Conversation No. 454-9K]

Haig

[The President talked with Haig at an unknown time between 1:50 pm and 1:57 pm]

State Department translator

Schedule
-David

[End of telephone conversation]

Blair House
-Use
-Entertainers
-Leslie T. (ABob@) Hope
-Herbert J. (AJackie@) Gleason
-L. Nicholas Ruwe

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 17
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  10m 25s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 17

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Campaign practices
-Murray M. Chotiner
-Columnist
-Chapman=s friend
-Humphrey
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Campaign intelligence
-Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy and Muskie

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 18
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  14s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 18

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Butterfield entered at 1:57 pm

Call from the Vice President

Butterfield left at 1:58 pm

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 19
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  14m 44s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 19

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The President=s schedule
-State of the World speech
-Colson
-Press conference
-Television
-Ziegler=s recommendation
-Statement to press
-Timing of release
-Kissinger
-Colson=s recommendation
-Publicity options
-Safire

-Haldeman
-Forthcoming discussion with Kissinger and Safire
-Radio
-Timing
-President=s position

Butterfield entered at 2:40 pm

Connally
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
-Value-added Tax [VAT]
-Instructions
-Press conference
-VAT

Schedule
-Press conference
-Format
-Radio
-Timing
-Possible Presidential statement
-Safire
-Timing
-Television
-Options
-Foreign policy
-President=s position
-Frequency
-Domestic policy
-Foreign policy
-Haldeman=s position
-Timing
-Forthcoming meeting with governors
-Press coverage
-Foreign policy
-Safire

Haldeman, Butterfield, and Colson left at 2:42 pm

Conversation No. 454-10

Date:  February 20, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:44 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people met

Note to the President

Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 11:59 pm