Conversation No. 455-1

Date:  February 22, 1971
Time:  9:15 am - 10:09 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman and Alexander P. Butterfield

Letter to Fred J. Russell
-Possible meeting with the President
-John D. Ehrlichman

Public relations
-Black artists= exhibit
-Constance M. (Cornell) (AConnie@) Stuart
-News coverage
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Laos briefing
-Need for coordination
-Butterfield=s role
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW] wives
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon=s schedule
-Reception for blacks
-White House press corps
-Ziegler
-Negro History Week
-Black publications
-Butterfield=s role
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Stuart
-Forthcoming messages
-Education
-Timing
-Revenue sharing
-Law Enforcement Assistance Administration [LEAA]
-Education
-Possible television statement by the President
-Consumers
-President=s view

Butterfield left at 9:27 am

-Press coverage of the President
-Time magazine
-Helen A. Thomas= story
-Manolo and Fina Sanchez
-Anecdotes

Public relations
-Butterfield
-Role
-Scheduling
-Ziegler
-Mrs. Nixon=s schedule
-Forthcoming events
-President=s schedule
-Coordination
-Radio talk
-Radio versus television
-Henry A. Kissinger=s role
-William L. Safire
-Preparation
-Timing
-Media coverage

President=s schedule
-Briefing of businessmen
-Possible photo opportunity with the President
-Open hour
-Clay T. (ATom@) Whitehead
-David Packard
-Paul W. McCracken
-Ken Downing [?]
-Peter M. Flanigan=s role
-Haakon I. Romnes
-Milledge A. Hart
-Harold S. Geneen
-Robert W. Galvin
-Patrick E. Haggerty
-Samuel E. Wyly
-Meeting with the President
-Rationale
-Previous meetings
-Content
-Federal Executive Board

-Forthcoming meeting
-Participants
-Possible Presidential meeting
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Briefing paper
-Style
-George P. Shultz
-Timing
-Prime Minister of Malaysia=s meeting with the President
-Department of State
-Rationale
-Visit to Iowa
-John C. Whitaker
-Speech
-Schedule
-Preparation
-Administration policies
-Revenue sharing
-Rural growth
-Agriculture
-Schedule

Personnel
-Agriculture policy
-Whitaker
-Clarence D. Palmby
-Murray Spitzer
-President=s view
-Need for public relations skills
-Robert J. Brown
-Spitzer
-Palmby
-Spitzer
-Joseph E. Parker
-Cotton Lobby
-Congress
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Unknown dividend

President=s schedule
-Central Treaty Organization [CENTO] Secretary visit
-William P. Rogers
-Scheduling conflict

-Foreign policy speech
-Press conference
-Domestic policy trip
-Buffalo, Syracuse, and Rochester
-Trip to Florida
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II=s graduation
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Mrs. Nixon=s schedule
-Congressional wives
-ATeas@
-Format
-Basis for attendance
-Entertainment
-Issues
-Revenue sharing
-Portrait photos of the President
-Herbert J. (AJackie@) Gleason visit
-Press coverage
-VFW and American Legion conventions
-Al Chamie
-Pros and cons
-Chamie
-Meeting with the President
-Presidential note for Harriet Elam
-Shelley A. Scarney

Public relations
-Harry S. Dent
-Letters to editors and columnists
-Responsibility
-Herbert G. Klein
-Crosby S. Noyes
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-President
-Wall Street Journal article
-Christian Science Monitor
-Agnes Waldron

Haldeman=s conversation with Arthur F. Burns
-News story
-Accuracy
-Use of White House staff
-Shultz

-Burns= earlier remarks
-News story
-Effect on President
-Effect on economic policy

Press coverage
-Joseph J. Sisco
-Briefing
-Rumsfeld
-Ehrlichman
-Young Republicans meeting
-President=s policy
-Paul N. (APete@) McCloskey, Jr.
-Action by Young Republicans
-Coverage by media
-Ehrlichman
-Lawrence F. O=Brien
-Rogers

Ronald W. Reagan
-Person on White House staff to call
-Ehrlichman and the Vice President

Media
-Press coverage
-Safire
-Richard [?] Wilson
-Office press conference
-Analysis
-Kissinger=s views
-Possible Presidential press conference
-Foreign policy report to Congress
-President=s view
-Safire=s views
-Talk on narcotics on educational television
-AFireside chat@
-Technical aspects

Laos
-Press reaction
-Washington Post
-New York Times
-Thomas Grey (ATom@) Wicker
-Editorial content

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 9:15 am

Use of marijuana
-Narcotics
-Time magazine

Haldeman and Sanchez left at 10:09 am

Conversation No. 455-2

Date:  February 22, 1971
Time:  10:09 am - 10:38 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rogers C. B. Morton, Robert J. Hitt, and John D. Ehrlichman

Appointment of Undersecretary

Morton=s trip to Florida
-Press coverage
-Watershed problem
-Florida Power and Light Company
-Nuclear plant

Morton=s visibility
-Public speeches
-John B. Connally
-Congress

Appointment
-Charles J. DiBona
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Dr. James R. Schlesinger

-Budget experience
-William T. Pecora
-US Geological Survey
-John A. Volpe
-Hollis M. Dole
-Materials Commission
-Frederic V. Malek
-Ehrlichman
-Commissions
-Emphasis on youth
-Bert S. Cross and Robert C. Tyson
-Retired military
-Need for Undersecretary
-Upcoming reorganization
-Problems of Interior Department
-Budget
-Bureaucracy
-Schlesinger
-Melvin R. Laird
-Budget experience
-President=s view
-George P. Shultz
-Robert P. Mayo

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-Responsibilities

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-Qualifications
-Environment
-Budget
-Government reorganization

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-Morton=s role
-Schlesinger
-Congressional relations

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-Fred J. Russell
-Forthcoming letter
-Meeting with Flanigan
-DiBona
-Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.
-John C. Stennis
-Margaret Chase Smith
-Schlesinger
-President=s view
-University of Rochester
-Volunteer Army

Alaska pipeline
-Hearings in Washington, DC and in Alaska
-Morton=s view
-Oil companies= view
-Movement of oil
-Alternatives
-Native claims issue
-Congress
-Negotiations
-Need for oil
-Walter J. Hickel=s position
-Tankers
-Valdez port
-Environmental effect
-Nation=s needs
-Morton=s comments
-Public relations efforts
-Flanigan and Shultz
-Maurice H. Stans

-General George A. Lincoln
-Dole and Pecora
-Role
-National energy policy
-Stans
-Shultz
-President
-Lincoln
-Stans
-Dole

Morton=s trip to Illinois
-Revenue sharing
-Administration health program

Photos

Hitt and Morton left at 10:38 am

Charles W. Colson

Ehrlichman left at 10:38 am

Conversation No. 455-3

Date:  February 22, 1971
Time:  10:39 am - 11:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman and Ronald L. Ziegler

Ziegler=s forthcoming press briefing
-Vietnam
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
-President=s view
-Developments
-Laos
-President=s view
-The President=s meeting with Rogers C. B. Morton
-Content

The President=s schedule

James D. Hodgson and George P. Shultz entered at 10:43 am; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

[Unintelligible]

Unknown women entered at an unknown time after 10:43 am

Ladies of the press

The unknown women left at an unknown time before 10:52 am

Charles W. Colson

Wage freeze
-Responsibility of government
-Administration policy
-Hodgson=s view
-Hodgson=s meeting with Building Trades Union leaders
-Union position

Colson entered at 10:52 am

-Neil Hagerty [sp?]
-Davis-Bacon Act
-Alternatives
-John H. (AJack@) Lyons
-George Meany
-Position
-Colson=s view

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Wage freeze
-Davis-Bacon Act
-President=s view
-Cost/benefit analysis
-Effect of temporary freeze
-Union reactions
-Administration strategy
-Forthcoming contract negotiations
-Construction industry
-Business
-Settlements
-Opposition
-Administration strategy
-Union view
-Contract negotiations
-Davis-Bacon Act
-Construction industry
-Effect of suspension
-Hodgson=s view
-Colson=s view
-Wage Board/price controls
-Difficulties
-Union leadership
-Contract negotiations
-Meany
-Administrative position
-Davis-Bacon Act
-Construction workers
-Suspension of Davis-Bacon Act
-Administration policy
-Announcement
-Pros and cons
-Effect on construction industry
-Non-union hiring
-Wages
-Shultz=s view
-President=s view
-Union changes
-Working conditions
-Effect on leaders
-Longevity
-Public relations

-Hodgson
-Prices
-Steel and fuel
-Effect on government action
-Compared with construction industry
-Ripple effect
-President=s position
-Governors= conference
-Wage-price freeze
-Arthur F. Burns= view
-Long-term effect
-Efficacy
-Congress
-Future problems
-AGoldstein@ [Leon Greenberg] [?]
-Consumer prices
-Long-term effect
-Administration policy
-Temporary suspension
-Responsibility
-Government role
-President=s view
-Strikes
-Labor public relations
-Ziegler
-Settlement terms
-Northwest Airlines
-Questions
-Concern of working man
-Colson=s view
-Wage freeze compared with Davis-Bacon Act
-Suspension of Davis-Bacon Act
-President=s view
-Subsequent actions
-Ehrlichman=s view
-Rationale
-Compared with other industries
-Hodgson=s role
-Labor/management cooperation
-Public statements by Administration
-Justification
-Government role
-Public reaction

-Effect on the President
-Public view
-Labor tactics
-Construction industry
-Garment workers
-Davis-Bacon Act
-Extent of Davis-Bacon Act
-Industry
-Construction
-Governors= conference
-Visit by the President
-Possible statement
-Benefits
-Hodgson=s public appearances
-The President=s appearances
-Suspension of Davis-Bacon Act
-Reaction
-Burns
-Meeting with the President
-View of wage-price action
-Rationale
-Control of money supply
-President=s view
-Jesse Barton
-Reaction by the President
-Hodgson=s and the President=s action
-Colson=s role
-Necessity for wage action
-Public relations
-Davis-Bacon Act
-Necessity
-Burns
-Forthcoming Quadriad meeting
-Steel settlement
-Impact
-Suspension of Davis-Bacon Act
-Effect
-Construction industry settlement
-Congress= role
-Wage-price controls
-Economic health
-Administration efforts
-Burns

-View of Wage Price Board
-Davis-Bacon Act
-Effect on economy
-Compared to a tax increase
-Role of government
-Hodgson=s comments
-Public relations
-Davis-Bacon role
-Secretary of Labor=s role
-Possible scenarios
-Hodgson
-John T. Dunlop
-President=s view
-Burns= view of wage and price controls
-Previous meeting with the President
-President=s position
-Leonard Woodcock=s view
-Public relations
-Political impact
-Colson=s role
-Focus on construction settlement
-Governmental spending
-Administration latitude
-Alternatives to action
-Efficacy
-Administration=s position
-Steel industry
-Response of administration
-Hodgson=s forthcoming testimony
-Scope
-Press statement
-Ziegler=s handling of the press
-Timing of announcement by administration
-Ziegler=s role
-Possible Federal Register notice
-Use of Governors= conference
-Comments by the President
-Nelson A. Rockefeller=s reaction
-The President=s schedule
-Timing
-The Vice President=s role
-John B. Connally=s and Ehrlichman=s roles
-Revenue sharing

-Comments to governors
-Benefits
-Visibility
-Public announcement
-Impact on interested groups
-Hodgson=s comments to Executive Council [?]
-Reception

Ehrlichman, et al. left at 11:58 am

Conversation No. 455-4

Date:  February 22, 1971
Time:  11:59 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

The President=s schedule

Butterfield left at 11:59 am

Conversation No. 455-5

Date:  February 22, 1971
Time:  11:59 am - 12:21 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Samuel E. Wyly, Berkeley G. Burrell, John Belindo, Ben Fernandez, James M. Roche, Alan Steelman, Rocco C. Siciliano, Abraham Venable, and Leonard Garment; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

[General conversation]

Minority businesses
-Advisory Council on Minority Business Enterprise
-Report to President

-Recommendations
-Government role
-Importance
-Resources
-Education and training
-Small businesses
-Recognition by the President
-Statistics
-Black car dealerships
-Gale E. Sayers
-Increases
-Indians
-Hispanic-Americans
-Administration efforts
-Savings and Loans
-Administration successes
-Banks
-Focus on self-help
-Importance of private sector
-Federal budget
-Spending
-Programs
-Long-term effect
-Government role
-Advisory Council=s report
-Commerce Department
-Maurice H. Stans
-Garment
-Advisory Council recommendations
-Government role
-President=s position
-President=s appreciation

Economy
-Car sales
-The President=s meeting with James D. Hodgson
-Davis-Bacon Act
-Construction industry
-Banks
-Charles G. (ABebe@) Rebozo

Gifts

Wyly, et al. left at 12:21 pm

Conversation No. 455-6

Date:  February 22, 1971
Time:  12:23 pm - 12:33 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Reverend Oswald Hoffman, George T. Bell, and Raymond K. Price, Jr.; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Greetings

Presentation of a Bible to the President

Hoffman=s work in Vietnam
-President=s appreciation
-Hoffman, William F. (ABilly@) Graham, and Leslie T. (ABob@) Hope
-Attendance at service
-Tenor of sermon

Book of Ecclesiastes
-Translation

Qualities of United States= soldiers in Vietnam
-Story told to Hoffman by Da Nang Marine
-Dedication
-Drug problem
-Terence Cardinal Cooke=s view
-Southeast Asian drugs
-Availability
-Marijuana
-Military compared with civilian view and expertise
-Alcoholism
-Possibility of cure
-Domestic problem

Presentation of gifts by the President

Hoffman, et al. left at 12:33 pm

Conversation No. 455-7

Date:  February 22, 1971
Time:  12:33 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

The President=s schedule
-Businessmen
-James Udall

Butterfield left at 12:33 pm

Conversation No. 455-8

Date:  February 22, 1971
Time:  12:34 pm - 12:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Harold S. Geneen, Leonard H. Goldenson, Russell McFall, Patrick E. Haggerty, Samuel E. Wyly, Walter D. Scott, Milledge A. Hart, Frank Stanton, Peter M. Flanigan, James G. Boatner, David N. Parker, and Raymond K. Price, Jr.; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

The President=s appreciation

National economy
-Role of business leaders
-Fluctuations

Presentation of gifts by the President
-Golf balls

-The Vice President

[General conversation]

Geneen, et al. left at 12:40 pm

Conversation No. 455-9

Date:  February 22, 1971
Time:  12:41 pm - 12:45 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with James Udall, Murray M. Chotiner, David N. Parker, and Raymond K. Price, Jr.; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

James (AJimmy@) Stewart

Life article
-Poker players

Presentation of gifts by the President

Visit to White House
-Rose Mary Woods
-Lydia [surname unknown]
-Marjorie P. Acker
-Lydia [surname unknown]

Udall, et al. left at 12:45 pm

Conversation No. 455-10

Date:  February 22, 1971
Time:  12:46 pm - 12:49 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Robert L. Kunzig, James B. Rhoads, A. N. Spence, Raymond K. Price, Jr., Cecilia D. Bellinger, and David N. Parker; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Presentation of book to the President

The President=s papers
-Presidential Library
-Rhoads= conversation with Edward C. Nixon

Presentation of gifts by the President

Demolition of building on the Mall

Kunzig, et al. left at 12:49 pm

Conversation No. 455-11

Date:  February 22, 1971
Time:  12:50 pm - 12:56 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Reverend and Mrs. Carl W. Haley, Rose Mary Woods, David N. Parker, and Raymond K. Price, Jr.; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Reverend Haley=s birthplace
-Lynchburg, Virginia

Recollections
-Prices

Photographs

Presentation of gifts by the President

Unknown individuals

Haley, et al. left at 12:56 pm

Conversation No. 455-12

Date:  February 22, 1971
Time:  12:57 pm - 1:01 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with David H. Popper, General Alexander M. Haig, Jr., David N. Parker, and Raymond K. Price, Jr.; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Greetings

Cyprus
-Archbishop Mouskos Makarios
-Visit to United States
-Situation
-Stability
-Popper=s view
-Longevity
-Context
-Greece and Turkey
-Makarios
-President=s instructions

Presentation of gifts by the President

Popper, et al. left at 1:01 pm

Conversation No. 455-13

Date:  February 22, 1971
Time:  1:01 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Schedule

Bull left at 1:01 pm

Conversation No. 455-14

Date:  February 22, 1971
Time:  1:01 pm - 1:12 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Sanders, Henry C. Cashen, II, David N. Parker, and Raymond K. Price, Jr.; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Photos

The President=s schedule
-Invitation to National Forest Products Association [NFPA] meeting
-Rationale
-Sanders
-George Fuller

Ownership of forest resources
-Growth of timber
-Federal government
-Private interests
-NFPA program

Forest service program
-Everglades
-President=s position
-Resource management

-Government role
-NFPA=s program
-Reader=s Digest story

The South
-Racial balance in schools
-North versus South
-Patriotism
-Effect on foreign policy
-Richard B. Russell
-Progress
-Compared to past
-View of future
-Atlanta
-Naval Air Station
-Meridian, Mississippi

Forestry program
-NFPA

Presentation of gifts by the President
-The Vice President=s schedule

Sanders, et al. left at 1:12 pm

Conversation No. 455-15

Date:  February 22, 1971
Time:  1:12 pm - 1:13 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

The President=s schedule
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Bull left at 1:13 pm

Conversation No. 455-16

Date:  February 22, 1971
Time:  1:13 pm - 1:37 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Charles Whitehouse, General Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and Raymond K. Price, Jr.; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Greetings

Vietnam
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Whitehouse=s efforts
-President=s appreciation
-Economic situation
-South Vietnamese survival
-Whitehouse=s analysis
-United States= role
-Administration policies
-Pacification efforts
-Laos and Cambodia
-Future conflict
-Vietnam compared to United States= Civil War
-Problems
-Dissenters
-South Vietnamese
-Democracy
-Effect
-American press
-Effect
-Democratic tradition compared to other areas
-Italy
-Southern Hemisphere
-Philippines
-India
-Thailand
-Taiwan
-Indonesia
-Malaysia
-Singapore
-Africa
-Ghana

-Trip by the president
-Arthur Clark
-Reception
-President=s conversation with Clark

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-Democracies
-Mexico
-Colombia
-Uruguay
-Costa Rica
-Brazil
-Emilio Garrastazu Médici
-Forthcoming visit to US
-Establishment of democratic government in South Vietnam
-US efforts
-History
-General Charles A. J. M. de Gaulle constitution
-Henry Cabot Lodge=s view
-Georges J. R. Pompidou
-South Korea
-Prospects
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-US efforts
-France

-Vietnamese population
-People=s Republic of China
-Whitehouse=s view
-Foreign service personnel efforts

Whitehouse
-Future assignment
-Europe
-Laos
-Africa
-William P. Rogers and Kissinger
-Ambassadorship
-Vietnam
-Press secretary
-Paris Peace Talks
-Role
-Ambassadorship
-President=s view
-Relationship to Joseph W. Alsop=s wife

Presentation of gifts by the President

Whitehouse, et al. left at 1:37 pm

Conversation No. 455-17

Date:  February 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:37 pm and 1:43 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Schedule
-H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman
-State Department

Bull left at 1:43 pm

Conversation No. 455-18

Date:  February 22, 1971
Time:  1:43 pm - 2:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods

Greetings

Presidential gifts
-List of items
-Presidential speeches
-White House medals
-Contributors
-Robert H. Abplanalp
-Presidential glassware
-Alexander M. Butterfield
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Jimmy Crosby
-White House etching
-Charles G. (ABebe@) Rebozo
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Abplanalp
-Ashtrays
-Kendall
-Presidential pens
-Elmer H. Bobst

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:43 pm

Gifts

Recognition of birthdays
-[Forename unknown] Kluzensky [sp?]
-President=s view
-Criteria

The President=s visitors
-Ministers
-Bibles as gifts

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:07 pm

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Possible appointee
-Pete Murphy
-Richard G. Kleindienst

The President=s inauguration suit
-White House gifts
-Shotgun
-Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Disposition
-Armor
-Smithsonian
-Shotgun
-John B. Connally

The President=s schedule
-Possible visit with unknown person
-Woods

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-Forthcoming Evening at the White House
-Guest list
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon
-Members of the Cabinet
-Tricia Nixon=s additions
-Bull
-Robert C. Odle, Jr.
-Peter M. Flanigan
-John W. Byrnes
-Gerald Brannigan [?]
-Unknown television personality

Oval Office temperature

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Invitations
-White House functions
-James Udall

Weather
-Camp David

Woods left at 2:07 pm

Conversation No. 455-19

Date:  February 22, 1971
Time:  2:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at 2:07 pm

Conversation No. 455-20

Date:  February 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:07 pm and 3:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

The President=s schedule
-Response to unknown inquiry
-Astronauts
-Award ceremony
-Dinner
-Dress
-Entertainment
-Tables
-Attendance
-Medal presentation

Butterfield left at 3:02 pm

Conversation No. 455-21

Date:  February 22, 1971
Time:  3:02 pm - 3:09 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler

Ziegler=s previous press briefing
-Briefing in Saigon
-Military operations by South Vietnamese Army
-Laos
-Ziegler=s statement
-North Vietnamese resistance
-Losses
-Cambodia
-Ho Chi Minh Trail
-Reports
-Outlook
-Effect on North Vietnamese supplies
-President=s view
-The President=s schedule

Ziegler left at 3:09 pm

Conversation No. 455-22

Date:  February 22, 1971
Time:  3:09 pm - 3:50 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Welfare Reform Bill
-Participants
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Social Security
-Mills= view
-Russell B. Long
-Role in House of Representatives

-Richard K. Cook
-Elliot L. Richardson=s view
-Revenue sharing
-Prospects for passage
-Mills
-Food stamps and other reform proposals
-Democratic opposition
-Status in House
-Clifford M. Hardin
-John G. Veneman

Roger O. Egeberg
-Replacement
-Richardson

Welfare Reform Bill
-Public service employment
-Department of Labor view
-Special Revenue Sharing
-Funding
-Manpower training
-Administration view
-Job creation
-Manpower training
-Revenue sharing

Egeberg
-Richardson
-New position

Health program
-AFirst Dollar@ approach

Richardson
-Senate testimony
-Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy=s committee
-AFace The Nation@ performance
-Welfare reform
-Administration efforts
-Congressional opposition
-Congressional hearings
-Mills

ABrand name@ concept
-John B. Connally
-Welfare reform
-Revenue sharing
-Law enforcement

Suspension of Davis-Bacon Act
-James D. Hodgson
-Inflation
-Construction industry
-Shultz=s position
-Voluntary restraints
-Wage and price freeze
-Problems
-Alternatives
-Wage limit
-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-Wage Price Board
-Hodgson
-Union view
-Effect on construction industry
-Administration strategy
-Legal maneuvers
-Possible congressional action
-Court challenges
-Legislative action

The President=s schedule
-Leadership meeting agenda
-Wage and price action
-Hugh Scott
-Consumer legislation
-Laos
-Suspension of Davis-Bacon Act
-Administration position
-Shultz
-Hodgson
-Length of meeting

National economy
-Suspension of Davis-Bacon Act
-Inflation psychology
-Wage and price controls

-President=s position
-Connally=s forthcoming testimony
-Administration=s response
-Congress
-Shultz=s forthcoming call to Connally
-Wage Price Board
-Arthur F. Burns
-Federal Reserve System
-Wage Stabilization Board
-Wage and price control
-President=s view

The President=s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.

Housing
-Department of Housing and Urban Development
-George W. Romney
-Department of Justice
-Location of housing projects
-Administration position
-President=s view
-Romney
-John N. Mitchell
-Samuel C. Jackson speech
-Administration strategy
-Small homeowners
-Effect of legislation
-Federal coercion
-Civil rights impact
-Housing project construction
-Effects
-Administration position
-Prince George=s County
-Fairfax County
-Ronald L. Ziegler=s statement
-Use of federal power
-Options

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:09 pm

Rose Mary Woods

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:46 pm

Woods entered at 3:46 pm

The President=s schedule
-Shotgun from Khrushchev
-Use by Connally

Woods left at 3:49 pm

-Peter G. Peterson
-Meeting with the President
-Connally
-Meeting with the President

Statement prepared by Ehrlichman and Hodgson
-Timing
-Delivery to governors
-Press

Shultz and Ehrlichman left at 3:50 pm

Conversation No. 455-23

Date:  February 22, 1971
Time:  3:50 pm - 4:33 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Dr. Edward E. David, Jr. and Peter M. Flanigan

The President=s schedule
-Forthcoming Science Advisory Committee meeting
-Attendance
-Possible photograph with the President
-Possible luncheon

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 3:50 pm

-Governors= meeting
-Timing
-Press coverage
-Edward L. Morgan

[The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:50 pm and 3:57 pm]

[Conversation No. 455-23A]

Request that John D. Ehrlichman return to Oval Office

[End of telephone conversation]

The President=s schedule
-Luncheon for Science Advisory Committee
-Arrangements
Scientists and technicians
-Unemployment
-Use of aerospace engineers and scientists
-Problems of Doctors of Philosophy [PhD]
-Flanigan

Ehrlichman entered at 3:57 pm

-Administration concern
-March meeting with the President
-Meeting with technicians
-Raymond J. Waldman=s efforts
-David Packard=s work
-Federal aid to universities
-Use of money
-George P. Shultz=s view
-Great programs
-President=s view
-University of California
-Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-New York Times article, 2/22
-Stanford University
-National Science Foundation
-David=s role
-Budget
-Training program

-Grants
-Breakdown of spending
-Antarctic program
-Need
-Bids for government contracts
-Consortiums
-Waldman=s role
-Unemployment
-Effect
-Compared to other individuals
-Number
-President=s position
-Market distortion for PhD=s
-Compared to stock brokerages
-Compared to lawyers
-Scientists compared to engineers
-Administration efforts
-Loans from Small Business Administration [SBA]

Haldeman left at 4:05 pm

-The President=s meeting on minority businesses
-Leonard Garment=s views
-Sources of funds
-Use by unemployed scientists
-Model cities
-Environment
-Possible jobs
-Barry M. Goldwater=s views
-Market distortion of wages
-White collar workers
-Productivity increase

The President=s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Science Advisory Committee
-Details
-James C. Fletcher
-Meeting with the President
-Daniel P. (APat@) Moynihan
-Fletcher

Space program
-International participation
-President=s position
-Germany and Japan
-Space Shuttle
-Development costs
-Forms
-U. Alexis Johnson=s view
-Technology
-Intelsat
-President=s position
-Docking cooperation with Soviet Union
-Germany
-Japan
-Great Britain
-Technology problems
-Soviet boosters
-Space lab
-Docking technology
-Administration position

Ehrlichman left at 4:19 pm

Technology
-Patrick E. Haggerty=s view
-Balance of trade/productivity
-Japan and Hong Kong
-Space program/nuclear development
-Effect on balance of payments
-Common Market competition
-Strengths
-Supersonic Transport [SST] and Space Shuttle
-Materials
-David=s role
-President=s position
-Hosting international conference
-Possibility
-Soviet activity
-Scientists and engineers
-Benefits
-Soviet scientist participation
-Efforts
-Agenda

-Participation
-Possible topics
-Space launches
-Timing
-Attendance at conference
-Possible topics
-Computer technology
-Moynihan
-Cancer research
-Purpose of science
-Energy
-Desalination
-Technological status
-Importance
-Agriculture
-Unnamed Nobel Prize winner
-Research with corn
-United States= production
-Southeast Asia
-Africa
-India
-Pakistan
-Vietnam

David left at 4:33 pm

Appointments
-Fred J. Russell
-Ambassador to Australia
-Walter L. Rice
-Kenneth Franzheim, II
-Russell
-Flanigan=s forthcoming conversation with Russell

Flanigan left at 4:33 pm

Conversation No. 455-24

Date:  February 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:33 pm and 4:36 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

Call to Peter M. Flanigan

Conversation No. 455-25

Date:  February 22, 1971
Time:  4:36 pm - unknown before 5:21 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman and Bryce N. Harlow

Greetings

Appointments
-Fred J. Russell
-Kenneth Franzheim, II
-Frank J. Shakespeare

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[The President talked with Peter M. Flanigan between 4:36 pm and 4:38 pm]

[Conversation No. 455-25A]

-Australia
-Arthur G. (AArt@) Linkletter
-Forthcoming conversation between Flanigan and Linkletter
-President=s instructions
-Bert S. Cross
-List of possible ambassadorial appointees

[End of telephone conversation]

-Linkletter
-Australia
-Leslie T. (ABob@) Hope
-John Wayne
-Ambassador to Court of St. James
-Harlow
-Cliff Bulyer [?]
-Leonard W. Hall
-Linkletter
-Cross
-Henry Salvatori

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-Court appointment
-Agriculture
-Hyde Murray
-Murray Spitzer
-Clarence D. Palmby
-Harlow
-[Forename unknown] Page [?]

-Leslie C. Arends
-Gerald R. Ford

Agriculture
-The President=s visit to Iowa
-ASalute to Agriculture@
-Earl L. Butz

Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 5:21 pm