Conversation No. 468-1
Date:  March 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:53 am and 8:57 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person

Schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 8:57 am

Conversation No. 468-2

Date:  March 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:53 am and 8:57 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

Call to Admiral Thomas H. Moorer

Conversation No. 468-3

Date:  March 16, 1971
Time:  8:57 am - 9:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Admiral Thomas H. Moorer

Laos operation (Lam Son)
-Military situation
-Air strikes
-Effect of weather
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
-Duration of operation
-Airplanes
-Morale

-Passes
-Truck traffic
-ARVN morale
-Other military developments
-Khe Sanh attack
-Passes
-Weather

Conversation No. 468-4

Date:  March 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:05 am and 9:30 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President=s schedule
-John B. Connally
-Telephone call

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:30 am

Conversation No. 468-5

Date:  March 16, 1971
Time:  9:30 am - 9:50 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-A meeting
-US and Soviet Union proposals
-Kissinger=s view
-Anti-ballistic Missiles [ABM]
-Multiple Independently-Targeted Reentry Vehicles [MIRVs]

-US position
-President=s concerns
-Kissinger=s view
-Soviet Union position
-Vienna
-ABM
-Offensive weapons
-Future negotiations
-Current situation
-New York Times editorial, March 16, 1971
-Possible letter from the President
-ABM
-New York Times
-US position
-Gerard C. Smith
-Possible instructions

Laotian operation (Lam Son)
-President=s conversation with Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
-Air strikes
-Weather
-News stories
-Firebase Lolo
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN] withdrawal
-Military situation
-Moorer
-Television reports
-Press reports
-ARVN
-Tchepone
-Withdrawal
-Military situation
-Cable from General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-General Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-White House response
-Moorer
-Ho Chi Minh Trail
-Supplies
-Truck traffic
-Need for information
-Press reports
-A Firebase

-Compared with World War II
-Kissinger=s view
-A radio report from Saigon
-White House response
-Editorial writers
-Effect
-White House reports

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-President=s opponents
-Kissinger=s view
-Need for White House response
-Paul N. (APete@) McCloskey, Jr.
-Liberals
-New York Times editorial
-Saigon and Hanoi
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Liberals
-Kissinger=s view

SALT negotiations
-The President=s view
-Kissinger=s meeting with a group of businessmen
-Possible summit
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Dobrynin
-Berlin
-US position
-Willy Brandt
-US position

Vietnam
-Press
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-Joseph C. Kraft
-A speech at Colorado Springs
-Stewart J. O. Alsop
-Joseph W. Alsop
-Kissinger=s efforts
-S. J. O. Alsop
-Richard (ADick@) Wilson

-Support for the Administration
-Gridiron dinner
-The establishment
-President=s supporters and opponents
-Neo-isolationists
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

Laotian operation (Lam Son)
-White House objectives
-ARVN

Vietnam
-Press
-Possible White House campaign
-Timing
-Negotiations
-Status
-Kissinger=s view
-Possible future
-Dr. David K. E. Bruce=s role
-Kissinger=s role
-Participation
-A speech at the English-speaking union in London
-President=s concern
-US position
-General Nguyen Van Thieu
-Public opinion
-Effect on future US policy
-Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson
-Laotian operation (Lam Son)
-US position
-South Vietnamese government

Soviet Union
-Possible summit
-Possible SALT agreement
-Press response

Vietnam
-Thieu
-Possible meeting with President
-US military role
-US policy

-US military role
-Draft
-Forthcoming Presidential statement
-April 7 announcement
-Press
-An editorial about Firebase Lolo
-Inaccuracy
-Kissinger=s reports
-Military situation
-Tchepone
-Tanks
-Air power
-ARVN forces
-Melvin R. Laird
-Laos (Lam Son)
-Publicity
-White House position
-Duration of operation
-ARVN
-President=s view

Kissinger left at 9:50 am

Conversation No. 468-6

Date:  March 16, 1971
Time:  9:56 am - 9:59 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods

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Woods left at 9:59 am

Conversation No. 468-7

Date:  March 16, 1971
Time:  10:02 am - 10:31 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

President=s schedule
-John B. Connally
-Robert J. Dole
-Time
-John D. Ehrlichman and George P. Shultz
-Possible meeting with the President
-Previous meeting with the President
-Connally

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 10:04 am

Vietnam
-Troop withdrawals
-Briefing by Department of Defense [DOD]

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 10:04 am

President=s schedule
-Connally
-Time
-Cabinet meeting
-Dole
-Connally

Butterfield left at 10:04 am

Vietnam
-Troop withdrawals
-Briefing by DOD
-Melvin R. Laird
-Possible statement
-Henry A. Kissinger
-President=s previous statements
-Forthcoming Presidential statement

Ziegler left at 10:06 am

President=s schedule
-Robert H. Finch
-Youth
-Priorities
-Connally
-Dole
-Connally
-Call
-Dole
-Cabinet meeting
-Connally and Dole
-Priorities

Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 10:06 am

-Connally
-Schedule
-Rolls-Royce meeting
-Time of meeting

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 10:27 am

-Schedule
-Dole
-Other attendees
-Connally
-Time
-Ehrlichman and Shultz
-Dole
-A delayed meeting

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Haldeman=s conversation with William F. (ABilly@) Graham
-Graham=s schedule
-Lexington, Kentucky
-Lyndon B. Johnson Library dedication
-Johnson=s health
-Funeral

Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 10:06 am

President=s schedule
-Connally
-Dole

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 10:27 am

-Length of meeting
-Time
-Ehrlichman and Shultz
-Dole

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Stock market
-March 16, 1971 Dow-Jones average

Haldeman=s White House staff meetings
-President=s image
-Connally=s suggestion

Public relations
-The President=s image
-Coverage
-Need for White House effort
-President=s accomplishments
-Domestic policy
-Foreign affairs
-Cambodia
-Laos
-November 3, 1969
-President=s opponents
-Current situation
-Possible White House action
-Laos
-Timing
-Cambodia and Laos
-President=s forthcoming statement
-Summer 1971
-Stewart J. O. Alsop=s column
-Vietnam
-The President=s policy
-A memorandum concerning staff
-Charles W. Colson
-Ziegler=s office

-Herbert G. Klein=s office

Personnel
-Donald H. Rumsfeld=s work
-Possible position as US Trade Representative
-Shultz
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Peter G. Peterson
-Haldeman=s forthcoming conversation with Shultz
-Staff
-Office of Economic Opportunity
-Future
-President=s position
-Trade representative job

President=s schedule
-John N. Mitchell
-Frequency of meetings
-Ehrlichman and Shultz
-Frequency of meetings
-Kissinger
-Frequency of meetings
-Access to President
-Cabinet members
-Mitchell
-Connally
-Arthur F. Burns
-Ehrlichman and Shultz
-Kissinger

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Press
-White House action
-Timing
-Enemies
-Colson=s responsibility
-Networks
-Polls
-President and Agnew=s appearances
-Timing
-Laos operation (Lam Son)
-Cambodia operation
-November 3, 1969
-Future events

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Public relations
-President=s image
-AConfidence factor@

Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon entered at an unknown time after 10:06 am

Greetings

The President left at an unknown time before 10:27 am

Irish

Haldeman left at 10:27 am

The President entered at an unknown time after 10:27 am

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An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 10:27 am

President=s schedule
-John M. (AJack@) Lynch arrival ceremony

The President, et al. left at 10:31 am

Conversation No. 468-8

Date:  March 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:31 am and 11:00 am
Location:  Oval Office

Secret Service agents met

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The agents left at an unknown time before 11:00 am

Conversation No. 468-9

Date:  March 16, 1971
Time:  11:00 am - 12:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John M. (AJack@) Lynch
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

Blair House
-Compared with European houses
-Irish guest house

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 11:01 am

Photographs

Members of the press entered at 11:01 am

Houses

[Unintelligible]

Lynch=s schedule
-March 18, 1971

Election
-Lynch

Ziegler and members of the press left at an unknown time before 12:20 pm

Press
-Lynch=s trip to St. Louis
-Lynch=s statement

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GREAT BRITAIN-IRELAND RELATIONS

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Northern Ireland
-A housing problem
-Discrimination
-President=s concern
-Catholics and Protestants
-Housing authority
-Unemployment
-Bann River area
-Percentage
-Teenagers
-History
-Prejudice
-British occupation
-Oliver Cromwell
-Protestants
-Ulster

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[Duration:  1m 8s  ]

NORTHERN IRELAND

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Great Britain
-Economy
-Textile trade
-Recession
-Union strikes
-Post office
-Effect on relations with Ireland
-Employment

Ireland
-Trade unions
-Compared with Great Britain
-Post office
-Economy
-Inflation
-Effect of British economy
-Recession
-Wages
-Employment
-Construction
-Maritime industries
-Other industries
-Compared with US
-Emigration to Great Britain
-Passport restrictions
-Unemployment
-Construction industry
-Politics
-Previous party conference
-Issues
-A Shakeup
-Lynch
-Previous Prime Minister
-Support for Lynch
-Previous election in Dublin
-Lynch=s party
-Demonstrations
-Compared with 1968 Democratic Party Convention
-Inflation
-Lynch=s policy
-Labor agreements
-Trade unions
-Negotiations

-Resolution
-Budget
-Compared with US budgetary process
-Timing
-Cabinet requests
-Problems
-An unknown Irish Cabinet minister
-Policy
-Tenure of governments
-Budget
-Lynch=s policy

Inflation
-Europe
-Japan
-US
-Brazil
-A Latin American friend of the President
-Indonesia
-US rate
-President=s policies
-Prices
-Unemployment
-Effect
-Effect of welfare
-Future
-Economy
-Effect on Europe, Great Britain, and Ireland
-US policy
-International effect

Ireland
-Imports
-Emigration
-President=s view

Rural America
-Defined
-Population loss to cities
-Problems in cities
-Productivity
-Agriculture
-Population loss to cities

-President=s policy
-Cities
-Boston-Washington, DC
-Pittsburgh-Detroit-Cleveland-Chicago
-San Francisco-San Diego
-City population increases
-Problems
-President=s policies
-Medium-sized cities
-Infrastructure and facilities
-Employment

Lynch=s visit to North and South Carolina
-Industry
-Compared with Ireland
-Economy
-Schools
-Lynch=s observations
-Universities

Cities
-Federal policy
-Facilities
-Problems
-South Philadelphia
-Irish immigrants
-Socio-economic condition
-Problems
-South Philadelphia
-Blacks
-East Europeans
-Italians
-Changes

Irish immigration to US
-Changes
-Socio-economic position
-Accomplishments
-President=s view
-George Meany
-Teddy Renton [?]
-Traditions

Ethnic groups in US
-Blacks
-African civilizations
-Irish, Poles, Germans, and Italians
-Head of State visits
-Nicolae Ceausescu
-Romania
-Irish

Meany
-Previous International Labor Organization [ILO] conference
-Lynch=s recollection
-Presidency
-Communist candidate
-Madagascar
-Soviet Union
-Poland
-Election
-Communist participation
-Lynch=s policy
-Purpose of ILO
-Labor issues
-A West German labor leader
-Support for President
-Conversation between Lynch and Meany
-Cuba
-Soviet Union
-United States
-ILO
-Meany=s change in perception
-Lynch=s policy

Vietnam
-US troop withdrawals
-President=s forthcoming announcement
-Military situation
-Laos and Cambodia operations
-Press reports
-Results
-Effect on North Vietnamese supplies
-US troop withdrawals
-Future of South Vietnam
-US policy

-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
-Laotian operation (Lam Son)
-Compared with Cambodian operation
-Military success
-President=s previous press conference
-Future of South Vietnam
-US policy
-Objectives
-Viability
-US troop withdrawals
-Timing
-Peace negotiations
-Peace negotiations
-Possible cease fire, withdrawal, and exchange of prisoners
-President=s previous comments
-North Vietnamese strategy
-Timing
-President=s view
-North Vietnam, US, South Vietnam
-Possible future
-Military situation
-Laotian operation (Lam Son)
-Results
-ARVN
-Effect
-US troop withdrawals
-President=s position
-Senators
-Newspaper editorials
-President=s position
-Timing
-Negotiations
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Cease fire
-Timing
-Results
-Future of South Vietnam
-Viability
-US policy
-US troop withdrawals
-South Vietnamese military
-North Vietnamese position
-South Vietnamese military

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations
-Spring 1971 meetings in Vienna
-Effect on US and Soviet Union
-President=s view
-Future
-Prospects

Middle East
-Israel=s position
-Egyptian position
-President=s view
-Truce
-Future
-Egypt
-Gamal Abdel Nasser
-Anwar el-Sadat
-US position
-Israel
-Soviet Union
-Egypt

Europe
-US interests
-British entry into Common Market
-US agriculture
-US policy
-Free trade philosophy
-British and Irish entry into the Common Market
-Common Market policy
-US discussions with Edward R. G. Heath
-British entry into Common Market
-US policy
-France, Germany, and Great Britain
-British entry into Common Market
-President=s view
-US trade position
-US trade policy
- Free trade
-German agriculture
-French, British, Irish agriculture
-President=s view
-Agriculture subsidies in Europe
-Butter

-Dairy products
-Cattle
-US agriculture
-Dairy industry
-Subsidy
-Cheese
-Effect on prices
-President=s view
-French, British, and German economies
-Industry
-Agriculture

Agriculture
-Importance
-President=s view
-Irish
-Sector of economy
-Benefit of Common Market
-Great Britain
-Access to markets
-Cheese and grains
-Budgetary problems in Ireland
-Compared with European budget problems
-James Callaghan
-Lynch=s previous conversation
-Heath
-Political future

Tricia Nixon=s engagement
-Announcement
-Forthcoming Head of State dinner
-East Room
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon and Mairin (O=Connor) Lynch
-The President and Lynch
-Entertainment
-Mrs. Nixon
-Guests
-President=s remarks
-Lynch=s response
-Mrs. Nixon
-Blue Room receiving line
-Mrs. Nixon and M. O. Lynch
-T. Nixon and Edward R. F. Cox

-Lynch=s departure for Blair House
-Mrs. Nixon=s birthday

Press questions for Lynch
-Foreign policy
-Northern Ireland
-Lynch=s comments
-The President

Northern Ireland
-Lynch=s meeting with the President
-Heath
-Forthcoming press statements by Lynch
-Unification
-Reforms
-British policy
-Meeting of President and Lynch
-President=s comments
-Reforms

Lynch=s schedule
-Forthcoming events
-Blair House
-President=s forthcoming meetings

Duties of Presidents
-President
-Eamon De Valera
-President=s meeting
-Possible successor
-Lynch=s age
-Political position

Ireland
-Revolution
-Compared with US
-Political situation
-Lynch=s policies
-Future leadership
-Parliament
-Lynch

Political leadership
-President=s advice to youth 
-President=s advice to Congressmen and Senators
-Leadership traits
-Issues of Nixon Administration
-Riots
-Vietnam War
-Youth
-President=s policies
-Polls
-Winston S. Churchill=s statement
-Actions of leader
-Public opinion

President=s meeting with Lynch

Oval Office
-Painting of George Washington
-Seal in carpet
-Theodore (ATeddy@) Roosevelt
-Picture of White House in 1837

The President and Lynch left at 12:20 pm

Conversation No. 468-10

Date:  March 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:20 pm and 12:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men met

President=s location
-Cabinet Room

The President=s schedule

The unknown men left at an unknown time before 12:25 pm

Conversation No. 468-11

Date:  March 16, 1971
Time:  12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with William Brickley, John Kull, and Henry C. Cashen, II; members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting

Introductions

Anniversary of Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon
-Medal for President
-Bicentennial of organization

President=s clothing, March 17, 1971
-Color
-A presentation

An unknown man

Presidential gifts
-Cufflinks
-Gifts for wives
-Secretaries
-Cufflinks

Unknown women entered at an unknown time after 12:25 pm

Appreciation for gift

Gifts for wives

President=s schedule, March 17, 1971
-Whitney M. Young, Jr. funeral
-John M. (AJack@) Lynch

Mrs. Nixon=s previous trip to Ireland

Brickley, et al. left at 12:30 pm

Conversation No. 468-12

Date:  March 16, 1971
Time:  12:35 pm - 12:42 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Jack McCarthy and Henry C. Cashen, II; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Introductions

John A. (AJack@) Mulcahy
-Palm Springs

McCarthy=s career
-Baseball
-Saint Patrick=s Day parade coverage
-Songs taught by mother
-Father
-Fights, football coverage
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]

McCarthy=s trip to Ireland
-Mulcahy=s lodge

Mulcahy

McCarthy=s son at Air Force Academy

McCarthy=s wife
-Location

McCarthy=s mother

Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon=s visit to Ireland

Presidential gifts
-Son, mother, McCarthy, younger son
-Golf balls

President=s party, March 16, 1971
-Entertainers

An unknown man

President=s party

New York City=s Saint Patrick=s Day parade

A joke

McCarthy and Cashen left at 12:42 pm

Conversation No. 468-13

Date:  March 16, 1971
Time:  12:45 pm - 1:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President=s schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-John A. Volpe
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Revenue sharing
-Cabinet meeting
-Volpe
-A trip report
-William P. Rogers
-Length
-Maurice H. Stans
-Purpose
-President=s view

Whitney M. Young, Jr. funeral
-President=s departure time
-Motorcade
-Arrival time
-Possible delays

Saint Patrick=s Day

Lyndon B. Johnson
-Health

Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Assignment

Johnson
-Health
-Lifestyle
-Attacks by press and other Democrats while President
-Compared with President=s 1968 campaign
-Compared with attacks on President
-Dan Rather=s comments on President=s demeanor

Forthcoming press conference
-Radio coverage
-Haldeman=s view
-Effect of television
-Coverage
-Television, radio, film
-President=s view
-Compared with a Senate hearing
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-President=s decision
-Effect of cameras and microphone on commentators
-Compared with a hearing

Press coverage
-President
-Coverage of Johnson
-Reason
-Compared with the President
-John B. Connally=s remarks
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Vietnam War

President=s schedule
-Head of State visits
-Frequency
-1972
-White House Church services
-Frequency
-A Republican fundraiser

-Possible future changes
-President=s participation
-Type
-Attendees
-President=s length of stay
-Other speakers
-Robert J. Dole
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Effect of President=s appearance
-Possible future changes
-Dole
-Head of State visits
-Frequency
-A dinner for ambassadors
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Arrival ceremonies
-Effect
-Coverage
-Television
-John M. (AJack@) Lynch
-Coverage

Tricia Nixon=s engagement
-Coverage
-Publicity
-Lynda B. (Johnson) Robb and Luci B. (Johnson) Nugent

Connally meeting with Arthur F. Burns
-Possible meeting between Burns and the President

President=s press conference
-Radio coverage
-Live coverage
-Advantages
-Response of press

Lynch visit
-Shamrocks
-President=s schedule

Haldeman left at 1:15 pm

Conversation No. 468-14

Date:  March 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:15 pm and 2:23 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:23 pm

Conversation No. 468-15

Date:  March 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:23 pm and 3:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

President=s schedule
-John B. Connally

Daniel P. (APat@) Moynihan=s report
-Accuracy
-Businessmen
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Department of Justice [DOJ] antitrust actions
-Response of businessmen

-Business community
-Administration policies
-Need for White House response

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 2:23 pm

President=s schedule
-Connally
Butterfield left at an unknown time before 2:25 pm

Moynihan=s letter
-Antitrust action report
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-John N. Mitchell
-Relations with Mitchell
-Black Panthers
-[Forename unknown] Epstein story in The New Yorker
-Need for White House follow-up
-Harvard colleagues
-Response
-Professors
-Businessmen
-Need for White House response
-Public opinion
-White House staff efforts

The President left and Connally entered at 2:25 pm

[Unintelligible]

Haldeman left at 2:25 pm

The President entered at an unknown time after 2:25 pm

Whitney M. Young, Jr. funeral
-Connally=s possible attendance
-Cabinet attendees
-Connally=s acquaintance with Young
-President=s attendance
-Purpose
-Importance
-Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
-Blacks

-Edward W. Brooke
-Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
-President=s recollections

Connally=s meeting with Arthur F. Burns

Airlines
-Connally=s meetings
-American companies
-British companies
-Concern for Lockheed
-Dan Hoffman=s role

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 2:25 pm

Refreshment order

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:57 pm

Airlines
-Connally=s forthcoming meetings
-Eastern, Delta, Trans-World Airlines [TWA]
-Lockheed, Rolls-Royce, General Electric [GE]
-Possible effect
-Order level
-Lockheed=s financial position
-Number of orders
-Need for increases
-Possible Congressional action
-Connally=s meeting with Clark MacGregor, David Packard, Mitchell, and Peter G. Peterson
-The President=s decision
-Administration strategy
-Employment
-Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Lockheed
-Timing
-Loan from Export-Import Bank
-Packard=s work at Department of Defense
-Internal Revenue Service refund
-Timing
-SST
-SST action in Congress

-Possible problem
-Lockheed collapse
-Charles H. Percy and William Proxmire

Isolationism
-President=s remarks in Cyrus L. (ACy@) Sulzberger interview
-Isolationists
-Policies
-President=s comments

Foreign trade
-Dumping
-Treasury Department action
-Connally=s position
-Japan
-Textiles
-Connally=s conversation with Japanese businessmen
-Canon calculator
-Development
-Ministry for International Trade and Industry [MITI]
-Texas Instruments
-MITI actions
-Philosophy of international relations

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JAPAN

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-Japan
-President=s view
-Connally=s negotiations

Banks
-A 1925 law on political contributions
-A DOJ suit in Ohio
-Frost National Bank of San Antonio loan
-Preston Smith supporter
-Banks= actions
-Loans
-Report to DOJ
-DOJ action
-Connally=s discussion with Mitchell
-Connally=s meeting with Will R. Wilson
-Policy
-Administration=s position
-Connally=s view
-President=s view
-Past practices
-An unknown Republican in Illinois
-An unknown Democrat
-Effect on politicians
-William J. Casey confirmation
-Labor unions
-Borrowers
-Mitchell
-Connally=s instructions to Wilson

Agnew
-March 16, 1971 meeting with Connally
-Tax matters
-Research grants to universities
-Possible polls

Economy
-Dow-Jones average
-Industrial production
-Dow-Jones average as an economic indicator
-Business leaders
-Connally=s comments on AMeet the Press@
-Need for leadership
-A man in Houston [name unintelligible]

-Speech to business leaders
-Loans
-Money supply
-Inflation
-Increases in interest rates
-Loans
-Connally=s comments
-Compared with labor people
-Stock market
-President=s statement
-Connally=s former stocks
-Texas Instruments
-Halliburton
-Tyler Corporation
-Future Dow-Jones average
-Connally=s view
-General Motors, US Steel, Westinghouse, General Foods
-Connally=s friends on Wall Street
-Need for confidence
-White House policies
-President=s view
-Business community
-Business Council
-Interest rates
-Bankers
-Possible statement by President or Connally
-Reconstruction Finance Corporation
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Jesse H. Jones
-Herbert C. Hoover

Burns
-Action
-Support for Administration
-Inflation
-Interest rates
-Social Security
-Congress
-Investment tax credit
-A bill by Vance Hartke
-William McChesney Martin
-Possible meeting with President and Connally
-Relations with Connally

-Connally and Burns= relations with Congress
-Relations with business community
-An unknown man
-Relations with George P. Shultz and Paul W. McCracken
-Possible action by President
-Previous talk with Connally
-Hartke=s bill
-Burns= position
-Connally=s subsequent call to Shultz
-Importance
-Testimony in Congress
-Testimony
-Meetings with President
-Quadriad
-President=s position
-Forthcoming meetings
-Connally
-President
-Relations with Shultz, McCracken, and Connally
-Possible meeting with Connally
-Areas of jurisdiction
-Federal Reserve Board
-Wage and price policies
-Fiscal policy
-Budgetary input
-Monetary and fiscal policy
-Position on interest rates, Social Security
-Testimony in Congress
-Russell B. Long
-Social Security
-Revenue sharing
-Forthcoming meeting with Connally
-Interest rates
-Monetary supply position
-February figures
-Forthcoming meetings
-Connally
-President
-Actions
-Public comments
-Administration policies
-Shultz and McCracken

-Forthcoming meetings
-Connally
-President
-Previous Quadriad meeting

Butterfield entered at 2:57 pm

President=s schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-Connally=s entrance

Connally left at 2:57 pm

-William P. Rogers
-George W. Romney
-Shultz (?)
-Rogers

The President and Butterfield left at an unknown time before 3:06 pm

Conversation No. 468-16

Date:  March 16, 1971
Time:  4:02 pm - 4:50 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John N. Mitchell, Robert J. Dole, and H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Gridiron dinner
-Dole=s effort
-President=s non-attendance
-Fistfight
-Edward E. Mitchell and [Thomas] Hale Boggs

E. E. Mitchell

Boggs
-Behavior at dinner
-E. E. Mitchell

Gridiron dinner
-Dole=s speech
-President=s appreciation
-Speeches
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Unknown man=s [Bob Haley?] observation
-Behavior
-Dole=s speech
-Agnew=s speech
-J. N. Mitchell=s attendance

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Vietnam War
-1961-1969
-Number of US troops
-Combat deaths
-President=s administration
-President=s policy
-Laos
-Effect of media
-Confidence factor
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-A program on the media at Vanderbilt University
-Gary Sheppard, Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] News, Time magazine
-Dole=s complaints
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Coverage
-William E. Brock, III
-CBS filming and use
-Future
-ADove@ Republicans

-Charles H. Percy
-Jacob K. Javits
-President=s policy
-Dole=s actions
-Democrats
-Cambodia, peace offer
-President=s accomplishments
-Media coverage
-Dole=s view
-Vanderbilt program
-John W. Chancellor, Roger H. Mudd
-Effect on public opinion
-White House campaign
-Time story on ANew Doves@ compared with AOld Doves@
-J. William Fulbright
-W[illiam] Stuart Symington
-Walter F. Mondale
-William B. Saxbe
-Mondale=s resolution
-Saxbe
-Boggs= prediction on passage

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Issues and Administration accomplishments
-Vietnam War
-Dole=s view
-Budget
-Revenue sharing
-Economy
-Vietnam War
-Dole=s actions

-President=s instructions
-President=s policy
-Cambodia and Laos
-Percy
-Neo-isolationists
-Defense
-President=s speech at Newport, Rhode Island
-Speeches
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Pentagon
-Noel C. Koch
-Buchanan
-Republican National Committee [RNC] staffer [Forename unknown] Sullivan
-Henry A. Kissinger=s staff
-Koch
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Reduction of military bases
-Dole=s statements
-Importance
-Highways, Social Security, Medicare
-Budget cuts
-Koch or Buchanan speech for Dole
-President=s speech at Newport
-Campaign spending
-Democrats and press statements
-Possible statement by President
-John O. Pastore
-Marlow W. Cook
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Maurice H. Stans= comments
-Possible administration bill
-President=s previous veto
-Hugh Scott=s bill
-Effect of a proposed limit on RNC
-John B. Anderson
-Gerald R. Ford
-Supporters
-Congressional campaigns
-Spending limits, disclosure
-Cole=s role
-Press coverage
-Broadcast industry

-Scott
-Possible action by President
-Possible Republican position
-Pastore

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Dairy industry
-Parity
-Carl B. Albert
-Wilbur D. Mills

Thomas E. Dewey
-Death
-J. N. Mitchell=s encounter, March 13, 1971
-Death
-Golfing with Dwayne O. Andreas in Florida
-Plans to attend President=s party, March 16, 1971
-Age
-Plans to attend President=s party

Elder Republican statesmen
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Alfred M. (AAlf@) Landon
-Appearance, March 13, 1971
-A press conference
-Landon lecture
-Scott
-Elliot L. Richardson

Dewey
-Circumstances of death
-Health

-Plans to attend President=s party
-Kitty Carlisle
-Appearance, March 13, 1971
-Attendance at Gridiron dinner
-Golfing plans
-Carlisle
-Plans to attend President=s party
-Invitation to Dole at Seaview
-Anti-Semitic rules
-Andreas
-Anti-Semitic rules

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Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 4:02 pm

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Mitchell, et al. left at 4:50 pm

Conversation No. 468-17

Date:  March 16, 1971
Time:  4:52 pm - 5:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman

George P. Shultz=s location

Clifford M. Hardin
-Future
-Purdue University

A possible assignment regarding agriculture
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Hyde Murray

President=s schedule
-Meeting with mayors
-Funds to cities
-Caspar W. (ACap@) Weinberger
-Special revenue sharing
-George W. Romney
-Richard G. Lugar and an unnamed man
-Press briefing
-President=s role
-Scope
-Black activists
-Mayors
-John V. Lindsay
-Communications with White House
-Prospective meeting attendees
-Lugar=s group
-Lindsay=s group
-Complaints
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Length of meeting
-President=s role
-Ehrlichman=s position
-Weinberger
-Compared with governors= meeting
-Location
-Weinberger, Romney
-President=s role
-Plans
-Length

Shultz entered at an unknown time after 4:52 pm

-An earlier meeting
-Lindsay=s group

Unemployment and scientists
-Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.=s report
-Government training programs
-A task force

[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order on May 22, 1979, for Special Access [SA] 27, Cities Service Helex, Inc. v. United States, No. 138-75; and National Helium Corp. v. United States, No. 158-75.  The National Archives and Records Administration produced this transcript.  The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

President=s schedule
-Meeting with mayors
-President=s role
-Length
-Previous meetings with Lugar group and Lindsay group
-Lindsay group
-Carl B. Stokes
-Legislative committee of Conference of Mayors
-Possible meeting with Lindsay
-Meeting with mayors
-Press briefing by Lindsay
-Stokes
-Lindsay
-Press briefing subjects
-Attendees
-Lugar
-League of Cities officers

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Social Security
-Impact on budget
-Alternatives
-Cuts
-Congressional cuts
-Financing benefits
-Welfare Reform Bill
-Effect on revenue sharing
-Possible statement by President

[The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:52 pm and 5:30 pm]

[Conversation No. 468-17A]

Message
-Delivery

[End of telephone conversation]

Social Security
-Signing of debt statement
-Time
-John B. Connally
-Congressional action
-Time
-Ceremony
-Purpose
-President=s meeting with Fortune people
-Inflation
-Effect on President=s possible statement
-Congressional action
-Arthur F. Burns= testimony
-Effect
-Russell B. Long and Wilbur D. Mills
-Wage base
-Budget
-Possible signing of debt statement
-Future Congressional action
-Cost-of-living increases
-Ways and Means Committee
-Financing
-A bill

-Long
-Possible signing ceremony
-Effect
-Possible remarks
-Congress
-Financing
-Attendees
-Congressmen
-Senior citizens
-Cost-of-living increase
-A bill in the House
-Cost-of-living increases
-Administration position
-Mills

Revenue sharing
-Effect on full-employment budget
-Administration position
-Mayors= position
-Possible White House request for Congressional action
-Congressional response
-Effect on budget
-Possible Presidential veto

Social Security
-Possible Congressional action
-Inflation
-Burns
-Effect on economy
-Monetary growth
-Compared with pay raises
-Shultz=s view
-President=s statement upon signing bill
-Another bill
-Connally
-Possible meeting with Mills
-House Ways and Means Committee
-White House negotiations with Mills
-Compared with tax reform bill
-Budget deficit
-Amount
-Effect

Revenue sharing
-Burns
-John N. Mitchell [?]
-Maurice H. Stans and Romney
-Congress
-Other programs
-Administration=s role
-Constituency
-Administration spokesmen
-Audiences
-Appeal
-Republican and Democrat positions
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Alternatives
-Democrat mayors
-Carl B. Albert
-Lawrence F. O=Brien, Jr.
-Regional commissions
-John W. Byrnes
-Barber B. Conable, Jr.
-Alternatives
-Ways and Means staff
-Congressional ability to formulate alternatives
-Congressional votes
-Possible alternatives
-White House position
-Upcoming bills
-Effect
-Amarillo, Santa Fe, New York

Other domestic programs
-Health, environment, welfare
-Congressional committees
-Welfare
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Health programs
-White House efforts
-Revenue sharing
-Ways and Means Committee
-Byrnes
-Effect on small business of proposed programs
-Meeting with White House staff
-California Kaiser Permanente Health Maintenance facility

-Possible visit by the President
-Senior citizens
-Medicare patients
-Coverage
-Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland

President=s forthcoming press conference

Consumer Price Index announcement
-Bureau of Labor Statistics
-Time
-Presentation
-Secretary of Labor=s statement

An unknown person [Alexander P. Butterfield?] entered at an unknown time after 4:52 pm

Thomas E. Dewey=s death

The unknown person [Butterfield?] left at an unknown time before 5:30 pm

President=s schedule
-Work on a message

Ehrlichman and Shultz left at 5:30 pm

Conversation No. 468-18

Date:  March 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:30 pm and 5:47 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

President=s schedule
-Items for the President=s signature
-A statement
-Timing

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 5:47 pm

Conversation No. 468-19

Date:  March 16, 1971
Time:  5:47 pm - 6:22 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

Items for signing

President=s schedule
-Thomas E. Dewey=s funeral

Papers for signing
-Richard Morrison
-Terry Wilson
-Rose Mary Woods
-A declaration

Dewey
-Announcement of death

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman entered at 5:50 pm

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 5:52 pm

President=s schedule
-Dinner, March 16, 1971

Dewey funeral
-Day
-President=s attendance
-Hobart D. (AHobe@) Lewis
-Whitney M. Young, Jr. funeral
-Day
-Possible demonstrators
-Location
-Health of Dewey

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 5:52 pm

Young
-Query about job offer
-John D. Ehrlichman
-President=s Cabinet offer
-Previous statement

Ziegler left at 5:53 pm

President=s schedule
-Dewey funeral
-Forthcoming press conference
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-George P. Shultz
-Timing
-March 26, 1971
-Maurice H. Stans= dinner
-Timing
-CPI
-Coverage
-President=s possible statements
-Timing
-John B. Connally
-Meeting with mayors
-Mayors= complaints
-John V. Lindsay
-Richard G. Lugar
-Ziegler=s office
-A list of attendees
-Ehrlichman
-President=s previous meetings with mayors
-Lindsay
-Lugar in Indianapolis
-White House meeting
-Meetings with mayors and blacks
-Ziegler
-Press release
-A mayors committee
-Legislation proposals
-Lindsay, Carl B. Stokes, Joseph Alioto
-Staff awareness
-Purpose
-Information on past meetings
-John V. (AJack@) Brennan

-National Archives office
-Retrieval of information
-Young funeral
-Travelers on President=s plane
-W. Ramsey Clark
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Margaret (Birchner) Young
-Ehrlichman
-William P. Rogers
-Ziegler
-Clark
-Rumsfeld
-Connection with Young
-Rumsfeld=s decision
-Reason
-Press coverage
-Clark

Daniel P. (APat@) Moynihan=s letter
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Stans
-Business Council
-Content
-Flanigan
-Possible business constituency
-Stans
-Letter from Fred J. Borch

Supporting constituencies for the Administration
-Business
-Congress
-Republican National Committee [RNC]
-Governors
-Business
-John N. Mitchell
-A possible meeting with the President

Dewey funeral
-President=s attendance
-Lewis, George C. Wallace, Barry M. Goldwater
-Dewey=s positions
-Presidential candidate
-Presidential advisor

-President=s attendance
-Young funeral
-Public opinion
-Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson
-Young funeral
-President=s attendance
-Day
-President=s schedule
-Possible demonstrations

Demonstrations
-President=s response
-Public opinion

President=s schedule
-Meeting with mayors
-Ehrlichman
-Length
-Previous Cabinet meeting
-Ehrlichman
-John A. Volpe
-Stans
-Greece
-Nicaragua, Kenya
-Compared with home slide shows
-Dewey funeral
-Wreath
-Dewey=s sons
-Possible letters from the President
-Wreath
-Family and associates
-Sons
-Importance
-Possible other funerals
-Johnson
-Harry S Truman
-Johnson
-Possible lying-in-state
-Truman
-Johnson
-President=s possible attendance
-Washington, DC; Texas
-Publicity value

-Young funeral in Kentucky
-Publicity value
-Richard B. Russell=s funeral
-Symbolism
-Coverage
-Value
-Dewey funeral
-Meeting with mayors
-Ehrlichman=s view
-Revenue sharing
-Length
-Ehrlichman
-President=s role
-President=s role in meetings
-Blacks
-Leonard Garment
-Congress
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Meeting with mayors
-Length
-Purpose
-Previous meetings
-President=s view
-Value
-Purpose
-Revenue sharing
-Ehrlichman=s role

Haldeman left at 6:22 pm

Conversation No. 468-20

Date:  March 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:22 pm and 6:53 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Items for the President
-Arrival schedule
-John M. (AJack@) Lynch

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:53 pm