Conversation No. 469-1
Date:  March 18, 1971
Time:  4:42 pm - 4:46 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods

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President=s eulogy for Whitney M. Young, Jr.
-A copy for review
-Publicity

[James] Harold Wilson
-A note to the President
-A copy for William L. Safire
-Use

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Woods left at 4:46 pm

Conversation No. 469-2

Date:  March 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:46 pm and 5:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

President=s schedule
-National Alliance of Businessmen reception, March 19, 1971
-Business Council reception
-Thomas E. Dewey funeral
-Length
-Number attending
-Time
-Location
-Number
-Business Council reception
-Receiving line
-Remarks by President
-Lynn A. Townsend
-John D. Harper
-Number of events

[The President talked with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman at an unknown time between 4:46 pm and 5:00 pm]

[Conversation No. 469-2A]

-Number of events
-President=s remarks
-Luncheon
-Purpose
-Receiving line
-Group
-Receiving line
-Group

The President conferred with Butterfield

-Receiving line

[End of telephone conversation]

-Receiving line
-Purpose
-Guests attending

Maurice H. Stans= dinner, March 25, 1971
-Stag dinner
-Guest list
-Stans and Peter [M. Flanigan?]
-Receiving line
-Guests attending
-Number
-Dress
-President=s role
-Receiving line

Latin American ambassadors= dinner, April 6, 1971
-Dress
-African ambassadors= dinner
-Emil (ABus@) Mosbacher, Jr.
-Later dinners
-Mosbacher
-Lucy A. Winchester
-Latin American ambassadors= preference

Reverend [Forename unknown] Akaka of Hawaii
-Commitment
-Possible May visit
-Possible conflict
-Tricia Nixon=s wedding plans

[The President talked with an unknown person [John D. Ehrlichman?] at an unknown time between 4:46 pm and 5:00 pm]

[Conversation No. 469-2B]

Meeting with John B. Connally
-Ehrlichman=s possible attendance

Personnel

Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Future strategy
-Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson

-Warren G. (AMaggie@) Magnuson
-White House position

[End of telephone conversation]

Akaka reception
-Location
-Possible conflict with wedding
-Possible May visit
-Wedding date

Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon=s schedule
-Possible forthcoming trips
-Constance M. (Cornell) (AConnie@) Stuart
-Wedding
-Length
-May

President=s schedule
-Connally

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 5:00 pm

Conversation No. 469-3

Date:  March 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:46 pm and 5:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

Call to George P. Shultz

Conversation No. 469-4

Date:  March 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:46 pm and 5:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with George P. Shultz

President=s schedule
-Meeting with John B. Connally
-Previous meeting with Arthur F. Burns
-Connally

Paul W. McCracken

Cabinet members
-George W. Romney
-John A. Volpe
-Maurice H. Stans

Congress

Burns

Stans, McCracken

Quadriad

Domestic Council
-Subcommittee on Economics
-Attendees
-Burns
-James D. Hodgson, Stans, Romney

Consumer Price Index briefing, March 19, 1971
-Hodgson
-Location

Economy
-Timing of improvement
-President=s view

Conversation No. 469-5

Date:  March 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:00 pm and 5:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

Call to Ronald H. Walker

Conversation No. 469-6

Date:  March 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:03 pm and 5:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

President=s schedule

[The President talked with Ronald H. Walker between 5:03 pm and 5:04 pm]

[Conversation No. 469-6A]

Walker=s work on Whitney M. Young, Jr. funeral
-Compared with Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. funeral

[End of telephone conversation]

Rose Mary Woods entered at 5:04 pm

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Woods left at an unknown time before 5:25 pm

Economy
-President=s forthcoming meeting with John B. Connally
-President=s previous talk with George P. Shultz
-John D. Ehrlichman
-George W. Romney
-Arthur F. Burns
-Maurice H. Stans
-Paul W. McCracken
-John A. Volpe
-Winton M. (ARed@) Blount
-Ehrlichman
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-McCracken

McCracken
-Forthcoming call from Haldeman
-Burns

President=s schedule
-Connally

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 5:25 pm

Conversation No. 469-7

Date:  March 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:04 pm and 5:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Items for President=s signature

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:25 pm

Conversation No. 469-8

Date:  March 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:04 pm and 5:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Haldeman=s call to George P. Shultz
-Meeting concerning Construction Wage Council
-George W. Romney
-John A. Volpe
-Winton M. (ARed@) Blount
-Arthur F. Burns

Haldeman=s talk with John D. Ehrlichman
-Romney
-Burns
-Edwin L. Harper [?]
-Paul W. McCracken
-Number of meetings
-McCracken, Burns

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 5:25 pm

Conversation No. 469-9

Date:  March 18, 1971
Time:  5:25 pm - 6:22 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John B. Connally

Greetings

Connally=s schedule
-Connally=s health

Rose Mary Woods entered at 5:25 pm

Editing changes

Refreshments

Editing changes

Woods left at 5:26 pm

Connally=s meeting with Arthur F. Burns
-Balance of payments
-Federal Reserve staff in Washington, DC or New York
-Possible statement concerning interest rates
-Paul A. Volcker=s previous conversation with Burns
-Board of Governors
-Alfred Hayes
-Connally and Burns
-Statement
-Relations between Burns and Connally
-Burns
-Relations between Burns and President
-Connally=s image
-Burns= statements to Congress
-Investment tax credits
-Social Security changes
-Wage and income policy
-Burns= career
-Chairman of Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Chairman of Federal Reserve
-Counselor to the President
-Connally=s public statements concerning Burns
-Federal Reserve
-Burns= public statements
-Chairman of CEA
-White House staff
-Secretary of Treasury
-Tax policy
-Jurisdiction
-Burns= statements
-Social Security
-Response of others
-Possible outcome

-Effect
-Federal Reserve System
-Monetary policy
-Congressional testimony
-Reasons
-Possible outcome
-Social Security
-Investment tax credit bill
-Previous Quadriad meeting
-President=s behavior
-Reason
-Paul W. McCracken and George P. Shultz
-Burns= statements
-Reason
-Connally=s response
-Forthcoming meeting of Burns and President
-Burns= support for President
-Burns= statements
-Possible outcome
-President=s decisions
-Connally, Burns
-Advice
-Burns= staff
-Economy by 1972
-Forthcoming meeting between Burns and President
-Connally=s view
-Economic policy
-Relations
-Burns= career
-Forthcoming meeting between Burns and President
-Burns= actions
-Influence with President
-Cabinet
-Burns
-Forthcoming meeting between Burns and President
-Burns
-Possible outcome of actions
-Influence on economic policy
-Contribution to administration
-Forthcoming meeting between Burns and President
-Burns
-Shultz, McCracken
-White House staff

-Monetary policy
-Burns= relations with President
-Burns= actions
-Outcome
-Treasury and Federal Reserve
-Burns as CEA chairman
-George T. Humphrey
-Gabriel Hauge
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Oveta Culp Hobby
-Jim [James P.?] Mitchell
-A Cabinet meeting
-President=s statement
-Mitchell
-Humphrey
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Relations with President
-Connally=s relations with Lyndon B. Johnson
-Changes
-John F. Kennedy advisors
-Compared with Burns= relations with President

Burns
-Forthcoming meeting with President
-Topics of conversation
-Connally=s view
-CEA
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Burns= public statements
-Monetary policy
-Tax policy
-Wage and price controls
-Burns= jurisdiction
-Effect on President
-Forthcoming Quadriad meeting

Consumer Price Index
-President=s previous talk with Shultz
-New figures compared with previous month
-Food prices
-Effect
-Inflation rate

Personal income and industrial output
-March figures
-Car sales
-March figures, April 15, 1971
-First quarter figures

Economy
-Administration policy
-Burns, Quadriad
-Prices
-Burns
-Milton Friedman
-Market response
-Unemployment and inflation
-President=s view
-Forecast
-March figures
-Shultz
-Economists
-Growth
-Possible changes
-President=s policy
-President=s view
-Consumers
-President=s talk with a friend in New York City
-Observations on a boxing match
-New York City restaurants
-Response
-Rose, Sugar, and Super Bowls
-General Charles A. J. M. de Gaulle=s remarks on France
-Public opinion
-Effect of Vietnam War

Vietnam
-President=s November 3, 1969 speech
-Effect
-Johnson
-Public opinion
-Effect of past actions
-President=s view
-Military action
-Laos
-Effect

-Casualties
-Effect
-Troop withdrawals
-President=s forthcoming speech
-Draft
-General Nguyen Van Thieu
-President=s goals for South Vietnam
-Communism
-President=s view
-Effect on public opinion

Soviet Union
-William P. Rogers and Henry A. Kissinger
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Effect on public

Vietnam
-Public opinion
-Johnson=s actions
-Democrats and the AEstablishment@
-Eugene J. McCarthy
-Effect on public opinion

US in 1969
-Compared with 1967 and 1968
-Urban and campus unrest, economy
-Justice Department under John N. Mitchell
-Compared with W. Ramsey Clark

Economy
-Current situation
-Youth wages
-Review
-Connally and staff, Shultz, McCracken
-Possible changes in policy
-Taxes
-Administration policy
-President=s view
-President=s meeting with Heads of State
-Balance of payments
-Other countries= economies
-Burns= comments
-Effect

-Public opinion
-Connally, President, and Burns= roles
-Review
-Taxes
-Budget
-Connally=s view
-1065
-Deficits and revenues
-President=s policy
-Spending
-Taxes
-An unknown man
-Banks
-Savings and loans
-Need to increase spending
-Public opinion
-Burns
-Monetary policy
-Burns
-Interest rates
-Connally=s statements
-Timing
-Fluctuation
-Benefits to Administration
-November 1972
-1971, 1972
-Unemployment
-Fluctuations
-1971, 1972
-Inflation
-1971, 1972
-1065 in budget
-Unemployment in 1971
-Inflation by November 1972
-Lending institutions
-Businesses
-Business and labor
-Housing
-Interest rates
-Connally=s view
-1971, 1972
-Columnists
-International banking

-Columnists
-Balance of payments
-European banks

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NETHERLANDS

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-Adolf Hitler
-US troops in Europe
-1969 compared with 1971 interest rates
-Gold
-Netherlands, Switzerland
-European bankers= meeting
-David Rockefeller
-Herbert P. Patterson
-Vice President of First City National Bank
-Balance of payments
-Possible statement by President or Rogers
-Secretary of Defense
-US troops in Europe
-Effect
-Soviet Union
-Middle East, SALT
-Effect
-Dutch ambassador
-State Department luncheon
-[Forename unknown] Tezarny [sp?] comments
-US economic policy

Economy
-Taxes
-Burns, President
-President=s forthcoming meeting with Burns
-Monetary policy
-Wages and prices
-A previous meeting
-Romney, John A. Volpe, Winton M. (ARed@) Blount, Maurice H. Stans
-Possible freeze
-President=s concern
-Effects
-Connally=s view
-Wage and price bureaucracy
-President=s role
-James D. Hodgson
-Possible agreement with labor
-Labor
-Blount
-Congress
-President=s legislative proposals
-Transportation
-Blount
-Unions
-Possible legislation
-Timing
-Connally=s view
-Effect
-Timing
-President=s forthcoming meeting with Burns
-Quadriad meeting
-Forecast
-Review
-Stans, Hodgson, Blount, Volpe, Romney, Clifford M. Hardin
-Possible meeting with President
-Forthcoming Cabinet meeting
-Effect

Lockheed
-Forthcoming week=s developments
-Supersonic Transport [SST] vote
-Environmentalists
-Liberals
-Future in Senate

-Warren G. (AMaggie@) Magnuson
-Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson
-Connally=s forthcoming meetings
-Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr.
-John Sherman Cooper
-J. N. Mitchell
-President=s position
-Future
-Liberals and environmentalists
-Forthcoming developments

Connally left at 6:22 pm

Conversation No. 469-10

Date:  March 18, 1971
Time:  6:22 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

Call to Tricia Nixon

Conversation No. 469-11

Date:  March 18, 1971
Time:  6:22 pm - 6:23 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Tricia Nixon

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Conversation No. 469-12

Date:  March 18, 1971
Time:  6:24 pm - 6:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Tricia Nixon talked with the President

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Conversation No. 469-13

Date:  March 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:25 pm and 7:32 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods

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H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman entered at 6:26 pm

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 6:30 pm

Woods left at 6:31 pm

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Kissinger=s previous meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Berlin
-A draft agreement
-Kissinger=s concurrence
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Draft agreement
-US response
-Another item
-Response

Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Vote in Congress
-Congress
-President=s meeting with John B. Connally
-Environmentalists
-Vote in Congress
-Tally
-President=s view
-Environmentalists
-President=s view
-Kissinger=s view
-France and the US
-Administration action

-Senate
-Clark MacGregor
-President=s supporters
-Effect
-Commercials
-Soviet Union
-Legislation
-Prototypes
-Public opinion
-Compared with flights to Moon
-Effect of Lyndon B. Johnson=s last two years in office
-Connally
-President=s November 3, 1969 speech
-President=s accomplishments

Economy
-Arthur F. Burns
-Dow-Jones average
-November 1972
-Current reading
-Effect of SST vote

SST

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 6:40 pm

An unknown item

Butterfield left at 6:41 pm

President=s press conference, March 19, 1971
-SST
-Foreign policy
A press conference in California

President=s televised interview, March 20, 1971
-Time
-Kissinger=s meeting with Dobrynin

John D. Ehrlichman=s report to Haldeman
-George W. Romney meetings

SST
-Administration opponents

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Vietnam
-Military situation
-A memo
-Laos operation figures
-Success
-Sihanoukville [Kompong Som]
-Effect on North Vietnamese Army
-Possible enemy action
-Cambodia, Laos
-North Vietnamese troop levels

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 6:31 pm

Connally

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:45 pm

Vietnam
-Effect of Laotian operation (Lam Son)
-Enemy supplies
-Decreases
-President=s forthcoming interview with Howard K. Smith
-Information
-President=s April 7, 1971 speech
-Laos operation
-President=s position

Ehrlichman entered at 6:45 pm

-International establishment
-Possible negotiations
-Walt W. Rostow
-Previous meeting with Kissinger
-Position
-Support for the President
-President, Johnson Cabinet
-Dean Rusk
-Robert S. McNamara
-Negotiations
-Chou En-lai=s visit to North Vietnam
-Soviet Union
-Negotiations
-Soviet Union
-People=s Republic of China [PRC]
-North Vietnamese government
-Effects of War
-Casualties
-Population decreases
-Military situation
-North Vietnamese troops
-Cambodia
-Laos
-US air strikes
-Richard M. Helms
-Weather
-Cambodia
-North Vietnamese troops
-Supplies
-Route 4
-Sihanoukville [Kompong Som]
-Phnom Penh
-Press coverage
-Negotiations
-North Vietnam
-General Nguyen Van Thieu=s government
-Forthcoming US Presidential election
-Effect of 1972 Election
-Kissinger=s view
-Effect on negotiations
-Effect of 1968 Election

-Johnson
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Negotiations
-US domestic situation
-Timing
-Thieu
-Negotiations
-US proposals
-Cambodia and Laos
-Cease fire
-US troop withdrawal
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-US troop withdrawal
-Timing
-Effect
-Forthcoming US military action
-Troops
-Air strikes
-Kissinger=s report for President
-Helicopter pilots

Kissinger=s schedule
-Henry Brandon
-Book party
-Wiretaps
-Haldeman

Kissinger left at 6:50 pm

Economy
-Ehrlichman=s report
-Meetings of Maurice H. Stans and three unnamed others
-Reason
-Wage and price controls
-Importance
-Paul W. McCracken and Burns
-Domestic Council
-Ehrlichman
-George P. Shultz
-Cabinet Committee on Economic Policy
-Stans
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Compared with Congressmen and Senators

-Domestic Council
-Cabinet Committee on Construction Costs
-Ehrlichman=s attendance at March 20, 1971 meeting
-Possible Domestic Council meeting
-A presentation
-President
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Shultz
-Income strategy
-Shultz
-Burns
-McCracken
-Burns
-Administration jurisdictions
-Problems
-Kissinger=s comment
-Domestic Council
-Cabinet meeting
-James D. Hodgson
-Construction costs
-Shultz
-Hodgson

Cabinet
-Future
-Possible trips
-Romney, John A. Volpe, Hardin, Stans, Winton M. (ARed@) Blount
-Blount=s plans for post office construction
-Army Corps of Engineers
-General Services Administration [GSA]
-Effect on personnel
-Army Corps of Engineers
-Effects at GSA
-Congress
-Romney
-Possible call from Ehrlichman
-Domestic Council meeting
-Hodgson
-Postponement of March 20, 1971 meeting
-Domestic Council meeting
-President=s possible attendance
-Revenue sharing
-Romney and Volpe

Burns
-Jurisdiction
-Domestic Council
-Possible meeting with construction costs group
-McCracken
-Edwin L. Harper
-Shultz
-Forthcoming meeting with President
-Timing
-Connally
-Jurisdictions
-Forthcoming meeting with President

Connally
-Meeting with Burns
-Jurisdictions
-Investment tax credits
-Social Security

Economy
-Jurisdictions
-Shultz
-Romney
-Agnew=s role
-President=s role
-Jurisdictions
-Stans, Hardin, Romney, Volpe, Burns
-Shultz

Volpe
-Automobile insurance
-Possible future
-Italian support for President
-Rocco C. Siciliano
-Support for President
-Interdepartmental committee on oil spills
-Chairmanship
-Oil spills conference at The Hague
-President=s knowledge
-William D. Ruckelshaus

Economy
-Jurisdictions
-Shultz
-Domestic Council

Blount
-Cabinet meeting

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Economy
-Jurisdictions
-Shultz
-Shultz=s position
-President=s role
-Burns
President=s schedule
-Thomas E. Dewey funeral
-Departure time
-Meeting with Burns
-Time
-President=s departure

Economists and professors
-Compared with women, children

Cabinet meetings
-William P. Rogers= suggestion
-Frequency
-Previous meeting
-Ehrlichman=s view
-President=s view
-Nicaragua

-Kenya
-Volpe=s automobile proposal
-Romney
-Format

Domestic Council meeting
-Frequency
-President=s role
-Format

Cabinet meetings
-President=s attendance
-Rogers

Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 7:32 pm