Conversation No. 492-1

Date:  May 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:00 pm and 3:01 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person

President=s schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 3:01 pm

Conversation No. 492-2

Date:  May 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:00 pm and 3:01 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President=s schedule
-Peter M. Flanigan and Caspar W. (ACap@) Weinberger

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:01 pm

Conversation No. 492-3

Date:  May 5, 1971
Time:  3:01 pm - 4:41 pm
Location:  Oval Office

President met with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman, Peter M. Flanigan, and Caspar W. (ACap@) Weinberger

Unemployment
-Key states
-Department of Defense [DOD] budget review

-Pennsylvania
-National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
-Public works program
-Unidentified men at DOD
-California
-Importance
-Los Angeles
-Washington state
-Portland to Seattle
-Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson
-Daniel J. Evans
-San Francisco
-California
-Importance
-Other states
-Senators and Congressmen
-John G. Tower
-Texas
-Importance
-Economy
-Weather
-Clifford M. Hardin, General George A. Lincoln
-Tower
-Los Angeles earthquake relief
-Hardin and Lincoln
-Follow-up
-Tower
-Texas
-Administration actions
-Hardin=s actions
-Grain
-Texas [?]
-Aid requested
-Publicity
-Importance
-Administration actions
-Importance
-Publicity
-Texas drought [?]
-Los Angeles earthquake
-John B. Connally

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[Duration:  11s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7

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-Texas drought
-California
-Timetable
-Announcements of funds
-California
-Aerospace industry
-Space shuttle
-Stockpile
-Merchant Marine contract
-Status
-[James T.?] Lynn
-Aid
-Factors to consider
-Seattle
-Population problems
-California
-Population problems
-Importance
-Ohio
-Compared with California
-Economy
-Importance
-Compared with California
-Illinois
-Florida
-Compared with Texas
-Aid
-Distribution
-California
-Publicity
-Congressmen and Senators

-Office of Management and Budget [OMB] staff
-Administration distribution
-Pennsylvania, New York, East
-Massachusetts
-Future aid
-A space facility
-John A. Volpe
-Florida
-Effect
-Michigan
-Illinois, Ohio
-Michigan
-Auto industry
-Economy
-Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York
-Missouri
-Economy
-McDonnell-Douglas
-Texas, Florida, California
-California
-Housing industry
-Breeder reactor
-Desalinization

[The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 3:01 pm and 3:31 pm]

[Conversation No. 492-3A]

[See Conversation No. 2-89]

[End of telephone conversation]

Unemployment
-California
-Announcements
-White House
-Alan Cranston
-John V. Tunney
-Robert H. Finch
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Cranston, Tunney
-White House

-Breeder reactor
-Chet Holifield
-Votes in Congress
-Holifield, senators
-DOD
-David Packard and staff
-Base closings
-Massachusetts, California [?]
-Weinberger=s work
-Ship industry
-Liquefied natural gas tankers
-General Dynamics contract
-Containerized ships
-Oversupply
-Texas or Louisiana
-An owner
-Louisiana
-Importance
-Potential contracts
-Packard
-Competitive bidding

Highway funds
-Laws

California
-General Services Administration [GSA]
-A new federal building in San Diego
-Other buildings in California
-Desalinization
-George P. Shultz
-Mass transit funds
-Rental housing
-Mass transit program
-Massachusetts
-Volpe
-Needs
-Technology funds
-Rental housing
-George Romney
-Los Angeles

-Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] funds
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-Forthcoming meeting with Flanigan and Weinberger

President=s appointees
-Function

Disasters
-Handling
-Earthquake in California
-Publicity
-President=s actions
-Drought in Texas
-Earthquake relief
-Early handling
-Current situation
-Publicity
-Warren Daugherty
-Processing methods

Budget review
-Factors to consider
-Weinberger, Flanigan
-California, Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York, Indiana
-Possible effect on Indiana Senate race of 1970
-Indiana steel strike
-Factors
-Congressmen and senators
-Housing money
-Democratic districts
-Water projects
-Hardin
-White House action
-Factors

Cabinet members
-Volpe
-Interests
-Italian voters
-Transportation issues
-National Railroad Passenger Corporation/American Track [AMTRAK] in Montana
-Value

AMTRAK
-Volpe=s actions before Congress
-Passenger service future
-Costs
-Metroliner to Boston compared to airplane
-European trains
-Road beds

Budget review
-Shultz
-Weinberger, Flanigan
-Factors to consider
-Money for campaign
-New fiscal year

[General conversation/Unintelligible]

John N. Mitchell, Leslie C. Arends, and Gerald R. Ford entered at 3:31 pm

Greetings

Flanigan and Weinberger left at 3:31 pm

A picture of Mitchell
-Mitchell
-Robert C. Mardian=s secretary

[Transcript #1:  A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access [SA] 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al. v. James M. Powell, et al. No. 71-2271.  The National Archives and Records Administration produced this transcript.  The National Archives does not guaratnee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

Congressional leaders
-A statement by President at meeting
-Democrats, Republicans and Southerners
-81st and 82nd Congresses
-Samuel Rayburn
-Connally
-Talks with President and Mitchell
-Republican Senate leadership
-Hugh Scott

-Senators
-Robert A. Taft, Jr.
-House leadership
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Carl B. Albert
-George H. Mahon
-Democrats= support
-Democratic AEstablishment@
-Connally
-Republicans
-Ford, Arends
-Southern Democrats
-Connally=s conversations with Mitchell and Mahon
-Administration action
-Joe D. Waggonner, Jr.
-Mahon
-Waggonner
-A newsletter
-Albert
-Health
-Schedule
-A dinner in Sioux City, Iowa
-Charlie Hooton [?]
-Wiley Mayne
-Health
-Waggonner
-A newsletter statement

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:31 pm

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:25 pm

Congressional leadership
-House
-Democrats
-Albert
-Health
-Wilbur D. Mills, Boggs, Morris K. Udall
-Possible coalition with Republicans
-William M. Colmer
-Forthcoming lunch with President
-Waggonner
-Mahon

-Work
-Mills
-Albert
-Health
-Conversation with Colmer
-Forthcoming Ford/Arends meetings
-Omar Burleson
-Considerations

Republican Party
-Vietnam War

[Transcript #2:  A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for SA 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al., v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271.  The National Archives and Records Administration produced this transcript.  The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

-Congress
-Possible coalition with Democrats
-Forthcoming Ford/Arends meetings
-President=s possible statements
-Clark MacGregor and William E. Timmons
-Mitchell
-Relations with Congressional Democrats
-James O. Eastland
-Support for Administration policies
-John C. Stennis
-House
-Mitchell
-Congressional liaison office
-President=s role
-Ford=s role
-National security issues
-Revenue sharing
-Civil rights issue
-F. Edward Hébert
-Mahon
-Colmer
-Wayne N. Aspinall
-Albert
-Colmer, Hébert

-Arends=s conversations
-Bella S. Abzug
-Richard J. Daley

Daley
-Forthcoming meeting with President
-Revenue sharing
-Washington, DC demonstrations
-Handling
-Compared with 1968 Chicago demonstrations
-Frank J. Brasco of New York, New York
-Revenue sharing
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-John V. Lindsay
-Layoffs in New York, New York
-Frank Annunzio of Chicago
-Possible meeting with Daley
-Forthcoming meeting with President
-Timing

Supersonic Transport [SST] vote
-Effect of Vietnam War
-President=s opponents
-Effect
-Ford=s statement
-Ford=s work
-Appropriations bill
-Boeing and General Electric
-Possible amendment
-Chicago delegation
-Dan Rostenkowski
-Daley=s role
-Effect of mayoral election
-Possible call from Mitchell

Daley
-Revenue sharing

SST
-Forthcoming appropriations bill
-Daley
-Lockheed
-Albert H. Smith, Jr. [?]

-White House role
-Edward P. Boland
-Possible conversation with Volpe
-President=s position
-Lockheed
-Connally [?]
-Jackson
-Organization=s role
-Political role
-California senators
-Tunney
-Possible vote change
-Jewish support
-Taft Schreiber
-Forthcoming appropriations bill
-Date of vote
-Daley=s role
-Forthcoming meeting with President or call from Mitchell
-Philadelphia delegation
-Possible vote changes
-William C. Wampler, William E. Minshall, and John Duncan
-Senate
-Tunney=s, Cranston=s, and David H. Gambrell=s position
-Lockheed
-Forthcoming appropriations bill
-Possible arguments
-Subcontracts
-Southern California, Washington state
-William M. Magruder
-Washington
-Boeing
-Number of jobs affected compared with Southern California
-Los Angeles Times
-Position on administration, environment, SST
-Environmental issue
-Support
-Importance versus jobs
-Forthcoming appropriations bill
-Job prospects for completed contract
-Tax write-offs for Boeing and subcontractors for canceled contract
-Magruder
-President=s statement
-Figures on cancellation costs

-Possible vote in House
-Senate
-Tunney, Gambrell, Hubert H. Humphrey
-George Meany
-Humphrey
-Forthcoming meeting with President, call from President
-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organization [AFL-CIO] meeting
-Significance
-Public opinion
-Polls
-Jobs
-Forthcoming appropriations bill
-President=s role
-Magruder
-Boland
-Conversation with Frank T. Bow
-Previous speech and vote
-President=s forthcoming action
-Chicago delegation
-Tom Bradshear [?]
-Daley=s role
-An unknown man
-Possible amendment
-Committee and floor fights
-Richard K. Cook, MacGregor
-Voting date
-Cook and MacGregor
-Department of State [DOS] and DOD
-Charles A. Mosher of Ohio
-Voting date
-Howard W. Robison, Mosher

[Transcript #3:  A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for SA 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al., v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271.  The National Archives and Records Administration produced this transcript.  The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

Republican Party
-Congress
-Possible coalition with Democrats

-Colmer, Waggonner and others
-Troop withdrawal vote
-Thomas G. Abernethy
-Mahon
-Possible conversation with Connally
-Troop withdrawal vote
-Republicans, Democrats
-Importance
-Compared with SST vote

[Transcript #4:  A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for SA 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al., v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271.  The National Archives and Records Administration produced this transcript.  The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

-House
-Compared with SST vote
-Joseph M. McDade
-Robison
-Position on SST
-Troop withdrawal vote
-Public opinion
-Arends=s district
-Forthcoming Opinion Research Corporation poll compared with Gallup poll
-Columbus, Ohio district
-Gallup poll
-SST appropriations bill
-White House role
-Meany, Daley
-Mitchell=s role
-Daley
-Troop withdrawal vote
-Polls
-Distribution
-Forthcoming Ford/Arends meetings
-Timing
-Colmer and Waggonner
-Albert
-Possible position on an amendment [troop withdrawal?]
-John W. McCormack

-Possible position on troop withdrawal vote, previous SST vote
-Mahon
-Mitchell, Connally
-Mitchell=s role
-Purpose
-Forthcoming SST vote
-Importance
-Robert A. Taft, Sr.
-Republicans, southern Democrats
-Southern Democrats
-Northern Democrats
-Boland
-Albert W. Johnson
-Aspinall
-Mitchell=s role
-White House role
-Haldeman

An action by President

Gifts
-Golf balls
-A friend of Ford=s
-A gift for a secretary
-Cufflinks
-Macy=s

Forthcoming SST vote

Ford and Arends left at 4:23 pm

President=s schedule
-A 5:00 meeting
-Shultz
-A 4:00 meeting
-Connally
-Arthur F. Burns
-Connally
-Burns
-Shultz, Connally
-Burns

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:23 pm

[Transcript #5:  A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for SA 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al., v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271.  The National Archives and Records Administration produced this transcript.  The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:25 pm

President=s schedule
-Lee R. Nunn

Republican Party
-Congress
-Possible coalition with Democrats
-President=s role, Mitchell=s role

Nunn entered at 4:25 pm

Greetings

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[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  8m 21s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5

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Republican Party
-Paul N. (APete@) McCloskey, Jr.
-[Forename unknown] McCarthy
-Jack J. Dreyfus, Jr.
-Howard Stein
-Infiltration
-Mata Hari
-Common Cause

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  6m 54s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6

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Haldeman, Mitchell, and Nunn left at 4:41 pm

Conversation No. 492-4

Date:  May 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 4:41 pm until 5:37 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man

President=s schedule
-An unknown man

[Unintelligible]

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 4:41 pm

Steel prices
-John B. Connally=s position

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 4:43 pm

Ziegler=s briefing
-Kent State shootings

[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access [SA] 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al., v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271.  The National Archives and Records Administration produced this transcript.  The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

Connally entered at 4:43 pm

Steel prices
-Connally=s position
-President=s previous remarks in San Clemente
-Ziegler=s forthcoming comments

Ziegler left at 4:43 pm

President=s schedule
-Arthur F. Burns

Burns

International monetary situation
-Position of the dollar
-Treasury Department, Federal Reserve
-German, Dutch, and Swiss Banks
-German Banks= action
-Karl Klasen
-Effect
-Austria, Dutch, and Belgian Banks
-Forthcoming German actions
-Paul [W. McCracken?] [A. Volcker?] conversation
-Burns/Klasen conversation
-A meeting in Brussels
-European Common Market
-Trading range
-Business borrowing
-Karl Schiller
-Possible US position
-Stock market level
-Burns= statements
-President=s position
-Interest rates
-Connally meeting, May 4, 1971

-Representatives from Denmark, Norway, Great Britain, Switzerland, European Common Market Countries
-US economy
-Administration goals
-European statements
-Germany
-US actions
-Treasury Department pillars
-US policy
-European actions
-Paul A. Volcker, Paul W. McCracken, Burns, Peter G. Peterson, Peter M. Flanigan
-Connally=s role

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:43 pm

Refreshments

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:04 pm

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration:  8m 2s  ]

INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SITUATION

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Lockheed
-Connally=s May 6, 1971 announcement
-President=s position
-Connally=s forthcoming meetings
-Wright Patman
-Capitol Hill
-Bill sponsors

-Connally=s announcement
-California
-Importance
-Ziegler=s forthcoming call to Los Angeles Times
-Connally=s announcement
-Location
-Coverage

Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Upcoming appropriations vote
-President=s previous meeting with Gerald R. Ford and Leslie C. Arends

Republican Party
-Congress
-Leadership
-Ford, Arends, and John N. Mitchell
-Carl B. Albert
-William M. Colmer
-Health
-Possible coalition with Democrats
-Ford
-Omar Burleson, William J. Keating, Colmer, Joe D. Waggonner, Jr.

SST
-Lockheed
-Upcoming appropriations vote
-Termination costs
-Ford, Edward P. Boland
-Possible vote changes
-Importance
-Employment
-Future in Senate
-President=s instructions

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:43 pm

President=s schedule
-George P. Shultz

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:04 pm

SST
-Forthcoming vote
-House
-Ford
-Senate
-John V. Tunney
-David H. Gambrell

Shultz entered at 5:04 pm

International monetary situation
-A meeting
-Position of the dollar
-Other currencies
-US economic goals
-Connally and Treasury Department
-President=s role
-Compared with domestic programs
-Gold
-A meeting
-Burns= role
-James Dewey Daane
-Governors of Federal Reserve Board
-Possible outcome
-Schiller, Connally
-Possible US action
-Domestic economy compared to other countries=
-Shultz=s meetings
-Importance

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[National Security]
[Duration:  6m 54s  ]

INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SITUATION

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Lockheed
-Congressional action
-A May 6, 1971 announcement
-Discussion between President and Connally

President=s schedule, May 8, 1971

Shultz left at 5:18 pm

SST
-Upcoming appropriations bill
-Importance
-Possible vote changes in House
-President=s position
-Importance
-Lockheed
-Jobs
-Southern California, Los Angeles
-Seattle
-Senate vote
-Possible changes
-Tunney
-Alan Cranston
-Job issue
-Los Angeles Times

Republican Party
-Congress
-Possible coalition with Democrats
-Ford
-Arends
-Southern Democrats
-Northern and Western Republicans
-Southerners
-ASouthern strategy@
-James O. Eastland
-Colmer
-[Name unintelligible]
-George H. Mahon
-Possible talk with Connally
-Possible talks with President
-National security issues and economic issues

-Conservatives/liberals
-Importance

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Southerners
-Civil War
-Purple Heart awards

West and Mountains states
-People

New Yorkers
-Effect of New York Times, television

East
-Massachusetts

Universities
-East
-University of California at Berkeley
-Massachusetts
-University of California at Berkeley
-Student protests
-Mark Rudd
-Beginnings
-Free Speech movement
-Vietnam
-Protesters

Republican Party
-Congress
-Possible coalition with Democrats
-Mahon

-Possible conversation with Connally
-Possible conversation with President
-Golf
-Burleson
-John Young of Texas
-Ford and Arends
-Conversation with Connally
-Conversations with Connally
-James R. Wright of Texas

Connally=s schedule
-An inter-American banking conference in Lima, Peru
-Volcker
-Charls E. Walker

SST
-Upcoming appropriations vote
-Importance
-Senate
-William Proxmire
-Position on Lockheed

Connally=s schedule
-Golf
-President=s and Connally=s play
-Burning Tree Country Club
-Mahon
-President=s score

Connally left at 5:37 pm

Conversation No. 492-5

Date:  May 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:37 pm and 5:38 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man [Manolo Sanchez?]

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[Duration:  44s  ]

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The unknown man [Sanchez?] left at an unknown time before 5:38 pm

Conversation No. 492-6

Date:  May 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:37 pm and 5:38 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

[See Conversation No. 2-90]

Conversation No. 492-7

Date:  May 5, 1971
Time:  5:38 pm - 6:13 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

International economy
-A meeting
-Report
-Stock market

[Transcript #1:  A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access [SA] 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al., v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271.  The National Archives and Records Administration produced this transcript.  The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

President=s schedule
-George Meany
-May 9, 1971 breakfast

[The President talked with Dr. Charles Chassler [sp?] at an unknown time between 5:38 pm and 5:45 pm]

[Conversation No. 492-7A]

[See Conversation No. 2-91]

[End of telephone conversation]

Dr. Chassler=s letter to President
-A staff call to Chassler
-Possible publicity

President=s calls

Letters to President
-Possible publicity

President=s meeting with John B. Connally
-Lockheed
-Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Upcoming vote
-Importance
-Gerald R. Ford
-House, Senate
-Possible changes
-Rationale
-[Name unintelligible]
-Previous vote
-Administration efforts
-Melvin R. Laird
-William M. Magruder=s work

-House
-Ford
-John A. Volpe

John D. Ehrlichman=s schedule

[The President talked with an unknown person [Ehrlichman?] at an unknown time between 5:38 pm and 5:45 pm]

[Conversation No. 492-7B]

Meeting with President

[End of telephone conversation]

Ford
-Newsletter from other congressmen
-Joe D. Waggonner, Jr.
-Robert S. McNamara
-Vietnam

Ehrlichman entered at 5:45 pm

[Transcript #2:  A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for SA 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al., v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271.  The National Archives and Records Administration produced this transcript.  The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.  Conversation No. 492-7C (See Conversation No. 2-92) and Conversation No. 492-7D (See Conversation No. 2-93) occur during the transcribed portion.]

[End of transcript]

[End of telephone conversation]

Mrs. Jerry V. Wilson

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-President=s possible call to Chief Jerry V. Wilson

[Transcript #3:  A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for SA 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al., v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271.  The National Archives and Records Administration produced this transcript.  The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

SST
-Upcoming vote
-Ford and Leslie C. Arends meeting with President
-Clark MacGregor, William E. Timmons
-Coalition with Southern Democrats
-Connally
-Edward P. Boland
-Termination costs
-Possible vote changes
-House/Senate conference
-Possible Senate vote
-Connally=s Lockheed announcement
-David H. Gambrell
-John V. Tunney
-Alan Cranston
-Jewish support for Tunney and Cranston
-Ted Cummings, et al. [?]
-Frank T. Bow
-Lunch with Ehrlichman
-Upcoming vote
-Ford
-House/Senate conference
-Congressional action
-House/Senate conference

-Bow
-Vote
-Appropriations bill
-Timing
-Headlines on demonstrations, Lockheed, war
-Lockheed
-Gambrell
-Warren G. (AMaggie@) Magnuson
-Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson
-Tunney and Cranston
-Senate vote
-Number needed
-Cranston, Tunney and Gambrell
-Clinton P. Anderson
-Jackson
-Margaret Chase Smith [?]
-Influence of House vote
-Importance
-B-1 bomber
-White House efforts
-Ford
-Senate
-House
-Republicans

[Transcript #4:  A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for SA 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al., v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271.  The National Archives and Records Administration produced this transcript.  The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

SST
-Upcoming vote
-Importance
-B-1 bomber

B-1
-William Proxmire
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 6:03 pm

Washington, DC demonstrations
-Ziegler=s briefing

[Transcript #5:  A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for SA 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al., v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271.  The National Archives and Records Administration produced this transcript.  The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

Washington, DC demonstrations
-Ziegler=s briefing
-Robert Pierpoint
-Compared with Dan Rather

[Transcript #6:  A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for SA 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al., v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271.  The National Archives and Records Administration produced this transcript.  The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

William D. Ruckelshaus
-Forthcoming meeting with Ehrlichman
-Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] funds
-California
-Research
-President=s supporters

Lockheed announcement
-Connally
-Location
-President=s role
-Location
-Time
-Connally
-Ziegler=s briefing

Ehrlichman left at 6:13 pm

-Connally=s meeting with President

President, Haldeman, and Ziegler left at 6:13 pm

Conversation No. 492-8

Date:  Unknown between May 5 and May 6, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:13 pm, May 5 and 8:45 am, May 6, 1971
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

An unknown man

Recording ends while the conversation is in progress at an unknown time before 8:45 am, May 6, 1971