Conversation No. 495‑1

Date:  May 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:40 and 10:46 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.
[The recording begins at an unknown time while the meeting is in progress]

Papers

Woods left at an unknown time before 10:46 am

Conversation No. 495‑2

Date:  May 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:40 am and 10:46 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 2‑114]

Conversation No. 495‑3

Date:  May 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:40 am and 10:46 am
Location:  Oval Office

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 2‑115]

Conversation No. 495‑4

Date:  May 7, 1971
Time:  10:46 am ‑ 10:49 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Edith Green

[See Conversation No. 2‑116]

Conversation No. 495‑5

Date:  May 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:49 am and 10:52 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 2‑117]

Conversation No. 495‑6

Date:  May 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:49 am and 10:52 am
Location:  Oval Office

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 2‑118]

Conversation No. 495‑7

Date:  May  7, 1971
Time:  10:52 am ‑ unknown before 10:55 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Betty Garcia.

[See Conversation No. 2‑119]

Conversation No. 495‑8

Date:  May 7, 1971
Time:  10:55 am ‑ 11:00 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

President's schedule
‑Dinner, May 7, 1971
‑Receiving line in East Room
‑Considerations
-Agricultural interests
‑President and Mrs. Nixon's greeting

Butterfield left at 11:00 am.

Conversation No. 495‑9

Date:  May 7, 1971
Time:  11:00 am ‑ 11:45 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Unemployment figures

Possible Prisoner of War [POW] Day
‑Pope Paul VI
‑William P. Rogers' May 8, 1971 meeting
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Possible proclamation
‑Date
‑Special masses
‑Washington, St. Patrick's Cathedral
‑Purpose
‑Vatican staff
‑Pope Paul
‑Rogers= meeting
‑Alexander M. Haig, Jr.'s position
‑Vatican Staff
‑Pope Paul
‑Rogers= meeting
‑Purpose

American Farm Bureau Federation
‑President's previous conversation with Peter M. Flanigan
‑Response to "Salute to Agriculture"

A.G. Becker Co.[?] in Chicago
‑Treasury funds
‑John N. Mitchell
‑John B. Connally's response
‑David Packard
‑Response
‑Schedule
‑Connally
‑Forthcoming report to Haldeman

White House News Summary
‑Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Robert Pierpont

[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 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, D.C. demonstrations
‑Pierpont's coverage

Dan Rather
‑Haldeman's and Ehrlichman's meeting, May 6, 1971
‑Purpose
‑Richard S. Salant
‑Coverage
‑Pierpont, Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
‑Ehrlichman
-[Unintelligible name]
‑Lyndon B. Johnson administration
‑Haldeman's and Ehrlichman's meeting

Unemployment figures
‑Significance

Connally
‑An appearance [revenue sharing briefing[?]
‑George P. Shultz, Paul W. McCracken
‑Prices

American politicians
‑War
‑Chattanooga, Tennessee

President's schedule
‑Policemen event
‑Gateway East, May 10, 1971
‑John V. Lindsay
‑Kenneth A. Gibson
‑Possible Congressional attendees
‑Jacob K. Javits
‑Clifford P. Case
‑Harrison A. Williams, Jr.
‑Purpose
‑Possible dinner for economists
‑Timing
‑West Point
‑Purpose
‑Wright‑Patterson Air Force Base
‑Clarence ("Bud") Brown's conversation with President
‑Indianapolis

‑Time allotted
‑Indianapolis 500 appearance
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr's, John A. Scali's, Charles W. Colson's and Richard A. (ADick@) Moore's position
‑Reasons
‑Compared with a tennis game
‑Davis Cup
‑Compared with People's Republic of China [PRC] ping‑pong team reception
‑Possible fatalities and accidents
‑Time allotted
‑Wright‑Patterson Air Force Base
‑Possible speech by President
‑Armed forces events
‑Army
‑Public opinion
‑West Pointers, Marine veterans
‑Possible parade
‑Douglas MacArthur, Dwight D. Eisenhower
‑Date
‑Possible speech by President
‑Purpose
‑Volunteer Army
‑Possible speech by President and parade
‑Writing of speech
‑Length
‑Indianapolis location

Marshall Green
‑Possible position in Japan
‑Peter G. Peterson's position
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑Possible position in Japan
‑Type needed for position
‑Bert Cross
‑Type needed for position
‑Relations with Kissinger
‑Washington Special Actions Group [WSAG]
‑Possible position
‑Type needed
‑Cross
‑Kissinger

Jerry V. Wilson
‑Background
‑Reader's Digest story
‑Background
‑Education
-Accomplishments
-Reader's Digest story
‑Forthcoming meeting with President
‑Ziegler
‑Other attendees
‑Number
‑Military
‑National Guard representatives
‑Photographs
‑Other attendees
‑John N. Mitchell, Richard G. Kleindienst
‑Mayor Walter E. Washington
‑Military
‑Responsibility
‑Meeting with President
‑Date
‑Number of attendees
‑Photo
‑Military

President's schedule
‑Financial structure commission, meetings with governors
‑Photos
‑Press
‑Use
‑Purpose
‑Connally
‑Vice President Spiro T. Agnew's May 11, 1971 briefing on domestic programs
‑Attendees
‑President's role
‑Meetings with Congressmen
‑President's role
‑East Room
‑Length
‑Purpose
-Benefits

Congressional relations
‑Republican leaders
‑Republican National Committee
‑White House
‑Funds

Labor
‑Victor Riesel's column
-George Meany
‑News Summary
‑Arthur F. Burns
‑Meany's statements regarding President
‑President's handling of building trades issue
‑A 1972 purge
‑Colson
‑Shultz
‑Meany
‑Democratic candidates' statements on Vietnam war
‑President's foreign policy

Supersonic Transport [SST]
‑President's need for support
‑William M. Magruder
‑Work with Gerald R. Ford
‑Edward P. Boland
‑Upcoming vote
‑Ford
‑Date certain
‑Fiscal Year 1971 appropriations bill
‑Date certain
‑Democratic Caucus
‑Ford, Leslie C. Arends
‑Kissinger
‑Upcoming vote
‑Date certain
‑President's role

Kissinger

Haig
‑Meeting with Haldeman
‑Perceptions

PRC initiative

Ziegler entered at 11:28 am

Unemployment figures
‑Connally's position
‑Blacks
‑Ziegler's forthcoming statement
‑President's previous statement
‑Press handling
‑Connally's May 6, 1971 press conference
‑Compared with McCracken and Shultz
‑Questions
‑Food prices
‑Farmers
‑Lessons for White House staff

Ziegler left at 11:32 am

[Arnold] Eric Sevareid's May 6, 1971 commentary
‑Significance
‑Scali's possible call

"Salute to Agriculture"
‑White House staff attendance at Agriculture Department
‑Ziegler, Haldeman, John C. Whitaker
‑President's speech
‑News value
‑White House staff
‑Scali, Moore
‑President's speech
‑War and peace
‑News value
‑Coverage
‑White House staff
‑Whitaker
‑Productivity figures
‑President's speech
‑Cameras
‑Contribution of farmers to peace
‑White House staff use
‑Whitaker

-Haldeman
‑Moore
‑Scali
‑Work by staff
‑Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin quotes
‑Role of farmer
‑Need for relation to wider context
‑Clifford M. Hardin

Press
-Sevareid
-News Summary

Washington, D.C. demonstrations
‑President's position
‑Public response
‑Pierpoint
‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
‑Barry M. Goldwater
‑Trip to Florida
‑Edith Green
‑Trip to Puerto Rico
‑Wilson
‑President's position
‑Possible appearance on a Sunday television show
‑Ziegler
‑Meeting with President
‑Photographs
‑Another meeting with President
‑Battalion commander
‑Mayor's staff
‑Mayor Washington
‑Role
‑Possible meeting with President
‑Role
‑Possible meeting with President
‑Possible meeting between President and battalion commanders
‑Location, format
‑Ziegler

Press
‑Response to Cabinet Room meetings
‑White House handling

-Photographs of meetings
‑Washington Post

"Salute to Agriculture"
‑Effect
‑Midwest farm areas
‑President's speech

[Unintelligible]

President=s schedule
‑Alexander P. Butterfield
‑Haldeman

Public relations
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
‑Cabinet support
‑Eisenhower
‑Mitchell
‑Maurice H. Stans
‑Elliot L. Richardson
‑Other Cabinet members
‑Richardson
‑Connally
‑David M. Kennedy
‑Robert P. Mayo
‑Caspar W. (ACap@) Weinberger
-Shultz
-Connally=s effect on others
‑Daniel Patrick Moynihan
‑John A. Volpe
‑Camp David
‑Connally
‑Statements regarding administration
‑Response
‑Cabinet
‑Connally
‑Agnew
‑Statements
‑Press

"Salute to Agriculture"
‑Farmers' response
‑President's speech
‑Connally's speech
‑Ford's speech
‑[Unintelligible name]
‑Connally's speech

Connally's position on President's policies

Cancer program
‑President's memo
‑President's plan
‑Responsibility
-President
‑Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
‑Colson
‑Kenneth R. Cole
‑National Institutes of Health [NIH]
‑Kickoff reception
‑Fundraising
‑Schoolchildren
‑Cole

Haldeman left at 11:45 am.

Conversation No. 495‑10

Date:  May 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:45 am and 11:48 am
Location:  Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull met with an unknown person.

Telephone Bank bill signing ceremony
‑Cabinet Room

The unknown person left and the President entered at an unknown time after 11:45 am.

Telephone Bank bill signing
‑Congressman [name unintelligible]
‑National Telephone Cooperative Association
‑Presentation of antique phone
‑Eldon M. Snowden

President and Bull left at 11:48 am

Conversation No. 495‑11

Date:  May 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:48 am and 11:56 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men met.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown men left at an unknown time before 11:56 am.

Conversation No. 495‑12

Date:  May 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:48 am and 11:56 am
Location:  Oval Office

Alexander P. Butterfield met with an unknown person

**********************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Statute]
[Duration:  26s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Butterfield and the unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:56 am.

Conversation No. 495‑13

Date:  May 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 11:56 am until 11:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President's schedule
‑Upcoming meeting with Herbert G. Klein

Bull left at 11:58 am.

Conversation No. 495‑14

Date:  May 7, 1971
Time:  11:58 am ‑ 12:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

President's schedule
‑Harold Lee's visit
‑Dates
‑Florida

[The President talked with H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman at an unknown time between 11:58 am and 12:09 pm]

[Conversation No. 495‑14A]

‑Alabama trip
‑Date
‑Dinner
‑A call
‑Unknown persons
‑An aviation[?] event
‑Indianapolis, Indiana
‑Date
‑Columbus, Ohio
‑West Point trip
‑Date
‑Dinner for Frederick L. Hovde
‑Wright‑Patterson Air Force Base

[End of telephone conversation]

‑Lee's visit
‑Joseph W. Alsop
‑Lee

[Pause]

President's schedule
‑Lee
‑Florida 
-Alabama
‑Lee meeting
‑Date
‑Letter to Lee
‑Possible event

Peter G. Peterson
‑Briefing

‑Woods= contacts
‑Briefing
‑Woods= views

Maurice H. Stans
-Personnel actions
‑Republican National Finance Committee Chairman
‑Commerce Department

Administration spokesmen
-Cabinet members
‑John B. Connally
‑Talk on revenue sharing
‑President's positions on Vietnam, revenue sharing
‑William P. Rogers
‑Melvin R. Laird
‑John N. Mitchell
‑Connally
‑Concerns
‑Camp David
‑Meetings with President
-Seniority
‑Connally
-Nixon=s experience as Vice president under Dwight D. Eisenhower
‑Agnew
‑Statements on the press
‑George W. Romney
‑Volpe
‑Peterson
‑Briefing
‑Woods' response
‑Stans
‑Stans' strength
‑Connally
‑Possible future
‑Rogers
‑Middle East, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT], Vietnam
‑Work at State Department
‑Compared with Connally

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:58 am.

Herbert G. Klein
‑Tour of President's Executive Office Building [EOB] office

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:09 pm

Connally
‑Appointment to Cabinet
‑Cabinet response
‑Republicans' response
‑John G. Tower's response

Congress

Gerald R. Ford[?]

Klein, Bob Murphy, and Robert Rosenthal entered and Woods left at 12:09 pm.

Greetings and introductions

Murphy's recollections of President's campaign
‑Nashua, New Hampshire

Murphy's cartoons

Photo arrangements

Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins entered at an unknown time after 12:09 pm.

Murphy's cartoons
‑Murphy's work
‑Nelson A. Rockefeller
‑Campaign
‑Paul N. McCloskey, Jr.
‑"Old Man of the Mountain"
‑Date

Atkins left at an unknown time before 12:17 pm

‑J. William Fulbright
‑Supersonic Transport [SST]
‑President's election

William Loeb

Presentation of gifts
‑Presidential cufflinks
‑Pen

President's EOB office
‑Cartoon collection
‑Alger Hiss case
‑1956 primary
-Joseph McCarthy
‑Number

Cartoonists in America
‑Opportunities
‑Compared with other countries
‑An exhibit in Montreal
‑Communist countries
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR], Yugoslavia
‑European cartoonists

Marine Corps
‑Unknown man's retirement

1972

[Unintelligible]

Golf balls

Vice President Agnew

[Unintelligible]

Yugoslavian cartoon

[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 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]

A message for unknown person

Klein, et al, left at 12:17 pm

Conversation No. 495‑15

Date:  May 7, 1971
Time:  12:17 pm ‑ unknown before 12:19 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's Executive Office Building [EOB] office
‑Cartoons

President's schedule
‑W. Richard (ADick@) Howard
‑Identified
‑Wife, father‑in‑law
‑Work with Charles W. Colson

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:19 pm.

Conversation No. 495‑16

Date:  May 7, 1971
Time:  12:19 pm ‑ 12:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull, W. Richard (ADick@) Howard, Marcia Howard, and Mr. Northrup [Forename unknown]:  the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Photo arrangements

Gifts
‑Presidential seal
‑Cufflinks

Pearl Bailey
‑An item of apparel
‑A chair
‑Performance in "Hello Dolly"
‑White House appearance

Youth

Farewells

Bull, Howard, et al., left at 12:20 pm.

Conversation No. 495‑17

Date:  May 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:20 pm and 12:26 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

Return of phone call

Conversation No. 495‑18

Date:  May 7, 1971
Time:  12:26 pm ‑ 1:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Correspondence
‑Unknown persons
‑A conversation

‑Haldeman's comments
‑An unknown man
‑President's reply

Cancer program
‑Memorandum
‑National Institutes of Health [NIH], Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
‑@Bureaucrats@
‑Responsibility to President
‑Possible changes
‑Responsibility
‑NIH, President

David Packard
‑Forthcoming meeting with John B. Connally
‑Melvin R. Laird
‑Position on Lockheed[?]
‑A decision

Youth
-Packard=s children
‑Elite
‑David Rockefeller
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑Haldeman=s and John D. Ehrlichman=s children
‑Ehrlichman's son at Stanford University
‑Edmund S. Muskie

Unemployment figures
‑Full‑time 
-Part‑time workers
‑Significance
‑President's statement

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew's Schedule
‑Kissinger, William P. Rogers
‑Africa
‑Rogers
‑Kissinger
‑Greece, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR], Berlin

Dr. Walter R[obert]Tkach
‑Dr. Charles Chassler's letter

President=s schedule
-Use of President's time
‑Bill [surname unknown]
‑Attendance at meetings
‑Effect
‑Public relations staff
‑Meetings, plans
‑Charles W. Colson

Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo[?]

Unknown persons

William D. Ruckelshaus
‑Meeting with Ehrlichman

Auto safety
‑Air bags
‑Seat belt warnings
‑Ford Motor Company
‑Auto association
‑Ford Motor Company
‑Possible future requests
‑Administration position
‑Bureaucrats
‑Consumers
‑Seat belts

Kissinger
‑President's forthcoming meeting on Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
‑Haldeman's conversation with Kissinger, May 6, 1971
‑Dinner
‑Bennett A. Cerf
‑Zeppo Marx

Henry [last name unintelligible]
‑Death
‑President's letter

Alcoholism
‑Businessmen, lawyers, politicians, bankers
‑Businessmen
‑Job pressures
‑Country clubs
‑High level persons

SALT
‑Possible press conference
-President=s view
‑Timing
-Date

President's schedule
‑Florida trip
‑Time of departure
‑Press conference
‑An office event

Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
‑SALT
‑USSR
‑People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative

Foreign policy
‑USSR
‑PRC initiative
‑Kissinger
-Effect on USSR initiative
‑USSR summit
‑PRC summit
‑Timing of summits
‑1972 election
‑President's advice
‑President's experience
‑Briefing for Presidential candidates
‑Lyndon B. Johnson
‑PRC initiative
-Kissinger=s expectations
-Vietnam
‑Vietnam
‑Haldeman=s view of Haig's position

‑Draft
‑Timing
‑Effect
‑Laird's position
‑Troop levels in Europe
‑Casualties
‑US combat role
‑Troop levels
‑Kissinger
‑PRC
‑Haig
‑USSR
‑Trade missions
‑David M. Kennedy
‑Rogers
‑PRC initiative
‑Kissinger, President
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield

[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 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, D.C. demonstrations
‑Effect
‑Part‑time workers
‑Department of Labor
‑Telephone poll
‑Duration
‑Reason

[Transcript #2:  A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 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 forthcoming press conference
‑Timing
‑An announcement of summit

-Forthcoming meeting with Nguyen Van Thieu
‑Date
‑Kissinger, Haig
‑Summit announcement

Vietnam negotiations
‑A decision by President
‑Kissinger
‑PRC
‑Negotiations
‑President's policy

Haldeman left at 1:02 pm.

Conversation No. 495‑19

Date:  May 7, 1971
Time:  1:02 pm ‑ 1:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

President's schedule
‑Executive Office Building [EOB] office

President and Sanchez left at 1:03 pm.

Conversation No. 495‑21

Date:  May 7, 1971
Time:  2:57 pm ‑ 4:14 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with George Meany and Willie J. Usery, Jr.
[The recording begins at an unknown time while the meeting is in progress.]

Supersonic Transport [SST] and Lockheed
-Lockheed
‑William M. Magruder's[?] presence
‑James D. Hodgson
‑Opposition
‑Overruns on weapons
‑Subcontractors
-Military Appropriations Bill
‑President's May 6, 1971 meeting with Gerald R. Ford
‑Edward P. Boland
‑Upcoming vote
‑SST termination costs
‑Boland
‑President's forthcoming meetings with Republican congressmen
‑Reasons for previous opposition
‑Democratic opposition
‑Caspar W. (ACap@) Weinberger
‑Release of funds
‑Environmental opposition

Cigars

SST and Lockheed
-Military Appropriations Bill vote
‑Ford and House leaders
‑Possible vote changes in House and Senate
‑SST and Lockheed
‑Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson
‑Warren ("Maggie") Magnuson
‑California senators
‑David H. Gambrell
‑John V. Tunney
‑Alan Cranston
‑Jackson and Magnuson

‑Jobs
‑Position of Lockheed
‑US prestige
-Position of industry
‑France, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑Hubert H. Humphrey
‑Conversation with Meany
‑Breakfast with the President[?]
‑Environmental considerations
‑Meany's role
‑House and Senate votes
‑House and Senate conference committee
‑Importance of SST and Lockheed
‑Previous vote
‑Meany's role
‑Liberal Democrats
‑Edmund S. Muskie
‑[William] Stuart Symington
‑Magnuson and Jackson
‑Clinton P. Anderson
‑Possible vote change
‑John O. Pastore
‑Possible vote change
‑Republicans
‑Total
‑Upcoming vote
‑Vote changes needed
‑House
‑Humphrey
‑Conversation with Meany
‑Possible changes
‑House
‑Date
‑Senate
‑Possible changes
‑Cranston, Tunney, Gambrell, Anderson
‑Lockheed
‑Gambrell
‑Jobs
-Economy
‑Lockheed
‑Jobs
‑Subcontractors

‑Machinists' Union
‑Loss of jobs
‑Aerospace jobs
‑Lockheed
‑Future
‑SST's importance
‑Cancellation costs
‑Subcontractors
‑Tax losses
‑Upcoming votes
‑House, Senate
‑House and Senate conference committee
‑Meany's position
‑Ford
‑Lockheed
‑Jackson and Magnuson
‑Boeing Corporation unemployment
‑Effects on Seattle community
‑Upcoming vote
‑Lawton M. Chiles, Jr.
‑Lockheed facility at Cape Kennedy
‑Environmental concerns
‑Administration action
‑House
-Lockheed/Rolls Royce
‑Possible British government action
‑Head of British trade union [name unintelligible]
‑Meeting with Meany
‑John B. Connally
‑Agreement
‑Upcoming vote
‑Possible vote
‑Jobs
‑Environmental concerns
‑Contractors
‑Jobs
‑Contractors
‑Jobs
‑House of Representatives
‑Possible Labor Department action
‑Meany's role
‑Andrew Biemiller
‑Schedule

‑Ford
‑Boland
‑George H. Mahon
‑Lockheed
‑Possible outcome
-Labor relations
‑Lockheed
‑Boeing
‑Lockheed
-SST
‑A group's participation [name unintelligible]
‑McDonnell‑Douglas and General Electric
‑Position on Lockheed and SST
‑Meany's conversation with a company vice president

Vietnam
‑President's policies

[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 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]

‑Public opinion
‑Troop withdrawals
‑Level
‑An announcement
‑South Vietnamese military situation
-Past position
‑Casualty levels
-Declines
‑Meany's position of support
‑US Position
‑USSR, People=s Republic of China [PRC]

[Transcript #2:  A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 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]

Building Trades Union
‑President's position
‑Perception by labor
‑President's actions
‑President's position
‑Dr. Arthur A. Fletcher, Arthur F. Burns
‑A speech by Fletcher
‑Charles W. Colson
‑Apprentice programs
‑Support for President
‑Compared with intellectual elites
‑Administration position
‑President's position
‑President's conversations with Meany
‑Fletcher
‑Apprenticeship and training program
‑American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL‑CIO] programs
‑Don Swain[?]
‑Effects
‑Scope
‑Standards
‑Fletcher
‑Speech to a non‑union group of contractors

Economy
‑Unemployment, retail sales

Building trades
‑Administration position
‑James D. Hodgson
‑Labor Department
‑Meany's May 7, 1971 meeting with Hodgson and Usery
‑Deferred entries
‑@Balloon@ increases
‑Position
‑John H. (AJack@) Lyons
‑Burns= Pepperdine University speech, January 1971
‑Labor response
‑Burns' relation with Meany and economists
‑Burns' position in government, field of expertise
‑Pepperdine
‑Christian Church affiliation

‑Size
‑Compulsory arbitration
‑Meany's forthcoming meeting with Burns
‑Burns= field of expertise
‑Meany's forthcoming meeting with Burns
‑Statements on minimum wage and unemployment
‑Blacks
-Heads of families
‑Possible amendment to minimum wage law for teenagers

Economy
‑Unemployment
‑Full employment
‑Blacks compared with whites
‑Full employment
‑Burns= speech
‑Minimum wage suggestion
‑Forthcoming meeting with Meany
‑Burns= field of expertise
‑Minimum wage statement
‑Building Trades Union response
‑Burns= field of expertise
‑Interest rates
‑Burns= forthcoming meeting with Meany

‑US, Europe
‑Bank of America
‑International economy
‑US economy
‑Position of the dollar
‑West Germany
‑Inflation
‑Post‑World War I period
‑Japan
‑Great Britain
‑West Germany
‑France
‑Italy
‑John B. Connally's position

US economy
‑Unemployment
‑Current and future levels
‑President's May 1, 1971 speech in San Clemente
‑Lockheed
-SST
‑Money supply
‑Federal Reserve
‑Construction level
‑Government contracts increase
‑Overseas trade
‑Labor's position
‑Louis Stokes, Paul N. (APete@) McCloskey, Jr.[?] and [name unintelligible]
‑Shoe industry
‑Labor's position
‑1934 reciprocal trade agreement
‑American companies abroad
‑Japanese and German auto sales on West Coast
‑Peter G. Peterson
‑Possible meeting with Meany
‑Briefings
‑Bipartisan Congressional leaders
‑AFL‑CIO board
‑Germany, Japan
‑USSR, PRC
-Future prospects
‑Peterson's presentation
‑Length, value
‑Usery's viewing
‑Effect
‑Trade unions
‑Foreign competition
‑US
‑Japan
‑Common market
‑Peterson's presentation
‑AFL‑CIO board
‑Length
‑Radios
‑Foreign competition
‑American companies abroad
‑Labor costs
‑US position in textiles

‑Wage rates
‑West Germany, Japan, Great Britain
‑Effect
‑Peterson's presentation
‑Meany's office
‑Scheduling
‑Foreign competition
‑Japan
‑Cameras
‑Leica and Other German cameras
‑Lenses
‑Textiles
-Open markets
-Japan
‑Common market
‑Tires
‑West Germany, Belgium
‑Head of the United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum, and Plastic Workers of America [name unintelligible]

Government workers
‑Attendance figures during D.C. demonstrations
‑President's call to [name unintelligible]
‑John F. Griner
‑President's call
‑George Ingram[?]
‑Andy Lucas
‑Georgia
‑Louis [first or last name unknown]
‑St. Louis

Building Trades Union
‑Meeting of president of union with Usery
‑President's position on Vietnam

[Transcript #3:  A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 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]

International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehouse men, and Helpers of America [TEAMSTERS]
‑Leadership
‑President's previous conversation with Meany
‑James R. Hoffa
‑Frank E. Fitzsimmons
‑Relations with Hoffa
‑Hoffa
‑Possible re-election
‑Current status
‑Fitzsimmons
‑Possible election
‑Effect
‑Relations with AFL‑CIO
‑Hoffa
‑Building trades
‑Membership
‑Fitzsimmons
‑Meany's relations
‑Weldon L[amar] Mathis
‑Georgia
‑Leadership
‑Fitzsimmons
‑Hoffa
‑Harold J. Gibbons
‑St. Louis Teamsters vice president
‑Gibbons
‑Future
‑Hoffa
‑Effect of re-election
‑Hoffa
‑Jury tampering, mail fraud
‑Pension funds
‑Connections
‑Pittsburgh
‑Sentence
‑Possible parole in June, 1972
‑An unnamed California man's actions
‑Meany's and Fitzsimmons's actions
‑Ray Lahaynie
‑Relations between AFL‑CIO and Teamsters
‑Hoffa
‑Fitzsimmons

‑Relations with Hoffa
‑Hoffa
‑Unknown man's previous meeting
‑Relations between AFL‑CIO & Teamsters
‑Attendance at meetings
‑Convention
‑A conversation between Meany and Fitzsimmons
‑Relations between Teamsters and building trades
‑Relations between Teamsters and AFL‑CIO
‑Hoffa
‑Handling of money
‑Las Vegas casinos, loans
‑Current financial reports
‑Hoffa
‑Handling of money
‑Pension funds
‑Outside interests

Commission on Financial Structure and Regulation
‑President's May 6, 1971 meeting
‑Insurance, savings and loans, banks
‑Credit unions
‑Commission meeting with head of credit unions
‑Membership nationwide
‑Meany's meeting with head of credit unions
‑Membership, methods of operation
‑Unions
‑Dues checkoff
‑Labor position

Economy
‑Savings
‑Spending
‑April and March retail sales
‑Factors affecting apparel sales
‑President's conversation with Donald McI. Kendall
‑PepsiCo's Wilson Sporting Goods
‑Sales of golf equipment
‑Sears‑Roebuck, Company 1‑month sales
‑Betting
‑An unknown man's trip to Kentucky
‑Kentucky Derby
‑Meeting with Louie B. Nunn

Meany's trip to Augusta National Golf Course
‑Dwight D. Eisenhower
‑Course
‑President's visit
‑Cliff Robertson
‑Course
‑Meany's golf game

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:57 pm.

Golf balls
‑Kendall

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:14 pm.

Augusta National Course
‑President's trip in 1963
‑Robertson
‑Golf tribute to Eisenhower
‑Eisenhower College in New York and Eisenhower Medical Center in California
‑Leslie T. (ABob@) Hope, Robertson, Meany

[Transcript #4:  A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 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]

Building trades
‑Administration position
‑Meany's response
‑Administration relations
‑Support for US
‑A parade in New York City
‑Fiorello LaGuardia
‑Conversation with Meany
‑"C.D. thing"[?]
‑Elections
‑Neil Hagerty [?]
‑Health
‑Frank A. Bonadio

‑Previous meeting with President
‑Convention
‑Bonavito's control of legislature
‑Size
‑Usery's or Hodgson's attendance
‑Leadership
‑Usery and Hodgson
‑A Miami meeting
‑Reports to President

Peterson briefing
‑Scheduling
‑AFL‑CIO board meeting

Tommy Harris
‑Office of Price Administration [OPA]
‑Supreme Court
‑Former work with Leon Henderson at OPA

A golf tournament
‑A doctor

Bob [last name unintelligible]

Arthur [last name unknown]

Texas, South Florida

Meany and Usery left at 4:14 pm

Conversation No. 495‑22

Date:  May 7, 1971
Time:  4:14 pm ‑ 4:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Press release
‑John B. Connally

‑H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑President's review

[Pause]

President's possible conversation with Connally

Ziegler left at 4:15 pm

Conversation No. 495‑23

Date:  May 7, 1971
Time:  4:16 pm ‑ 4:32 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ernest V. Siracusa and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Greetings

Bolivia
‑Tin
‑Economy
‑Juan José Torres
‑Meeting with President
‑US aid
‑Economy
‑Current situation
‑1950's, 1960's
‑Former President [Rene Barrientos Ortuno?]
‑Effect of death on country

Members of the press entered at an unknown time before 4:32 pm.

[Unintelligible]

San Clemente

Schools

[Unintelligible]

Members of the press left at an unknown time before 4:32 pm.

Bolivia
‑Current Situation
‑Bolivians
‑Natural resources
‑Compared with Argentina
‑Iron
‑Sierra Mountains
-Transportation
‑Santa Cruz
‑Compared with Houston
‑Crops
‑Oil, gas, and petrochemicals
‑Torres
‑Relations with US
‑Public opinion in Bolivia
‑Military
‑Status
-Morale
‑Readers
‑Intellectuals
‑Orientation
‑Compared with Chile
‑Economy
‑Compared with Chile
‑Relations with Chile

Peru
‑Juan Velasco Alvarado
‑Economy
‑Brazil, Bolivia
‑IEC[?]
‑Population growth, 
Social conditions

Brazil
‑Position in Latin America
‑Government
‑Economic growth

Bolivia
‑Economy

‑Compared with Brazil
‑Catholic Church
-Unknown priest
-University rector
-Views
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑University
-Program
‑Rector
‑Medical care
‑People
‑Torres
‑Administration officials
‑People
‑Torres and wife
‑Background
‑Work
‑US policy
‑US embassy
‑Staff
‑Ambassador
‑Media
‑Meetings

Gifts
‑Cufflinks

La Paz

Haig

California

Siracusa and Haig left at 4:32 pm.

Conversation No. 495‑24

Date:  May 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:32 pm and 4:33 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 2‑122]

Conversation No. 495‑25

Date:  May 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:32 pm and 4:33 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑John N. Mitchell

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:33 pm.

Conversation No. 495‑26

Date:  May 7, 1971
Time:  4:33 pm ‑ 5:53 pm
Location:  Oval Office

President met with John N. Mitchell.

Weather
‑Farmers
‑Texas

[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 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]

ASalute to Agriculture@ exhibit on South Lawn
‑Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins' photos
‑Weather

Norman E. Borlaug
‑Position on demonstrations
‑Dr. Carl McIntyre, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
‑Mexico
‑US universities
‑Administrators and young professors
‑"Peaceniks"
‑Trotskyites, Maoists
‑Nobel Peace Prize
‑Work on wheat strains
‑Value

[President talked with John B. Connally between 4:39 and 4:47 pm]

[Conversation No. 495‑26A]

[See Conversation No. 2‑123]

[End of telephone conversation]

[Transcript #2:  A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 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]

Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-J. Edgar Hoover
‑Tenure
‑Effect on F.B.I.
-Clyde A. Tolson

-William C. Sullivan
-Possible position
-Hoover
-Congress

[Transcript #3:  A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 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]

Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
‑Subcommittee hearings on wiretapping
‑John L. McClellan
‑Organized crime wiretaps
‑Publicity
‑Staff
‑Justice Department backgrounds
‑Robert F. Kennedy, W. Ramsey Clark
‑Wiretapping issue
‑Robert Kennedy era compared with current situation

[Transcript #4:  A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 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]

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Louis B. Nunn
‑Possible Secretary of Agriculture
‑Experience

Secretary of Agriculture
‑Clifford M. Hardin

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[Duration:  4m 20s  ]

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Campaign financing
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Fundraising

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[Duration:  18s  ]

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Connally
‑Arthur F. Burns
‑Financial community

William H. Morton
‑President's meeting
‑Golf game

‑Lunch with Mitchell, May 7, 1971
‑Connally as viewed by financial community

Connally
‑Revenue sharing appearance before Congressmen
‑A congressman[?]
‑Statements regarding President, Vietnam

David Packard
‑Position on Lockheed
‑Position on Vietnam
‑Melvin R. Laird, Connally
‑Possible resignation
‑Possible future position in Cabinet

William P. Rogers, Henry A. Kissinger
‑Relations
‑Effect

‑Rogers= tenure

Middle East
‑Rogers= role
‑Kissinger

State Department, Foreign Service

Rogers

Laird

Rogers
‑Compared with Connally
‑Rogers= and President's role in foreign policy
‑Middle East
‑People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑Middle East

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[Duration:  1m 10s  ]

MIDDLE EAST

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Foreign policy
‑Vietnam
‑Troop withdrawals
‑Kissinger
‑President's previous statement
‑Negotiations
‑Prisoners of War [POWs]
‑Kissinger
‑PRC
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
‑PRC
‑Vietnam
‑Negotiations
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
‑Possible statements by President
‑Proposals
‑Nguyen Van Thieu
‑Possible meeting with President on Midway
‑Vietnamese role
‑Thieu
‑President's previous meeting
‑President's forthcoming meeting
‑PRC
‑USSR
‑Kissinger
‑USSR
-PRC

‑SALT
‑Vietnam
‑Negotiations
‑Kissinger
‑Proposal
‑Senate
‑Negotiations
‑Rogers, Kissinger, David K.E. Bruce

State Department
-Secretary of State
‑Needs
‑Relationship with Kissinger and the White House
‑Rogers

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Foreign Policy
‑USSR
‑PRC
‑Vietnam
‑US role
‑Laotian operation
‑Casualty levels
-Missing in action [MIAs]
‑May 7, 1971 report
‑Casualty levels
‑Vietnamese holidays
‑Weather
‑North Vietnam
‑Kissinger
‑Negotiations
‑North Vietnamese
‑Negotiations

‑North Vietnam
‑South Vietnam
‑Military forces
‑A Shau Valley
-Past US performance
‑Military situation
‑Negotiations
‑Forthcoming announcement
‑Casualties
‑US role
‑Withdrawal
‑Date
-POWs
‑Effect
‑South Vietnam, North Vietnam

Agnew
‑Revenue sharing
‑Opposition
‑Speeches
‑Media

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[Duration:  3m 7s  ]

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Wilbur D. Mills
‑Administration handling
‑George P. Shultz
-Revenue sharing
‑Connally

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[Transcript #5:  A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 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]

Carl B. Albert

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Revenue sharing
‑Mills
‑Administration handling
‑Connally
‑Shultz
‑Special revenue sharing
‑Use
‑Mills
‑John W. Byrnes
‑Byrnes' position
-Republican congressional leadership

SST
‑Lockheed
‑Upcoming House vote
‑George Meany
‑Position, role
‑Andrew Biemiller
‑Upcoming Senate vote
‑Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson and Warren W. (AMaggie@) Magnuson
‑Lockheed
‑John V. Tunney, Alan Cranston, David H. Gambrell
‑Meany
‑Humphrey's previous vote

Meany
‑Labor's relations with Republicans

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Congressional leadership
‑Senate
‑Howard H. Baker, Jr.

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‑Byrd
‑Robert A. Taft, Jr.
‑Robert P. Griffin
‑1972 reelection possibilities
‑Hugh Scott
‑Taft
‑Wife

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Congressional leadership
‑Gerald R. Ford

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[Duration:  8s  ]

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‑Work in Congress
‑Leslie C. Arends, John B. Anderson, and John J. Rhodes
‑Arends
‑Future
‑Work with Southern members
‑William M. Colmer

‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
‑Robert C. Byrd
‑Harry F. Byrd, Jr.
‑Possible party switch
‑Other southerners
‑Considerations

President's schedule
‑"Salute to Agriculture"

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Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 4:33 pm.

Mitchell's schedule
‑Social events
‑Law and order briefing

Mitchell and Butterfield left at 5:53 pm.

Conversation No. 495‑27

Date:  May 7, 1971
Time:  5:53 pm ‑ 6:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

President's schedule

David Packard
‑President's conversation with John B. Connally
‑Conversation with Connally
‑Packard's tenure
‑Packard's position on Lockheed
‑Packard's tenure
‑Lockheed's importance
‑Schedule
‑Packard's future
‑Connally
‑President
‑Position on Lockheed
‑Connally
-Mexico

Connally
‑Meeting with President, May 8, 1971
‑May 7, 1971 schedule
‑European trip
‑Camp David
‑President's schedule
‑Idanell (Brill) (ANellie@) Connally

President's schedule
‑Jerry V. Wilson meeting, May 8, 1971
‑Other attendees
‑Military representatives
‑Photo arrangements
‑Wilson, Walter E. Washington, and military men
‑Mayor Washington
‑Role in Washington, D.C. demonstrations
‑Value of photo with President
‑Value of photo of President and Wilson
‑Photo arrangements
‑Mayor Washington

Business Council meeting
‑[Name unintelligible]
‑Peter M. Flanigan
‑Number of government officials present
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Peter G. Peterson
‑Connally

Connally
‑Government reorganization briefing
‑Usefulness as spokesman

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Supersonic Transport [SST]
‑Possible calls by Warren G. (AMaggie@) Magnuson to House members
‑Lockheed
‑An unknown man
‑Jobs in California

Louis B. Nunn
‑Possible appointment as Secretary of Agriculture
‑Background

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Spiro T. Agnew
‑Performance as Vice President
‑Staff
‑Compared with Connally

William P. Rogers
‑Mitchell's view
‑Situation

Revenue sharing
‑Connally
‑George P. Shultz and Ehrlichman

President's schedule
‑Meeting with Wilson, May 8, 1971
‑Time
‑Patrick J. Buchanan‑Shelley A. Scarney wedding, May 8, 1971
‑Time
‑Press events
‑White House Correspondents event
‑White House Photographers Association
‑[Group name unintelligible]
‑Women's press
‑National Press Club
‑Lyndon B. Johnson[?]
‑Ribbon cuttings

Economy
‑Retail sales
‑Paul W. McCracken's report
‑Possible statement by President
‑Economic statistics

Charles S. Rhyne's book on international law
‑Distribution[?]

Haldeman left at 6:17 pm.

Conversation No. 495‑28

Date:  May 7, 1971
Time:  6:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man [Alexander P. Butterfield].

President's briefcase

[Unintelligible]

/The President and the unknown man [Butterfield] left at 6:17 pm.