Conversation No. 497‑1

Date:  May 11, 1971
Time:  11:04 am ‑ 11:20 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman at 11:04 am.
[The recording begins at an unknown time while the meeting is in progress.]
[Discontinuities appear in the original recording.]

Wire services

National parks
‑President's program
‑National Park Service
‑President's interview with Robert B. Semple, Jr.
‑Parks in west
‑New York City

Research and development
‑Contributions by private industry
‑Prototypes
‑Subsidies by foreign governments
‑Japan, Great Britain, France, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑President's conversation with Kenneth R. Cole
‑Breeder reactor, moon shots
‑Desalinization of water
‑President's conversation with Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
‑William L. Safire
‑Possible prototype plants
‑Southern California, Texas
‑Federal budget
‑National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
‑Department of the Interior
‑John W. O'Meara[?]
-Bureau of Salinization
‑Head of Office of Saline Water in California, Chung‑Ming Wong
‑Cancer program
‑Water
‑Breeder reactor
‑Prototype plant in California
‑Federal budget
‑Desalinization

‑Phraseology
‑Federal water projects
‑John B. Connally's comments
-Dam projects
‑Water tables in west
‑Phoenix and Texas
‑Connally's comment
‑Southern California, Pacific Northwest
‑Colorado River
‑Relations with Mexico
‑Federal budget
‑Cost of water in Mideast[?]
‑Government subsidy
‑Schools
‑Roads
‑Bureau of Reclamation
‑Bureau of Land Management
‑President's program
‑David
‑Pilot plants in California
‑Size
‑Federal budget
‑Head of Office of Saline Water
‑Wong
‑Travels
‑Israel, Arabia, Mideast
‑Saudi Arabia
‑Wife
‑Meetings with Haldeman at Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles
‑Connally
‑Atomic power
‑Ehrlichman's conversation with Glenn T. Seaborg
‑Oak Ridge
‑Howard H. Baker, Jr.
‑Possible trip by President to Texas, California or Oak Ridge
‑Previous trip to Oak Ridge
‑Tennessee Valley Authority [TVA]
‑Possible trip by President
‑Brownsville, Texas
-National growth policy
‑Pilot plant
‑Importance
‑Drought, farmers

‑[Forename unknown] Marsh[?]
‑Space program
‑Texas Congressmen
‑Public opinion
‑USSR
‑Reorganization
‑NASA
‑Office of Saline Water
‑Cancer program
‑Atomic energy
‑State Department
‑NASA
‑Rogers C.B. Morton
‑NASA
‑A presentation
‑An unknown man
‑Size of program, requirements for director
‑Breeder reactor
‑Public opinion
‑Benefits
‑Duration of program
‑Desalinization
‑Bureaucratic organization
‑David
‑William M. Magruder
‑Supersonic Transport [SST] work
‑Job offer
-Salary
‑Size and location of program
‑California, Texas, Camp Pendleton, California, Orange County, California

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:04 am

The President's schedule
‑William B. Saxbe
‑Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Henry A. Kissinger[?]

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:20 am

Research and development
‑Desalinization
‑David

‑A meeting
‑Program
‑Bureaucratic organization
‑Department of Interior
‑Cancer program
‑NASA
‑Location of pilot plants
‑Texas, California

Haldeman and Ehrlichman left at 11:20 am

Conversation No. 497‑2

Date:  May 11, 1971
Time:  11:20 am ‑ 11:51 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with William B. Saxbe and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Greetings

Henry A. Kissinger's schedule
‑Saxbe's trip report

Saxbe's conversation with Melvin R. Laird

Military draft
‑Saxbe's Senate speech, May 10, 1971
‑Views of young people
‑Saxbe's press conference
‑Public opinion regarding military
‑Marines
‑Airborne divisions

Vietnam
‑Saxbe's conversation with Edwin O. Reischaur
‑Asia

Saxbe's conversation with Japanese Prime Minister
‑Elaine Thayer

US foreign policy
‑Asians' views
‑Marshall Plan
‑Europe and Asia
‑Wendell L. Willkie
‑World War II, Korea, Vietnam
‑Europe
‑Economy
‑Pacific Nations
‑People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑Japan
‑Southeast Asia
‑Indonesia
-Philippines
‑India and Pakistan
‑Reischauer's
‑Vietnam, Japan
-Japan
-Possible military build-up
‑Saxbe's May 10, 1971 Senate speech
‑Volunteer army
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield's views regarding North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
‑US military commitments after World War II

Vietnam
‑US policy
‑Europe
‑Germany, Great Britain
-Views of Europeans
-Press
‑Saxbe's May 10, 1971 Senate Speech
‑Chicago Daily News, West Berlin

Military draft
‑Robert A. Taft, Jr.'s, views
‑Timing of volunteer army proposal
‑Michael Gravel
‑Taft
‑Legislation
‑Gravel's possible action
‑Timing of volunteer army proposal
‑Taft

‑Barry M. Goldwater
‑Peter H. Dominick
‑Re‑enlistment rate
‑Public opinion of military
‑Timing
‑Troops

Vietnam
-Saxbe's son
‑Service in Vietnam
‑Marine platoon service near Da Nang
‑Communists
‑Compared with World War I trench warfare
-Saxbe's son
‑Encounter with Viet Cong
‑Military future
‑Quantico
‑Background
‑Southern Methodist University
‑Views regarding Vietnam
‑President's travels
‑US accomplishments
‑Marine Pacification Program
‑Saxbe's travels
‑Community action
‑Children
‑Cities
‑Economy
-Agriculture
‑Ford Motors, Honda
-@Gold teeth@
‑Peasants
‑Polity

Latin America
‑Brazil
‑Chile, Peru, Bolivia
‑Paraguay
‑Argentina
‑Colombia, Venezuela
‑Resources

Constitutional Democracy
‑Africa
-Development
‑Compared with Vietnam
-Development
‑Great Britain
‑France, 
-US
-Germany

World situation
‑Views of youth
-@Ivory tower@
‑Peace
‑Anarchy, tyranny
‑Iran
‑Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
-Nature of government
‑Thailand
-Nature of government

Cities
‑Chicago
-Type of government
‑Richard J. Daley
‑Newspapers
‑John V. Lindsay
‑Carl B. Stokes
‑Cleveland, Ohio
-End of service
‑Kenneth A. Gibson
-Newark, N.J.
‑Future mayoral election in Cleveland
‑Daley's work in Chicago
‑Jersey City
‑Frank Hague
‑Philadelphia and Pittsburgh bosses

Negotiations
-Prospects
-Vietnam
-Arms control
-PRC

Military draft
‑Legislation for extension
‑Current filibuster
‑Possible 1972 action
‑Democrats, Republicans
‑Taft
‑Possible effects
‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy's views
‑Saxbe's conversations with unknown youths
‑Abraham Lincoln and Civil War
‑Kennedy's statements
‑Views of Alan Cranston and Gravel
‑Views of Richard S. Schweiker, Taft, and Goldwater
‑Saxbe=s exchange with Gravel in Senate, May 10, 1971

Ohio
‑Taft
‑Military installations
‑Florida
‑Wright‑Patterson Air Force Base
‑Federal automotive test center
‑John A. Volpe
‑Detroit
‑Governor James B. Rhodes' offer
-Ohio bond issue
‑Ohio vs. Florida
‑Volpe, Ohio congressmen

Gifts
‑Cufflinks, golf balls, paperweight

The President's desk, Saxbe's desk

Haig and Saxbe left at 11:51 am

Conversation No. 497‑3

Date:  May 11, 1971
Time:  11:53 am ‑ 12:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John W. Barnum, Richard S. Bodman, Robert W. Fri, Stephen Kurzman, William N. Letson, Phillip V. Sanchez, Frederic V. Malek, and Daniel T. Kingsley;  the White House photographer was present

Introductions and photographs

Appointees
‑Kurzman's prior government service
‑Elliot L. Richardson
‑Government service
‑Universities
‑Bureau of Reclamation
‑President's experiences
‑Bureaucracy
-Goals
‑Sacrifices

Gifts
‑Cufflinks, golf balls

Barnum, et al., left at 12:07 pm

Conversation No. 497‑4

Date:  May 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:07 pm and 12:08 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
‑Departure time for Capitol Hill luncheon
‑William E. Timmons, Clark MacGregor

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:08 pm

Conversation No. 497‑5

Date:  May 11, 1971
Time:  12:08 pm ‑ 12:22 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President's schedule
‑Possible press conference
‑Schedule

Haldeman's schedule
‑John A. Scali, Richard A. Moore
‑John D. Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz

The President's programs
‑Water
‑Parks
‑Breeder reactor
‑Revenue sharing
‑Law Enforcement Assistance Administration [LEAA]
‑Public relations needs
‑Drugs
‑Marijuana
‑Turkey

‑Police
‑John N. Mitchell's speech regarding the President's role in Washington, D.C. demonstrations
‑Other speeches
‑Polls
‑Coverage of Mitchell's speech

Demonstrators
‑A poll
‑Effects
‑Poll by the Washington Post
‑White House efforts

National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
‑Possible water projects
‑Reallocation of funds

‑Moon shots, spacelab to Mars
‑Public support
‑Texas and elsewhere
‑Compared with Supersonic Transport [SST]
‑Programs
‑Frank Borman[?]
‑Apollo
‑Effects, future
‑Skylab, Space shuttle
‑Jobs

Ohio
‑Wright‑Patterson Air Force Base [AFB] staff move to Florida
‑President's conversation with William B. Saxbe
‑Transportation training center move to Florida
‑John A. Volpe
‑James B. Rhodes
‑Clark MacGregor's and William E. Timmons= views
‑Rhodes's offer
‑Detroit, Florida
‑Volpe's actions
‑Florida
‑Timmons
‑Oklahoma, Texas
‑Ohio importance
‑Robert A. Taft, Jr. and Saxbe
-Cooperation with administration
‑Ohio's importance

Florida
‑Economy

Federal facilities
‑Saxbe's meeting with the President
‑Wright‑Patterson AFB
‑Defense Department
‑Caspar W. (ACap@) Weinberger's role
‑Congressmen
‑Weinberger's role
‑Arnold Weber's role

The President's schedule
‑General counsels

‑Frederic V. Malek
‑William M. Colmer's lunch
‑Colmer

SST
‑Possible vote

The President's schedule
‑Luncheon
-Possible meeting on Capitol Hill

The President's programs
‑Public relations needs
‑Shultz

Haldeman left at 12:22 pm

Conversation No. 497‑6

Date:  May 11, 1971
Time:  12:22 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man at 12:22 pm

The President's schedule

The President and the unknown man left at 12:22 pm

Conversation No. 497‑7

Date:  May 11, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:22 pm and 2:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men met.

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The unknown men left at an unknown time before 2:10 pm

Conversation No. 497‑8

Date:  May 11, 1971
Time:  2:14 pm ‑ 3:08 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

Folder
‑Meeting

Cigars
‑William M. Colmer
‑Note from the President
‑Mariellas[?]
‑Fidel Castro

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 2:14 pm

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The unknown man left at an unknown time before 2:48 pm

Guests at Colmer's luncheon
‑Rules Committee, Congressmen and staffs
‑Notes from the President
‑Quote by Albert W. Beveridge
‑Typing

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Judge Howard K. Smith
‑A message from the President

Messages from the President
‑Effect

Claude Pepper
‑Conversation with the President
‑Archbishop Coleman Francis Carroll of Miami
‑Forthcoming call from Rose Mary Woods

Archbishop Carroll
‑A call

The President's schedule
‑Unnamed Methodist Bishop
‑An unnamed Episcopal Bishop
‑Clergymen
‑Backgrounds
‑Archbishop Carroll
‑Pepper

Dolf M. Droge of the National Security Council [NSC]
‑Statements in news summary
‑Youth Congressmen

[The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr. at an unknown time between 2:14 pm and 2:48 pm]

[Conversation No. 497‑8A]

Droge
‑Spelling of name
‑Statements of unnamed congressmen
‑Background
‑Role with administration
‑Congressional appearance
‑Ms. Woods, new summary

The President's previous meeting with William B. Saxbe
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑Volunteer army
‑Saxbe
‑Draft extension
‑Possible effect
‑Robert A. Taft, Jr.
‑NSC study
‑Vietnam war
‑Prospects
‑Wayne L. Hays committee

Robert D. Murphy
‑Schedule
-Report

A report

[End of telephone conversation]

An event, May 10, 1971
‑Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon's schedule
‑Smithsonian event
‑Rogers C.B. Morton
‑Timing
‑New York Symphony
‑Length
‑Compared with a press event

Forthcoming event
‑Arrangements
‑Mrs. Nixon[?]
‑Ms. Woods
‑Size of group
‑A pool[?]

An event, May 10, 1971
‑Attendees
‑Mrs. Nixon, Mrs. Elinor I. Agnew, Mrs. Anne Morton, Mrs. [name unintelligible]

Mrs. Nixon's schedule

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‑Congressmen's wives' luncheon
‑Value
‑Wife of [name unintelligible]

‑Previous presidents
‑Congressman [name unintelligible]
‑Public relations
‑Constance M. (AConnie@) Stuart, Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Female press corps
‑Helen A. Thomas
‑Frances (AFran@) Lewine
‑Importance
‑Statements of congressmen
‑Previous invitations to the White House
‑Committee chairmen
‑Congressman's breakfasts
‑A Congressman's statement
‑Press coverage
‑May 10, 1971 event
‑Mrs. Nixon's appearance
‑Majorca
‑Robert Hill
‑Japan[?]
‑Germany

Dwight D. and Mamie Eisenhower

Claudia A. (Taylor) (ALady Bird@) Johnson
‑Beautification work

Mamie Eisenhower's schedule

Eisenhower's schedule
‑Heads of state
‑President's role

Washington, D.C.

Jeane L. Dixon
‑Conversation with Woods
‑Comments regarding the President's vision

The President's State of Union address
‑Biblical quote

Ms. Dixon
‑Comments regarding the President's vision

‑Lyndon B. Johnson and riots
‑Demonstrations

Demonstrations
‑President's position
‑Jerry V. Wilson's actions
‑President's position
‑Public opinion

Smith Hempstone
‑An article in news summary

Nicholas P. (ANick@) Thimmesch
‑Articles
‑Washington, D.C. demonstrations

The President's schedule
‑Weather
‑Colmer's luncheon
‑President's statements

H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman entered at 2:48 pm

‑Carl B. Albert's schedule
‑Albert's appointments secretary
‑John W. McCormack's comments regarding speakership
‑President's current experience

The President's schedule as Vice President

Albert's schedule
‑Compared with Woods' schedule
‑An event at the White House

Woods experience

Albert's schedule

The President's schedule
‑Evenings
‑White House correspondents' event

Woods left at an unknown time after 2:48 pm

Congressman's wives
‑President's conversation with Woods
‑Two unnamed Congressmen's statements about invitations to the White House
‑Public relations
‑Thomas
‑Stuart

Stuart
‑Role on White House staff

Congressmen's wives
‑Luncheon
‑Precedent
‑Public relations
‑Unknown persons, Thomas, Lewine

Public relations
‑Needs
‑William L. Safire, Richard A. Moore, John A. Scali
‑John K. Andrews, Noel C. Koch, Kenneth L. Khachigian
‑President's programs
‑Parks
‑Cancer
‑Appeal
‑Health
‑Education
‑Youth
‑War and peace
‑Press coverage
‑Cliff Miller
‑Outside consultants
‑Ford Motor Company experience

-Federal facilities
-Ohio
‑Shift to Florida
‑Action

The President's schedule
‑John B. Connally, John N. Mitchell, George P. Shultz, Peter M. Flanigan meeting
‑Purpose

Federal facilities
‑Ohio
‑Shift to Florida
‑Purpose
‑John A. Volpe
‑Reasons
‑Possible action
‑Effects
-Massachusetts, Minnesota, Michigan
‑Possible shift to Florida
‑Purpose

Research and development
‑Desalinization
‑White House action
‑Phraseology
-"New water"
‑Lapel button
‑Vs. "fresh water"
‑Bureaucratic organization
‑Department of Interior
‑Walter J. Hickel, Stewart Udall

Government reorganization
‑Problems
‑Lyndon B. Johnson
‑Efficiency
‑Cabinet officers
‑Purpose

National Parks
‑Mrs. Nixon's role
‑Waldorf

Research and development
‑Desalinization and cancer
‑President's accomplishments
‑John F. Kennedy's lunar landing schedule
‑Bay of Pigs
‑Apollo

‑Desalinization and cancer
‑Possible timing
‑Public opinion
‑Texas, California, Oklahoma, Florida

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:48 pm

The President's schedule
‑Ziegler
‑Shultz
‑John D. Ehrlichman

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:04 pm

The President's programs
‑Press coverage
‑Public opinion
‑Democrats, Republicans
‑Compared with the government

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 3:04 pm

Research and Development
‑Cancer
‑Press briefings
‑Elliot L. Richardson
‑Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
‑President's programs
‑Name
‑Organization and budget
‑Desalinization and breeder reactor
‑Ziegler's press briefing
‑Forthcoming package
‑Richardson
‑Importance
‑Cancer briefing
‑Use by press
‑Congress

National defense
-European troop levels
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield's proposal
‑Possible briefing by Ziegler

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:04 pm

Meeting with Ehrlichman

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:08 pm

National defense
-European troop levels
‑Mansfield's resolution
‑Purpose
‑Military
-European contribution
‑Public opinion
‑Ziegler's press briefing

Haldeman and Ziegler left at 3:08 pm

Conversation No. 497‑9

Date:  May 11, 1971
Time:  3:08 pm ‑ 5:09 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with George P. Shultz.

Revenue sharing
‑Shultz=s conversation with Wilbur D. Mills
‑Written version of policy
‑Laurence N. (ALarry@) Woodworth
‑Follow‑up
‑A breakfast
‑Democratic policy
‑Follow‑up
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Mills= conversation with John V. Lindsay
‑Wage increases in New York City
‑Ehrlichman
-Special manpower revenue sharing
‑Rules Committee vote
‑James D. Hodgson

‑Schedule
‑Jacob K. Javits and Gaylord Nelson dinner
‑Senate testimony
‑Questions
‑Shultz's conversations
‑Javits
‑Mills
‑H.R. 1 (welfare reform)
‑Manpower training
‑Call and letter to Carl D. Perkins

Mills
‑Political objectives
‑Democratic colleagues
‑Possible presidential candidacy

John D. Ehrlichman entered at an unknown time after 3:08 pm

‑Television appearance
‑Compared with "Senator Claghorn"
‑John B. Connally comparison
‑Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
‑Possible legislative actions
‑Welfare reform, revenue sharing, health bill
‑Conversation with Shultz
‑William Gifford

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‑Bryce N. Harlow
‑Conversation with Shultz
‑Revenue sharing formula by states
‑Possible action

Higher education
‑Elliot L. Richardson, Shultz

Research and development
‑Desalinization

Higher education
‑Federal aid
‑Institutions

‑Richardson
‑Students
‑Richardson
‑Ehrlichman's conversation
‑Schedule
‑John R. Dellenback
‑Possible meeting with the President
‑Forthcoming conversation with Ehrlichman
‑Institutions
‑Research
‑College administrators and contributors
‑University of Chicago
‑Stanford University

William McGill, president of Columbia University
‑Remarks at Business Council meeting

Higher education
‑Federal aid
‑Disadvantaged students
‑Institutions' role
‑Black colleges
‑Costs
‑Policy
‑Research institutions
‑Possible faculty salary cuts

Research and development
‑Desalinization
‑John C. Whitaker's group
‑Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
‑Bureaucratic organization
‑Ehrlichman's conversation with William T. Pecora
‑Rogers C.B. Morton
‑Department of Interior
‑Hydroelectrics
‑Congress
‑Interior Committee
‑Priority
‑May 12, 1971 meeting
‑Pilot plants
‑California, Texas

‑Ehrlichman's forthcoming conversation with National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA] head, James C. Fletcher
‑Federal budget
‑NASA
‑Apollo program
‑Value
‑NASA
‑Possible role and reorganization
‑Congressional and White House action
‑Possible name change
‑Accomplishments
‑Computers
‑Weather
‑Satellites
‑Name and concept
‑Congress
‑Space Committee, Senate Interior Committee, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
‑Desalinization
‑Previous program
‑Federal funding and private funding
‑Compared with highway construction
‑White House action
‑Reasons
‑Views of Whitaker and Pecora
‑NASA
‑Fletcher
‑Universities
‑University of California at Los Angeles [UCLA], University of Florida
‑Cornell
-Syracuse University
-Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]
‑Possible subsidies
‑California
‑NASA
‑Mission
‑Space
‑Pollution
‑Government research and development
‑Abilities
‑Contracts with private sector
‑Staff

Pending legislation
‑Campaign spending limits
‑Administration policy
‑Public relations
‑Eugene J. McCarthy and Howard Stein in 1968
‑John N. Mitchell's forthcoming conversations with Republican Senators
‑Republicans' position
‑Howard W. Cannon
‑Hugh Scott
‑Richard G. Kleindienst's possible testimony
‑Mitchell's role
‑Importance
‑President's forthcoming conversation with Mitchell
‑Possible veto
‑Effect
‑Possible effect
‑Presidential and Congressional campaigns
‑Paul N. (APete@) McCloskey
‑Stein
‑McGovern
‑McCloskey
‑Norton Simon
‑McCarthy and Stein
‑Youth contributions

A meeting

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:08 pm

Kleindienst's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:35 pm

Pending legislation
‑Campaign financing
‑Restrictions on entry
‑Effect
‑Possible action by liberals
‑Stein

The President left at an unknown time before 3:35 pm.

Mills

John B. Connally and John N. Mitchell entered at 3:35 pm.

Research and development
‑Desalinization
‑Pilot plant
‑Brownsville, Corpus Christi, west Texas, Amarillo

The President entered at an unknown time after 3:35 pm.

Seating

Research and development
‑Desalinization
‑Pilot plants
‑Texas
‑Bureaucratic organization
‑Past history at Interior Department
‑Pilot plants
‑California, Texas
‑Bureaucratic organization
‑Interior Department
‑NASA
‑Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]
‑National Science Foundation
‑Current technological situation
‑Budget
‑NASA
‑Matching funds
‑Private industry
‑Construction in California
‑Pilot plants
‑Gaseous diffusion of coal
‑Current technology
‑Desalinization
‑Needs
‑Scientists' views
‑President's forthcoming statement on energy
‑National growth
‑Desalinization
‑Desalinization
‑Irrigation in Texas
‑Funds, importance
‑California

‑Orange County
-Pacific Northwest comparison
‑Columbia River
‑Water Resources Board

Anti‑trust
‑Peter M. Flanigan
‑Ralph McLaren
‑Peter G. Peterson's forthcoming draft recommendations
‑International cartels
‑General Electric case, Alaska pipeline
‑Domestic policy
‑International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] cases
‑McLaren's project
‑Justice Department
‑Egil M. (ABud@) Krogh, Jr.'s role
‑Statement on administration's policy
‑Economic advisors' views
‑Arthur F. Burns
‑President's briefing
‑ITT's acquisitions
‑James Ling
‑ITT's acquisitions
‑Patents
‑Administration's policy
‑Interdepartmental study
‑Economics
‑Politics
‑Possible effects of acquisitions
‑Harold S. Geneen's views
‑Competitors' views
‑Sprinkler insurance systems
‑Administration policy
‑Business council's views
‑ITT's acquisitions in 1970
‑Peter G. Peterson[?]
‑Prosecutions
‑Theories of cases
‑Government lawyers
‑Justice Department Anti‑Trust Division
‑Doctrine of reciprocity
‑Supreme Court, Justice Department
‑International economics

‑Cartels
‑Japan, Britain, Germany
‑General Electric case
‑Municipalities' complaints vs. Japan
‑Oil companies
‑William Proxmire hearings
‑Airlines
‑Peterson's views
‑Business' response to import competition
‑National steel case
‑Grant City steel merger
‑Department of Justice
‑Political considerations
‑Emmanuel Celler
‑Popular concerns
‑Turn of the century
-Compared with turn-of-the century
‑William P. Rogers' views as Attorney General
‑Businessmen
‑1972 election
‑Compared with farmers
‑1972 election
‑Celler, Proxmire
‑Businessmen
‑Response to possible Administration policy
‑Television networks
‑Possible action
‑Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
‑Harley O. Staggers's hearings
‑Importance as an issue
‑Businessmen
‑Peterson
‑International economics
‑Steelmakers
‑Grant and National steel
‑Consumerism
‑Public opinion
‑Ralph Nader
‑Public opinion
‑Administration's policy
‑Possible announcement by Mitchell
‑Businessmen
‑Networks

‑Lawyers
‑President's and Mitchell's law firm
‑Warner‑Lambert
‑Elmer H. Bobst
‑Growth
‑Pepsico
‑Pepsi‑Cola
‑Donald McI. Kendall
‑Frito‑Lay, Wilson Sporting Goods, [company name unintelligible]
‑Purchase of Maine sugar plant by Kendall
‑Administration's policy
‑Possible statement
‑Jobs, competition, consumerism
‑President's conversation with George Meany
‑Lockheed position
‑Business Council position
‑Timing of possible statement
‑Burns
‑A staff paper
‑McLaren's group
‑A study
‑Burns's efforts
‑Possible Federal Reserve action
‑Quadriad meeting
‑White House response
‑Possible leaks
‑White House response
‑Al Hufnecker[?]
‑Burns
‑Request of Peterson
‑Burns
‑Role with administration
‑Speech in California at Pepperdine College
‑Meany and building trades
‑Efforts
‑Role of Federal Reserve
‑Ehrlichman's forthcoming conversation with
 Elliot L. Richardson
‑Role with Administration
-Conversations with Shultz
‑Connally's meetings
‑Role of Federal Reserve
‑Connally

‑Justice Department Anti‑trust Division

Business policy
‑Business's response
‑Consumers
‑Environmentalists
‑President's conversation with Henry Ford II
‑Airbags
‑Volpe
‑Business's response
‑Anti‑trust
‑Administration's policy
‑1972 election
‑Business Council meeting
‑Response to administration policy
‑Unknown man's speech regarding wage and price controls
‑David Rockefeller's response
‑Unknown man's views on President's economic policy
‑President's reelection

Farmers
‑Government policies

Anti‑trust
‑Administration's policy
‑Business
‑Consumerism
‑Jobs
‑Public opinion regarding international competition
‑Sherman Anti‑trust Act
‑State Department
‑International economics study
‑Peterson
‑Lawyers
‑Council of Economic Advisors
‑McLaren's work
‑Basic industries
‑President's possible statement
‑Foreign competition
‑Jobs
‑Public opinion
‑Steel, shoe, and beef industries
‑Australian beef imports

‑Automobiles
‑West Coast sales
‑Radios
‑Automobile
‑US position
‑Airbags

Peter M. Flanigan entered at 4:12 pm.

‑Airlines
‑Transportation and Justice Department studies
‑McLaren
‑Mergers
‑Juan Trippe
‑Competition
‑Statutes and case law
‑Civil Aeronautics Board [CAB]
‑Possible legislation
‑Considerations
‑Businessmen
‑CAB
‑Competitors
‑Courts
‑President's meeting with [name unintelligible]
‑C[yrus] R[owlett] Smith of American Airlines
‑Conversation with Connally
‑Competition
‑Traffic
‑Wages
‑Possible mergers

Airlines
‑CAB
‑Route allocations
‑Fare increases
‑Financial status
‑United Airlines
‑American Airlines
‑Pan American Airlines
‑TransWorld Airlines [TWA]
‑Capacity reduction
‑Sales of old airplanes
‑Purchasers

‑Pollution standards
‑Capacity reduction
‑Effects, methods
‑CAB
‑Stock market values
‑United and Pan American Airlines

National economy
‑Possible deregulation of transportation
‑Head of Southern Pacific railroad
‑Meetings with Flanigan
‑Requests
‑Administration policy
‑Surface transportation
‑Cabinet Committee on Economic Policy
‑Railroads, trucks, and pipelines
‑Trucking industry
‑Lobby
‑Administration policy
‑Economic and political considerations
‑Anti‑trust
‑Department of Transportation
‑Railroads
‑Rates
‑Unprofitable lines
‑Penn Central and New Jersey lines
‑Penn Central
‑Lockheed comparison
‑An unknown man's possible congressional testimony
‑Connally's conversation with George A. Smathers
‑Bankruptcy of Penn Central, Illinois Central, and Jersey Central
‑Congress
‑Possible government subsidy
‑Unprofitable lines
‑Possible local complaints
‑Mayors
‑School taxes
‑Stockholders
‑A December 1972 study
‑Iowa
‑Access to railroads
-Interstate Commerce Commission [ICC] regulation

‑Financial situation
‑Penn Central
‑Cleveland, Ohio
‑Passengers
‑Cleveland
‑Criticism
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
‑Public opinion
‑Unprofitable lines
‑Action
‑Public opinion
‑Dubuque, Denver, Cleveland, and Fort Worth
‑Special interests
‑Commuter lines
‑Operators
‑Chicago
‑Penn Central
‑Appeals to ICC
‑Connally's service on board of directors
‑Government, ICC
‑Financial situation
‑Role of government
‑Announcement by Du Pont, Company regarding Corfam
‑Government vs. private enterprise
‑Railroads

Corfam
‑Shoes
-Performance
-President=s views

International monetary policy
‑Deutsche mark, Dutch guilder levels
‑Treasury Departments contacts
‑J[ames] Dewey Daane with Federal Reserve
‑Charles Anthony Coombs of New York Federal Reserve bank
‑Bruce McClaren
‑Discussions with Switzerland
‑Eurodollars
‑Eurodollars
‑Possible borrowing by Treasury
‑Germany
‑US balance of payments

‑Germany
‑France
‑European community
‑Japan
‑Re-evaluation
‑Multi‑national corporations
‑Connally's meetings
-Business= view
‑Devaluation
‑Industry
‑Federal Reserve response
‑Coombs
‑Europeans' possible response
‑Federal Reserves' possible response
‑New York Bank, Burns
‑Capital controls
‑Germany

Federal Judicial appointments
‑James O. Eastland
‑Mitchell
‑Chief Justice of Court of Customs and Patents Appeals, Eugene Worley
‑Conversation with Connally
‑Patent lawyer
‑Tenure in office
‑Conversation with Mitchell
‑Possible replacement
‑[John Robert?] Brown
‑[Forename unintelligible] Whitcomb

Connally, Ehrlichman, and Shultz left at 4:40 pm.

Mitchell's conversation with unknown person(s) regarding economics

Gas utilities
‑Meetings with Flanigan
‑Testimony to Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
‑Lee Metcalf's legislation

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 4:40 pm

The President's schedule
‑An unknown event
‑Eastland and Mitchell

Supersonic Transport [SST] vote

The President's schedule
‑Eastland and Mitchell

Butterfield and Flanigan left at an unknown time before 4:44 pm

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An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:40 pm

[Unintelligible]

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 4:44 pm

[Pause]

The President's schedule
‑Meeting with Eastland and Roman L. Hruska
‑Purpose
‑Agenda
‑Purpose

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‑Agenda
‑Private schools

H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman entered at 4:44 pm

SST
‑Upcoming vote

President's schedule
‑Clark MacGregor dinner for Republican Senators running in 1972
‑President's possible appearance
‑Possible dinner given by President
‑Chowder and Marching Society
‑MacGregor's dinner
‑President's possible appearance
‑Casper W. (ACap@) Weinberger's possible appearance
‑President's possible appearance
‑Haldeman's forthcoming conversation with MacGregor
‑Butterfield
‑President's possible dinner or reception
‑President's and Mitchell's possible appearances
‑Cabinet
‑Considerations
‑Weinberger's role
‑Hruska and Eastland meeting
‑Agenda
‑MacGregor's possible presence
‑Agenda
‑Eastland's schedule
‑MacGregor
‑Refreshments and location of meeting

‑Photo
‑Arrangements
‑Refreshments
‑G. Harrold Carswell and Clement F. Haynesworth, Jr.
‑Time of meeting in Map Room
‑Refreshments arrangements
-Choices

Haldeman left and Shultz entered at 4:50 pm

National economy
‑Gross National Product [GNP] figure revision
‑Release
‑Importance
‑President's previous conversation with Shultz
‑Statistical methods

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:50 pm and 4:52 pm]

[Conversation No. 497‑9A]

[See conversation No. 3‑1]

[End of telephone conversation]

‑Commerce Department

[The President talked with Connally at 4:52 pm]

[Conversation No. 497‑9B]

[See conversation No. 3‑2]

[Shultz talked with Connally between 4:52 pm and 4:53 pm]

[End of telephone conversation]

National economy
‑GNP
‑Statistical methods
‑Unemployment statistics
‑Mitchell's conversation with Ronald W. Reagan, May 10, 1971

‑Democrats in House, Labor Department, Commerce Department
‑Reagan's associates
‑Leon Greenberg
‑Spokesman
‑Administration's action
‑GNP
‑Statistical methods
‑Release
‑Paul W. McCracken
‑Importance
‑Connally
‑Maurice H. Stans
‑Connally
‑Shultz's possible announcement
‑Shultz's role
‑Burns
‑McCracken
‑Herbert Stein, Herbert G. Klein
‑Possible actions
‑Indicators
‑Unemployment
‑Consumer Price Index [CPI]
‑GNP
‑Importance
‑President's critics' predictions
‑Burns' statement

The President's schedule
‑Eastland

Economy
‑GNP
‑Council of Economic Advisers' estimates
‑Arthur B. Laffer's money supply figures
‑Methodology
‑Timing of announcement
‑Shultz's action
‑Shultz's forthcoming call to Burns
‑Importance
‑Monetary growth
‑Federal reserve

Shultz left and Roman L. Hruska, James O. Eastland, and Richard G. Kleindienst entered at 4:59 pm; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

[General conversation]

Demonstrators
‑Administration's response

Seating arrangements

Refreshments

The President's previous lunch with William M. Colmer, May 11, 1971

Congress
‑Colmer's role
‑Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill
‑Southern Democrats
‑Colmer, House and Senate
‑Republicans in Senate
‑Hruska's role
‑Haynesworth, Carswell
‑Eastland's or Hruska's role

Melita Saunders
‑President's comments regarding cotton dress at "Salute to Agriculture" dinner, May 7, 1971
‑John Adams
‑Cattle and silkworm‑raising at the White House
‑Marjorie Merriweather Post

Map Room
‑Franklin D. Roosevelt's use in World War II
‑Uses
‑Doctors, Secret Service
‑Mrs. Nixon's restoration

[Unintelligible]

Eastland's schedule

Weather

[General conversation]

Colmer

The President, et al., left at 5:09 pm