Conversation No. 500‑1

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  7:26 am - unknown before 7:55 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield amendment
‑Developments in Congress

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 7:55 am.

Conversation No. 500‑2

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:26 am and 7:55 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum to H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman.

"Far Right"

Family Assistance Plan

Balanced budget

President's foreign policy
‑Vietnam

President's news conferences

"The Left"

White House staff

Conversation No. 500‑3

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:26 am and 7:55 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a letter to Landrum Bolling.

President's meeting with Bolling, May 14, 1971

Bolling=s book
‑President=s views

Conversation No. 500‑4

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:26 am and 7:55 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a letter to Joe D. Waggoner, Jr.

Newsletter
‑Gerald R. Ford
‑[Unintelligible]
‑Press

Conversation No. 500‑5

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  7:55 am ‑ 7:56 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

George P. Shultz's schedule
-Paul W. McCracken [?]

Butterfield left at 7:56 am.

Conversation No. 500‑6

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  7:58 am ‑ 8:02 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
‑William P. Rogers
‑H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑Gerard C. Smith
‑Forthcoming Talk with Kissinger
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑President's schedule
‑Wording
‑Andrei A. Gromyko, Leonid I. Brezhnev
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield amendment
‑Position of [Name unintelligible]
‑Timing
‑Wording
‑Dobrynin

The President and Kissinger left at 8:02 am.

Conversation No. 500‑7

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:02 am and 9:33 am
Location:  Oval Office

Alexander P. Butterfield and unknown persons met.

[Unintelligible]

Installation of unknown item

Delivery of paper

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 9:33 am.

Conversation No. 500‑8

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  9:34 am - 9:38 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with William P. Rogers.

[See Conversation No. 3‑59]

Conversation No. 500‑9

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  9:38 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule

Bull left at 9:38 am.

Conversation No. 500‑10

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  9:41 am ‑ 10:00 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
‑Kissinger=s meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑Andrei A. Gromyko
-Status
-Wording
-Other negotiations
‑People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑Berlin
‑Dobrynin
‑Possible announcement
‑Gerard C. Smith
‑President's schedule
-Notification of William P. Rogers
‑Notification of Smith
-Congressional action
‑Phillip J. Farley
‑Vladimir S. Semenov

Republican congressional leadership meeting
‑Robert P. Griffin

Charles McC. Mathias Amendment
‑Senators' position
‑Hubert H. Humphrey's position
‑Provisions
-Force levels
‑Effects
‑Mansfield Amendment
‑Executive Branch
‑Europe

SALT
‑Possible agreement
-Wording
-Soviet Union
‑Peter G. Peterson
-Negotiations for a truck plant
‑Smith
‑Rogers
‑Possible announcement

Mathias Amendment
‑Republican leadership meeting
‑President's statement to Griffin

Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield Amendment
‑Position of "The Establishment"

Senators
‑Vietnam

SALT
‑Importance
‑May 18, 1971 Republican leadership meeting
‑President's statements
-Goals of treaty
‑Congressmen
-White House congressional strategy
-Republican congressional leadership

President
‑Nelson A. Rockefeller
‑Vietnam, Anti-ballistic Missile treaty [ABM]
‑Humphrey
‑Efforts
‑Abraham Lincoln
-Support
‑Effect of television

Republican leadership meeting
‑Peter H. Dominick
‑Railroad strike
-President=s views

SALT
‑Forthcoming developments
‑Farley, Rogers
‑Smith's schedule
-Vienna, Austria
‑Announcement
‑Smith's, Rogers', President's roles
‑John A. Scali
‑US position
-ABM
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] position
‑Dobrynin
‑Gromyko, Brezhnev

Senate
‑Hugh Scott
‑Griffin
‑Norris Cotton
‑Gordon L. Allott
-Margaret Chase Smith
‑Dominick
‑Health
‑Compared with Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.

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Foreign policy
‑Scali
‑Conversations with Kissinger and Peter Lisagor
‑President's place in history
‑SALT
‑Effect

‑Congress
‑Wording
‑Dobrynin, Gromyko
‑USSR
‑Joseph C. Kraft
‑Berlin
‑Salt
‑Dobrynin
‑Kissinger=s negotiating ability
‑Wording of announcement
‑Semenov
-Soviet view
-Prospects

Senate
‑Possible foreign policy action
‑Griffin
‑President's statement in May 18, 1971 Republican leadership meeting
‑Rogers' May 18, 1971 meeting
‑Mathias Amendment
‑Mathias Amendment
‑Compared with Mansfield Amendment
‑Humphrey's possible action

Congress
‑President's meetings with leaders
‑Cabinet meeting
‑Gerald R. Ford
‑Melvin R. Laird's role
‑Laird's views
-US forces in Europe
‑Robert La Follette

President's background
-Quakers
-Peace

Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:41 am.

President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:00 am.

SALT
‑Possible announcement
-Timing
-Soviet response
‑Dobrynin

The President and Kissinger left at 10:00 am.

Conversation No. 500‑11

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  10:26 am - 11:03 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

President's schedule
‑"Open Door Hour"
‑Meeting with business magazine editors
‑Meeting with National Small Businessman of the Year
‑Duration
‑Meeting with Arthur Gordon (AArt@) Linkletter
‑Views
-Courtesy towards President
‑Press photograph
‑Value compared with meeting with small businessman
‑Meeting with National Small Businessman of the Year
‑Peter M. Flanigan
-Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins
‑Award
‑Previous press coverage
‑Length
‑Meeting with state legislators
‑Meeting with National Small Businessman of the Year
‑Value compared with awards given by Maurice H. Stans
‑Press play
‑Atkins
‑President's call to William P. Rogers
‑Forthcoming meeting
‑Types of events

‑Business magazine editors' interview
‑One‑on‑one interviews 
-Compared with interviews with Time, Newsweek, New York Times
‑Book and Quill Award to President
‑Fortune, Time, Newsweek, New York Times
‑Herbert G. Klein
‑John B. Connally
‑Work
‑Stans
‑Peter G. Peterson
‑Business Council
‑Connally
‑Work
‑Business magazine editors
‑Peterson
‑George P. Shultz, Paul W. McCracken, Peterson, Stans, Klein
‑Attendees
‑Peterson
‑Klein
‑Dinner
‑Stans
-Peterson
‑Interview
‑Briefings
‑Klein
‑Senators and Congressmen
‑Effect
‑Business events
‑A list of top business magazines
‑Interviews with Time, Fortune, New York Times, Forbes
‑Business magazine editors' interview
‑Shultz and Klein
‑Balance of payments questions
‑Connally
‑Scotland[?] speech
‑Klein
‑Connally
‑Possible meeting with John D. Ehrlichman
‑Supersonic Transport [SST]
‑Time
‑Gerard C. Smith meeting
‑Length

[The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger at an unknown time between 10:26 am and 11:03 am]

[Conversation No. 500‑11A]

‑Railroad strike
‑Smith meeting
‑Length
‑Time

[End of Telephone Conversation]

‑Meeting with Ehrlichman
‑Time
‑Meeting with Smith
‑Length
‑Possible postponement
‑Kissinger
‑Meeting with Ehrlichman
‑Time

[Haldeman talked with John D. Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 10:26 am and 11:03 am]

[Conversation No. 500‑11B]

Ehrlichman's schedule
‑Meeting with President

[End of telephone conversation]

President's schedule
‑Robert H. Finch and Donald H. Rumsfeld
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Language of forthcoming Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] announcement
‑Upcoming Congressional vote [Mansfield Amendment?]
‑Possible dates
‑Quadriad meeting
-Conduct of meeting
‑Other meetings
‑May 27
‑May 28

‑Kennedy Center event, May 27, 1971
‑Meeting with Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al Saud [King of Saudi Arabia], May 28, 1971
‑Details
‑Date

President's plane
‑David M. Kennedy
‑A June trip by the President
‑Other users
‑Connally
‑Cost
‑Department budget
‑State Department and military planes

Edward Ridley Finch
-Edward R.F. Cox
‑Profession
‑Air Force reserve
‑Retirement rank
‑James D. Hughes
‑Possible action by President
‑Alexander M. Haig, Jr. 

United Nations
‑George H.W. Bush
‑A speech
-Holding sessions in other countries

President's schedule
‑Lyndon B. Johnson Library opening
‑Connally, Rogers, Bush, William F. (ABilly@) Graham, Bryce N. Harlow, Julie and David Eisenhower
‑Friday, May 21, 1971
-Option of Washington or Florida

Railroad strike
‑Senate handling
‑Japanese
‑Compared with foreign policy

Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield Amendment
‑Senators' views
-Compromise efforts
‑Mansfield's position

Senate
‑Lack of leadership
‑Antiballistic missile treaty [ABM]
‑President's meeting with Republican leaders, May 18, 1971
‑Effect
‑Value
‑An unknown man [Ehrlichman or Clark MacGregor[?]]
‑Possible John Sherman Cooper meeting with President

SST
‑President's meetings with Senators
‑James L. Buckley, Wallace F. Bennett, Clifford P. Hansen, Cooper
‑Effects
-Cooper
-Position
‑Ehrlichman
‑Cost figures from Boeing Corporation
‑Accuracy
‑Ehrlichman
‑Allen J. Ellender's position
-Views on cost
-Views on SST administration
‑A luncheon
‑Margaret Chase Smith
‑Relations with the President and the Administration
‑Ellender
‑Boeing

President's schedule
‑A group advocating Social Security increases
‑Welfare

Haldeman left at 11:03 am.

Conversation No. 500‑12

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:03 am and 11:06 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:06 am.

Conversation No. 500‑13

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  11:06 am ‑ 11:28 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Hubert H. Humphrey's Amendment
‑Vietnam draftees
‑Melvin R. Laird
-President=s position
‑Kissinger's possible role
‑Effectiveness

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
‑Senate debate
‑Possible effects
‑State Department
‑Publication of Andrei A. Gromyko ‑ Jacob D. Beam conversations
‑Purpose, effects
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] actions
‑Trade policy
-Efforts to purchase US truck components
‑Kissinger's conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑Peter G. Peterson meeting with USSR commission
-Connection to SALT public announcement

‑USSR actions
‑Vladimir S. Semenov
‑Possible announcement
-Wording
‑Possible causes
‑Ronald L. Ziegler, John A. Scali
‑Senate
‑Ziegler and Scali
‑Senate
‑[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson and Treaty of Versailles
‑Henry Cabot Lodge

Republican leaders
‑Gerald R. Ford

Democratic leaders
‑Southerners
‑John C. Stennis
‑Richard B. Russell
‑New southerners
‑David H. Gambrell
‑Lawton M. Chiles, Jr.
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield Amendment
‑Gambrell and Chiles

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‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
‑Chappaquiddick
‑Law school exam

‑Positions on demonstrators
‑Compared with John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy
-James O. Eastland

Foreign policy
‑Congressional votes
‑SALT
‑USSR
‑Possible advisors on US policy
‑Mansfield Amendment
‑Negotiations
‑Laos, Antiwar demonstrations
‑D[avid] Kenneth Rush
‑Kissinger's actions
-Ultimatum
‑Previous week's actions
‑Congress
‑Mansfield Amendment
‑Rogers
‑Possible compromise with Mansfield
‑Administration action
‑Robert P. Griffin
‑Prospects in House of Representatives
‑Charles McC. Mathias Amendment
‑SALT
‑Humphrey Amendment
‑Combat
‑Public opinion
‑Effects on US foreign policy
‑Congress
‑"New Establishment"
‑Bureaucracy
‑Gen. Robert E. Pursley
‑Military assistant to Melvin R. Laird
‑Friendship with Clark M. Clifford
‑State Department
‑Possible 1972 leaks
‑Future
‑Vietnam
‑USSR
‑People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑Middle East

‑USSR
‑Egypt
‑Anwar El Sadat
‑USSR
‑Israel
‑President's policies
‑USSR
‑Egypt
‑SALT
‑Possible summit
‑Berlin agreement
‑PRC
‑Robert Murphy
-Possible meeting with the President
‑SALT
‑Possible agreement and announcement
‑Rogers
‑Ziegler
‑Possible leaks
‑H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Peterson
‑USSR actions
‑Possible changes
‑Dobrynin[?]
‑Semenov, Smith
‑Laird

Kissinger left at 11:28 am.

Conversation No. 500‑14

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:28 am and 11:30 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑Barber

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:30 am.

Conversation No. 500‑15

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:28 am and 11:30 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Correspondence
-Charles C. Diggs, Jr.
‑Black Caucus

[Signing documents]

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 11:30 am.

Conversation No. 500‑16

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  11:30 am ‑ 12:16 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman and George P. Shultz.

Supersonic Transport [SST]
‑Boeing
‑President's schedule
‑William E. Timmons' Senate vote projections
‑William M. Allen's previous testimony
‑Possible Boeing statement
‑Effect
‑Boeing
‑Contract position
‑Cost figures
‑Allen
‑Timmons
‑Possible Boeing statement
‑Senate

‑House of Representatives conferees
‑Senate
‑Boeing
‑George H. Mahon, Allen J. Ellender
‑Future contracts
‑Governor Daniel J. Evans
-Future participation in SST program
‑Lockheed
‑Future
‑Boeing
‑Government and private efforts
-Research and development
-Sharing costs
‑707's and 727's
‑Gerald R. Ford
‑Efforts for SST
‑Forthcoming meeting with Ehrlichman
‑House of Representatives
‑Allen
‑Role

Boeing
‑Actions
-President=s view
‑Future contracts
-Prohibition
‑Tanker
‑Allen
‑Future meeting with Ehrlichman
‑A hydrofoil
‑Actions
‑Shultz's May 19, 1971 speech to aerospace industry meeting in Williamsburg

Senate
‑Peter H. Dominick
‑Health
‑Kissinger
‑Statement regarding railroad strike
‑Action regarding railroad strike
‑Possible handling of policy matters
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield Amendment

‑Clark MacGregor
‑Dominick
‑Health

House of Representatives
‑[Thomas] Hale Boggs' action regarding debt amendment
‑Wilbur D. Mills
‑Effects
‑Mills and House Ways and Means Committee
‑Boggs' action regarding education bill
‑George H. Mahon
-Leadership

Railroad strike
‑Possible Congressional action
-President=s view

Boeing
‑Ehrlichman's meetings
‑Future
‑Ford
-Robert P. Griffin

Railroad strike
‑Senate Labor Committee vote
‑Wage increase
‑Prospects in House
‑Unions
‑Timing of action
-Pending legislation

President's schedule
‑Ambassador's presentation of credentials
‑Togo
‑Interview with businessmen magazine editors
‑Herbert G. Klein
‑Time, Fortune, Barron's, Forbes
‑Shultz's possible role
‑President's role
‑Peterson

Alexander Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 11:30 am.

‑H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:10 pm.

‑Interview with businessmen magazine editors
‑Shultz's role
‑Railroad strike
‑Shultz's role
‑Maurice H. Stans and Paul W. McCracken
-Peterson's role
‑Shultz's role

Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 11:30 am.

‑Ground rules
‑Klein
‑Fortune editors
‑Klein

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 12:10 pm.

‑Themes
‑State of economy in 1969
‑Administration efforts
-Rates of inflation
‑Quadriad meeting, May 21, 1971
‑John B. Connally, McCracken, and Arthur F. Burns
‑Trip to Italy
-Haldeman
‑Previous meeting
‑Date
‑President's role
‑Agenda, purpose

Economy
‑Interest rates
‑Burns and the Federal Reserve Board
‑Connally's testimony to Abraham A. Ribicoff's committee
‑Domestic compared with international economy
‑Federal Reserve
‑Connally, McCracken, and Burns trip
‑Talking paper for President
‑Connally, McCracken, and Burn trip

‑Peterson
‑Connally
‑Burns
‑Peterson

Social Security
‑Congressional vote
‑Family Assistance Plan
‑President's statement
‑Purpose
‑Republican vote
‑Cost‑of‑living escalator
‑Budget outlay in Fiscal Year 1973

Economy
‑Possible June budget meeting
‑Location
‑Shultz's conversation with Connally and McCracken
‑Date
‑Second quarter estimates
‑Date
‑President's schedule
‑Tricia Nixon's wedding
‑Fiscal Year 1973 budget
‑John N. Mitchell
‑Importance for 1972 Republican platform
‑Property tax
‑Possible tax revision
‑Connally
‑Importance
-Value-added tax
‑Compared with revenue‑sharing and government reorganization
‑Revenue‑sharing connection
-View among state and local governments
‑Possible tax revision
‑Mills
‑Importance in 1972
‑The poor
‑Middle America

Domestic issues
‑Food stamps
‑Importance

‑President's speeches
‑Blacks
‑President's reply to the Black Caucus
‑A notebook
‑Constituencies
‑Hunger program, Family Assistance Plan
‑Importance
‑Tax credits
‑Tuition tax credits
‑Faculty salary subsidies
‑Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]
‑Budget and economics review
‑Tax revision
‑Connally
‑Influences
‑Paul A. Volcker, Charls E. Walker
‑Budget ceilings
‑Review
‑1970 review
‑Space program
‑Moon shots
‑Ehrlichman's May 17, 1971 meeting with James C. Fletcher of National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
‑NASA's mission
‑Future meeting(s)
‑Saline water
‑Possible NASA role
‑President's review of option paper
‑Importance
‑Florida, Texas, California
‑Option paper

Economy
-Housing starts [?]
‑Inflation figures
‑Consumer Price Index [CPI]
‑Interest rates
‑Mortgage money
‑Possible interest subsidy
-Housing
‑Railroad strikes
‑Status
‑International situation

‑Causes
‑Connally's statement
‑Milton Friedman's article "The Mark Crisis" in Newsweek
‑Volcker's statement to President
-Stock Market

‑Treasury Department
‑Volcker
-@Establishment@
‑Burns
‑Position on gold
‑Currency values
-Shultz=s view
‑Effect of US trade
-Exports
‑Japanese yen
‑Stock market
‑Effect of railroad strike

Domestic issues
‑Racial violence
‑May 17, 1971 Bedford‑Stuyvesant incident
‑Cause
-Police action
-Unemployment
‑Prospects
‑Possible action
‑Effects
‑Possible action
‑May 17, 1971 incident
‑Cause
-Police action
‑John V. Lindsay's actions
‑1960's riots, 1971 Washington, D.C. demonstrations
‑Riot control
‑Law Enforcement Assistance Administration [LEAA]
‑1967 Washington, D.C. riots

President's schedule
‑Meeting with National Small Businessman of the Year

International trade statistics
‑Stans' work

John N. Frank, Mrs. John N. Frank, Joniece Frank, Thomas S. Kleppe, and Peter M. Flanigan entered at 12:10 pm; Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins was present the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Ehrlichman and Shultz left at 12:10 pm.

Introductions

Republicans

Photo arrangements

Award

Frank's business

California, Oklahoma

Gifts
-Cuff links
-Bow pins

Frank's business

President's family
‑Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon
‑Decoration of Oval Office
‑Julie Nixon Eisenhower
‑Needlework

The Franks and Kleppe left at 12:15 pm.

Small business

Business magazine editors meeting [?]
‑Roosevelt Room
‑McCracken, Shultz, Peterson, [Unintelligible name], James D. Hodgson, Rogers C. B. Morton, Stans
‑President's possible role

Flanigan left at 12:16 pm.

Conversation No. 500‑17

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  12:16 pm ‑ 12:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Arthur G. (AArt@) Linkletter and DeVan L. Shumway; Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

John D. (AJack@) Wrather, Jr.
‑Photograph arrangements

Linkletter's book, Dear Mr. President
‑Secretaries
-Herbert G. Klein
‑Number of copies
‑Cost
‑Children's letters to President

Drug use
-Linkletter's trips around the country to conventions
‑Armed forces
‑Travis Air Force Base (AFB), Fort McClellan
‑Causes
‑Vietnam
‑Europe
‑Report from Robert H. Finch
‑Linkletter's categories of drug users
‑Curiosity seekers
‑Recreational users
‑"Weekenders"
‑Dependent ones
‑"Heads", "freaks"
‑Addicts
‑Linkletter's work
‑Grammar school, junior and senior high schools
‑Educational programs
‑Marijuana
-Work of commission on marijuana and drug abuse

‑President's stance on legalizing drugs
‑Alcohol
‑Differences between alcohol and marijuana
‑Effects
‑Grades and strengths of marijuana
‑Dr. Harvey House (sp?), chief clinical psychiatrist at University of California at Fresno
‑Study of the effects of marijuana
‑Dr. Bertram S. Brown of National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH]
‑Statement in press on marijuana

[The President talked with an unknown person [John D. Ehrlichman?] at an unknown time between 12:16 pm and 12:35 pm]

[Conversation No. 500‑17A]

‑Brown's tenure

[End of telephone conversation]

‑Brown's statements
‑Alcoholics
‑Differences between alcohol and marijuana

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‑Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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‑Medical use of morphine
‑Civil War
‑Effect of Drugs
-The President=s view
‑Asia
-Middle East
- Latin America
‑China
‑India
‑Burma
‑Communist countries
-Soviet Union
‑Use of Alcohol
‑Sweden
‑Finland
‑Great Britain
‑Ireland
‑Drug use effects
‑Effect of drugs on street gangs in Brooklyn
‑Billy Wilkerson
‑"Cross and Switchblade"
‑Cost of illegal drugs

Demonstrators
‑Arrests
‑Public reaction
‑President's, John N. Mitchell's, and police chief's roles

Linkletter's work

Presentation of cuff links
‑Tricia Nixon's wedding

Paul W. Keyes
-Role with ALaugh-In@ television series

Bohemian Grove
‑Walter Trohan
‑President's attendance

Linkletter and Shumway left at 12:35 pm.

Conversation No. 500‑18

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:10 pm and 2:14 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Items for President's signature

Butterfield left at 2:14 pm.

Conversation No. 500‑19

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:14 pm and 2:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown woman [Marjorie P. Acker?].

Rose Mary Woods= schedule

The unknown woman [Acker?] left at an unknown time before 12:37 pm.

Conversation No. 500‑20

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:14 pm and 2:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man and woman.

President=s schedule

The unknown man and woman left at an unknown time before 2:30 pm.

Conversation No. 500‑21

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:14 pm and 2:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

[Discontinuities appear in the original recording]

Statements by Dr. Bertram S. Brown of National Institute of Mental Health
‑Ronald L. Ziegler's press briefing
‑President's previous press conference
‑Brown identified
‑Ziegler's briefing

[End of conversation]

Conversation No. 500‑22

Date:  May 18, 1972
Time:  2:30 pm ‑ 3:04 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

[Discontinuities appear in the original recording]

Drugs
‑Statements by Dr. Bertram S. Brown of National Institute of Mental Health
‑President's previous statement at California press conference
‑Distribution
‑Officials' views

Presidential appointments
-Peter G. Peterson
-Rogers C.B. Morton
‑Age
‑Health
‑Age
‑[Name unintelligible]
‑Age

Drugs
‑Marijuana
‑Effects
‑Compared with alcohol
‑Types
‑Effect on nations
-Alcohol
‑Japan, Great Britain, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR], People's Republic of China [PRC], Malaysia

[Unintelligible]

‑Arthur G. (AArt@) Linkletter [?]
-Anti-narcotics campaign [?]

A special item

Business magazine editors meeting
-Original list of attendants
‑Time, Newsweek, Fortune, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Forbes
‑[Name unintelligible], C. L. Sulzberger
‑Time, Newsweek, and New York Times business sections

President's schedule
‑Donald H. Rumsfeld and Robert H. Finch
‑A call

Mansfield Amendment
‑Senate
‑Possible vote

Supersonic Transport [SST]
‑President's conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
‑Boeing contracts
‑Administration's efforts, Boeing's efforts
‑Republican senators
‑Southern Democrats
‑House of Representatives
‑Leadership
‑Senate
‑Leadership
-Everett M. Dirksen
‑Hugh Scott

President's schedule
‑Quadriad meeting, May 21, 1971
‑John B. Connally

Anna C. Chennault

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‑Current position
-US Chamber of Commerce
‑Trip to Far East and Southeast Asia

‑Previous conversation with John N. Mitchell
‑Possible letters from President
‑Park Chung Hee
‑Chiang Kai‑shek
‑Prime Minister and Air Marshall of Thailand
‑Letter to Haldeman
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑Possible letters from President
‑Letters to Ambassadors
‑Vietnam
‑Mitchell=s view
-Forthcoming election in South Vietnam
‑Kissinger=s view
‑Trip
‑Possible letters
‑President
‑Ambassadors
‑Kissinger
‑US ambassador
‑Taiwan, Korea
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:30 pm.

President=s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:04 pm.

Chennault

Racial problems
‑Ehrlichman's assessment
‑Possible action
‑Demonstrators
‑Mayors, police chiefs
‑Ehrlichman
‑Law Enforcement Assistance Administration [LEAA]
‑Ehrlichman
‑Blacks, Chicanos
‑Police

Clark MacGregor
‑Location
‑Possible meeting with President and Kissinger

[Haldeman talked with an unknown person [Bull?] at an unknown time between 2:30 pm and 3:04 pm]

[Conversation No. 500‑22A]

President's schedule
‑Kissinger and MacGregor

[End of telephone conversation]

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Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:30 pm.

MacGregor's location

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:04 pm.

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John A. Volpe
‑Haldeman's conversation with Mitchell
‑Relations with President
‑Dinner at Clifford M. Hardin's residence
‑Telephone conversation with Ehrlichman
‑Meetings with President
‑Transportation issues
‑National Railroad Passenger Corporation [AMTRAK or RAILPAX]
‑SST
‑Volpe's
‑William M. Magruder
‑Volpe compared with Connally

Rumsfeld
‑Possible position with Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]
‑Ehrlichman
‑Forthcoming meeting with Haldeman
‑Possible OEP position
‑Cabinet meetings
-National Security Council [NSC]
‑Mission
‑Forthcoming meeting with President and Finch

Hardin[?]

Haldeman left at 3:04 pm.

Conversation No. 500‑23

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:04 pm and 3:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:06 pm.

Conversation No. 500‑24

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:04 pm and 3:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

[Henry A. Kissinger's] schedule

Donald H. Rumsfeld's and Robert H. Finch's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:06 pm.

Conversation No. 500‑25

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  3:06 pm ‑ 3:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations
‑President's meeting with Gerard C. Smith
-Postponements
‑Railroad strike
‑Possible announcement
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] position and actions
-Possible problems
-Wording
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑An unnamed advisor [National Security Council staff member?]
‑Actions during the Lyndon B. Johnson Administration
‑Wording
-Possible reasons for delay
‑Pierre E. Trudeau's visit to USSR
‑Leonid I. Brezhnev's schedule
‑Trudeau's visit

‑Vladimir S. Semenov, Smith
‑Truck parts agreement [Kama River]
‑Thomas W. (ATeddy@) Gleason
-Grain export negotiations
‑Berlin
‑People's Republic of China [PRC]

Vietnam
‑Casualty figures
‑Cambodian operation
-Week=s numbers
-Decline

SALT
‑Congress
‑Clark MacGregor
‑Kissinger's memorandum
‑Melvin R. Laird
‑Senate ratification
‑USSR reply
‑Dobrynin
‑Wording
‑William P. Rogers, Smith
‑Antiballistic Missile's [ABM's]
‑Ronald L. Ziegler, John A. Scali
‑USSR reply
-Timing
‑Possible announcements
‑Rogers, Laird

Senate
‑End‑the‑war amendments
‑Hubert H. Humphrey's amendment
-Draftees
-Effect	
‑Previous presidents
‑Richard B. Russell and colleagues

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:06 pm.

President's schedule
‑Possible meeting with Robert H. Finch and Donald H. Rumsfeld
‑Time
‑Meeting with Ambassadors
‑Possible meeting with Finch and Rumsfeld

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:40 pm.

‑Report on trip abroad
‑Senators
‑President's staff
‑Position on issues
-Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
‑Charles H. Percy
‑President's and Kissinger's meeting
‑A proposal
‑Charles McC. Mathias Amendment
‑Position on issues
-Lack of support for the President

Foreign policy objectives and prospects
‑Salt treaty
‑Berlin agreement
‑Middle East
‑PRC
‑USSR summit
‑Vietnam

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:06 pm.

President's schedule
‑Meeting with Finch and Rumsfeld
‑Time

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:40 pm.

Reports to President on trips
‑Finch and Rumsfeld
‑John A. Volpe
‑Maurice H. Stans
‑George W. Romney
‑Finch and Rumsfeld

Volpe
‑Possible trip
‑Graham A. Martin
‑Talk with Kissinger
‑Diplomatic assignments

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Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
‑Work as vice president
‑Relations with the press

Press
‑Treatment of President
‑President's accomplishments
‑Compared with treatment of Lyndon B. Johnson

President's accomplishments
‑Vietnam
‑Troop withdrawals
‑European alliance
‑USSR
‑Cuba
‑Jordan
‑Cambodian and Laotian Invasions
‑SALT treaty announcement
‑USSR
‑Reply
‑Reply
‑Location
-Vienna
‑Berlin agreement
‑Four Powers meeting

‑D[avid] Kenneth Rush
-Possible US action
‑SALT agreement
‑USSR
‑Semenov
‑Wording
‑US and USSR bureaucracies
‑ABM
‑Smith=s proposals
‑Trade agreements with USSR
-Restriction of Cabinet officers= travel
‑Bryce N. Harlow
‑President's previous meeting with foreign policy establishment
‑Effect
‑Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Dwight D. Eisenhower
‑Rogers and the State Department
‑MacGregor
‑An unknown event
‑Effect
‑Mansfield Amendment
‑Senate characterized
‑Possible alternatives
‑Administration position
‑Possible re‑wording
‑Mathias Amendment
‑North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
‑Mutual Balanced Reduction of forces
‑President's role in negotiations
‑Mutual reduction of forces
‑May 18, 1971 meeting with Congressional leaders
-Problems

SALT
‑Possible announcement
‑Timing
‑Press Conference
‑Compared with Lyndon B. Johnson
-Timing

Sir Keith J. Holyoake
-Meeting with the President, April 8, 1971
-Nature of meeting
-Emil (ABus@) Mosbacher, Jr.
-Kissinger=s attendance
-Topics of discussion
-President=s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Agriculture

MacGregor

Harlow
‑Senate
‑Russell, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Everett M. Dirksen
‑Leaders
‑Democrats
‑Presidential candidates
-Morning meeting with Republican Congressional leadership, May 18, 1971
‑Mansfield Amendment
‑Mathias Amendment

Senate
‑Mathias
‑Mathias, Percy, Richard S. Schweiker
‑Jacob K. Javits
‑Republicans
‑Javits
‑Talk with Kissinger regarding Mathias Amendment
‑Percy, Mathias
‑Percy

[The President talked with an unknown person [H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman ?] at an unknown time between 3:06 pm and 3:40 pm]

[Conversation No. 500‑25A]

Charles W. Colson's location

[End of telephone conversation]

Colson

Senate
‑President's relations

Kissinger left at 3:40 pm.

Conversation No. 500‑26

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  3:42 pm ‑ 4:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman and Charles W. Colson.

[Unintelligible]

Supersonic Transport [SST]
‑Status of legislation
-Vote
‑Boeing Corporation
‑Future government contracts
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Handling
‑Termination costs
‑President's future dealings
‑Daniel J.  Evans

Colson
‑Henry A. Kissinger's view

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:42 pm.

President's schedule
‑Rose Mary Woods
‑Ambassadors

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:55 pm.

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1972 election
‑Issues
‑Vietnam war
‑Effect of President's foreign policy accomplishments
‑Isolationism
‑The economy
-Jobs
‑Racism
‑Welfare reform 
‑White House staff suggestions regarding Family Assistance Plan
‑Social Security
‑Reform
‑Public opinion
‑1970 Vermont gubernatorial election
-Deane C. Davis
‑President's statement
-Popularity

Senate
‑President=s view
‑Kissinger, Bryce N. Harlow
‑President's May 18, 1971 meeting with Congressional leadership
‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] negotiations
‑Leonid I. Brezhnev
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield and Charles McC. Mathias Amendments

Democrats

Approval ratings
‑Lyndon B. Johnson
‑Louis P. Harris poll

‑President's position on police
‑Mail
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr.
‑Effect of ratings
‑Ronald W. Reagan's action at University of California at Berkeley

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 3:55 pm.

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations
‑USSR reply
‑Announcement
-Text
‑Timing
‑Wording
‑President's schedule
‑Announcements
‑Meetings with Gerard C. Smith, William P. Rogers
‑Times

Colson left at 3:58 pm.

‑Kissinger's schedule
‑President=s upcoming address to the American National Red Cross, May 19, 1971
‑Smith
‑Kissinger's schedule
‑Time
‑Announcement
‑Smith's possible response
‑Senate
‑Congressional leaders
‑John A. Scali
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑Congressional leaders
‑Time
‑Possible response
‑Rogers and Melvin R. Laird
‑President's Laos statement, November 3, 1969, speech
‑Cambodia incursion announcement, 1970
-Anti-ballistic missile [ABM] announcement
‑President's schedule
‑Dobrynin
‑Congressional leaders

‑President's role
‑Possible response
‑President's possible actions
‑Mansfield
‑Possible leak

The President, Haldeman, and Kissinger left at 4:05 pm.

Conversation No. 500‑27

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:05 pm and 4:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman.

President's schedule
‑Henry A. Kissinger, John A. Scali, and Ronald L. Ziegler

[End of conversation]

The President left at 4:06 pm.

Conversation No. 500‑28

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:06 pm and 4:41 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull and unknown people met.

President's schedule

Alexander P. Butterfield entered and the unknown people left at an unknown time after 4:06 pm.

Unknown sound[?]

President=s schedule

Bull and Butterfield left at an unknown time before 4:45 pm.

Conversation No. 500-36

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:41 pm and 4:42 pm
Location:  Oval Office

William P. Rogers

H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman left and an unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:41 pm.

President's schedule, May 19, 1971
‑Meeting with Rogers
-Time

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 4:42 pm.

Conversation No. 500‑29

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  4:42 pm - 5:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman, John A. Scali, and Ronald L. Ziegler.

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑Possible leaks
‑Announcement
‑Congressional leaders
‑Vote, May 19, 1971
‑Effect
‑Time
‑Possible leaks

‑Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
‑Hubert H. Humphrey
‑Background
‑Announcement
‑Congressional leaders
‑Time of Kissinger's [?] briefing
‑Possible leaks
‑J. William Fulbright
‑Staff

Kissinger entered at 4:45 pm.

‑Time
‑Possible leaks
‑President's possible statements
‑Time
‑USSR agreement
‑Possible leaks
‑Time
‑Congressional leaders
‑President's possible statement
‑Fulbright
‑Hugh Scott
‑Possible leaks
‑Time
‑Backgrounders for networks and wire services
‑Effect
‑Associated Press [AP], United Press International [UPI]
-Actions
‑Congressional leaders meeting
‑President's possible statement
‑Views
‑Time
‑President's announcement to press
‑William P. Rogers and Melvin Laird
‑Congressional leaders meeting
‑Time
‑Purpose
‑Backgrounder for networks and press
‑Effect of timed released
‑Congressional leaders meeting
‑Time
‑Backgrounder for networks

‑Kissinger
‑Time
‑Commentators
‑Effect
‑White House correspondence
‑Time
‑Importance compared with Congressional leaders meeting
‑Tone
‑President's Vietnam speeches
‑White House efforts
‑Kissinger and Scali
‑AP, networks
-President=s working relationship with the USSR
‑Senate
‑Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield Amendment vote
‑President's relations
‑Distribution of story
‑Timing
‑Mansfield Amendment
-Administration=s position
‑Announcement
‑Networks, wire services
‑Importance
‑White House story line
‑First bulletin lead
‑Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson and other Democrats position
‑Announcement
‑USSR
‑Antiballistic missile [ABM]
‑Importance to SALT
‑President's statements
‑Advice to President
-Charles H. Percy
‑"Selling" the agreement
‑Chalmers Roberts
‑First bulletin lead
‑Roberts, Time, Newsweek, [Arnold] Eric Sevareid, John W. Chancellor
‑First story
‑Briefings
‑Times
‑Attendees
‑Stewart M. Hensley
‑Roberts

‑John L. Steele
-Proposed story on SALT
‑Kissinger's role

Scali and Ziegler left at 5:00 pm.

‑Notification of Rogers and Gerard C. Smith
‑Timing
‑President's schedule
-Knowledge

Kissinger left and John D. Ehrlichman entered at an unknown time after 5:00 pm.

Supersonic Transport [SST]
‑Boeing
‑Ehrlichman's meetings
‑Termination
‑Senate action
‑Future contracts
‑Hydrofoil
‑Ehrlichman's conversation with Gerald R. Ford
‑Ford's response

Ehrlichman left and Stephen B. Bull entered at 5:04 pm.

President's schedule
‑George P. Shultz, Herbert G. Klein and business magazine editors
‑Chairs

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:05 pm.

SALT
‑Rogers
‑Kissinger
‑President's credibility
‑Possible statements
‑Meeting with President, May 19, 1971
‑Time

Haldeman left at 5:05 pm.

Conversation No. 500‑30

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  5:05 pm ‑ 6:34 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with George P. Shultz, Herbert G. Klein, Robert Lubar, James W. Michaels, Lewis H. Young, Robert M. Bleiberg, Joseph E[arly] Evans, [Powhatan] Jack Wooldridge, Jr., Raymond J. Brady, Thomas Mulloney, Howard W[entworth] Fleiger, Marsahll Loeb, Lester Bernstein, and Henry Gemmill; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting; discontinuities appear in the original recording.

Greetings

Pictures

Introductions

Seating arrangements

Purpose of meeting

Foreign policy

Dinner
‑Paul W. McCracken, Peter G. Peterson, Maurice H. Stans
-Decatur House

Economic policy
‑President's May 18, 1971 meeting with legislative leaders
‑Balance of payments, trade policies, quotas
‑Future of US
‑Impact
‑Japanese and European production since World War II
‑Edward R.G. Heath
‑Labor, trade
‑Japan
‑East‑West relations
-Dollar crisis
-US economic assistance
‑US trade policy
-US defense policy
‑Japan, Germany, Europe

‑Protectionism
‑Congressional sentiment, public opinion
‑President's experience as Vice President under Dwight D. Eisenhower
‑Business Council
‑President's experience as Vice President
‑Steel
‑Japan
‑Automobiles
‑West Coast sales
‑Business Council
‑US competitiveness
-Peterson
‑Research and development
-Great Britain

Shultz's role in meeting

Balance of payments
‑"Dollar crisis"
‑Economists' views
‑Federal Reserve Board, Department of the Treasury, Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
‑Milton Friedman's article
‑German economy
‑International monetary conference
‑Bretton Woods
‑Gold
-Arthur F. Burns= position
‑Japan
‑Germany
‑Administration policy
-Need for clarity of position
‑Netherlands
‑Switzerland
‑Germany
‑Belgium
-US interest rates
-Compared with European rates
‑Exchange rates
-Fluctuations
‑John B. Connally
‑US interest rates

-Interest rates
-US policy
-The President=s position

US competitiveness
‑Peterson
‑Steel industry
-US share of world market
‑Exports
‑International lending
‑Export-Import Bank, Inter-America Development Bank, World Bank
-Germany
-Lutshansa
-US policy
‑Effect on US economy
‑Trans World Airlines, American Airlines
-Stimulation of exports
‑Boeing
‑Subsidy
‑Size, effect
-Henry Kearns
‑Government subsidies
‑Japan
‑American producers
-Kearns
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Shultz
‑Competition
‑Japan
-Europe
-Germany
-France
-Latin America
-Africa
-Arms sales
-Melvin R. Laird
-US foreign policy interests
-Western Hemisphere

Inflation
‑Monetary policy
‑Budgetary policy
‑Congressional action

‑Full employment, full capacity
‑Definition
-Balanced budget
‑1958 Eisenhower administration experience
‑Government responsibility
‑Full employment
‑Effect
‑Health programs advocated by Senate
‑Effect
‑President's policy
‑Vetoes
‑Shultz
‑Wage‑price policy
‑Labor‑management
‑Wage‑price controls
-Inflation
‑Monetary policy
‑1968 experience
‑Deficits
‑Federal Reserve Board monetary policy
‑Wage and price controls

Steel
‑Negotiations
‑Steel industry
-Labor
‑Wages, prices
‑Productivity and investment increases
‑Labor relations
‑Strike in 1959
‑James P. Mitchell
‑Roger M. Blough and Conrad Cooper[?]
‑Work rules

Organized labor
‑Work rules
‑Railroad strike
‑Bechtel Corporation
‑National Commission on Productivity
‑Union leaders
‑Effect

US economy
-Peterson=s forthcoming report
‑Purpose of President's forthcoming speech
‑Labor, management
‑Current status
‑Supersonic Transport [SST] vote, May 19, 1971
‑Termination costs for Boeing
-Nuclear power
-Environment
‑Tradition
‑Competition
‑Japan and  Germany
‑Defense capabilities
‑People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑Europe
‑Great Britain, Italy, Spain, France
‑Germany and Japan
-Economic role
‑SST
‑Time of flight to Paris
‑Importance
‑Automobiles
‑Japan
‑Costs
‑President's meetings with heads of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler
‑Airbags, seatbelts
‑Effect of safety devices on costs
‑American, foreign cars
-Environment
-Safety
‑Steel industry
‑President's possible role
‑Workers
‑Future
‑Modernization efforts
‑Compared with Germany and Japan
-President=s view on competition
‑Public opinion
‑Computers
‑USSR
‑Public opinion
‑Labor and business leaders
‑Future

‑Military superiority
‑Public opinion
‑Labor‑management bargains
‑Congress
‑Proposals regarding labor and management relations
‑Wagner Act, Taft‑Hartley Act
‑Transportation
‑Compulsory arbitration
‑Railroad strike
‑Reasons
‑Public opinion
-Peterson
‑Business
‑President's meetings
‑Leadership
‑Labor unions
‑Objectives
‑Samuel L. Gompers
‑Membership
‑Great Britain
‑Labor‑management relations
‑Congress, public opinion
‑Taft‑Hartley Act passage in 1947
‑President's role
‑Harry S. Truman's veto
‑Effect of public opinion
‑Productivity competition
‑Antitrust laws
‑Connally
‑Regulations
-Sherman Anti-trust Act
‑International competition
‑Review by administration
‑Mergers
‑Tom Sullivan's statement at previous Quadriad meeting
‑Shultz
‑University of Chicago background
‑Position
‑Trends in last thirty to forty years
‑Peterson's report
‑Possible effects
‑Trade policy
‑Wage and labor management policy

‑Antitrust policy
‑Government subsidies for research and development
-Levels
‑Desalinization
‑Breeder reactor
‑Benefits
-Energy costs
‑"New water"
‑Uses
‑Program
‑Office of Saline Water in Department of the Interior
‑President's previous meeting
-Status of research
‑Compared with Japan, Great Britain, Germany, USSR
‑Government and private contributions
‑Compared with highway program
‑Texas, Oklahoma, Southern California
‑Possible action
‑Highway trust fund
‑Legislation in current Congress
‑House Ways and Means Committee
‑Welfare reform
‑Revenue‑sharing
‑Health benefits
‑Tax reform
‑Wilbur D. Mills
‑Previous bill
‑Review of tax code
‑US competitive position
‑Use of tax system
-President education
-Duke University Law School
-Charles Lucien baker Lowndes
-View on tax system
‑Tuition tax credit
-Views of Treasury Department
‑Connally
‑Free trade
-US role in the world
-President=s view on protectionism
‑Adam Smith
‑Public opinion
-Protectionism

-Effect
‑Time cover story
‑East‑West trade
-International monetary policy
‑USSR
‑Japan
‑Textiles
-Eisaku Sato
-Trade policy
-Effect on American companies
‑Regulations
‑James M. Roche
‑General Motors truck plant
‑Orientation towards the West
‑Importance
-Negativity ability
‑President's legal experience
‑Textiles
‑Peterson
‑Quotas
‑Long‑term
-American educational system
‑Businessmen
-President=s policies
‑Long‑term
‑Foreign affairs
‑Vietnam War, arms policy, PRC initiative
‑World War I and World War II
‑Effect on Western Europe
-Trade prior to conflicts

Business editors dinner, May 18, 1971
-Decatur House
-Location

Foreign policy
‑American people's responsibility
‑American people
-President=s view
-Vision
-Practicality
-Pragmatism	
‑World War II effects

‑Monetary policy
‑International monetary conference
‑Gold prices
‑Interest rates
-Federal Reserve Bank
‑US unemployment
‑Importance of strong US economy
-The President=s policies
‑International monetary situation
‑Trade policy
-Labor relations policy
‑Tariffs and quotas
‑US tax policy
‑Antitrust policy

Gifts
‑Presidential cufflinks
‑Presidential golf balls
‑Presidential seal
‑Donald McI. Kendall, Wilson Sporting Goods
‑Cufflinks
‑Cost
‑Seal
-A Group interested in US policy in Israel
-Previous meeting with the President
‑Golda Meir
‑Relations with US
-Presentation of gifts

Tricia Nixon's wedding
‑Preparations in Rose Garden
-White flowers
‑Previous White House weddings
-East Room
-Tricia Nixon=s view

Democrats

Decatur House
-Ownership
-Daughters of American Revolution, Society of the Cincinnati

Shultz, et al., left at 6:34 pm.

Previous meeting
-Results

The President talked with the White House operator at 6:34 pm.

[Conversation No. 500-30A]

[See Conversation No. 3‑60]

Klein left at 6:34 pm.

Conversation No. 500‑32

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  6:34 pm - 6:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Mrs. Nixon.

[See Conversation No. 3‑61]

[One item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 500‑33

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:35 pm and 6:38 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑Dinner on the Sequoia
‑John B. Connally, Henry A. Kissinger, H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman, Charles W. Colson, and John D. Ehrlichman
‑Time

Moving of objects

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:38 pm.

Conversation No. 500‑34

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  6:38 pm ‑ 6:49 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman and Alexander P. Butterfield.

President's schedule
‑President's previous interview
‑Sequoia
‑Arrangements
-Transportation

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 6:40 pm.

Congress
‑Vote on Emergency Unemployment Bill
‑Vote on revenue sharing measure
‑Manpower Special Revenue Sharing
‑House of Representatives

President's schedule
‑Meetings with George P. Shultz, Paul W. McCracken, James D. Hodgson

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 6:40 pm.

‑Sequoia
‑Charles W. Colson, John D. Ehrlichman
‑Car
‑Shultz
-Information on railroad strike

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:48 pm.

‑Meeting
‑McCracken's schedule

‑Shultz
‑Hodgson
‑McCracken=s memorandum on construction
‑Discussion

Shultz entered at an unknown time after 6:40 pm.

‑McCracken's schedule
‑McCracken's memorandum
‑President's possible action
-Shultz=s view
‑Agreed‑upon increases
‑Possible private board action
‑Possible union response
‑Board makeup
‑Government role
‑Possible discussion with McCracken

Railroad strike
‑McCracken, Hodgson, and Shultz
‑Possible settlement
‑Congress
‑House and Senate
‑Jacob K. Javits
‑Board
‑Moratorium dates
‑Increases
‑Possible compromise
‑Javits, Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield, Carl B. Albert

President's interview with business editors
‑Herbert G. Klein
‑Issues discussed
‑Domestic economy
‑Trade policy
‑President's position

Railroad strike
‑House action on wage package
‑Harley O. Staggers
‑Wage package and date

‑Board recommendation
‑Javits= proposal
‑President's action

President's meeting with business editors
‑Issues raised
‑Peter G. Peterson's report
‑Antitrust and tax review
‑American spirit
‑Trade policy
-The President=s view
‑Free trade
‑Relation to American spirit
‑Peterson's forthcoming presentation
‑John B. Connally[?]
‑Position of the dollar
-The President=s concern
-US economy
-Arthur F. Burns
‑Milton Friedman's Article, "The Mark Crisis"
‑International monetary conference

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EUROPEAN AFFAIRS

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Railroad strike
‑Possible settlement

Kissinger entered at 6:48 pm.

Shultz=s meeting with the President=s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [PFIAB]

President's interview with business editors

Shultz left at 6:49 pm.

President's schedule
‑Car

The President, Haldeman, and Kissinger left at 6:49 pm.

Conversation No. 500‑35

Date:  May 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:49 pm and 10:43 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Alexander P. Butterfield and an unknown man met.

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President's location

Butterfield and the unknown man left at an unknown time before 10:43 am.