Conversation No. 503‑1

Date:  May 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:13 am and 9:25 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman; the recording begins while the conversation is in progress.

President's schedule
‑Unknown group
‑Agenda
‑President's dinner plans

Events
-Press
-Cameras
-Presence at recent event
-School event
-Photo opportunities
-Press
-School event
-White House photographer
-Mary Brooks [?]
-Tulane alumni dinner, May 20, 1971
-Press coverage
-Melvin R. Laird
-Attendees
-F. Edward Hébert
-Graduate of Tulane University
-President=s statement
-Press coverage
-Army Band
-@Hail to the Chief@
-Comments from a member of the audience

Press
-Handling
‑White House press pool
‑Bob Belini [sp?]
‑Stories

Hébert and [Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Louisiana

Southern California
‑[Forename unknown] Greenway [?]

Louisiana
‑Unknown person
‑Football

Unknown person

News summary
‑Unknown person
‑Follow‑up

Unknown office
‑Staff
‑Girls

Henry A. Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 8:13 am.

International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium [INTELSAT]
‑President's meeting with INTELSAT conference May 21, 1971
‑Time
-Location
‑Length of meeting
‑Signing ceremony
-U. Alexis Johnson
‑William P. Rogers
‑Timing
‑Press
‑Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
‑Camera coverage
‑Length and timing of President's appearance
‑Signing ceremony
‑Possible Presidential remarks
‑Length of INTELSAT conference
‑International communications
‑Reason for making remarks

SALT agreement

Tulane alumni dinner
‑Howard K. Smith
‑President's visit to the dinner
‑Dinner honoring
‑Hébert
‑Boggs
‑Allen J. Ellender
‑Time of President's visit
‑Surprise visit

INTELSAT Conference meeting, May 21, 1971
‑Johnson
‑Time of President's visit to INTELSAT Conference

President's schedule, May 21, 1971
‑Meeting with SALT delegation
‑Meeting with the National Medal of Science winners
‑Awarding medals
‑Photo opportunity
‑Academia
‑INTELSAT Conference meeting
‑State Department
‑Meeting with the National Medal of Science winners
‑Reception
‑INTELSAT
‑Johnson

Kissinger left at an unknown time before 8:43 am.

Tulane alumni Dinner, May 20, 1971
‑Press coverage
‑Louisiana
‑President's remarks
‑Band
‑"Hail to the Chief"

Executive staff
‑Election
‑Assistant Secretaries
‑Frederic V. Malek
‑John B. Connally
‑John A. Volpe, George W. Romney
‑Assistant Secretaries

‑Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower
‑Their executive staffs
‑Old Executive Office Building [EOB]

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Discrimination
-Busing in Texas
‑Unknown person in Texas
‑Court order
‑Justice Department
‑John N. Mitchell
‑Schools
‑Percentage of blacks
‑Jury
‑Pasadena, California
‑Quotas
‑Busing
‑Civil Rights Commission
-Rev. Theodore S. Hesburgh
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑White House strategy
‑Court order

White House staff
‑Meetings
‑George P. Shultz
‑Ehrlichman
‑Haldeman
‑Kissinger

‑Staff meetings in the morning
‑Events in Congress
‑News stories
‑Executive Departments

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Unknown man and the press

Cabinet and staff
-Romney
‑James D. Hodgson
‑Leadership qualities
‑Shultz
‑Treasury
‑Shultz compared to David M. Kennedy
‑Shultz
‑Peter N. Flanigan
‑Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
‑Peter G. Peterson
-Arthur F. Burns
‑Domestic Council members
‑Connally
‑Economic policy
‑Leadership
‑Football analogy
‑Paul W. McCracken
‑Burns

The President talked with an unknown person [Kissinger?] at an unknown time after 8:13 am.

Schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

Letter President is writing
-Kissinger

Department of Defense
‑Job for David Packard
‑Laird
‑Divestment of stock
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
‑Army

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Kissinger entered at 8:43 am.

INTELSAT Conference
‑Kissinger's meeting with Johnson

David K.E. Bruce
‑Cable to Kissinger
‑Resignation
‑Health
‑Loyalty to President
‑Health
‑Return to US
‑Unknown group or country
‑May, June deadlines
‑Strategy for dealing with the resignation
‑Meeting with Kissinger next week and the President

SALT
‑Kissinger's press briefing
‑News Summary
‑Coverage
-President=s role
‑Washington Post's headlines
‑New York Times
‑Television
‑Marvin L. Kalb's comments
‑Gerard C. Smith
‑Vladimir S. Semenov
‑Kissinger's opening statement to the press
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑Smith
‑Party
‑Press= political bias
‑John Kennedy
‑Washington Post
‑Television coverage
‑President's announcement
‑Press columnists
‑Smith
‑Leaks to the press
‑Bureaucracy
‑Arms Control and Disarmament Agency [ACDA]
-State Department
‑White House bargaining position
‑New York Times editorial on May 21, 1971
‑Congressional reaction
‑President's initiative
-John A. Scali
‑President's initiative
‑Congress
‑Kissinger's briefing
‑Television
‑Congressional reaction
‑Edward W. Brooke
‑Charles H. Percy
‑Hubert H. Humphrey
‑March 25
‑Charles W. Colson
‑State Department
‑ACDA

‑Press coverage
-Timing
‑Press coverage
‑New York Times and Washington Post stories
‑President's initiative
‑Unknown reporter
‑Humphrey, J. William Fulbright
‑Congressional resolutions
‑Edmund S. Muskie
‑Press coverage
‑Television networks
‑@The Today Show@
‑Washington Post reaction
‑John Kennedy
‑President's initiative
‑David Kraslow
‑Conversation with Kissinger on May 20, 1971
‑Sunday Los Angeles Times
‑People=s Republic of China [PRC]
‑John W. Chancellor
‑Presentation of Science Awards on May 21, 1971
‑Joseph W. Alsop
‑Kissinger's briefing
‑Invitation to James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
‑Unknown person
‑[Forename unknown] Steward [?]
‑Newsweek
‑Time
‑Edward Steele
‑President's initiative
‑Press backgrounders
‑Smith
‑Kissinger
‑President's briefing of Congressional leaders May 20, 1971 on SALT agreement
‑Rogers, Laird, Smith
‑Hugh S. Sidey
-Possible Kissinger statement to press
‑Strategy
‑Communist nations
‑Arms control
‑President's initiative
‑Kissinger's briefing
‑Sidey

‑Compared to PRC
‑US government agencies
‑President's initiative
‑John F. Osbourne and Sidey
‑Role of Kissinger
‑"Hot Line" telephone
‑Negotiations
‑Kissinger
‑Newspapers
‑Sidey
‑Osbourne
‑Kissinger's briefing
‑Smith

White House press briefings
‑State Department [?]
‑Help in White House briefings
‑Laos
‑Smith
‑Antiballistic missile [ABM]

Schedule

Kissinger left at 9:05 am.

Cabinet and staff
‑Rogers
‑Laird
‑Connally
‑Colson
‑Connally
‑Rogers
‑Laird
‑Romney
‑Volpe
‑Maurice H. Stans
‑Hodgson
‑Elliot L. Richardson
‑President's letter to the Soviets
‑Kissinger's meeting with Dobrynin
‑Senate
‑Leaks

Unknown person
‑Washington Post
‑Support for the President

Reactions to SALT agreement
‑Michael J. Mansfield
‑Muskie
‑Humphrey
‑Fulbright
‑Television
‑Kissinger
‑Daniel Patrick Moynihan
‑Scali
‑Conservatives
‑Ronald L. Ziegler

Media coverage of the White House
‑Press reaction to SALT
‑Osborne
‑Richardson
‑Television
‑Washington Post
‑Joseph C. Kraft
‑Chalmers Roberts
‑Washington Post
‑Media coverage of the demonstrators
‑Middle East
‑Rogers
‑Coverage of President

Congress
‑Robert J. Dole

Cabinet officers and staff
‑Connally
‑Mitchell
‑Richardson
‑Volpe
‑National Transportation Week

‑Connally
‑Rogers
‑George H.W. Bush
‑William F. (ABilly@) Graham
‑Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo

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Haldeman left at 9:25 am.

Conversation No. 503‑2

Date:  May 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:25 am and 9:37 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 3‑107]

Conversation No. 503‑3

Date:  May 21, 1971
Time:  9:37 am - 9:40 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with William L. Safire.

[See Conversation No. 3‑108]

Conversation No. 503‑4

Date:  May 21, 1971
Time:  9:40 am ‑ 9:46 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

National Medals of Science
-Awards
‑Strategy for making ceremony go smoothly
‑Medal of honor

Butterfield left at 9:46 am.

Conversation No. 503‑5

Date:  May 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:46 am and 9:53 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:53 am.

Conversation No. 503‑6

Date:  May 21, 1971
Time:  9:53 am ‑ 10:43 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Economic issues
‑Consumer Price Index [CPI] increase
‑John B. Connally
‑George P. Shultz
‑George W. Romney
‑Congress
‑Spending
‑Full employment budget
‑Price parity
‑Shultz's reaction to CPI figure
‑Food price increases
‑Last year's food price rise
‑Inflation
‑Rate

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Henry A. Kissinger=s briefing
‑President's initiative

Ziegler left at 9:56 am.

Kissinger entered at 9:56 am.

SALT negotiations
‑William P. Rogers
‑Gerard C. Smith
-Level
‑Rogers
‑Timing
‑Accidental war
‑Hot line
‑Possible statement
‑Smith
‑Vladimir S. Semenov
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑Helsinki
‑SALT delegates
‑Leaks
‑Anti‑ballistic missiles [ABM]
‑Offensive weapons
‑US position
‑ABM
‑Safeguard
-Dobrynin
‑Kissinger's briefing to the press
‑ABM
‑Offensive weapons
‑Multiple Independently‑targetable Reentry Vehicle [MIRV]
‑Submarines
‑Press reaction
‑President's involvement in SALT agreement
‑Role of Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
‑Support for President by press in coming election
‑President

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:56 am.

Forthcoming SALT delegation meeting with the President

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:03 am.

Kissinger's meeting in his office with two reporters

Change of Kissinger's scheduled meeting on Vietnam until May 22, 1971

Kissinger's future meetings with
‑[Forename unknown] Franco of Newsweek
‑Osborn Elliott
‑James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
‑William F. Buckley, Jr.

SALT
-Press reaction
-Times editorial of May 21, 1971
-People

Rogers, Gerard C. Smith, Royal B. Allison, Paul H. Nitze, Llewellyn E. Thompson, and Philip J. Farley entered at 10:03 am; photographers were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Science Medals

Seating arrangement

Photographs

SALT negotiations
‑Vienna
‑Outcome of the SALT agreement
‑Press
‑Defense Department and their supporters
‑Leaks
‑White House
‑Rogers
‑State Department
‑Bureaucracy
‑President's position on inclusion of safeguards in SALT
‑Press
‑Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson
‑ABM
‑Washington, D.C.
‑Perception of Soviet interests
‑Offensive weapons
‑President's expectations of SALT
‑Senators
‑Press columnists
‑Press conferences

‑Soviet and American domestic problems
‑Agreement
‑Negotiating strategy
‑Rogers
‑Public perception
‑J. William Fulbright
‑Congressional action
‑Smith
‑US security
‑Leaks
‑Success of negotiations
‑Consultation
‑Information
‑American security
‑Strategy
‑Perception of Soviet arms
‑Agreement
‑Hot line
‑Time period
‑Treaty
‑President's China policy
‑French
‑British
‑ABM
‑Soviet advantage
‑US defenses
‑American security
‑Soviet missiles
‑A comprehensive treaty
‑Scope of the SALT agreement
‑Missile sites
‑Smith
‑Thomas H. Moorer
‑Options
‑Radar
‑European Security Council
‑Rogers= forthcoming meeting
‑Their reaction to SALT
‑Soviet‑American policy
‑Influence

Science awards
‑Peace

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 10:40 am.

President's schedule
‑Science awards ceremony
‑International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium [INTELSAT]

Rogers, et al., left at 10:43.

Conversation No. 503‑7

Date:  May 21, 1971
Time:  10:46 am ‑ 10:47 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Senate

Request

Butterfield left at 10:47 am.

Conversation No. 503‑8

Date:  May 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:47 am and 11:02 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:02 am.

Conversation No. 503‑9

Date:  May 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 11:29 am until 11:41 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with William P. Rogers; the recording begins while the conversation is in progress.

Foreign policy
‑Germany
‑Russians
‑People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑Chinese reaction
‑Rogers= luncheon speech
‑Chinese scientists visiting the US
‑Western European scientists
‑Egyptian doctors in antiquity
‑Egypt
‑Pyramids
‑Temples
‑Egyptian civilization
‑Egyptian people
‑Anwar el-Sadat
‑Egypt's relationship to the US

President's schedule
‑Scientists
‑International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium [INTELSAT]

Rogers schedule
‑Haircut

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CANADA

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PRC
‑Development of US-PRC relations
‑United Nations [UN] issue
‑US-Soviet Union relations
‑US's dealings with PRC
‑Soviets
-Visits by US officials
‑Maurice H. Stans
‑David M. Kennedy
‑Handling
‑Soviet Union
‑Rogers= speech [May 21, 1971?]
‑President speech to Red Cross [May 20, 1971?]
‑President's meeting with a Chinese teacher
‑Brotherhood

‑1981
‑Open Travel to PRC, Soviet Union
‑Brotherhood

Soviet Union
‑Llewellyn E. (ATommy@) Thompson's views on how to deal with the Russians
‑Tass= [?] attack on US imperialism
-PRC
‑US foreign policy
-Handling
‑President's message of January 8th to Aleksei N. Kosygin, Leonid I. Brezhnev

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 11:29 am.

President's schedule

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 11:41 am.

Soviet Union
‑Party Congress
‑Laos
‑PRC initiative
‑Middle East

The Middle East
‑Rogers' role in Middle East settlement
‑President=s instructions to Rogers
‑Jews
‑Role for the President in reaching a settlement
‑Jews
‑Richard Bolling
‑Pacificists
‑Quakers
‑US elections
‑Democrats
‑Bolling

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Science

Youth
‑Zero growth rate

The President and Rogers left at approximately 11:41 am.

Conversation No. 503‑10

Date:  May 21, 1971
Time:  12:09 pm ‑ 12:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with William P. Rogers and Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule

Rogers and Bull left at 12:10 pm.

Conversation No. 503‑11

Date:  May 21, 1971
Time:  12:11 pm ‑ 12:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Donald Schollander and Jonathan Rose; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Schollander's activities
‑President's appreciation
‑Success
‑Sacrifice
‑Dedication
‑Schollander's environment
‑Direction
‑Training
‑Talent
‑God

Sports
‑Young people
‑University of Pennsylvania
‑Basketball
‑Yale
‑Thrill of sports
‑Vicariousness
‑Olympics
‑Penn and Cornell
‑Football
‑Yale
‑Yale football coach [?]
‑His record
‑George Hanes
‑Schollander's Olympic coach
‑Santa Clara Swim Club
‑Hanes
‑Coaches in Southern California
‑Tennis
‑Southern California
‑Australia
‑Unknown person
‑Vincent T. (AVince@) Lombardi

‑George E. Allen
‑University of Michigan
‑Christian A. (ASonny@) Jurgenson
‑Talents
‑Quarterbacking

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‑John C. (AJohnny@) Unitas
‑Athletes
‑Golfers
‑Arnold D. Palmer
‑Baseball

Presentation of cuff links to Schollander

Golf
‑Rhythm

Schollander and Rose left at 12:20 pm.

Conversation No. 503‑12

Date:  May 21, 1971
Time:  12:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Film to be shown in the Family Theatre

Bull left at 12:20 pm.

Conversation No. 503‑13

Date:  May 21, 1971
Time:  12:20 pm ‑ 12:31 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Stevens, Mr. and Mrs. Alex D. Steinkamp and Robert H. Finch; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Introduction to Mr. and Mrs. Steinkamp

Visit of Stevens and Steinkamp to Treasury
‑Lunch with Mary T. Brooks
‑President's meeting with her on May 20, 1971
‑Famous room at Treasury
‑John Petty
‑Used by Andrew Johnson
‑President's meeting with John B. Connally on May 20, 1971
‑Petty
‑Stevens and Steinkamp's meeting with Connally and John R. (AJohnnie@) Walker on May 20, 1971

Revenue sharing
‑County‑level
‑Confidence on the local level

Carpeting in the Oval Office

Presentation of gifts
‑Cuff links
‑Golf balls

Rose Garden
‑Mrs. Stevens= daughter, Nancy and son‑in‑law
‑Julie Nixon Eisenhower's wedding date
‑Children

Tour

Mr. and Mrs. Stevens, et. al., left at 12:31 pm.

Conversation No. 503‑14

Date:  May 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:31 pm and 2:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule [?]

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:59 pm.

Conversation No. 503‑15

Date:  May 21, 1971
Time:  2:59 pm ‑ 3:39 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

President's schedule
‑Julie Nixon Eisenhower
‑January 8th
‑John A. Scali

George P. Shultz and John D. Ehrlichman entered at 3:06 pm.

Bankers meeting in Munich
‑Peter G. Peterson
‑John B. Connally
‑Size of US delegation
‑Attendees
‑Federal Reserve governors
‑Treasury people
‑Peterson

International Trade Hearings
-Shultz's testimony
-Paul J. Fannin
‑Abraham A. Ribicoff', Russell B. Long
‑Questions asked Shultz
‑US policy on international economic matters
‑US Senate
‑World trade
‑Senate's feelings toward State Department
‑Ribicoff's views on Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
‑State Department's role
‑Peterson

Peterson
‑Congressional affairs
‑Republicans
‑James R. Schlesinger
‑Intelligence field
‑Defense
‑Science
‑Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]
‑Peterson's views
‑Appropriations
‑Defense Department
‑James C. Fletcher
‑Chairmanship
‑Schlesinger
‑Peterson
‑Schlesinger
‑Peterson's plans for reorganizing AEC
‑Connally's meeting with President
‑Peterson's ideas
‑Connally
‑Staff

‑Treasury compared to Housing and Urban Development [HUD], Department of Transportation [DOT]
‑Economic spokesman
‑Peterson's interests in security and economics
‑National security
‑International economic and monetary problems
‑Staff for Peterson
‑Schlesinger
‑Re‑organization of government agencies
‑AEC
‑Head
‑Schlesinger
‑Peterson's interest in international trade
‑Sugar
‑Peterson's interest in a job in the intelligence field
‑Government re‑organization
‑June
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑Schlesinger
‑Peterson
‑Intelligence field
‑Peterson
‑Job for him
‑Knowledge in intelligence field
‑Schlesinger
‑His paper on intelligence
‑Budget

Jerome M. Rosow
‑Assistant Secretary at Labor Department
‑Return to Standard Oil
‑His letter of resignation
‑Effective date

Housing
‑Integration
-Rev. Theodore S. Hesburgh
‑HUD's statement
‑Meeting on May 21, 1971 between Ehrlichman, Shultz, George W. Romney and John N. Mitchell
‑Meeting scheduled between them for next Thursday
‑Blackjack, Missouri case
‑Mitchell

‑Courts
‑Republican county executive of Blackjack, Missouri
‑Ehrlichman
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Environmental policy
‑John C. Whitaker
‑Polls
‑Political significance
‑Interest in by the White House
‑Whitaker
‑Louis P. Harris poll
‑Whitaker
‑Analysis of the polls
‑Myth compared with fact
‑Industry jobs
‑William D. Ruckelshaus, Virginia H. Knauer, Peter M. Flanigan, Elliot L. Richardson, Maurice H. Stans, James D. Hodgson, and Peterson
‑Periodic meetings regarding the issue of guidelines on regulation
‑President  meeting with Nobel Peace Prize winner, Norman E. Borlaug
‑Small wheat strains
‑India, Pakistan, Mexico, Latin America
‑Starvation
‑Dichlorodephenyl trichloroethan [DDT]
‑Pesticides
‑Costs compared with benefits
‑Ruckelshaus' views
‑Pressure groups
‑Anti‑trust
‑Subjecting his decisions to review
‑Anti‑trust activity
‑Pesticides, DDT, environment safety, consumerism
‑Universities
‑College professors and associates
‑Political costs of environmental public policy
‑Unemployment
‑Shultz's previous memo to Ruckelshaus
‑Costs and gains
‑Ruckelshaus
‑Safety
‑Consumerism
‑Stans
‑Environmental impact statement

‑Stan's proposal
‑Safety, consumerism
‑Economic impact statement
‑Cost in terms of jobs and business
‑Cost to consumers
‑Regulation

President's schedule
‑Quadriad meeting May 21, 1971

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Shultz and Ehrlichman left and Kissinger entered at 3:34 pm.

Vietnam
‑Casualties
-Battle report
‑Statistics
‑Accidental deaths
‑Military casualties
‑Acceptable figures
‑Elections
‑Nguyen Van Thieu
‑National Assembly
‑Ellsworth F. Bunker
‑Electoral votes
‑US liberals
‑Bunker
‑South Vietnamese elections
‑US liberals

President's schedule
‑Bunker's meeting with the President

Vietnam
‑Bunker
‑Kissinger's communications with the President
‑William P. Rogers
‑Out of the country
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
‑Melvin R. Laird
‑Rogers
‑Announcement
‑Bunker
‑Rogers

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:34 pm.

President=s schedule
-Request for appointment

Kissinger, Haldeman and Bull left at 3:39 pm.

Conversation No. 503‑16

Date:  May 21, 1971
Time:  3:40 pm ‑ 5:26 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Herbert Stein, George P. Shultz, John B. Connally and Arthur F. Burns.

General conversation

US economy
‑Recovery
‑Forecasts
‑Unemployment
‑Inflation
‑Consumer Price Index [CPI]
‑Retail sales
‑April, May

‑Forecasts
‑Unknown person
‑Wholesale price index
‑Mortgage interest
‑CPI
‑Gross National Products [GNP] calculations
‑National income calculations
‑Unemployment
‑Price increases
‑Response of American people
‑Inflation
‑George Meany
‑Lunch with Burns
‑Support of President
‑Labor support of President
-Prize freeze
‑Review board
‑Negotiations
‑Regulations
-Lifting
-Timing
‑Prices
‑Interest rates
‑Housing starts
‑Food prices
‑Non‑food commodities
‑Economic policy
‑Commodities

Manolo Sanchez [?] entered at an unknown time after 3:40 pm.

Iced tea

Sanchez [?] left at an unknown time before 5:22 pm.

US economy
‑Agriculture
‑Drought
‑State of economy
‑Rate of inflation
‑CPI
‑Construction business
‑Price controls

Steel industry
-Labor
‑Strikes
-Management=s attitude
‑Quotas
‑Government intervention
‑Rate increase
‑Tariff
‑Relief
‑Moral persuasion
-Labor
-Government intervention

Construction industry
‑Figures
‑Productivity
‑Unemployment
-Labor union
‑James D. Hodgson

Steel industry
‑Strike
-Timing
‑Collective bargaining
-Posture
-Compared to past negotiations
-John N. Mitchell
-President=s role
-Work rules
-Compared to railroads
-Productivity
-Work rules
-Piece work
-Effect on productivity
-Conrad Cooper
-Productivity commission
-Work rules

Labor unions
‑Work rules
‑Construction
‑Railroads

Steel industry
‑Negotiations
‑Intervention
-President=s role
‑Effect on the country

US economy
‑Prices
-Increases
-Stein, Shultz opinions
‑Controls
‑Price indexes
‑Burns statement
‑Price controls
‑Meany
‑Employment
‑Office of Price Administration [OPA]
‑Burns
‑Timing of initiating
‑Steel industry
‑Hodgson
-Foreign production compared to US production
-Effect on labor management relations
-Japanese labor
‑Possible Presidential statement
‑Television
‑Educational networks
‑Prime‑time
‑William L. Safire
‑Peter G. Peterson
‑Competition with rest of world
‑Burns
-Audience
‑Educational television
‑Stein
‑Content of President's remarks
‑Visual aids
‑Radio talks

Budget
‑Forthcoming budget session
‑Peterson, Connally, and the President 
-Discussion of goals

Financial markets
‑Expansion
‑Fluctuations
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Future
-Burns
-Expansion
‑Democratic economists
‑Walter E. Heller
‑Paul A. Samuelson
‑Unemployment
‑Inflation
‑Deficit
‑Fiscal 1971
‑Outlays
‑Fiscal 1972
-Revenue
‑Tax returns
‑Social Security
‑Deficit
‑Fiscal 1971
‑Fiscal 1972
‑Appropriations
‑Social Security
‑Welfare Reform Bill
‑Social Security
‑Gross National Product [GNP]
‑Social Security
‑Tax returns
‑Depreciation
‑Outlays
‑Welfare Reform Bill
‑Medicare
‑Cost savings
‑President's budget
‑Congress
‑Appropriations
‑Education bill
‑Deficit
‑Inflation
‑President's budget
‑Revenue sharing
‑Strategy for getting President's budget through Congress

‑Compared to Fiscal 1971
‑Fiscal 1973 budget
‑Taxes
‑Budget deficit
-Public perception
-Administration=s strategy
‑Implications
‑Economic plans
‑Prize freezes
‑Wage freezes

US economy
‑Expansion
‑Projections
‑Full employment revenues
‑1971
‑1972
‑Congress
‑Appropriations bills
-Timing
‑Opposition party
-Strategy
‑Deficit spending
‑Fiscal policy
‑Jobs
‑Deficit spending
-Public awareness
‑Full employment budget
‑Stein
‑Developing a plan of action
‑Fiscal policy
‑Economic stimulation
‑Inflation
‑Congress
‑Social Security
‑Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
‑Congress
‑Public awareness
‑Press
‑Social Security increases
‑Public awareness
‑Benefits
‑Costs

‑Blacks
‑Poor

Automobile industry
-John A. Volpe
‑Airbags
‑Price of automobiles
‑Bicycles

Monetary policy
-Banker's meeting
‑Burns
‑George W. Mitchell, James Dewey Daane, Paul A. Volcker, Connally
-Paul Grover
-Congress, Treasury Department
‑International Bankers Association
‑Europe
‑US
-Congress

Economic policy
‑Connally=s role
‑Secretary of State=s role
‑CEA
‑Secretary of Labor
‑Secretary of Treasury
‑Coordination of economic policy
‑Connally
‑Connally's plan
‑Secretary of Treasury
‑CEA
‑Economic spokesman
‑Secretary of Treasury
‑Role of CEA
‑Stein
‑Paul W. McCracken
‑Shultz
‑Strategy
‑Europeans
‑Knowledge of US foreign policy
‑CEA
‑Shultz
‑Maurice H. Stans

‑Hodgson
‑Plan
‑Burns
‑Connally
‑Meetings of the Quadriad

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:40 pm.

President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Robert D. Murphy
‑Kissinger=s conversation with Murphy
‑People's Republic of China [PRC]

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:22 pm.

Economic policy formation
‑Purpose of meeting of Quadriad
‑Secretaries of Commerce, Labor, Agriculture, Housing
‑H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman
‑Hodgson
‑Stans
‑Foreign policy formation
‑William P. Rogers
‑"Meet the Press"
‑Kissinger
‑Backgrounder
‑President's role
‑Role for Connally
‑Press
‑Role for President
‑Role for Connally

Monetary policy
-Burns meeting with unknown banker
‑Upcoming meeting in Europe of central banks
‑President's meeting with Connally, May 20, 1971
‑US policy
‑Strength
‑Fiscal policy restraints
‑Education Bill
‑Productivity
‑Governors
‑Balance of payments

‑International monetary policy
‑Willy Brandt
‑West Germany
‑Unemployment
‑US economic policy
‑International monetary system
‑Balance of payments
‑US domestic economy
‑Relationship to European economies
‑1970
‑President's visit to Europe in February, 1969
‑US economic policy
‑Inflation
‑[James] Harold Wilson's Cabinet
‑Effect of US economy
-Japan
‑International money markets
‑Interest rates
‑Federal Reserve Board
‑Effect of steel strike
‑Strength
‑Confidence
‑Price of gold
‑Rogers
-Possible increases
‑Previous crisis
‑The Hague
‑Central bankers
‑International monetary meeting
‑Foreign policy
‑Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Compared with international monetary policy
‑Dutch, Belgians, Germans, British
‑US leadership
‑Clarifying US policy
-Possible changes in international monetary system
‑Brandt
‑Germans
-US policy
‑International monetary affairs
‑Connally
‑Swiss currency
‑Austrian currency

‑Dutch currency
‑Germany currency
-Icelandic currency
‑Inflation
‑Gold
‑Burns and George W. Romney
‑US Reserves
‑Price
‑Revaluing
‑Foreign debt
‑Malaysia
‑Gold request
‑Burns
‑Connally
-Poker

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President's schedule
‑May 22, 1971
-Breakfast

Stein, Shultz and Connally left at 5:22 pm.

US International Monetary Conference
-Possible attendance
-French, British, Italians, US, Japanese
‑Planning
‑Price of gold

SALT announcement on May 20, 1971
‑World War II

Burns= statement
‑Commerce
‑President's assessment
‑Connally's assessment

Burns left at 5:26 pm.

Conversation No. 503‑17

Date:  May 21, 1971
Time:  5:26 pm ‑ 5:55 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Robert D. Murphy and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Tie

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Presentation of gifts
‑Golf balls
‑Cuff links
‑Tie clasp

Murphy and Haig left at 5:55 pm.

Conversation No. 503‑18

Date:  May 21, 1971
Time:  5:58 pm ‑ 6:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

President's remarks for tomorrow, May 22, 1971

Butterfield left at 6:00 pm.

Conversation No. 503‑19

Date:  May 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:00 pm and 6:04 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

President's schedule

Conversation No. 503‑20

Date:  May 21, 1971
Time:  6:04 pm ‑ unknown before 6:26 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

President's remarks for tomorrow, May 22, 1971
‑1st draft
‑Ronald L. Ziegler
‑Text

Butterfield left and H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman entered at 6:07 pm.

Presidential libraries
‑Lyndon B. Johnson
‑Harry S. Truman
‑San Clemente
‑Office at library

President's remarks for tomorrow, May 22, 1971
‑News
‑Style

[Pause]

Anastasio Somoza Debayle
‑Visit to US
‑Honorary dinner

‑Somoza's West Point Alumni fellows
-Nicaragua
-Attendance

Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 6:07 pm.

Press

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 6:26 pm.

Television

William F. (ABilly@) Graham

[Pause]

President's schedule
‑Lyndon B. Johnson library ceremony
-Television coverage
-Program

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 6:26 pm.

Conversation No. 503‑21

Date:  May 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:07 pm and 6:26 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald Ziegler and Alexander P. Butterfield [?].

President's schedule
‑Lunch tomorrow
‑Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo meeting with the President

Ziegler and Butterfield [?] left at an unknown time before 6:26 pm.

Conversation No. 503‑22

Date:  May 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:07 pm and 6:26 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Speech
‑1358 words

Press conference

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 6:26 pm.

Conversation No. 503‑23

Date:  May 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:07 pm and 6:26 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo meeting

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:26 pm.

Conversation No. 503‑24

Date:  May 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 6:07 pm until 6:34 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo.

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[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:07 pm and 6:26 pm]

[Conversation No. 503‑24A]

[See Conversation No. 3‑111]

[End of telephone conversation]

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Previous announcement
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Antiballistic missile [ABM]
-Soviet Union

[The President talked with Thelma C. (APat@) Nixon between 6:26 pm and 6:28 pm]

[Conversation No. 503‑24B]

[See Conversation No. 3‑112; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

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The President and Rebozo left at 6:34 pm.