Conversation No. 548‑1

Date:  July 27, 1971
Time:  2:20 pm - 2:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Schedule
‑Spiro T. Agnew's return from trip
‑William P. Rogers
‑Henry A. Kissinger

Butterfield left at 2:25 pm.

Conversation No. 548‑2

Date:  July 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:25 pm and 2:29 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:29 pm.

Conversation No. 548‑3

Date:  July 27, 1971
Time:  2:29 pm ‑ 3:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Henry A. Kissinger's schedule

‑Workload

Vietnam negotiations
‑Meeting in Paris, July 26, 1971
‑Le Duc Tho
‑Moscow
-Hanoi
-The Soviet Union
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
‑Kama River Project
‑Mack Trucks, Inc.
‑Dresser Corporation
‑Status
‑US stance

US foreign policy
‑Hugh S. Sidey's article
‑Recent developments
‑The People's Republic of China [PRC]

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SOVIET UNION

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The President's schedule
‑Oval Office press conference
-H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman, Patrick J. Buchanan
‑Scope
‑Foreign policy, domestic issues

‑The PRC
‑Questions
‑Handling

-Senators
-Ronald L. Ziegler, William P. Rogers
-State Department
‑Timing of United Nations [UN] membership issue
-Rogers

US foreign policy
‑Taiwan, The Republic of China [ROC]
‑James C.H. Shen
‑Taiwan=s actions
-The President=s record
‑The President, Kissinger
‑US relations with the ROC
‑The United Nations [UN]
‑Mao Tse‑Tung
‑Chiang Kai‑Shek
‑Chou En‑lai
‑Kissinger's report to the President on the PRC trip

The President=s schedule
‑Forthcoming press conference
‑Type of Presidential statements
‑Press reaction
‑John F. Kennedy's press conferences
‑Scope of comment on the PRC

Dean G. Acheson

Forthcoming press conference
‑Taiwan issue
‑UN membership
-The PRC
-Wording

Acheson
‑The President's foreign policy
‑Support for the President
‑Democrats

‑Domestic issues
‑The middle‑class
‑Labor unions
‑Wage demands
‑Economic concerns
‑Inflation

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Foreign policy
‑Acheson
‑Summit
‑The PRC meeting
‑Difference from other Summit meetings
-The Soviet Union
‑The President's role
‑Channels of communication
‑George C. Marshall
‑Chou En‑lai
-Age
‑The PRC initiative
‑Letters to Heads of State
‑Prime Minister of Australia
‑Cabinet
-Content
‑Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
‑Eisaku Sato
‑Georges J.R. Pompidou
‑Edward R.G. Heath
-Kissinger briefing
‑Timing of Summit trip to the PRC

-Budget meetings

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SCHEDULE

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-Kissinger=s forthcoming trip
‑Weather
‑Timing of announcement
-US-Soviet Union Summit
-Japan
-The President=s schedule
-Foreign travel

[The President talked with Marlow W. Cook between 2:49 pm and 2:51 pm]

[Conversation No. 548‑3A]

[See Conversation No. 7‑9]

[End of telephone conversation]

US foreign relations
‑US-Soviet Union Summit
‑Timing of meeting
-PRC
-Timing of trip
‑Vietnam negotiations
‑Edgar P. Snow
-Dissemination

-Chou En-lai
-Role of newspapers in the PRC
‑US press
-Vietnam negotiations
‑North Vietnamese
‑William J. Porter
-Hanoi radio
‑Vietnam negotiations
‑Kissinger's meeting with Le Duc Tho

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COUNTRY

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‑Kissinger's trip
‑Perceptions
-Press coverage
‑Proposals
‑Nguyen Van Thieu
-US troop withdrawal
‑Military action
‑Laos, Cambodia
‑Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
‑Kissinger's meeting
-Transcripts

Foreign policy
‑Poll
-Haldeman=s analysis
‑Shifts in support by people

‑Blue collar, grade‑school level educated
‑White collar, college‑education

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Pentagon Papers
‑New York Times publication
‑Daniel Ellsberg
‑Timing of legal action
‑John N. Mitchell
‑Vietnam negotiations

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:29 pm.

The President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:05 pm.

Pentagon Papers
‑Ellsberg
‑Extent of possible forthcoming information
‑Vietnam war settlement

Leaks
‑Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] negotiations
‑Source of leak

Acheson
‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
‑John F. Kennedy's letter
‑Cuban missile crisis

PRC initiative
‑Ambassador=s comments
‑World opinion
-Nelson A. Rockefeller

Forthcoming foreign policy developments
-Paris Peace Talks
-PRC trip

Kissinger left at 3:05 pm.

Conversation No. 548‑4

Date:  July 27, 1971
Time:  3:06 pm ‑ 3:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Edward B. ("Pete") Biester, Jr., James E. Wood, Joseph D. Ceader, and Alton B. Chamberlain; the White House photographer and Stephen B. Bull were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Introductions

Presentation of Bucks County, Pennsylvania tourist guide
‑Photograph

Presidential gifts

Unknown person

Biester et al. left at 3:10 pm.

Conversation No. 548‑5

Date:  July 27, 1971
Time:  3:10 pm

Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

Presidential gift
‑Reply

The unknown man left at 3:10 pm.

Conversation No. 548‑6

Date:  July 27, 1971
Time:  3:10 pm ‑ 3:16 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Durward G. ("Doc") Hall, Mrs. Durward G. Hall, and Melanie Ellison; the White House photographer and Stephen B. Bull were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Introductions

Ellison
‑Age
‑Motion picture, Gone With the Wind
‑Melanie Hamilton Wilkes
‑Scarlett O'Hara

Missouri
‑150th year anniversary
‑Presentation of plaque
‑Governor's schedule
-Mamie G.D. Eisenhower

Eisenhower dollar

Presidential autograph on photograph
‑1960 meeting
-Homer Cletus (?)

Missouri

‑The President's Kansas City appearance

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Presidential gifts

Hall et al. left at 3:16 pm.

Conversation No. 548‑7

Date:  July 27, 1971
Time:  3:17 pm ‑ 3:23 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with William J. (AJack@) Edwards; the White House photographer and Stephen B. Bull were present at the beginning of the meeting.

The President's trip to Mobile, Alabama
‑Presentation
‑Photographs
‑Medal
‑Franklin Mint
‑Drawing

US foreign policy
‑US relations with the People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑Future of the world

Domestic issues
‑Revenue sharing
‑Governors
‑James E. (AJimmy@) Carter
‑George C. Wallace
‑Schools
‑Cornelia Wallace

Edwards left and Bull reentered at 3:23 pm.

Schedule
‑John G. Tower

Bull left at 3:23 pm.

Conversation No. 548‑8

Date:  July 27, 1971
Time:  3:23 pm ‑ 3:26 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John G. Tower and Guy D. Newman; the White House photographer and Stephen B. Bull were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Introductions

Howard Payne University
‑George Washington Carver (?)
‑Agricultural research

Presentation of medallion

Legislative action
‑Cloture
‑Lockheed bailout
‑Guarantees
‑Forthcoming vote
‑Effect

Presidential gift

Tower and Newman left at 3:26 pm.

Conversation No. 548‑9

Date:  July 27, 1971
Time:  3:26 pm ‑ 3:31 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., and Paul Calley; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Introductions

Lithograph of "First Man on the Moon" stamp
‑National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
‑Apollo moon landing
‑Pictures
-Autograph
-Edwin E. (ABuzz@) Aldrin, Neil A. Armstrong
‑Use of golf cart on the moon

Presidential gifts

US foreign policy
‑The People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
‑The President's action
‑Effect

Calley
‑Background
‑Stanford, Connecticut
‑Anecdote
‑Unnamed lawyer

Weicker and Calley left  and Stephen B. Bull entered at 3:31 pm.

Schedule

‑Timing of Congressional Half Hour meetings
‑Otto E. Passman

Bull left at 3:31 pm.

Conversation No. 548‑10

Date:  July 27, 1971
Time:  3:31 pm ‑ 3:49 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Otto E. Passman and William E. Timmons; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Photograph
‑Arrangements

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Drug conference in Monroe, Louisiana
‑John E. Ingersoll
‑Invitation to the President to address conference
‑Site, attendees
‑Form of Presidential participation
‑Telephone call
‑William P. Rogers

-Turkey
‑Telephone call
‑Anti‑drug abuse cause

Passman
‑Support for the President
‑Barry M. Goldwater
‑Vote on legislation
‑Republicans

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Passman
‑Domestic issues
‑Issues for the President
‑Family Assistance Plan
‑Lockheed bailout
‑Supersonic transport [SST]
‑Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
‑Foreign policy
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑Foreign assistance
‑Amount
‑International organizations
‑The President's previous July 27, 1971 conversation with John B. Connally
‑Cuts
-Timmons
-Security assistance
‑Overseas Private Investment Corporation [OPIC]
-Peace Corps

‑The People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑US initiative
‑Taiwan, The Republic of China [ROC]
‑Peter Chow (?)
‑Hong Kong
‑Meeting with Passman
‑The President's role
-Public reaction
‑Foreign aid
-Rogers
‑Vietnam War
‑Settlement prospects
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
‑Casualties
-Troops
‑Status
‑F. Edward Hébert

Passman and Timmons left at 3:49 pm.

Conversation No. 548‑11

Date:  July 27, 1971
Time:  3:49 pm ‑ 4:37 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Forthcoming meeting

William M. Magruder entered at 3:50 pm.

Greetings

Supersonic Transport [SST]
‑US position
‑Comparison with previous attitude towards aviation research and development
‑Other countries

‑US‑Soviet Union space race
‑Japan
-Federal Republic of Germany [FRG]
‑Funding
‑Timing of future efforts
-SST
‑Concorde I
‑High technology field
‑Trade balance
‑Other countries
‑France
‑Program
‑Multi‑national effort
‑Aircraft
‑US comparison
‑Boeing, Lockheed, McDonnell‑Douglas
‑Subsidies
‑Dassault Mercure
‑Export market
‑US high technology trade balance
‑Past decade
‑Concorde
‑Dutch, Spanish, Swiss, Belgians, Italians, British, West Germans
‑American industry
-L-1011
‑Airbus
‑Cyrus R. Smith, George [Surname unintelligible], Floyd D. Hall
‑Lockheed, McDonnell‑Douglas
‑747 aircraft
‑European action
‑US aircraft needs
‑Aviation executives
‑Smith, Robert [Surname unintelligible]
‑Government‑industry relationship
‑Industry, technology
‑The Department of Defense
‑Military needs
‑B‑52
‑B‑1, F‑14
‑Urban mass transit
‑Boeing contracts
‑Italy

‑Japan
‑European perceptions
‑US industry's attitude
‑KLM
‑Government‑industry relationship
-Edward E. David, Jr., [Name unintelligible], Richard Cohen (?), [Forename unknown] Thomas
‑Changes
‑Tax incentives
‑Cost of development and production
‑SST
-Coordination with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
‑Airbus
‑Possible conversation with Peter G. Peterson, John B. Connally
‑Balance of payments situation
‑Budget meeting
‑Research and development area
‑Aviation expertise
‑Sources
-NASA
-Problem in the space program
‑Funding
‑Congress
‑National coordination of aviation and aerospace development
‑Lockheed Corporation bailout
‑Boeing, McDonnell‑Douglas
‑Spending priorities
‑Social programs
‑Airline management
-Transworld Airlines [TWA], Eastern Airlines
-Alan Cranston proposal
-KLM
‑US national priorities
‑Social programs
‑William Proxmire
-Charles W. Colson=s project
‑Funding effect on development
-Tax incentives
‑Arthur F. Burns plan
‑Anti‑trust regulations
‑Burns's plan

‑Loan support
-International focus
-Proxmire
‑Department of Transportation [DOT]
-NASA
‑SST development
‑Timing
‑Post‑1972 election
‑Eugene Black's report for President John F. Kennedy
‑Black's possible role
‑Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Henry A. Kissinger
‑National priorities
‑Environment
‑SST
‑Social programs
‑Sources of funding
-Media coverage
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
-Dick Cavett
-New York Times
‑SST development
‑Connection to jobs creation
‑George Meany, Peter J. Brennan, Frank S. Fitzsimmons, Leonard Woodcock

Economy
‑Environment compared with jobs argument
‑International cooperation
‑Handling of resources
-Compared with Japan
‑Balance of payment situation
‑International competition
‑Europe, the Soviet Union, Japan, the People=s Republic of China [PRC]
‑Changes
‑Japanese competition
‑Radio production
‑US company
‑Philco
‑Japanese manufacture of goods for the US market
‑Automobile industry
‑Electronic and computer equipment

‑Computers
‑Hong Kong
‑Plant operation
‑Airplane production
‑McDonnell‑Douglas
‑DC‑9
‑Production of tail and wings in Canada
‑Production of panel in Italy
-Lockheed
-Rolls-Royce engine
‑DC‑10 production by McDonnell‑Douglas
‑Worldwide manufacture
‑L‑1011
‑Canadian market share of production
-Offset agreements
‑Perception of possible development in high technology industry
‑White House staff
‑Ehrlichman
‑Economists
‑Paul W. McCracken, Connally's staff
‑Milton Friedman
‑Views
‑Exports
‑John Kenneth Galbraith
‑Views
-Balance of payments
‑International competition
‑US State Department
‑Harold S. Geneen
‑Export tax advantage
‑Notes for the President's Bohemian Grove appearance
‑US competitive position in the world
‑The President's Kansas City appearance, July 6, 1971
‑Foreign trade practices
‑Comparison with the US
‑Subsidization
‑Value Added Tax [VAT]
‑Option

An unknown man [Stephen B. Bull?] entered at an unknown time after 3:49 pm.

Schedule

-Barber

The unknown man [Bull?] left at an unknown time before 4:37 pm.

‑US tax proposals
‑Caspar W. (ACap@) Weinberger
‑Real estate tax
‑Export subsidies
‑VAT
-Jobs
‑Property tax relief
‑Federal tax increase
-@New NASA@
‑Funding priorities
‑George P. Shultz
‑Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
‑Effect of cutbacks
‑Jobs impact
-Community level
‑Veto
-Manpower special revenue sharing
-Community development revenue sharing
‑ACTION, Peace Corps
‑The President's earlier conversation with Otto E. Passman
‑Foreign reaction to the Peace Corps
‑Social programs
‑Outlook
‑Magruder's future role
-Financial rewards of public service
‑Connally, Congress
‑Presentation to high‑level economic group
‑Connally
-Friedman
-Shultz
‑US competitive position in the world
-Toilet paper

The President, Ehrlichman and Magruder left at 4:37 pm.

Conversation No. 548‑12

Date:  July 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 4:37 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men (Secret Service) met.

[Unintelligible]

This recording was cut off at an unknown time after 4:37 pm.