Conversation No. 554‑1

Date:  August 4, 1971
Time:  11:38 am - 12:27 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President held a press conference.

[See Public Papers of the Presidents, Richard M. Nixon, 1971, pp. 849-861]

[The press conference is in progress when the recording begins]

[General conversation]

Kenya
-[Charles W. Bailey’s trip]
-President’s previous trip [?]
-Possible future trip
-Automobile tour
-Wildlife
-Tanzania
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon Cox

Unknown journalist
-By-line
-Wall Street Journal

Baseball
-Unknown player
-Game at Yankee Stadium
-World Series
-Elston Howard

The press conference ended at 12:27 pm.

Conversation No. 554-2

Date:  August 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:27 pm and 1:43 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield and Ronald L. Ziegler.

Press conference
-Economy

Busing
-Ziegler recent press conference

Press conference
-Economy
-Unemployment
-Compared to early 1960's
-Arthur F. Burns
-Busing statement
-August 3, 1971
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Economy
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Length of conference

President's schedule
-Action papers

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 1:43 pm.

-Economy
-Significance as issue
-Wage and price freeze
-Foreign issues
-PRC and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Berlin

-Vietnam
-Forthcoming press conference
-Ziegler’s possible comments
-Negotiations
-Critics
-Seven points
-Le Duc Tho
-Economy
-Wage increases

Instructions for Ziegler
-Forthcoming press conference
-Wage increases

Jobs legislation
-Congress
-Clark MacGregor’s office
-Need to stay in session

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 1:43 pm.

Conversation No. 554-3

Date:  August 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:27 pm and 1:43 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

President's schedule

News conference
-Analysis of questions
-Economy
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Vietnam
-Pakistan
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]

-Conservative revolt
-Busing
-Benefit of infrequent news conferences
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Economy
-Arthur F. Burns
-President's defense
-Pay increase
-PRC

[Pause]

Margaret Chase Smith
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Smith’s schedule
-Possible meeting with the President
-President's schedule
-Possible trip to Bangor, Maine
-Conflict with Smith’s schedule
-Haldeman’s call

President's schedule
-Meeting with ambassador Henry J. Tasca
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Trip to New York

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Economy
-Need to present administration position
-Farm magazine editors
-Opinion makers
-William L. Safire

Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 12:27 pm.

Press conference
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Reference
-Meeting with the President
-Possible summit
-Kissinger’s concern
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Gromyko

US foreign relations
-Forthcoming meetings
-Timing
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] compared to PRC
-Gromyko
-Talks with the President
-Invitation
-USSR
-Possible pressure
-PRC
-USSR
-Bilateral agreement
-PRC
-Suggested letter
-Leonid I. Brezhnev

Press conference questions
-Pentagon Papers
-Agnew
-Conservative revolt
-United Nations [UN] vote
-Vietnam
-News bulletins
-PRC
-Forthcoming trip by President
-Relationship to Vietnam
-Economy
-Wage and price board
-Inflation
-PRC
-Trip
-Vietnam war
-Vietnam war
-Negotiations
-PRC
-Trip
-Detente
-Vietnam
-Casualties
-Impact of Cambodia, Laos operations
-Economy
-Vietnam

Vietnam War
-Negotiations
-North Vietnam
-Hanoi's statements
-PRC
-US
-Le Duc Tho
-PRC's statements
-US military withdrawal
-Kissinger's visit to Peking
-Nguyen Van Thieu

PRC
-Possible purchases from US
-Boeing 707's and 727's
-Analysis
-Long-term expectations
-Announcement
-Timing
-Forthcoming trip by President
-Relationship
-[Forename unknown] Burger [sp?]
-Size
-Prisoners
-Edward M. Kennedy's statement
-Possible release
-Timing
-President’s trip
-Kennedy’s statement
-Chou En-lai
-Kennedy
-Possible administration response
-Public pressure

Kennedy
-Pakistan
-Refugees
-PRC
-United Nations [UN]

PRC
-Forthcoming trips
-Working group
-Timing
-President's press conference answers
-Vietnam War
-Importance as issue
-Press conference
-Seven points
-President’s handling
-Kissinger's actions
-Press
-Scrutiny

Vietnam negotiations
-Press
-Speculation
-Dobrynin

Democrats
-1972 election
-Statement of principles

Pakistan
-William P. Rogers
-State Department
-UN meeting
-Publicity
-As spokesman
-Television image
-Press conference
-Cameras
-William H. Carruthers
-Glasses
-Lighting

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Rogers
-PRC
-Businessman’s reception
-Administration
-State Department
-Pakistan

President's schedule
-Henry J. Tasca
-John B. Connally

Tasca
-State Department
-Capitol Hill

Press conference
-Vietnam negotiations
-Seven points
-Helen Thomas
-New York Times
-Established channels

Soviet summit
-Timing
-Relationship to PRC trip
-Timing

Middle East
-PRC
-Chou En-lai
-Foreign policy briefing, May 1971
-USSR

Kissinger left at an unknown time before 1:43 pm.

President's schedule
-Tasca
-Schedule
-Foreign Affairs Committee
-George P. Shultz

Cabinet meeting
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Blue-collar workers
-Connally
-Economy
-Agnew
-Connally
-George W. Romney
-John A. Volpe
-Maurice H. Stans
-Shultz
-Duration

President's schedule
-Connally
-Forthcoming meeting
-Shultz

Economy
-Press conference
-Profits
-Unemployment rate
-Instructions to Charles W. Colson
-Dan Rather
-Frank Stanton
-Nixon trouble theme
-News reporting
-Foreign policy as issue
-Difficulty

President's schedule
-National Business Council for Consumer Affairs
-Meeting, August 5, 1971
-Location
-Indian Treaty Room
-Commerce Department, Consumer League, Federal Trade Commission [FTC], Food and Drug Administration [FDA], Anti-trust division of Justice Department
-Participants
-Donald S. Perkins
-Jewel Companies, Inc.
-Robert J. Keith
-Pillsbury Company
-Archibald McG. Foster
-Ted Bate and Company
-J. J. Riccardo
-Chrysler Corporation
-Edgar H. Lotspeich
-Proctor and Gamble Company
-Justin W. Dart
-Grant G. Simmons, Jr.
-Barron Hilton
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Thornton F. Bradshaw
-Atlantic-Richfield Corporation
-V. J. Skutt
-Stuart D. Watson
-Dow Corporation
-Donald Hall
-Robert O. Aders
-President's participation
-Press coverage
-Working paper
-Positives on economy
-Press coverage
-Bill signing
-Appalachian Regional Commission
-Economic Development Act extension
-Jennings Randolph, John Sherman Cooper, Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Lockheed bill
-Baker
-Political matters
-John N. Mitchell
-Defense budget
-Kissinger’s recommendations
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS], National Security Council [NSC], service secretaries meetings
-Kissinger
-JCS
-Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Haji Abdul Razak bin Dato’ Hussain
-Office call
-Forthcoming trip, October 1971
-Canada
-UN General Assembly
-Speech
-Rogers
-Luncheon
-President’s role
-Meet and greet
-Office press conferences
-Frequency
-Connally
-Frequency
-Preparation
-Television
-Depth of answers
-Use of time
-Forthcoming meetings
-Cabinet meeting
-Romney
-James L. Buckley
-Farm magazine editors
-Reception for supporters
-Carl B. Albert
-Girls Nation
-Rudolph A. Peterson
-Environmental report
-Office press conference
-News stories
-Office press conference
-Economy
-Blue-collar workers
-Herbert E. Kaplow
-Burns
-Request to see the President
-Transcript
-William L. Safire
-Peter G. Peterson
-Safire
-Peter Peterson
-Bohemian Grove
-Peter Peterson
-Compared to Safire

Personnel
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Future plans
-Rogers
-Henry L. Bellmon
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Agriculture Department
-Louie B. Nunn
-Mitchell
-Harlow's reaction
-Farm credentials
-Farm vote

President's schedule
-Connally
-Peter Peterson

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 12:27 pm and 1:43 pm.

[Conversation No.  554-3A]

[See Conversation No. 7-59]

[End of telephone conversation]

President's schedule
-Nunn
-[Grand Teton National Park] ceremony
-Speech preparation
-Washington, DC
-Activity
-Participation in park ceremony
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-[Illinois] State Fair
-Defense budget
-Meetings
-NSC and JCS

Haldeman talked with Connally at an unknown time between 12:27 pm and 1:43 pm.

[Conversation No. 554-3B]

[See Conversation No. 7-60]

[End of telephone conversation]

President's schedule
-Connally
-Signing activity
-New Hampshire and Maine
-New York
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-California
-Yorba Linda
-Park ceremony
-Illinois and Ohio
-Illinois State Fair
-Park
-Dallas
-Speechwriting
-Illinois State Fair
-Abraham Lincoln
-Importance
-Timing
-Park
-Governor [Richard B. Ogilvie]
-Remarks
-Greetings
-Park
-Activity
-Forthcoming meeting

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 1:43 pm.

Conversation No. 554-4

Date:  August 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:27 pm and 1:43 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Request for Ronald L. Ziegler and Charles W. Colson

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:43 pm.

Conversation No. 554-5

Date:  August 4, 1971
Time:  1:43 pm - 1:55 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Forthcoming press conference
-Economy
-Legislation
-Clark MacGregor, William E. Timmons, John D. Ehrlichman
-George H. Mahon
-Congressional recess
-Teenage employment
-Timing of comments

Office press conference
-News reports
-Wage and price board
-Associated Press [AP]
-Arthur F. Burns
-Press reaction
-Herbert E. Kaplow
-Frequency
-Preparation
-Compared to televised press conferences
-Control of questions
-Helen Thomas
-Frequency
-Length

-Press reaction
-Clifford Evans
-Appreciation for press conference
-Charles W. Bailey, II
-Africa trip
-Jude Walinsky [sp?]
-Use of television
-Oval Office setting
-Public speaking
-Iowa
-Timing
-Frequency
-Press expectations
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] announcement

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 1:43 pm.

Meeting with John B. Connally

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 1:55 pm.

Press conference
-Timing

Butterfield entered at 1:50 pm.

Meeting with Charles W. Colson

Butterfield left at 1:52 pm.

Press conference
-Subjects
-Timing
-Subjects
-Specificity or generality
-Speeches
-California
-Timing
-Location

President’s schedule
-Colson

Ziegler left at 1:55 pm.

Conversation No. 554-6

Date:  August 4, 1971
Time:  1:55 pm - 2:18 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

Press conference
-Economy

The President talked with the White House operator at 1:55 pm.

[Conversation No. 554-6A]

[See Conversation No. 7-61]

[End of telephone conversation]

Press conference
-Economy
-John B. Connally
-Industry
-Wage and price settlements
-Secretary of Labor [James D. Hodgson]
-Reports
-Political aspect
-Connally meeting with Colson
-Unemployment rate
-Figure

-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Dan Rather

The President talked with John C. Stennis between 1:56 pm and 1:59 pm.

[Conversation No. 554-6B]

[See Conversation No. 7-62]

[End of telephone conversation]

Letter
-President's instructions
-Clark MacGregor
-Dictation

Economy
-Unemployment rate
-Press conference
-Current figure compared to 1961-63
-Rather
-Possible reporting
-Assessment of figures
-Current rate compared to April - July 1971
-Married men
-Veterans
-Economic expansion
-Colson forthcoming call to Frank Stanton of Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Rather's estimates
-John W. Chancellor
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Attitude toward administration
-American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]
-John A. Scali
-Press relations
-President’s previous meeting with business editors
-Paul W. McCracken, George P. Shultz, Connally
-Media bias
-Time, Newsweek, New York Times editors
-William L. Safire
-Unknown person
-McCracken
-Maurice H. Stans
-Hodgson
-1970 election
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Spiro T. Agnew, Stans, Hodgson, Flanigan, Shultz, Connally
-Nationwide tour
-Meetings with business leaders
-Editorials boards
-Television
-Press coverage
-Time, Newsweek, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Business Week, The Nation’s Business
-Shultz
-Time
-Networks
-Creation of editorial board
-Psychological impact
-Leading indicators
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Retail sales, gross national product [GNP], housing starts, inventory, inflation, unemployment
-CPI
-Compared to previous administration
-John F. Kennedy
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Unemployment
-Louis P. Harris
-Work on issues poll
-Talk with Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr.
-1972 election
-Economy as political issue
-Peace issue

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:59 pm.

Unknown item for Colson

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:18 pm.

-Gordon L. Allott's comments
-Rather
-Charles Percy
-Illinois
-Impressions
-Compared to reality
-Unemployment
-Vietnam
-Casualties
-Press conference
-Wage and price guidelines
-Board
-Business community’s views
-Stock market
-President's confidence
-Press relations
-Forthcoming meeting
-Connally
-Flanigan

Pentagon Papers
-John D. Ehrlichman, Egil G. (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Forthcoming Senate hearings
-Appropriation
-Possible political impact
-Investigation
-Material
-Analysis
-Unknown man
-Political aspect
-Sensitivity
-Vietnam elections
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Subject
-Ngo Dinh Diem
-Coup
-Interviews
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman, Roger Hilsman, McGeorge Bundy
-Timing of release
-Vietnam elections
-Kennedy administration officials

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Colson left at 2:18 pm.

Conversation No. 554-7

Date:  August 4, 1971
Time:  2:19 pm - 2:55 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John B. Connally.

Connally’s schedule
-Forthcoming trip

President’s schedule
-Trips

-Workload
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Unknown reading material
-Cartoon [?]

Economy
-Press conference
-Connally's assessment
-Foreign policy
-Wage and price policy
-Arthur F. Burns and George P. Shultz
-Pay increase
-Burns
-Monetary  and fiscal policy
-Agreement with the President

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:19 pm.

Shultz’s [?] arrival

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:55 pm.

-Duration
-Left-wing theories
-John Kenneth Galbraith
-Performance or short-term
-Need for enforcement procedures
-Bureaucracy
-Penalties
-Secretary of Labor [James D. Hodgson]
-Negotiations
-National Commission on Productivity
-Forthcoming meeting
-Enforcement
-Government action
-Connally’s line
-National Commission on Productivity
-Cooperation with Congress
-Scope
-Small and big business
-Enforcement	
-Wage and price board
-Need for action
-Business
-Negative impressions
-News magazines
-Wall Street
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Leading indicators
-Retail sales, silver standard, housing, construction, inventories
-Unemployment rate
-Figures
-Estimates
-Burns
-Burns
-Inflation
-International market action
-Gold window
-French action
-Impact on exchange rates
-Belgium, Netherlands
-Swiss
-Swiss proposal
-Two rate system
-Penalties
-French business
-Dollar speculation
-Dollar intake
-Switzerland, Belgium, France
-French action
-Valery Giscard D'estaing's recent speech
-Holding dollars
-Control on dollar speculation
-Stock market
-British
-Japanese
-France
-West Germany
-Dutch, Belgians
-Impact of policies on US
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Domestic economy
-Psychological impression
-Figures
-Need for change
-Prognosis
-Connally's meeting with Charles W. Colson, Peter M. Flanigan, Paul W. McCracken
-Pessimism
-Congress and media
-Negative factors
-International conditions
-Dollar's standing
-Steel settlement
-Pierre Rinfret's comments
-Investment tax credit
-Political strategy
-Memoranda’s business
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Critics
-Interest rates
-Inflation
-Money supply
-Interest rates
-Prime rate
-Meeting
-Connally and bankers
-Lockheed
-Bank of America
-[Louis B. Lundborg]
-Morgan guarantee
-American Bankers Association
-Connally’s remarks
-Interest rates
-Investment bankers
-Connally's remarks
-Turning point
-Change in attitude
-Need to face problems
-Congress
-International
-Defense
-Space
-Demobilization
-Employment
-International
-Japan
-US automobile industry
-Ford, Chevrolet, Plymouth
-Datsun, Toyota
-Germany
-Volkswagen
-Textiles
-President’s focus
-Foreign affairs
-Domestic affairs
-Business community
-Connally's recommended response
-Timing
-Japanese businessmen’s meeting
-Possible cancellation
-David M. Kennedy’s view
-Dinner with the President
-Forthcoming IMF and World Bank
-President's press conference
-Connally’s statement
-Burns
-Need to turn tide
-Connally's stampede analogy
-Lack of Congressional allies
-Democratic Congress
-Unemployment during Democratic administration
-Lack of publicity
-Placement of blame
-Michael J. Mansfield's statement
-1960's conditions
-Contact with Shultz

Reorganization
-Burns
-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-Fear of takeover by Treasury Department
-Ash Council
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Shultz
-Shultz’s suggestion
-Burns
-Control banker

Shultz entered at an unknown time after 2:19 pm.

Edwin S. Cohen's meeting with Connally
-Larry Woodruff and Mills
-Proposed tax program
-Tax code
-Timing
-Import tax
-Investment tax credit
-Shipping taxes
-Liberian, Panamanian, Greek ships
-Shipping tax
-Standard deduction raise
-Value-added tax
-Property tax reduction
-Depreciation on new plant equipment
-Cohen’s response
-Morale of division
-Connally's response
-Woodruff and Mills
-Similarity of views to Administration’s
-Cohen
-Previous tax bill
-Interest in preparing law
-House Ways and Means Committee
-Cohen

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-Cohen
-Interest in politics
-Value-added tax

Busing
-Dallas
-John D. Ehrlichman
-President's statement [on Austin case, August 3, 1971]
-Dallas
-Press coverage
-Administration plan
-Importance
-Austin

Economy
-Connally
-Pressures for action
-Rinfret
-Tax reform
-Negative impressions
-News media
-Time, Newsweek, New York Times, Washington Post
-Reaction to President’s foreign policy initiatives
-1972 election
-Partisan split
-Foreign policy
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Democrats
-Psychological recession
-Unemployment
-Inflation
-Consumers 
-Business community
-Attitude
-Inventories
-Publicists
-Effects
-Administration response
-Wage and price controls
-Consumers
-Negative attitude
-Time, Newsweek, Dun's, Rinfret, Fortune

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Economy
-Negative impressions
-Business leaders and politicians
-Television
-Dan Rather
-Need to counteract
-Proposed administration actions
-Timing
-President’s press conference answers
-Wage and price board
-National Commission on Productivity
-Timing
-Holding action
-Congress
-Return from recess
-Budget
-Blue-collar workers
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-Symbolism
-Fiscal restraint
-Import tax, excise tax, investment tax credit
-Investment tax credit
-Percentage
-Research and development
-Budget
-Space program cutbacks
-Jobs
-Manned space flights
-Symbolism
-Cost
-Scientific value of flights
-Manned space flights
-H. R. 1
-Russell B. Long
-Wage and price freeze
-Import tax
-Inflation
-Enforcement
-Comprehensiveness
-Possible study
-Possible leaks
-Consequence
-Recommendations
-Jacob K. Javits and allies
-National Commission on Wages and Prices
-Wage and price board
-Connally’s view
-Shultz's view
-Problem of removal of freeze
-Guidelines
-Negative impressions
-Wage and price freeze
-Psychological effect
-International
-Stock Market
-Newspapers
-Chicago Tribune
-Texas
-Ohio
-Iowa
-Shultz's meeting with Senators
-Gordon L. Allott
-Colorado unemployment rate
-Budget deficit
-Administration’s response
-Psychological terms
-World War II analogy
-Press
-Ezra T. Benson
-Symbolism
-Wage and price freeze
-Impact
-Duration
-Wage and price board
-Price increases
-Timing
-Connally's recommendations
-Separate imposition on as part of package
-Political aspect
-President’s view
-Reasons for delay
-Thorough analysis
-Avoiding precipitous action
-Congress’ return
-Connally’s recommendations
-Forthcoming meetings
-Japanese visitors
-Finance ministers and central bankers
-Consultation with governments
-Closing gold window
-Confidentiality
-Peter G. Peterson
-The President, Connally, Shultz
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Line
-Budget
-Controls
-President's instructions to Shultz
-Treasury, Commerce Departments and FRB
-Equalization tax
-Congress
-Division of responsibility
-Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]
-Contingency plans
-Wage and price board
-Study proposal
-Republican request
-Testimony
-Administration
-OEP
-Bureaucracy
-Treasury Department
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Secret Service
-Banks
-Administration proposals
-Woodruff
-Excise tax
-Property tax reduction
-Budget
-Revenue sharing
-Future Congressional action
-Personal exemptions
-Investment tax credit
-Mills
-President’s bill
-Health insurance
-Tax proposals
-Health insurance
-Timing
-Strategy
-Spending delay
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Significance
-Connally’s metaphor
-Wage and price board
-Timing
-Freeze
-Political appeal

Connally left at an unknown time before 2:55 pm.

President’s schedule
-Burns

Economy
-Public psychology
-Burns
-Statement
-Democratic action
-August 1971
-Burns

Shultz left at 2:55 pm.

Conversation No. 554-8

Date:  August 4, 1971
Time:  2:56 pm - 3:49 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry J. Tasca and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

President’s schedule
-Trip to New York

Greece
-Tasca’s testimony before House Foreign Affairs Committee and Senate Foreign Relations Committee
-Democracy
-King Constantine
-Democracy
-Ties and aid
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-West German aid
-Military
-Purges
-Amendment
-W. Stuart Symington, Claiborne Pell, Gale, W. McGee, James B. Pearson, J. William Fulbright
-Tasca’s conversation with Wayne L. Hays
-Election
-George Papadopoulos
-US pressure
-Symbolism
-Papadopoulos
-Tasca’s contact
-Election
-Announcement
-Timing
-1972
-Democracy
-Symbolism
-Papadopoulos
-Election
-Forthcoming trip by Spiro T. Agnew
-Timing
-President’s friendship
-Congress
-Elections
-Announcement
-Timing
-Amendment
-Martial law
-President's instructions
-Liberals
-Announcement
-Timing
-US Congress
-Agnew
-Briefing by Tasca
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower and [Dwight] David Eisenhower, II

President’s schedule
-Trip to New York

Greece
-Tasca’s future
-President’s friendship
-Congress

Tasca and Haig left at 3:49 pm.