Conversation No. 562-1

Date:  August 12, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:46 am and 8:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger's schedule

President's schedule
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Forthcoming press briefing
-Pentagon Papers
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Conversation No. 562-2

Date:  August 12, 1971
Time:  8:58 am - 12:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

National economy
-Textiles
-Forthcoming meeting
-Haldeman's conversation with Peter M. Flanigan
-Flanigan’s location
-Maine
-Flanigan's conversation with John N. Mitchell and Peter G. Peterson
-Peterson
-Haldeman
-Henry A. Kissinger and William P. Rogers
-Views
-Mitchell

-Maurice H. Stans
-John B. Connally
-Vote
-National security clause
-Flanigan
-Mitchell
-Need for decision
-Textile industry meeting
-Peterson
-Flanigan's views
-National security clause
-Mitchell
-Harry S. Dent
-Political interest
-President’s possible role
-Peterson
-Rogers
-Takeo Fukuda
-Peterson
-Import tax and export rebate
-Automobiles
-Views

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
-Rose Mary Woods's conversation with the President
-Forthcoming trip
-Advance work by staff
-Women
-Ronald H. Walker
-Responsibilities
-Men and women
-Mrs. Nixon
-Police, Secret Service

White House staff
-Operations
-Presentation of views
-Peterson
-Kissinger
-Options
-Peterson

National economy
-Textiles
-Mitchell's views
-Flanigan's views
-Dent

White House staff

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President’s schedule
-Reception
-White House mess
-President’s possible visit
-Dent

Mrs. Nixon
-Conversation with the President
-Gladys O’Donnell
-Staff coordination
-President’s schedule
-Haldeman
-O’Donnell
-Republican women
-Reception
-Banquet
-Schedule
-Philadelphia
-Republican women
-Reception
-President’s possible involvement
-O’Donnell
-Banquet
-President’s possible involvement
-Tricia Nixon Cox and Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Mrs. Nixon's schedule
-Constance M. Stuart
-Staff coordination

President's schedule
-Wolf Trap
-Mrs. Catherine Filene Shouse
-Haldeman
-Mrs. Nixon
-Entertainers
-White House visit
-Program
-Compared to 1970 program at Los Angeles Music Center
-Otis Chandler dinner
-Musical comedy
-Johnny Green
-Franz Lehar
-Merry Widow
-Hair

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Wolf Trap
-Mrs. Shouse
-Efforts
-Age
-Filene Center

Kissinger entered at 9:13 am.

Kissinger's schedule
-Forthcoming textile meeting
-Meeting with John D. Ehrlichman and the President

National security
-Declassification
-Ehrlichman
-Forthcoming press briefing

Kissinger's schedule
-Textile meeting
-Meeting with Ehrlichman and the President
-Peterson
-Rogers, Mitchell, Stans

National economy
-Textiles
-National security clause
-Mitchell
-Rogers
-Peterson
-Discussion with Kissinger
-Sequoia
-Comparison to Dent's views on busing
-Peterson's meeting
-David M. Kennedy
-Mitchell
-Peterson
-Stans
-President's schedule
-Political problems
-Compared to foreign policy problem
-National security clause
-Use
-Other commodities
-Steel
-Oil
-Flanigan
-Kissinger
-Meeting

National security
-Ehrlichman's forthcoming press briefing
-Classification authority
-President's papers
-Copying, debriefing
-Leaks
-News summary
-Rogers's conversation with Pakistani ambassador
-Aid to Pakistan
-Declassification
-Sources
-Current negotiations
-World War II
-Foreigners' concerns
-Domestic decisions

Kissinger’s schedule
-Ehrlichman

US-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] relations
-Forthcoming Accidental War agreement
-Gerard C. Smith
-Signing ceremony
-President’s schedule
-Intelsat
-Rogers
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Timing
-Significance
-Signing ceremony
-Television
-President’s leadership
-Accidental War agreement
-Signing ceremony
-Rogers and Gromyko
-Television
-President
-Comparison to nuclear test
-Bon Treaty
-Nikita S. Khrushchev
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman

President's forthcoming trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Timing

President's forthcoming trip to USSR
-Timing
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with PRC officials
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Dobrynin

President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Timing
-Florida primary
-New Hampshire
-Superstition
-Number 13
-Apollo 13

President's forthcoming trip to USSR
-Timing
-Dobrynin
-Urgency for date
-Conversations with Kissinger
-Pressure
-US trip to PRC
-Summit
-Kissinger’s conversation with Dobrynin
-Unknown USSR diplomat

Liberals
-Unconventional diplomacy
-USSR
-Laos
-Cambodia
-PRC
-Pentagon Papers
Pentagon Papers
-Effect on US foreign policy
-PRC
-President’s conversation with Ehrlichman
-Negotiations
-Security of communications

Presidents forthcoming trip to USSR
-Timing of announcement

Vietnam
-Press coverage
-PRC

Kissinger left at 9:29 am.

[Pause]

Mrs. Nixon's schedule
-Staff organization
-President’s possible conversation with Mrs. Nixon
-1972 election
-Helen Smith
-Press
-Lucy A. Winchester
-Social affairs
-Stuart
-Winchester
-Scheduling
-Winchester
-Traveling
-1972

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President's schedule
-Stewart J.O. Alsop
-Press conference
-George P. Shultz
-Harold C. Passer
-Department of Commerce
-Thomas E. (“Doc”) Morgan
-Rogers
-Health
-Rogers
-Liberals on Congressional Committee
-Veterans Benefit Bill
-Signing ceremony
-Gillespie V. ("Sonny") Montgomery
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-White House interns
-Arnold R. Weber
-Peterson
-Ehrlichman
-Busing
-Shultz
-White House interns
-Farewell
-Timing	
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Weber

Appointments
-United Nations [UN] General Assembly delegation
-President's conversation with Woods
-Gordon Scherer
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan, Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Dr. Arthur A. Fletcher
-O'Donnell
-Romana Acosta Banuelos
-Connally
-UN
-Moynihan, Shepard and Fletcher
-Scherer
-Flanigan
-Ohio
-Support for the President
-Milton R. Young
-Shepard

President's schedule
-Dinner for Japanese economic minister
-Number of guests
-Timing
-Vietnam announcement
-Kennedy Center opening
-Kennedy Center opening
-Press coverage
-Possible invitation to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
-Dinner for Japanese economic minister
-Timing
-Democrats
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Action on national economy

US foreign policy
-Kissinger
-Accomplishments
-Pride
-Vietnam
-Lt. William L. Calley, Jr.
-Press coverage

Pentagon Papers
-President's meeting with Charles W. Colson, August 11, 1971
-Democrats
-Investigations
-Appropriations
-Possible Congressional hearings
-Timing
-Vietnam elections

President's forthcoming trips to PRC and USSR
-Effect
-American public

Letter to Haldeman from unknown translator in Belgrade
-President's previous visit to Yugoslavia
-Photograph of Haldeman in Life
-Film
-Significance
-President’s contact with culture and people
-Serbo-Croatian language
-Crowds

President's foreign visits
-Effect
-Vice Presidency
-Press coverage
-Madrid, Spain
-India
-Pakistan
-Indonesia

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew's foreign visits
-Agnew's attitude
-Contact
-Leaders compared to common people

President's foreign visits
-Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson's style
-Interest in culture and people
-Effect
-PRC and USSR
-Purpose

President's Forthcoming visit to PRC
-Itinerary
-Possible contact with people
-Kissinger
-Peking
-Shanghai
-Chou En-lai
-Mao Tse-Tung
-James Reston's interview with Chou En-lai
-Mao Tse-Tung

Reston
-Kissinger's schedule
-PRC trip
-Interview with Chou En-lai
-Kissinger's interpretation
-President’s coverage
-Vietnam
-Compared to Gen. Charles A.J.M de Gaulle
-Algeria
-Troop withdrawal
-Criticism of President
-Pentagon Papers
-New York Times publication
-Vietnam
-New York Times
-Patrick J. Buchanan's note
-President's schedule
-New York Times

President's previous call to Harmon Killebrew
-White House staff

John V. Lindsay
-Change of party affiliation
-Press coverage
-Samuel W. Yorty
-George Meany
-Comment
-Unknown American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] in New York
-Comment
-Meany
-Comment

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-Herbert L. (“Herblock”) Block's cartoon, August 12, 1971
-New York City

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National economy
-Unemployment
-Policies of Administration’s Democratic predecessors
-Vietnam
-Casualties
-John F. Kennedy
-Rate
-Johnson
-Rate
-Vietnam
-Criticism
-Herbert Stein, Paul W. McCracken
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Shultz
-Reluctance

[Pause]

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Pessimism
-White House staff
-Human nature
-Conservatives

President's schedule
-Local Republicans
-Issues
-Politics
-Rural development funds
-Busing
-Relevance to the President

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 10:10 am.

Ziegler's forthcoming press briefing
-Ehrlichman's forthcoming press briefing
-Declassification
-Timing
-Ehrlichman
-Forthcoming press briefing
-Discussion with the President
-Busing
-Ziegler's statement
-News summary
-Philadelphia Inquirer
-J. Stanley Pottinger, Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Written directive
-Irish airline negotiations
-State Department
-Calls to White House
-Forthcoming announcement
-Flanigan
-Discussion with the President
-Landing rights
-New York
-Dublin
-Flanigan
-John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy
-Forthcoming call from Ziegler
-Mulcahy
-Cambodia
-Sisowath Sirik Matak
-Statement concerning Cambodian offensive
-US air support

Ehrlichman's schedule
-Textiles meeting

President’s schedule
-Kissinger
-Ziegler
-Ehrlichman

Ziegler left at 10:15 am.

Ziegler
-Compared to Herbert G. Klein
-Press corps

Reston
-Buchanan
-Access to administration officials
-Kissinger
-New York Times
-Interview with Chou En-lai
-Kissinger

White House staff
-Optimism
-Colson
-Clark MacGregor
-Rumsfeld

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National economy
-Textiles
-Connally's views
-Politics
-National security clause
-Stans, Mitchell
-Shultz
-Flanigan
-Effect on the President

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:15 am.

Peterson's meeting

Bull left at tn unknown time before 11:25 am.

President's schedule
-Ehrlichman
-Peterson’s meeting
-Bull
-Kissinger

Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:15 am.

-Kissinger, Ehrlichman
-Peterson’s meeting

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:25 am.

Kissinger
-Meetings

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Playboy poll
-Youth's issues
-Vietnam
-Environment

Environmentalism
-As issue
-Anti-system

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Robert H. Finch and Rumsfeld
-Roles with administration
-Maintaining status quo
-Finch
-Mitchell’s view
-Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]
-Harry [Surname unknown]

OEP
-Gen. George A. Lincoln
-Flanigan
-Peterson

Peterson
-Staff
-Role with administration
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Commerce Department
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Stans
-Stans
-Mitchell
-International economic policy

Clifford M. Hardin
-Tenure in office

Locations of government offices
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Department of Agriculture
-Kansas City
-Commerce Department
-Morton
-Denver
-Tour
-The West

Secretary of Agriculture
-Louie B. Nunn
-Requirements
-Politician
-Dirt farmer

J. Edgar Hoover
-Tenure in office
-Possible meeting with President
-Views
-Mitchell
-Ehrlichman

Hardin

Speeches
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Scenario
-Preparation
-[Richard K.?] Cook
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Price
-Editing
-William L. Safire
-Buchanan
-Price
-Editing
-Staff
-Cook
-Rev. John J. McLaughlin
-Thomas R. Shepard, Jr.
-Speech
-Strawmen
-Possible reaction
-Radio speeches
-Reaction
-Press compared to public
-Fireside chats
-Theme
-American bicentennial
-Possible titles

Administration's programs
-Names
-Compared to previous Administrations’ programs
-Peace Corps, Job Corps, Upward Bound, Head Start
-Health program
-1972 theme
-Ehrlichman
-New American Revolution

[Break in conversation]

Education
-Peter Drucker’s article	
-Birth rate
-Drop
-Teachers
-Demographics
-Age
-Baby boomers

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:15 am.

The President’s schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:25 am.

-Education
-Teachers
-Demographics
-Age
-College graduates
-Job formation
-Capital formation
-Unemployment
-Productivity
-Shultz
-Measurement
-Blue collar compared to white collar
-Services
-Peterson's view
-Outlet for productivity
-Vietnam
-Space program
-Appliances
-Foreign trade
-Distribution
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Peterson
-Shultz
-Domestic Council
-Teachers
-Numbers
-Age
-Haldeman's children
-Saint Albans school
-Unknown person
-Quality of education
-Diagraming sentences
-Methodology
-Organization
-Creativity
-Art
-Music
-Mrs. Laura Dreyfus-Barney
-Paintings
-Technical skills
-Color
-Structure
-Methodology
-Fundamentals

President's schedule
-John F. Kennedy Center
-Leonard Bernstein's "Mass"
-Theatres
-Concert hall
-Compared to Concertebow in Amsterdam
-Design
-Compared to concert hall in Boston
-Presidential box
-Location
-Daughters of the American Revolution [DAR]
-Compared to Los Angeles theater
-Eisenhower Theater
-Unknown play

Meeting
-Length
-Peterson’s meeting
-Compared to busing meeting
-Shultz
-Mitchell
-Structure
-Peterson’s meeting
-Length

Peter H. Dominick
-Vietnam
-Views concerning PRC

President's foreign policy
-Taiwan
-Response
-The Right
-Dallas

1972 election
-President's conversation with Shultz

National economy
-Textiles
-Mitchell
-National security clause
-Steel and automobiles
-Administration bill
-Democrats

White House staff
-Dent
-Involvement
-Ehrlichman
-Dent
-Involvement
-The South	
-Political discussions
-Murray M. Chotiner

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Presidential leadership
-Decision-making
-Influences
-"Palace Guard"
-Emperor Franz Josef
-President
-Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-W. Alton (“Pete”) Jones
-Kissinger’s view
-Academic training
-PRC
-USSR
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Influences
-Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Kissinger's role
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Staff
-Big decisions compared to small ones
-Petrochemicals
-Flanigan's memo
-Details
-Staff
-Process

Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:15 am.

President's schedule
-Meeting
-Kissinger and Ehrlichman

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:25 am.

President's schedule
-Bill-signing
-Passer, Weber, Shultz
-Bill-signing
-Montgomery, Baker	
-Pens

Kissinger
-Treaty signing

The President left at an unknown time after 10:15 am.

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[Room noise]

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The President returned at an unknown time before 11:25 am.

President’s schedule
-[Kissinger]
-Accidental War agreement
-Signing
-Intelsat
-Rogers
-Ceremonies
-Press coverage

White House facilities
-Treasury Department
-Connally
-Oval Office
-Treasury Department
-Compared to Executive Office Building [EOB]
-State Department
-Rogers’ office
-Unknown room
-Press
-Health unnit
-Story
-Athletic facilities

Unknown man
-Alleged criminal action
-Location
-Rehoboth
-Pentagon

Congressman William J. Scherle
-Loyalty to the President
-1966 campaign

Moynihan
-Possible party switch
-Role with administration
-Secretary of Defense
-Secretary of State
-Ambassadorship
-PRC

State Department
-Possible appointments
-Secretary of State
-Qualification
-Ambassadorships
-Kissinger

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Agnew
-Retirement benefits
-Secret Service
-Possible employment
-Haldeman's possible conversation with Mitchell
-Future
-Politics
-Possible post
-Press
-Management
-Haldeman's possible conversation with Mitchell and Bryce N. Harlow
-Tenure in office
-Possible resignation

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-Washington Star editorial, August 11, 1971
-Newsweek
-Ambassador’s letter
-Kenya
-Gift
-Wildlife incident

Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:15 am.

President's schedule
-Kissinger
-Ehrlichman

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:25 am.

Agnew
-Newsweek story
-Meeting

Kissinger and Ehrlichman entered at 11:25 am.

Ehrlichman's forthcoming press briefing
-Busing
-South Carolina case
-Shultz
-Dr. Thomas E. (“Doc”) Morgan
-Meeting
-Mitchell, Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Shultz
-Mitchell

Pentagon Papers
-White House response
-Political strategy
-Daniel Ellsberg
-South Vietnamese election
-Democrats' reaction
-House and Senate investigating committees
-Appropriations
-Lawrence F. O’Brien, Jr.
-Possible Congressional hearings
-South Vietnamese election
-House and Senate Armed Services Committees
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman

Ehrlichman’s forthcoming press briefing
-Declassification
-Exemptions
-Sources
-International relations
-Foreign leaders
-Britain
-Germany
-New procedure
-Press responsibility
-Possible future leaks
-Court decision
-Classification authority
-Limitation
-President’s communications

Vietnam
-Press coverage
-Effect on North Vietnam
-Ehrlichman's forthcoming press briefing
-Pentagon Papers

Ehrlichman’s forthcoming press briefing
-President's classification system
-Disclosure
-Information security
-PRC initiative
-Debriefing
-Copying
-Chou En-lai
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s view
-Disclosure of classified documents to press
-Kissinger's press backgrounders
-Leaks
-Reston
-Bureaucracy
-Ongoing negotiations
-PRC
-Possible question
-Leak
-Pentagon Papers
-State Department
-President's role in Pentagon Papers case
-Injunctions

Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 11:26 am.

-Justice Department
-Copying of classified documents
-Techniques
-President's classification system
-President’s conversation with Chiefs of State
-Need to know
-Debriefing
-State Department
-Sisowath Sirik Matak
-Need to know
-NSC
-Debriefing

India-Pakistan
-Recent meeting
-Rogers's call to Pakistani ambassador
-US policy

Declassification system
-Changes
-Ongoing negotiations
-PRC
-USSR
-Openness
-Historical information
-Foreign leaders
-British, French
-President's classification system
-Purpose
-Protecting information
-PRC
-Press
-Supreme Court decision on Pentagon Papers

Pentagon Papers
-Administration's reaction
-Press
-Democrats

National security
-Ehrlichman's forthcoming press briefing

Pentagon Papers
-Administration's reaction
-President’s possible involvement
-Press conference

Declassification
-Ehrlichman's forthcoming press briefing
-Progress report
-January 1971 study
-John W. Dean, III
-Historical information
-World War II
-1964-1954
-Pentagon Papers
-Prosecution for leaks
-Negotiations
-Justice Department
-President's classification system
-Past negotiations
-PRC
-Pentagon Papers
-Ongoing negotiations
-Pentagon Papers
-Press responsibility
-Compared to Administration responsibility
-Risk creation
-Intent
-Foreign leaders
-Political security
-Democrats

Ziegler left at 11:50 am.

Busing

National economy
-Textiles
-Memorandum for President
-Politics
-Mitchell
-National security
-Wilbur D. Mills's possible action
-Quota legislation
-US textile industry
-National security clause
-Possible administration action
-Legislation
-Mills
-National security clause
-Possible consequences
Ehrlichman left at 11:53 am.

President's schedule
-Signing of accidental war treaty
-Kissinger's conversation with Rogers
-Intelsat
-Seabed Arms Control Treaty
-Dobrynin
-Announcement
-Timing

Kissinger left at 11:54 am.

Connally
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Schedule
-Possible meeting with the President
-Telephone call
-Sidney W. Souers
-International monetary situation
-Paul A. Volcker
-President's forthcoming economic program
-Timing
-Closing gold window
-Domestic front
-Schedule
-San Antonio
-Possible meeting with the President
-Possible telephone call
-Memorandum on reserve assets
-President's forthcoming economic program
-Import tax
-Filing
-Views of Connally and the President
-Congress's schedule

Connally's schedule
-President

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 11:54 am and 12:01 pm.

[Conversation No. 562-2A]

[See Conversation No. 7-111]

Request for a call to Connally

[End of telephone conversation]

National economy
-President's forthcoming program
-Shultz
-President's schedule, August 13, 1971
-NSC
-White House summer interns
-Parade magazine
-Photograph session
-Service secretaries
-Burns
-Kissinger's schedule

Shultz
-Duties
-Busing
-Budget
-President’s economic program

The President talked with Connally between 12:01 pm and 12:12 pm.

[Conversation No. 562-12B]

[See Conversation No. 7-112]

Connally's schedule

President's schedule
-Meeting with Connally
-Volcker

National economy
-President's forthcoming program
-Timing of announcement
-Domestic front
-International front
-Negotiating position
-Wage and price freeze
-Investment tax credit
-President's conversation with Shultz
-Congressional approval
-[Import tax]
-Legal opinion
-Wage and price freeze
-Import tax
-David M. Kennedy round of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade [GATT]
-Legal opinion
-Timing of announcement
-Wage and price freeze and import tax
-Congress
-Budget
-Investment tax credit
-International monetary meeting
-Possible effect
-Public psychology
-Closing gold window and floating dollar
-Timing of announcement
-Wage and price freeze and import tax
-Handling of announcement
-Connally
-Closing gold window
-The President
-Congress
-Taxes
-Timing of announcement
-Possible effect
-Shultz
-Conversation with the President
-Domestic front
-Public psychology
-Connally's schedule
-Burns
-Possible meeting with international bankers
-Import tax

[End of telephone conversation]
National economy
-Status
-Volcker's call

Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:12 pm.

	President's schedule
-Passer

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:15 pm.

Volcker

National economy
-Haldeman's forthcoming conversation with Shultz
-Connally and Volcker

President's schedule
-Shultz
-Connally
-Wolf Trap
-Mrs. Nixon

Haldeman left at 12:15 pm.

Conversation No. 562-3

Date:  August 12, 1971
Time:  12:15 pm - 12:24 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Harold C. Passer and Charles W. Colson; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Photograph session

Passer
-Tenure in office

National economy
-Release of statistics
-Positive news
-Press
-Negativism
-Need for balance
-Census
-Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS]
-Census
-Retail sales
-Housing
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Federated Department stores

-Consumer Council
-Passer’s conversation with unknown man
-Steel strike
-Railroad strike
-Lockheed bill

International monetary situation
-Possible devaluation
-New York financial community

National economy
-Public psychology
-Unemployment
-News summary
-Edmund S. Muskie’s statement
-Wage and price controls
-Previous administrations
-John F. Kennedy
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Vietnam
-World War II
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-War
-Administration’s goal
-George Romney's forthcoming speech in Atlanta
-Media coverage
-News media's views
-John F. Kennedy's administration
-Foreign policy
-Economic policy
-Inflation
-Compared to Eisenhower years
-Unemployment
-Stock market
-Unemployment
-Composition
-Compare to Nixon years

Presentation of gifts by President
-Passer's wife

Passer and Colson left at 12:24 pm.

Conversation No. 562-4

Date:  August 12, 1971
Time:  12:24-12:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

President's schedule
-Executive Office Building [EOB]

Stephen B. Bull entered at 12:24 pm.

Bull's schedule

Sanchez and Bull left at 12:25 pm.

Conversation No. 562-5

Date:  August 12, 1971
Time:  12:25 pm - 12:44 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Arnold R. Weber and George P. Shultz; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

President's schedule

Photograph session

Weber
-Experience with administration
-Future
-University [of Chicago]

Teaching
-Lectures
-Blue books
-The President’s law school experience
-Weber's experience
-Shultz's experience
-Dean of Business School
-Executive program
-Businessmen's knowledge
-Monetary system
-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-Commercial banks

Government
-Businessmen's knowledge
-FRB
-Weber's future teaching experience
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Faculty
-Possible seminar
-Weber's experience
-Administration
-Conservatism compared to liberalism
-Manpower program
-Job Corps
-Congress
-Cost
-Success
-Political aspect
-Administration policy

National economy
-Edmund S. Muskie's statement
-News summary
-Unemployment
-Administrations of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson

Weber

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-Hyde Park of Chicago
-House
-Location
-Museum of Science and Industry

President's previous visits to University of Chicago
-Allan Wallace [sp?]
-Law school building dedication

Occupations
-Importance

Immigration to US
-Polls
-Unknown Polish editors conversation with President
-Elite classes
-Unknown man's statement in 1875
-Colonial labor force
-Unknown Frenchman

Stephen B. Bull entered and left at an unknown time after 12:25 pm.

Presentation of gifts by President
-Weber’s sons
-Key chain
-Apollo viewer
-Weber's wife
-Compact
-Money clip

Government
-Grade levels
-Reduction
-Press coverage

Weber and Shultz left at 12:44 pm.

Conversation No. 562-6

Date:  August 12, 1971
Time:  12:45 pm - 1:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

George P. Shultz
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Schedule
-Forthcoming speech
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS] briefing
-Meeting with the President
President's schedule
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Henry A. Kissinger

[No conversation]

National economy
-Paul A. Volcker's material
-Shultz

International monetary situation
-Market conditions, August 11, 1971
-Volcker
-Arthur F. Burns
-John B. Connally

National economy
-President's forthcoming program
-Timing of announcement
-Format
-President's possible television speech
-Floating the dollar
-Connally
-Announcement
-Possible story
-Wage and price freeze, import tax
-Investment tax credit
-Possible television speech

John D. Ehrlichman and John W. Dean, III entered at 12:54 pm.

Ehrlichman's previous press briefing
-Declassification
-Cuba
-Consultation
-Robert F. Kennedy
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman
-Arthur Schlesinger
-Lebanon
-New York Times
-Pentagon Papers
-Timing
-1972 election
-Donald Oberdorfer, Jr.'s question
-Pentagon Papers case
-New York Times, Washington Post
-Injunctions
-Ongoing negotiations
-William S. White
-Effect
-William H. Rehnquist's study
-Democrats
-Pentagon Papers
-Declassification
-Vietnam, World War II, Cuba
-Lebanon
-Korea
-Cuba
-Bay of Pigs, missile crisis
-Herbert E. Kaplow's question
-New York Times and Washington Post cases
-Implications
-Classification procedures
-Questions
-Administration’s case
-Oberdorfer's note to Ehrlichman
-Possible article
-Washington Post and New York Times cases
-Administration response

Ehrlichman and Dean left at 1:00 pm.

National economy
-President's forthcoming program
-Handling of announcement
-Television
-Domestic aspects
-Effect on international conditions
-Wage and price freeze and import tax
-Television
-Public opinion
-Handling of announcement
-Connally
-Closing gold window
-Treasury Department
-Purpose
-Stabilizing international monetary situation
-Television

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 1:04 pm.

Ehrlichman
-Previous press briefing

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Ziegler’s previous press conference
-Jim Naughton's question
-John V. Lindsay
-New York Times

Ehrlichman
-Previous press briefing
-Declassification
-Progress report
-Spending
-World War II records
-Classification authority
-Lebanon, Cuba missile crisis, Bay of Pigs, World War II, Korea
-Foreign policy
-Confidentiality
-January 1971 study

Ziegler left at 1:09 pm.

Ehrlichman's previous press briefing
-Declassification
-President’s involvement in issue
-Washington Post, New York Times
-Press coverage

National economy
-Run on the dollar
-Shultz's views
-Treasury Department
-Volcker
-August 11, 1971
-President's forthcoming program
-Handling of announcement
-Domestic aspect
-Timing
-Television
-Timing
-Congress
-Possible speech
-Possible briefing
-Connally, Shultz, Ehrlichman
-Paul W. McCracken
-Timing
-International aspects
-Compared to domestic aspects
-Congress
-Convertibility of dollar to gold
-Closing gold window
-Shultz’s view
-Symbolism
-Handling of announcement
-International speculation
-Possible effect
-Inflation
-Inflation
-Import tax
-Closing gold window
-Handling of announcement
-Timing
-Psychological effect
-Connally
-Speculators
-Timing
-Closing gold window
-Congress
-President's conversation with Shultz, August 11, 1971
-Briefing the press
-John A. Scali's possible role

Volcker
-Market prediction
-West Germany
-International economic conditions
-Domestic impact

The President and Haldeman left at 1:17 pm.