Conversation No. 564-1

Date:  August 15, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:55 pm and 9:24 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with unknown men.

	The President’s forthcoming speech
		-Preparation
		-Telephone
			-Call
		-President’s appearance
		-President's voice
			-Sound
		-Time
		-Television cameras
			-Cueing
			-President’s positioning
		-Time
		-Oval Office
		-Unknown person’s wedding
			-Gift
			-Trip
			-Press corps
		-Procedures
			-Cueing
		-Time

The President delivered a speech entitled "The Challenge of Peace" between 9:00 pm and 9:22 pm.

[See Public Papers of the Presidents, Richard M. Nixon, 1971, pp. 886-891]

Length of President's speech

Unknown man

Cameras and lights

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
	-American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC] program
		-San Clemente, California

[General conversation]

The unknown men left at an unknown time before 9:24 pm.

Conversation No. 564-2

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:40 am and 8:55 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Request for unknown item

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:55 am.

Conversation No. 564-3

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  8:55 am - 10:10 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

National economy
-President's program
-Reaction
	-News summary
	-George S. McGovern

	-John Kenneth Galbraith
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Milton Friedman
	-Budget cut
	-Wage and price freeze
-White House staff
-George P. Shultz's "Today" show appearance
-Reaction
-White House staff
-Meeting at Camp David
	-Possible story
		-Photographs
			-Text
	-Distribution of story
	-Life
	-US News and World Report
	-President's efforts
		-Speech
	-Photographs
		-Unknown photographer [Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins]
	-Arthur Burns and Shultz
	-Distribution
	-Paul W. McCracken
	-Distribution
-Reaction
	-Long-term issues
		-Economic issue
			-1972 election
	-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Peter G. Peterson's views
-Follow-up to August 15, 1971 speech
	-President's possible speech
		-Business Council
	-Competition
	-Comparison to PRC announcement
	-Wage and price freeze
	-PRC
	-Post-Vietnam War

President's schedule
-Radio speeches
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
		-Speechwriters
			-Deadline

National economy
-President's program
	-President’s efforts
-John B. Connally's role
	-Possible press conference questions
-Reaction
	-Congress
	-Mills
-McCracken

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 8:55 am and 9:05 am.

[Conversation No. 564-3A]

[See Conversation No. 7-153]

Request for a call to Mills

[End of telephone conversation]

National economy
-President's program
-McCracken's views

Presidency
	-Showmanship

The President talked with an unknown person [Alexander M. Haig, Jr.?] at an unknown time between 8:55 am and 9:05 am.

[Conversation No. 564-3B]

Vietnam
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-News report
	-Moscow
	-Sweden
	-Veracity

[End of telephone conversation]

National economy
-President's program
	-Telephone calls
		-Haig
		-The President
			-Burns
-Burns
-Call to White House, August 16, 1971
-Japanese foreign exchange market
	-Exchange rate
	-Effect on the market
-Canadian markets
	-Attitude
		-Publicity
		-Shultz and Connally
		-Reaction to gold decision
		-President’s action
-August 15 speech
	-Compared to press conference
	-Decision-making process
		-PRC

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 8:55 am.

	Delivery of memorandum

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:05 am.

	President’s schedule
		-California
-Henry A. Kissinger's memo to President
-Haig
-Mansfield, Jacob K. Javits, Robert C. Byrd, William Proxmire, Mills, McGovern, Vance Hartke, American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO], Bank of America
-Foreign reactions
	-Great Britain
	-Switzerland
	-Japan
					-Foreign ministry statement
			-Significance of actions
				-Showmanship
				-Pessimism
					-President’s staff

American people
-Attitude
	-Friedman
-Political expectations
	-Leadership and charisma
	-Appearance of action
-Administration's response
-Lyndon B. Johnson

White House staff
	-Quality
	-Action
		-Claiming credit
			-Domestic Council
			-Responsibility

National economy
-President's program
-Compared to PRC policy
-Compared to Johnson's Vietnam policy

The White House operator talked with the President at 9:05 am.

[Conversation No. 564-3C]

[See Conversation No. 7-154]

[End of telephone conversation]

National economy
-President's program
-President's policy toward PRC
-Haldeman’s comments at Camp David
	-Leadership

Presidency
-Administration public relations points
	-Leadership
		-Boldness, courage
	-“World leader for peace”
	-“Personal family man”
		-Character, decency
		-Edward M. Kennedy
		-Dwight D. Eisenhower
		-First family
	-Prosperity without war and inflation
-Crime and drugs
-Environment
	-Youth
	-Parks
	-Administration action
	-Voluntary action
		-Right to read program
			-President’s possible involvement
				-Educational television
			-Clinics
			-Tutoring
-Opposition by media
	-Possible Administration response

Democrats
-Possible Republican attacks
-President's conversation with Charles W. Colson, August 15, 1971
	-Robert J. Dole
-Barry M. Goldwater
			-House of Representatives
			-Dole
				-News summary
				-Television
-Attacks on President's economic program
	-Press coverage
-Proxmire's comments on "Face the Nation", August 15, 1971
-Possible attacks on President's economic program
-Welfare reform
	-Postponement
		-Effect on poor
		-Congress
-Daniel P. Moynihan
-Revenue-sharing
	-Postponement

National economy
-President's program
-Federal employees
	-Postponement of pay raises and personnel cut
		-Possible national reaction
-Foreign aid
	-Cut
-Budget
-Housing and Urban Development [HUD], Health, Education and Welfare [HEW], Transportation
-Treasury
-Justice
	-Anti-trust division
-State
-Defense
-Domestic Council
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Office of Science and Technology
-Environmental Protection Agency [EPA]
	-Environment Council

Environment
-News story concerning White House pressure on William D. Ruckelshaus

National economy
-President's program
-Anti-trust laws
-Peterson
				-John N. Mitchell

President's schedule
-Cabinet
-Agenda
	-President’s possible participation
-Connally
	-Forthcoming press conference
-Length
-George W. Romney
-Call to James D. Hodgson

National economy
-President's program
-President's conversation with Pierre Rinfret, August 15, 1971
-Investment tax credit
-Reaction by businessmen
-Colson
-Confusion with job development credit
-Possible action
	-Machine tools
-Peterson's views
	-Productivity

	Appointments
	-Peterson
	-Shultz's conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
		-Balance of payments problem
		-Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]
		-Bell and Howell
	-Arnold R. Weber
	-Weber's wife
		-Chicago

	President's economic program
		-Staff reaction
			-PRC
			-Economy
-Publicity
-Staff responsibility
	-Haldeman
		-Camp David meeting
	-Non-press events
		-Business-Consumer Council
		-Girls Nation
		-Business-Consumer Council
			-Peterson
-Herbert G. Klein, Richard A. Moore and Colson
			-Colson's staff
		-DeVan L. Shumway
-Power of presidency
	-Television
-Television
	-Effect on staff thinking
		-Ripple effect
	-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-News media
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Use by Democrats
	-Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
-Image of the President
		-Reaction
			-McGovern

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	-Income tax exemptions
		-Effect on budget
	-Timing of announcement
		-Democrats

Administration public relations
		-Forthcoming announcement of President’s trip to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
		-Kissinger’s trip to PRC
		-President’s forthcoming trips to PRC and USSR
			-Timing
-Possible crisis in 1972

Nelson A. Rockefeller
	-Recent telephone call
		-Ehrlichman
		-President’s recent speech
		-President’s schedule
			-New York
				-Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
			-Ronald W. Reagan
		-Revenue sharing
		-President’s schedule
			-Ehrlichman
				-Reagan
				-Mitchell
			-Possible breakfast
-Possible call by President
-President's schedule
	-New York
		-Waldorf-Astoria Hotel

National economy
-President's speech, August 15, 1971
-Reaction
	-Public understanding
					-President's conversation with [Dwight] David, II and Julie Eisenhower
						-Vietnam
	-Haldeman's conversation with his wife
-Preparation
-William L. Safire
-Delivery
-Preparation
	-Writing
-Reaction
-Calls to White House
	-Adjectives
		-Program compared to speech
-Arthur M. Wood of Sears
-Taft Schreiber
-Robert Baldwin of Morgan, Stanley
-Eugene Black
	-Japan
	-Europe
-John Clark [?] of Los Angeles
-Emotional aspect

President's speeches
-Delivery
-Teleprompter
-August 15, 1971 speech
-Quality of television coverage
-William H. Carruthers's comments
	-Clothing
	-Communication
		-Form of address
-Delivery
-Ad libs
-New York Times
Rhetoric
	-Form of address
		-Carruthers
-Conclusion
-August 15, 1971
	-Theme
		-America’s past compared to future

President's schedule
-Rockefeller

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:05 am and 10:01 am.

[Conversation No. 564-3D]

[See Conversation No. 7-155]

[End of telephone conversation]

President's schedule
-Oakland A's
-Bob Elston
-Vida Blue
-Charles O. Finley
-Elston
-Blue
		-Washington Senators
		-Chicago White Sox
		-Elston
		-Kansas City
-Blue
-Rockefeller
-Mitchell

National economy
-President's speech, August 15, 1971
-Preparation
-Treasury Department draft
-Safire
			-Delivery
			-Safire

President's schedule

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The President left the room at an unknown time after 9:05 am.

The White House operator talked with Haldeman at an unknown time between 9:05 am and 10:01 am.

[Conversation No. 564-3E]

[See Conversation No. 7-156]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President entered the room at an unknown time before 10:01 am.

The President talked with Rockefeller between 10:01 am and 10:10 am.

[Conversation No. 564-3F]

[See Conversation No. 7-157; two items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

The President conferred with Haldeman at an unknown time during the telephone conversation.

[End of telephone conversation]

President's schedule
		-Cabinet meeting
			-Introduction

The President and Haldeman left at 10:10 am.

Conversation No. 564-5

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:10 am and 11:27 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

	President’s location
		-Cabinet Room

The unknown people [Secret Service agents] left at an unknown time before 11:27 am.

Conversation No. 564-4/565-1

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown before 11:27 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
[The recording began while the meeting was in progress]

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National economy
-President's speech, August 15, 1971
-Reaction
	-Woods’ conversation with unknown person
-Patricia R. Hitt

President's schedule
	-August 17, 1971
		-New York
	-Congressional leaders
				-Wilbur D. Mills, John W. Byrnes, Russell B. Long, Wallace F. Bennett, George H. Mahon, Frank T. Bow
				-Senate Appropriations Committee
				-Banking and Currency Committee
		-Michael J. Mansfield, Hugh Scott, Robert P. Griffin, Robert C. Byrd
		-Carl B. Albert, [Thomas] Hale Boggs, Gerald R. Ford, Leslie C. Arends
		-Use of government airplanes
			-Mills
				-Little Rock, Arkansas

Julie Nixon Eisenhower's schedule
	-Woods

Woods left at 11:48 am.

President's schedule
-Congressional leaders
-John B. Connally, George P. Shultz, Paul W. McCracken, Arthur F. Burns
-Herbert Stein
-Kenneth Belieu
-Clark MacGregor, William Timmons
-Herbert G. Klein
-Ronald L. Ziegler, Patrick J. Buchanan
-William L. Safire
-Peter G. Peterson, John D. Ehrlichman

The President talked with the White House operator at 11:48 am.

[Conversation No. 564-4/565-1A]

[See Conversation No. 7-158]

[End of telephone conversation]

President's schedule
-Congressional leaders

National economy
-President's program
-Peter M. Flanigan
	-Textiles
	-Trip

The President talked with Connally between 11:48 am and 11:50 am.

[Conversation No. 564-4/565-1B]

[See Conversation No. 7-159]

[End of telephone conversation]

Connally
-Ziegler's views
-George W. Romney
-John A. Volpe
-State Department
-Camp David meeting

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:50 am.

President's schedule
-MacGregor
-Timmons

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:33 pm.

-Congressional leaders
-Forthcoming calls

National economy
-President's program
-Reaction
-Media
-August 15, 1971, speech
	-Planning
-Media
-Newsweek story
	-Prediction

Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:50 am.

Timmons schedule

President's schedule
-Congressional leaders
-Forthcoming calls
-Eugene S. Cowan
-Belieu

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:33 pm.

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 11:50 am and 12:33 pm.

[Conversation No. 564-4/565-1C]

[See Conversation No. 7-160]

[End of telephone conversation]

	News magazines
		-President’s program
	-Time
	-Cover
		-Vida Blue
-Newsweek
	-Cover
Time and Newsweek
	-Editorial position
		-People’s Republic of China [PRC]

Haldeman talked with Belieu at an unknown time between 11:50 am and 12:33 pm.

[Conversation No. 564-4/565-1D]

[See Conversation No. 7-161]

[End of telephone conversation]

President's schedule
-Congressional leaders
-Burns

Connally
-Press conference, August 16, 1971
	-Leadership qualities

Romney

National economy
-President's program
-Flanigan's role
-Reaction
-George S. McGovern

Media
-Charles W. Colson
		-Edmund S. Muskie and Edward M. Kennedy
			-PRC

National economy
-President's program
	-Follow-up
		-Telephone calls
	-President's schedule
		-Leadership meeting
	-Mills
	-Mansfield
-Reaction
-Stock market
	-Volume of trading
		-Asa Hall [?]
-President's speech, August 15, 1971
-Content
	-Inspirational aspect
			-PRC message
-Need for spending
	-Tax deductions
	-Congress’s responsibilities
		-Investment tax credit
			-Excise tax
-President's program
-Investment tax credits
-Romney's views
-Industrial production
	-Tool and dye
	-Automobiles
-International situation
-Japan
-Mills
	-Credit
		-Peterson
	-Announcement
		-Quotas
	-Forthcoming negotiations
-Developments
-Maurice H. Stans, Romney, James D. Hodgson, Clifford M. Hardin
-Spiro T. Agnew
-William P. Rogers, David Packard, John N. Mitchell
-Stans
-Stein, Paul A. Volcker, Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger, Ehrlichman
-Romney
-Reaction
-Stock market

	President’s schedule
		-Flanigan

President's speeches
-Buchanan

Haldeman talked with an unknown person [Raymond K. Price, Jr.?] at an unknown time between 11:50 am and 12:33 pm.

[Conversation No. 564-4/565-1S]

		-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman talked with an unknown person [Price?] at an unknown time between 11:50 am and 12:33 pm.

[Conversation No. 564-4/565-1E]

President's speeches
-President's schedule
	-Leadership meeting
	-Deadline

[End of telephone conversation]

National economy
-President's program
-Reaction
-Stock market
	-Volume of trading
		-Automobile stocks

President's schedule
-Stock market
	-Rockefeller
-President's law firm
-Stock market
	-Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker
	-Closing

National economy
-Status
	-Public confidence
		-Media
-President's program
-Reaction
-Economic indicators
	-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
	-Retail sales
-President's program
-Reaction
-Stock market
	-Possible gain

Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:50 am.

Ziegler's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:33 pm.

National economy
-President's program
	-Businessmen
-Walter H. Annenberg's call to Ehrlichman, August 15, 1971
-Annenberg's dinner with Justin W. Dart and Leonard K. Firestone
-Dart
	-Letter
				-Annenberg
					-President’s August 15 speech
-Businessmen
-Media
-McCracken's views
-Psychological need for action
-President's program
	-McCracken
-Reaction
-Milton Friedman

An unknown person [Bull?] entered and left at an unknown time between 11:50 am and 12:33 pm.

		-Political aspect
			-Congress
				-Possible permanent wage and price controls
-Possible Congressional action
-Shultz's possible call to Friedman

President's schedule
-John T. McCarty
-Arthur Shenfield's “The Roots of American Discontent”
-Woods
		-Shenfield
			-Rockford College
		-McCarty
-Bull

The President talked with Woods at an unknown time between 11:50 am and 12:33 pm.

[Conversation No. 564-4/565-1F]

President's schedule
-Shenfield

[End of telephone conversation]

	Shenfield
		-Speech
			-Haldeman memo

President's schedule
-Photographer

Shenfield
	-Speech
		-John J. McLaughlin
		-Rockford College
		-Vincent T. (Vince”) Lombardi
		-Religious themes
		-Economic nationalism

An unknown person [Bull?] entered and left at an unknown time between 11:50 am and 12:33 pm.

	President’s schedule
		-Forthcoming Knights of Columbus speech
			-Price
			-Knighthood

Ziegler's schedule
	-Connally

Connally
-Schedule
	-Press conference
		-Press coverage
-Role in President’s program
-Compared to Agnew

Agnew
-Attacks on media
-Buchanan
	-Speech

	President’s schedule
	-President's forthcoming speech
	-Length
-Trip

	Shenfield
		-Speech
			-Quoted

Shenfield and Woods entered at 12:33 pm; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Shenfield's book
-Alexis DeTocqueville
-Photocopying
-Reaction
-New York

US role in world
	-World War II
-Japan
-Germans
-British, French, Italians
		-Leadership

	Shultz
		-University of Chicago

Presentation of gifts by President

	Shenfield’s book
		-Possible sequel

Shenfield and Woods left at 12:38 pm.

	US

Connally's schedule
	-Press conference

The President left at an unknown time after 12:30 pm.

Haldeman talked with an unknown person [Ziegler?] at an unknown time between 12:38 pm and 12:59 pm.

[Conversation No. 564-4/565-1G]

Connally's press conference

[End of telephone conversation]

The President entered at an unknown time before 12:59 pm.

Connally's press conference
-Ziegler

	World conditions
		-Change
			-Presidential power

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 12:38 pm and 12:59 pm.

[Conversation No. 564-4/565-1T]

	Request for a return telephone call

[End of telephone conversation]

	Unknown person’s report

	Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
		-Forthcoming announcement

	Vietnam
-Hubert H. Humphrey's comments
-Robert J. Dole's response
-As an issue
	-Visibility

President's opponents
-Possible issues
	-Poor
	-Blacks
	-Youth
		-Foreign policy leadership
-Cities
-Big business
-Young, blacks, poor

Welfare reform
	-President’s proposal
		-Timing
		-Congress
			-Onus
			-Daniel P. Moynihan
			-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
				-Ehrlichman
-1972 election
-Welfare psychology
-Blacks
	-Literacy
-Size of families

Connally
-Role in President's economic program
-Burns, Shultz
-Timing
-President’s August 15, 1971 speech
-Shultz

National economy
-President's program
-Burns's role
-Money supply
-Shultz
-President's speech, August 15, 1971
-Timing
	-Shultz and Connally

	President’s schedule
-President's forthcoming briefing at State Department
	-Ehrlichman
	-Composition
		-Agency heads, sub-cabinet members, White House staff
-Connally, Burns, Shultz, McCracken

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 12:38 pm and 12:59 pm.

[Conversation No. 564-4/565-1H]

Connally's press conference
-Ziegler
-Location
	-Treasury Department

[End of telephone conversation]

National economy
-President's program
-Briefing of August 15, 1971
	-Haldeman’s role
		-Connally
	-Intervention

	Press conferences
		-Length
			-Agnew, Romney

	Forthcoming call to Connally
		-Ziegler

	Knighthood
		-Unknown man

President's forthcoming speech to Knights of Columbus
-Content and phraseology
	-“The Roots of American Discontent”
-Buchanan
-McLaughlin

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 12:38 pm and 12:59 pm.

[Conversation No. 564-4/565-1I]

President's forthcoming speech to Knights of Columbus
-McLaughlin's draft

[End of telephone conversation]

Connally's schedule

Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:38 pm.

-Press conference

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:59 pm.

President's possible speech
	-Media
		-Western society

Ziegler entered at 12:59 pm.

Connally's previous press conference
-President's economic program
	-Wage and price freeze
		-Inflation
		-Consumer confidence
	-Significance
	-Possible effects
-President's forthcoming meeting with Congressional leaders
	-Mills
-President's views concerning government role in economy
-President's economic program
	-Timing
	-Comprehensive action
-President's foreign policy initiatives
-Connally’s comments on ”Meet the Press
		-PRC initiative
-Development
-Connally’s June 27, 1971 press conference
	-Changing conditions
	-Wage and price controls and board
	-Taxes

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 12:59 pm and 1:08 pm.

[Conversation No. 564-4/565-1J]

Request for a call to Connally

[End of telephone conversation]

Connally's previous press conference

The President talked with Connally at an unknown time between 12:59 pm and 1:08 pm.

[Conversation No. 564-4/565-1K]

Connally's previous press conference
-Ziegler's view
-Length
-President's economic program
	-Timing
	-Comprehensiveness
	-Wall Street
-Television coverage

Connally's schedule
	-State Department meeting

President's schedule
-State Department meeting
	-Connally’s role
	-The President’s role

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President's schedule
-Forthcoming briefing

[End of telephone conversation]

-Peterson

Connally's previous press conference
-President's economic program
-Devaluation
	-Public concern
		-Overseas value of dollar
-Foreigners' possible reaction
	-US role in world
		-London
-Possible media coverage

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 12:59 pm and 1:08 pm.

[Conversation No. 564-4/565-1L]

[End of telephone conversation]

Connally's previous press conference
-Press reports
	-Suspension of dollar convertibility
		-Compared to devaluation

Woods entered at 1:08 pm.

National economy
-President's program
-Reaction
-Stock market
	-Volume of trading

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 1:08 pm and 1:18 pm.

[Conversation No. 564-4/565-1U]

	Stock market records

[End of telephone conversation]

-Woods's conversations
	-Unknown person
		-George Keenan [?]
			-Ziegler
			-Connally
	-Devaluation
-President's conversation with Rockefeller
-Wire services
	-Associated Press [AP]
	-Coverage
		-Tone
			-Compared to PRC statement
-Stock market
	-Volume of trading

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 1:08 pm and 1:18 pm.

[Conversation No. 564-4/565-1M]

Stock market records

[End of telephone conversation]

National economy
-President's program
-Reaction
	-Telephone calls and telegrams
	-Rockefeller

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