Conversation No. 564-4/565-1

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:08 pm and 1:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, Ronald Ziegler, Rose Mary Woods, and Stephen B. Bull.
[The recording began while the conversation was in progress]

	Press coverage

	Request for Charles W. Colson

Bull left at an unknown time after 1:08 pm.

Peter M. Flanigan
	-Location

Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:08 pm and 1:18 pm.

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

[See Conversation No. 8-1]

[End of telephone conversation]

National economy
-President's program
	-Unknown draft
		-Updating economic structure
	-Timing
		-John B. Connally
		-National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
		-Jobs
-Statistics

-Connally's previous press conference
	-Food prices
-Connally's June 27, 1971 speech
	-Credibility
	-Treasury Department

Administration's credibility
-Lyndon B. Johnson

	Press
		-People’s Republic of China [PRC] initiative
		-President’s economic program
		-September 1971

National economy
-Newsweek
-Henry Hubbard's conversation with Ziegler, August 15, 1971
	-Wage and price freeze
		-Timing
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Dan Rather
	-President's program

Connally's health

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:08 pm and 1:18 pm.

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

[See Conversation No. 8-2]

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman talked with the White House operator.

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

[See Conversation No. 8-3]

[End of telephone conversation]

	Cancellation of call to Colson

Colson entered at 1:18 pm.

National economy
-President's program
-Reaction
-Stock market
	-Volume of trading
		-Automobiles
-Television coverage
-Request for Haldeman to call Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker

Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:18 pm and 1:20 pm.

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

[See Conversation No. 8-4]

[End of telephone conversation]

National economy
-President's program
-Connally's previous press conference
-Colson's conversation with Frank Stanton

The President talked with the White House operator.

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

[See Conversation No. 8-5]

[End of telephone conversation]

-Devaluation
-Re-broadcast
	-Stanton
		-Reaction
			-[Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] executives]
				-PRC initiative

The President talked with Connally between 1:20 pm and 1:23 pm.

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

[See Conversation No. 8-6]

Colson talked with Connally.

Ziegler talked with Connally.

The President talked with Connally.

[End of telephone conversation]

Connally's previous press conference
-Press
	-“Face the Nation”

	President’s schedule
		-Press conference
			-Timing

National economy
-President's program
-Reaction
-Businessmen
	-Stock market
-Stock market
	-Record
		-Timing
	-Possible action
-William J. Casey

Haldeman talked with Lasker at an unknown time between 1:23 pm and 1:40 pm.

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

[See Conversation No. 8-7]

[This portion of the conversation was contemporaneous with the Haldeman-Lasker telephone conversation]

National economy
-President's program
-Reaction
-George S. McGovern
-Louis P. Harris's views, August 15, 1971
	-Public psychology
		-Confidence
	-Protectionism
		-Surcharge
	-Connally’s press conference
	-Franklin D. Roosevelt

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman's previous conversation with Lasker
-Stock market
-Records
	-Figures
		-Studebaker Corporation
-Current status, August 16, 1971
	-Dow-Jones Industrial Average
-Prospects
	-Investor confidence
		-President’s August 15, 1971 speech

National economy
-President's program
-President's forthcoming meeting with Congressmen, August 17, 1971
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Reaction
	-Mills
	-Connally
-Michael J. Mansfield

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Blacks
-As issue
-Alabama Court ruling, August 16, 1971
-George C. Wallace

National economy
-President's program
-Welfare reform
	-President’s August 15, 1971 speech
		-Vermont call
-Congress
	-President’s 1969 proposal
		-Delay
			-Daniel P. Moynihan
	-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Revenue-sharing
	-Congress
	-President's previous conversation with Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Patrick J. Buchanan
	-Conservatives
-Reaction
-Conservatives
	-Budget cuts
	-Foreign aid 
	-Federal employees
				-John F. Griner of the American Federation of Government Employees [AFGE]
-Employee cuts
-George P. Shultz
	-HEW, Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO], Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Drug enforcement

President's schedule
-Forthcoming briefing at State Department
	-Press
		-Ziegler’s role
		-Possible leaks
-Shultz
-Haldeman’s instructions to Manolo Sanchez

The President, et al. left at 1:40 pm.

Conversation No. 565-2

Date:  August 16, 1971
Time:  1:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

	President’s location
		-Executive Office Building [EOB]