Conversation No. 567-1

Date:  September 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:46 am and 8:53 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule
-Morning schedule prior to departure for Camp David
-Family photograph to be taken in Residence East Hall
-Arrangements
-Photographer
-Stanley [Surname unknown]
-Timing
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Duration of session

Bull left at an unknown time before 8:53 am.

Conversation No. 567-2

Date:  September 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:46 am and 8:53 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Availability
-Meeting with George P. Shultz
-Time
-Chapin
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Availability

Bull left at an unknown time before 8:53 am.

Conversation No. 567-3

Date:  September 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:46 am and 8:53 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:53 am.

Conversation No. 567-4

Date:  September 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:46 am and 8:53 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Schedule
-Dwight L. Chapin

-George P. Shultz
-Ronald L. Ziegler's schedule
-Shultz
-Duration of meeting

Bull left at an unknown time before 8:53 am.

Conversation No. 567-5

Date:  September 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:46 am and 8:53 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Dwight L. Chapin.

Memorandum
-Request for copy
-George H. Gallup

Schedule
-Meeting with John N. Mitchell
-Mitchell's request

Chapin left at an unknown time before 8:53 am.

Conversation No. 567-6

Date:  September 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:46 am and 8:53 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Rescheduling
-George P. Shultz
-Attorney General John N. Mitchell
-Time of meeting

Bull left at an unknown time before 8:53 am.

Conversation No. 567-7

Date:  September 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown time between 8:46 am and 8:53 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown woman.

President’s schedule
-[Item for the President?]

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 8:53 am.

Conversation No. 567-8

Date:  September 4, 1971
Time:  8:53 am - 10:09 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with George P. Shultz.

Greetings

Shultz’s vacation
-Family
-Milton and Rose Friedman

The economy
-Shultz's conversation with Friedman
-Gold
-President’s previous conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Rights of citizens to hold gold
-Legality
-Memorandum for John B. Connally
-Importance
-Political impact
-Friedman's view of international situation
-Taxation and expenditure
-Wage and price policies
-Psychological effects
-Status of free enterprise system
-Managed economy
-Press backgrounder, September 3, 1971
-Chuck [Charles W. Colson]
-Newspapers
-Story on the economy
-Press questions
-The President's role
-Tax changes

Labor issues
-West Coast dock strike
-Alfred R. (“Harry”) Bridges
-Proposal on jurisdictional issue of loading container cargoes
-Divisions between the Teamsters and the Pacific Maritime Association [PMA]
-PMA
-Teamster reaction
-National Labor Relations Board [NLRB]
-Meeting on PMA's decision on Bridges’ proposal
-Timing
-Outcome of strike
-J. Curtis Counts’ information about forthcoming action
-Return to work by strikers
-Negotiations during Phase I freeze period
-Taft-Hartley injunction
-President’s possible action
-Affidavits
-National emergency
-PMA resistance
-Employee reactions
-Resistance
-James D. Hodgson

Budget
-Cuts
-Amount
-Camp David meeting
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO] program and community action grants
-Limits on flow of funds
-Legality
-Timing
-Continuing resolution
-Political problems
-Political effects
-Strategy of spending
-Effects
-Ceiling limits
-Testimony before Congress
-Connally
-Shultz
-1972 budget proposals
-Deficit estimates
-Effect of profits
-Appropriations
-Defense bill
-Outlays, receipts
-Gross National Product [GNP]
-Establishment of new program
-Attitude and action of Congress
-Timing
-Uncertainties
-Focus on changes
-Estimated budget
-Amount of deficit
-Connally
-Presentation for the President
-Chart
-Camp David
-Shultz's presentation to Congress
-Strategies
-Full employment deficit
-Reductions in budget
-Surcharge
-Budget outlays
-Fiscal Year [FY] 73 and 74 projections
-Presentation on deficits
-Shultz’s forthcoming conversation with Connally
-Phase II operation
-Direction of prices, productivity
-Employment
-Percentages of economy shifts
-[Hugh] Gardner Ackley, Arthur M. Okun
-Guidelines
-Arthur F. Burns

Labor
-West Coast dock strike
-Bridges
-Labor agreement
-Bargaining
-Settlement
-Freeze
-Employer attitudes
-East coast dock workers, coal miners
-Conversation at Camp David meeting
-Strategy
-Labor and management
-Analogy to construction industry
-Status
-Leaders
-George Meany
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Meany’s view
-Public members of the Pay Board
-Brookings Institute
-Okun, Ackley, [Forename unknown] Ellard [?]
-Bridges
-Thomas W. ("Teddy") Gleason
-Labor opposition
-View
-Guideline
-Guideline levels
-Labor support
-Goals
-Productivity
-Wages
-Labor management groups
-Productivity bargaining
-Public opinion
-Meany and other labor leaders
-Voluntary system of cooperation
-Administration policies towards labor leaders
-Concessions
-Free markets
-Free collective bargaining
-Shultz's meeting with Meany
-Haldeman's report to the President
-Possible meeting with labor and management, 
-Meany
-Labor and management members of the National Commission on Productivity 			-National Association of Manufacturers [NAM]
-Chamber of Commerce
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Public participation
-War Labor Board/Wage Stabilization Board prototype
-Labor reaction to tri-partite format
-Equity
-Labor's insistence
-Impact on wages
-Union attempts at organizing non-union workers
-Federal Government employees
-John Moore [?]
-Proposals
-Industries
-Construction
-Possible administration action
-Cosmetic changes
-The President’s view

The economy
-Wholesale price index
-Wages and prices
-Intervention
-Connally
-Wholesale price index
-Unemployment figures
-Shultz’s view
-Problems
-Economic problems
-Seasonal adjustments
-Compared to 1961-63
-Statistics on freeze
-Edward Dale
-Impact on wages and prices
-Interpretation
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Food and home prices
-Timing of compilation
-Figures
-Civilian labor force
-1971 changes
-Fluctuations
-Teenage employment
-Breakdown
-Discrepancies
-Retail sales
-Consumer attitudes on purchases
-Expansion
-Inflation
-Future problems
-Public sentiment for freeze
-The President's policies
-International situation
-Cycle of monetary crises
-Psychological impact
-The stock market
-Congressional reaction
-The President's speech to Congress
-Drafts
-Raymond K. Price, Jr., William L. Safire
-Review
-Labor and industry group
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Phase II discussion
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Dividend issues
-Maurice H. Stans
-Business views
-National Railroad Passenger Corporation/American Track [AMTRAK]'s practices
-Sale of tickets
-Comparison with airline practices
-Problems
-Arnold R. Weber
-Gen. George A. Lincoln
-The President's meetings with Carlos Sanz de Santamaria, Weber
-Weber
-Background
-Quality of work
-Television appearances
-"Today" show
-"Captain Kangaroo of the COLC" self-description
-Wage and price freeze
-Public support
-President’s recent rip to Chicago
-Duration
-Self-interest
-Burns
-Media

John N. Mitchell entered at 9:44 am.

Schedule
-Meeting with Weber, Lincoln
-Time
-Paul W. McCracken
-Connally
-Attendance at meeting

Recreation
-White House tennis court

Shultz left at 9:45 am.

Personnel management
-Department of Justice [DOJ]
-Problems
-Will R. Wilson [Head of Civil Division, DOJ]
-News article
-Texas background
-Connally
-Opposition election
-Reputation
-Law enforcement
-Justice Department
-Frank W. Sharp stock fraud case in Texas
-Time magazine story
-Sharp
-Electronic eavesdropping wiretaps
-Federal and state bank examiners
-Wilson's law firm
-Handling of fee
-Appearance of Wilson's involvement
-Handling by Time magazine
-Perceptions of Wilson's relationship with Sharp
-Problems
-Texas politics
-Sharp's influence within Democratic Party
-Options in response to allegations
-Wilson's legal position vis-a-vis Sharp
-Reputation
-Departure from DOJ
-Administration
-Effect on the President's political relationship with Texas
-Discussion of situation regarding Wilson between Mitchell and Connally
-Ben F. Barnes
-Fixing legislation
-Background
-Finances
-Loans
-Stock purchase
-National Bankers Life Insurance Company
-Federal bank examiner
-Allan Shivers
-Electronic eavesdropping equipment
-Inferences
-Effect of allegations on Texas Democrats
-Wilson involvement
-Congressman Henry B. Gonzalez
-Press releases
-Impact
-John G. Tower
-Support for Wilson
-Current position of administration
-Newspaper implications regarding the administration
-Sharp's support of Connally
-Texans
-Wilson's reputation
-Resignation
-Impact
-Options
-Reaction
-Morality of administration
-Sherman Adams case
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Political impact
-Possible press conference questions
-Action by administration
-Wilson's reputation in government
-Timing of alleged actions
-Borrowing of money
-Stock purchase
-Financial background
-Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] investigation of Sharp
-Press leaks
-William J. Casey
-Legislative investigative committee
-Three grand juries
-Austin, Dallas, Houston
-Relationship of Sharp and Wilson
-Inferences
-Response to forthcoming article
-Attitude towards Wilson
-Representation of Bache and Company by Nixon and Mitchell’s law firm
-Bond issue in West Virginia
-Governor's confession about fee

Polygraph tests
-William P. Rogers’ action
-Press publication of leaked information [Pentagon Papers]
-Deterrence effect
-Charles M. Cooke, Jr. in Elliot Richardson's department [Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]]
-Trip to Alaska

Wilson
-Handling of issue
-Mitchell’s judgment

Teamsters Union
-James R. Hoffa
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Meeting with Mitchell
-Request for clemency and pardon of Hoffa
-Speech
-Public request
-Sensitivity of issue
-Parole Board
-Release from imprisonment
-Time of parole
-Reconsideration
-Clemency
-Campaign support
-Labor support for the President's programs
-Mitchell
-Meany and the American Federation of Labor/Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-Comparison of Hoffa and Fitzsimmons in regard to influence
-Supporters
-Fitzsimmons
-Support for clemency
-Commitment from Hoffa on union activity
-Support for the President in 1972 election
-Hoffa's influence
-Possible opposition by Democratic Party
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Public interest
-Handling
-Conversation with Shultz
-Support
-Barry M. Goldwater
-John J. Rhodes
-The President’s view
-Robert F. Kennedy's relationship with Hoffa
-Walter P. Reuther
-Meany

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Mitchell left at 10:09 am.

Conversation No. 567-9

Date:  September 4, 1971
Time:  10:09 am - 10:47 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Carlos Sanz de Santamaria and Arnold Nachmanoff; the White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Seating arrangements

Photograph session

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:09 am.

Colombian coffee

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:47 am.

Alliance for progress
-The President's August 17, 1971 statement on tenth anniversary

Latin America
-US economic action
-Effect of US economy's status on Latin America
-10% surcharge and foreign aid reduction
-Effect
-Mexico, Argentina
-Aid cuts by US Congress
-Trade situation
-Preferential treatment
-Statement by William P. Rogers
-Compared to Europe
-Latin America trade ministers

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:09 am.

-Dollar reserves
-Effect
-Awareness
-People of Latin America

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:42 am.

-Forthcoming Conference in Panama
-Long term effect
-10% surcharge
-Buenos Aires meeting
-Study of proposals
-Mexico, Argentina, Brazil
-Forthcoming Panama conference
-Attendance
-Technical group
-Finance ministers
-US delegation
-Paul A. Volcker
-Nathaniel Samuels
-Assistant Secretary of Department of the Treasury
-Charls E. Walker
-Possible attendance
-Forthcoming meetings
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Washington, DC
-Status of Latin America
-New governments
-Mexico
-Chile
-Elections
-Marxists
-Labor unions
-Peru
-Economy
-Impact for the administration

US-Latin American relations
-Forthcoming decade
-Study

Schedule of Inter-American Committee of the Alliance for Progress [CIAP] meeting
-Panama conference
-Economic ministers
-Santamaria's possible meeting with Henry A. Kissinger, Peter G. Peterson, John B. Connally
-Public statement

US economic action
-Balance of payments and international monetary dislocation
-Position of Latin American countries
-Across the board nature of action
-Surcharge
-General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade [GATT]
-Surcharge
-Duration
-Reevaluation
-Relations with other countries
-Latin America
-Japan, European Economic Community [EEC]
-President’s speech in Chicago, September 3, 1971
-Former US aid to Japan, Germany, Great Britain, France
-Competition
-Unfavorable balance of payments
-Exchange rates
-Tariff barriers
-Negotiations with major countries
-Development of relationship
-Competitive practices
-Surcharge
-Duration of surcharge
-US-Latin relations
-Mexico
-Amount of trade
-Bolivia
-Duration of surcharge
-Quotas
-Increase of tariff rates

Latin America
-Aid program
-Budget cuts
-Type of cut
-Mood of country
-Mood of Congress
-Foreign aid
-Attitudes toward Latin America
-Friendship
-Amount of budget cuts
-Type of budget cuts
-Government pay increases
-US commitment
-Program of support of alliance for progress
-Congressional support
-Relations
-Aid and loans
-Trade
-Rockefeller Commission
-Nature of relations
-Meeting with Connally
-Scheduling
-Connally’s views
-Treasury Department's role
-State Department
-Panama conference
-Santamaria's possible comments
-Meeting with the President
-Sources of US action
-Relations between US and Latin America
-Surcharge duration
-Foreign aid cuts
-Aid programs
-US-Latin relations
-Peterson
-Future meeting with Santamaria
-New position
-Chair, Council on International Economic Policy [CIEP]
-Knowledge
-US relations with Japan, Germany
-Policies
-Future of Latin America
-Stability

US economic policies
-Duration of budget measures
-Relationship between Latin America and the US
-Peace
-Trade
-Negotiations
-Constructive disengagement
-Trade competition
-Current attitudes
-Protectionism
-Textiles, airplanes, glassware
-Quotas, tariff barriers
-Wage and price freeze
-Unfavorable balance of payments
-Revaluation
-Impact on Latin America

Latin America
-Statements on US attitudes by Santamaria
-Santamaria's meeting with the President
-President’s commitments
-Cooperations with Alliance for Progress
-Trade in Latin America
-US economic actions
-Impact on Latin America
-Cause
-Peterson
-Possible meeting with Santamaria
-Relations with the US
-Possible statements
-Surcharge
-Duration of surcharge
-Foreign aid
-US actions
-Aid reduction
-Surcharge

Santamaria and Nachmanoff left at 10:47 am.

Conversation No. 567-10

Date:  September 4, 1971
Time:  10:47 am - 11:14 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with George P. Shultz, Stephen B. Bull, Arnold R. Weber, Gen. George A. Lincoln and Paul W. McCracken; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Press photograph
-Seating of group
-McCracken
-Position
-Shultz
-Lincoln

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Carlos Sanz de Santamaria
-Effect and timing of surcharge action on Latin America

The economy
-Wage and price freeze
-Work
-John B. Connally

-Shultz
-The White House staff
-Charles W. Colson
-The President's conversation with Clifford M. Hardin
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Weber
-Captain Kangaroo description

Members of the press entered at an unknown time after 10:47 am.

Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins

[Photograph session]

Bull, photographer and press left at an unknown time before 11:24 am.

The economy
-Headline news stories
-Wage and price freeze
-Implementation
-Civil servants
-Work
-Public support
-Governors
-Preston Smith of Texas
-Labor leaders
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Joseph L. Alioto
-Effect of action
-Teachers
-Cost of living pay raise
-Dayton, Ohio
-Illinois union
-Richard B. Ogilvie
-California teachers union
-Organizing effort
-Union leader's jailing
-Ogilvie
-Policies
-Consistency
-Wage increases
-Ceilings
-Guidelines
-Wage and price freeze
-Recent wholesale price figures
-Problems
-Alternatives
-Bureaucracy
-Need for strong action
-Wage and price freeze
-Bubble
-Duration
-Rules and regulations
-Establishment
-Timing
-Measuring effectiveness
-Public support
-Necessity
-Wage issues in professions
-Teachers
-Football salary negotiations
-Contracts
-Joe [William] Namath
-Waivers
-Football players during the Korean War
-Consistency
-Press coverage
-Baseball
-Vida Blue
-Automobile
-Annual salary
-Supplements to salary
-Product endorsements and commercials
-Price control
-Productivity 
-Productivity Commission [National Commission on Productivity]
-Statement
-Phase II
-Bargaining
-Labor and management cooperation
-Business
-General Motors [GM]
-American Motors [AMC]
-Lynn A. Townsend
-Conversation with McCracken
-Office of Economic Policy [OEP] and COLC staff
-The President’s appreciation for work on freeze
-Personnel
-Number
-OEP
-Sources of detailed employees
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Morale
-The President's experiences at Office of Price Administration [OPA] during World War II
-Thomas I. Emerson, David Capers
-Work
-Tire rationing
-Feeling of participation in effort
-Management interns on staff
-Unknown woman
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Employees
-IRS
-Appreciation of work
-90-day freeze
-Operation of freeze
-Expression of appreciation
-William L. Safire
-Unnamed woman
-President’s schedule
-COLC meetings
-Schedule
-Policy meetings
-Schedule
-Flow of information
-Freeze
-Politics
-Popular reaction
-Delays
-November 13-14 deadline date
-Phase II
-Economic impact of lifting freeze
-November 13-14 deadline date
-Communication
-Transition
-Management of freeze

Weber
-Future plans
-Teaching
-University of Chicago
-Milton Friedman

Gifts
-Golf balls
-Tokens of appreciation
-Freezing of salaries
-Golf

Shultz’s schedule

Shultz, Weber, Lincoln, and McCracken left at 11:14 am.

Conversation No. 567-11

Date:  September 4, 1971
Time:  11:14 am - unknown time before 11:17 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Ronald L. Ziegler

-Location
-Gerald R. Warren
-Speech
-Alexander P. Butterfield

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:17 am.

Conversation No. 567-12

Date:  September 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:14 am and 11:49 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

[Signing documents]

The President's speech
-Location
-Briefcase

Charles W. Colson
-Location
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Previous conversation with Butterfield
-Telephone call

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:14 am.

Schedule
-Forthcoming trip [Camp David]
-Helicopter

The President left at 11:17 am.

Telephone call
-Briefcase
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Location

Bull and Butterfield left at an unknown time before 11:49 am.

Conversation No. 567-13

Date:  September 4, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:17 am and 11:49 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men [Secret Service agents] met.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown men left at an unknown time before 11:49 am.

Conversation No. 567-14

Date:  September 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:18 am and 8:33 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Schedule
-The President's forthcoming trip to Alaska
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-California
-Detroit meeting (Detroit Economic Club)

-Time
-Flight to Anchorage, Alaska
-Portland, Oregon stopover
-Stops
-Seattle
-West coast events
-Finance dinner
-California location
-Seattle
-Time
-John D. Ehrlichman's advice
-Date

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Congress
-The President's forthcoming address on the New Economic Policy, September 9, 1971
-Visit of the Apollo 15 astronauts
-Speech
-Schedule changes
-Protocol
-The President's request to the Majority leader and to Speaker of the House
-Clark MacGregor
-Robert C. Byrd
-Michael J. Mansfield

Economic policy
-Comments by Edmund S. Muskie, Hubert H. Humphrey
-George Meany's stance
-Analysis by Charles W. Colson
-Counterattack
-Colson
-Timing
-John B. Connally
-Spiro T. Agnew

The President's schedule
-Raymond K. Price, Jr. meeting
-Time

The President and Haldeman left at 8:33 am.

Conversation No. 567-15

Date:  September 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:33 am and 10:36 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men [Secret Service agents] met.

The President’s location
-Cabinet Room

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An unknown man [Secret Service agent] talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 8:33 am and 10:36 am.

[Conversation No. 567-15A]

John B. Connally’s location
-Cabinet Room

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President’s schedule

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The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 10:36 am.

Conversation No. 567-16

Date:  September 7, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 10:36 am until 12:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Ronald L. Ziegler met with an unknown person.

Instructions
-George P. Shultz
-Ziegler’s office
-John B. Connally
-Forthcoming call from Ziegler

The President and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 10:37 am.

The President's schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-Briefing of Cabinet wives
-Cabinet Room
-Chairs
-Size, space

-Seating arrangements
-Possible attendance at meeting
-George A. Lincoln
-Paul W. McCracken
-Assistants to the President
-Staff
-Herbert G. Klein
-Assistants
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Agency heads
-Veterans Administration
-National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
-General Services Administration [GSA]
-Budget
-Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]
-James R. Schlesinger
-Size
-Cabinet members
-Location
-Wives
-State Dining Room
-Breakfast meeting and briefing
-Shape of table
-Number of people
-Seating arrangement
-Attendees
-The President's forthcoming speech to Congress
-Clark MacGregor's call to Speaker Carl B. Albert
-The Apollo 15 astronauts
-Rescheduling of Congressional visit
-The President's speech
-Timing
-Customary time for addresses to joint session
-Albert
-Timing of speech
-Cabinet meeting
-Time
-Announcement
-Legislative leaders meetings
-Time
-Attendees
-White House staff
-MacGregor
-William E. Timmons
-Timing
-Agenda
-Procedures
-Comparison to Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration
-Economic discussion
-Types and ranks of members to be invited to attend
-MacGregor
-Everett M. Dirksen
-White House staff attendance at Council on International Economic Policy [CIEP] meeting
-Carl J. Gilbert
-Replacement by William T. Eberle as Special Trade Representative
-Ziegler’s forthcoming press conference
-Forthcoming meetings
-Economic policy
-Monetary, trade issues
-US competitive position
-Plants
-Status of other countries in the period after World War II
-Meetings with the Japanese
-Takeo Fukuda
-The President's role

The economy
-The President's forthcoming speech to Congress
-Scheduling
-Shultz's release of productivity report
-Ziegler’s forthcoming press conference
-Phase II
-Press coverage
-Radio talk by the President
-George Meany
-Democrats
-Edmund S. Muskie
-The President's radio broadcast
-Effectiveness
-Importance of radio
-Television
-Pictures of Camp David
-Effectiveness
-Local broadcasting
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
-Call to Julian Goodman
-Broadcast
-Technical handling

Ziegler left at 10:48 am.

The President's schedule
-Radio talks
-Camp David location
-Price
-Effectiveness
-Setting
-Comparison with Franklin D. Roosevelt's fireside chats
-William L. Safire
-John F. Kennedy

Request for Charles W. Colson

The President left at an unknown time before 10:50 am.

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:48 am.

Request for Colson
White House tour
-Handling
-Alexander P. Butterfield, Dwight L. Chapin
-Number of people
-Detroit press
-Support for speech
-Rose Garden
-Executive Office Building [EOB]

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:50 am.

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:48 am.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:50 am.

Colson entered at 10:50 am.

The economy
-Formation of committee
-New Economic Policy, New Prosperity
-Name
-Richard A. Moore
-Safire
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Group for a New Prosperity [GNP]
-Slogans

Chart

Colson left and returned at an unknown time before 11:30 am.

Democrats
-Counterattack effort against Edmund S. Muskie, Hubert H. Humphrey
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Work with Congressional members
-Robert J. Dole
-Support for the administration
-Staff problems
-Meeting with Colson
-Dole's return from trip to Vietnam
-Dealings with Dole

The President entered at an unknown time before 11:30 am.

Democrats
-Administration efforts
-Response to Meany
-Supporters of the President
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Dole
-Response to Democrats
-Goldwater
-Hugh Scott
-Return from trip
-Senate Republicans
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-John G. Tower
-Robert P. Griffin
-Charles H. Percy
-Muskie
-Tax proposal

Economy policy
-Response to statements by Democratic opposition
-Humphrey
-Muskie
-Statements
-Meany's statements
-Goldwater
-Connally, James D. Hodgson
-Relationship with Congress
-Congressional reaction
-William J. Scherle
-Samuel L. Devine
-Lack of press coverage
-Gerald R. Ford
-Willingness to criticize Meany

Scheduling
-Cabinet meeting
-President’s recent conversation with Connally
-Japanese meeting
-Japanese meeting
-Time, day
-Return of memorandum
-Delays
-Butterfield
-Colson, Moore, Safire

The economy
-The President's economic program
-Meetings with special interest groups
-The Business Council
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Connally
-The President's meetings
-Cambodia, Laos
-Labor, education
-Value to the administration
-Fred J. Borch
-National Association of Manufacturers [NAM]
-Chamber of Commerce
-Women's groups
-Organization, influence
-Speeches
-Virginia N. Knauer
-Patricia R. Hitt
-Auxiliaries
-American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Rotary International
-Lions Club
-Women's Federation
-League of Women Voters
-National Federation of Women's Clubs
-Assessment of political focus
-League of Women Voters
-Ideological tendencies
-Democrat
-Liberal Republican
-Possible meeting with Lawrence M. Higby, Chapin
-Strength of organization
-Support of administration
-Comparison to business and professional women's group
-Secretaries Association
-Federation of American Women in Radio and Television
-Focus of efforts
-American women in financial markets and banking industry
-Bonds saleswomen
-Doctors, lawyers
-The professional woman
-The homemakers
-Republican women
-Focus

Briefings by staff
-Peter G. Peterson’s Congressional briefing
-Congressman
-Problem
-Connally
-Types of briefing
-Focus
-Number of subjects covered
-Effectiveness
-Price

Public relations
-Volunteers
-Edwin D. Etherington
-Right to read
-Youth
-Ecology issue's appeal
-Student groups

The President's schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-Arthur F. Burns
-Quadriad meeting
-EOB office meeting
-Time

The Economy
-Speeches
-Organization of citizens economic committee
-Job development credit
-Comparison to John F. Kennedy's administration
-Businessmen
-Slogan
-Universal appeal
-Stop inflation
-Approval by White House public relations  staff
-Consultation with Lewis
-Suggestion for different slogan
-Name of committee
-Committee for a New Prosperity
-Appeal
-Slogan
-Different designs
-Service clubs
-Use of phrases
-Difference between negatively and positively focused phrases
-Safire
-Quality of slogan for inflation fight
-Impact of slogan
-Employment opportunities
-Display of slogans
-Advertisement tie-in to administration's economic action
-Furniture stores, car dealers
-Curtis Brothers furniture retailer
-Public relations effect for the President
-Ad for New Jersey bank
-Corporations
-Support for the President’s programs
-Flanigan
-Business Council
-Kennedy and Johnson administrations
-The President's administration
-Phillips Petroleum
-William W. Keeler's support for the President
-Mail coupons in Oklahoma
-Circulation through gas stations
-Presidential certificate
-Design, development
-Presidential commendation
-Pledges of support for the President
-Advertising
-John W. Dean, III's legal advice of use of seal
-United California Bank pledge on interest rates
-Moore
-Use of seal in bank branches
-Response by administration
-Senators
-Challenges to Muskie, Humphrey
-Use of "3-M's" characterization of Muskie, Meany, George S. McGovern
-Connally
-Positive results of M&M's
-Options

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Economic issue poll
-Types of questions
-Inflation
-Louis P. Harris’ poll
-Poll results
-Congressional legislation effect
-The President's administration
The Economy
-Proposal by Meany of tax credit

Public relations
-Administration counterattack efforts
-Members of Congress
-Speech given by Goldwater
-Impact on conservatives
-Young Americans for Freedom [YAF]
-The Vice President's office
-Agnew
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Agnew
-Governor's Conference
-Muskie
-Possible plan of action by the Vice President
-Reagan
-Agnew
-Letter
-Support for the President
-Support by the governors
-Resolutions
-Muskie, Humphrey
-Response to Meany, Muskie
-Connally
-Coverage by the press
-Focus on Congress
-Connally's forthcoming congressional testimony
-The President's speech to Congress
-Timing, effect

Memorandum for the President
-Action

Colson left at 11:30 am.

Unemployment
-Paul W. McCracken's memorandum
-Unadjusted rates

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Photographs
-Release
-Rose Mary Woods
-Distribution of pictures
-Recipients
-Situation
-Family group photographs
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Selection of candid shots of the President for release
-Number
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Press story
-Mrs. Nixon
-Amount of time spent by the President in California
-Wire service communication
-Story by Donald Oberdorfer, Jr. in the Washington Post
-Presidential action after major announcement
-The President's schedule

Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:30 am.

The President's schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger's meeting request
-Importance

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:00 pm.

The President's meeting with Kissinger

Press stories
-California
-Camp David
-Ziegler
-Broadcasting
-Press reports

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Haldeman’s forthcoming conversation with John N. Mitchell's
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Options
-Crime statistics

White House Staff
-Constance M. Stuart
-Decision by Mrs. Nixon
-Haldeman
-Options
-Possible staffing changes
-Timing
-Forthcoming election year

Connally
-Access to the President
-Schedule
-Mitchell and Dole
-Maurice H. Stans
-Meeting with the President
-Time

The President's schedule
-Afternoons
-Period after 4:00 pm
-Schedule options
-Forthcoming trip to the West
-Detroit
-Flight to Anchorage
-Mrs. Nixon
-Time of Departure and Arrival
-Portland, Oregon
-Options
-Michael J. Mansfield meeting

Speech
-Draft
-Price

Public relations
-Organization of efforts
-Colson
-Contact with Haldeman
-Spokespersons for the administration
-Dole
-Goldwater
-Ford
-Jack Miller
-Carl T. Curtis
-Paul J. Fannin
-MacGregor's role
-Robert A. Taft, Jr.
-Baker
-Tower
-Polls
-White House staff
-The President's speeches
-Moore
-Work with incoming correspondence
-Radio talks
-Letters
-The President's use of anecdotes
-Price, Safire
-Moore
-Viewpoint
-Responsibility
-Effectiveness
-Mail
-Humor
-Paul W. Keyes
-Handling
-Keyes
-Development of ideas
-Options

White House staff
-Mrs. Nixon
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Tricia Nixon Cox
-Staff assistance to First Family in speech preparation
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Abilities
-Mrs. Nixon
-Work with Staff
-Andrews
-Price
-Higby
-Haldeman
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Woods
-Duties and scheduling information
-Butterfield
-Scheduling and staff levels
-Thanksgiving
-Eisenhower Center event
-California
-Levels of staff
-Assistants
-Staff work
-Washington, California
-Woods
-Role
-Price
-Andrews
-Abilities

Memorandum
Schedule
-Attendance at meeting morning of September 7, 1971
-Donald H. Rumsfeld, Robert H. Finch
-Quadriad
-Frequency of meetings
-Connally
-Meeting with the President
-Timing
-Shultz
-Meeting with the President
-Timing
-Colson

Camp David radio broadcasts
-Amount of time involved
-The President's schedule

Kennedy
-Comparison to the President

Connally
-Speaking ability
-Effect

Cabinet meeting
-Meeting with the Japanese
-Timing
-Length

Item to the EOB

The President and Haldeman left at 12:00 pm.