Conversation No. 568-1

Date:  September 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:18 pm and 1:22 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

The President's location
-Executive Office Building [EOB] office
-Movement

The unknown persons [Secret Service agents] left at an unknown time before 1:22 pm.

Conversation No. 568-2

Date:  September 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:57 pm and 3:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Egil G. (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Jerome H. Jaffe
-Sequence of meetings

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:03 pm.

Conversation No. 568-3

Date:  September 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:57 pm and 3:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Egil G. (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.

Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse
-Krogh's memorandum
-Forthcoming meeting with Raymond P. Shafer
-Harold E. Hughes
-Attorney General John N. Mitchell
-Photograph
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Participants
-Jerome H. Jaffe
-Special action office strategies, programs
-Duration
-The President's schedule
-Swearing-in ceremony

Krogh left at an unknown time before 3:03 pm.

Conversation No. 568-4

Date:  September 9, 1971
Time:  3:03 pm - 3:34 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Raymond P. Shafer, Jerome H. Jaffe, and Egil G. (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

The economy
-The President's September 9, 1971 speech to Congress

Photograph
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins

The President's September 9, 1971 speech
-Congress
-Democrats

Krogh and Jaffe
-Trip around the world
-Discussion
-Michael R. Sonnenriech [Executive Director]

Purposes of meeting
-Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse
-Status
-Submission of report
-Politics

Marijuana Commission reports
-Marijuana
-Drug abuse
-Marijuana
-March 1972
-Public hearings
-Formal, informal
-Marijuana
-Public use
-Demographics

Marijuana Commission
-Establishment
-Handling of responsibilities
-Congress
-George P. Shultz
-Handling of funding for commission
-Morale of commission
-Formation
-Reaction of administration opponents
-Press reaction to selection of members
-Age, political outlook
-Sonnenreich
-Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs [BNDD] background

An unknown person [Manolo Sanchez?] entered at an unknown time after 3:03 pm.

Refreshment

The unknown person [Sanchez?] left at an unknown time before 3:34 pm.

Marijuana Commission
-Sonnenreich
-Election by Commission
-Shafer
-Background as former prosecutor

Commissions
-Difficulty
-[William W.] Scranton Commission

Marijuana
-Jaffe
-Legalization
-Penalties for use
-Effect of jailing offenders
-Contact with hardened criminals
-Arlen Specter
-Probation
-Legislation in Illinois
-Smoking cigarettes compared to smoking marijuana
-Introductory effect for further use of drugs

Marijuana Commission
-Recent reputation of national commissions
-Shafer's acceptance of job
-Scranton’s experience
-John N. Mitchell
-The President's role
-Commission members
-Focus, issues under study
-Legalization of marijuana
-The President's statements
-Commission’s mandate
-National survey
-Funding
-Congressional authorization
-Research work
-George H. Gallup
-Princeton University
-Research Associates poll
-Marijuana
-Public attitudes
-Extent of use
-Statistic
-Vietnam War
-Use of drugs
-Responsibility
-Heroin
-Addiction
-Maurice H. Seevers
-Perceptions of public health interest
-Marijuana
-Pharmacology
-Demythologizing
-Youth
-Presidential support
-Impact of fight against drug abuse
-Families
-Comparison with economic action's effect
-Other issues
-Vietnam War
-Political issue
-The President's public stance
-Legalization issue
-Composition
-Perceptions of Commission
-Stance
-Marijuana, other drugs
-Penalties
-Uniformity
-Present variations
-Texas
-6 year term
-North Dakota
-99 year maximum term
-Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970
-Seevers, Dana L. Farnsworth, Henry Brill
-Morale
-Requested meeting with the President
-Contact with Krogh, Jaffe
-Sonnenreich
-Differing views on marijuana
-Education
-Forthcoming Commission report
-Effect
-Profile
-Scranton Commission
-Various organizations with interest and responsibilities in field of drug abuse
-Commission
-White House group headed by Jaffe
-Department of Justice 
-Department of Health, Education, Welfare [HEW]
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Perceptions
-Contrast of emotional and intellectual approach
-Long range health and social impact of Commission’s action
-Role and responsibilities
-Compared to Jaffe’s office
-Handling of drug abuse
-Trip abroad
-Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain
-British use of methadone treatment
-Marijuana
-Anecdote 
-Growing marijuana plants
-Smoking, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, films
-Greta Garbo
-I am Curious [Yellow] film
-Public awareness

Gifts
-Golf
-Shafer’s game
-Golf ball
-Cufflinks

Marianne H. Means
-Newspaper column
-Shafer and Judgeship
-Previous administration

Commission's work

Krogh and Jaffe left at 3:32 pm.

Appointment
-Mitchell
-Hugh Scott
-Philadelphia
-Unknown person's appointment
-Milton J. Shapp
-Scott

Appointment of judges
-Blacks
-Sequence of events
-Mitchell
-Ohio

American youth
-Campus groups
-Robert H. Finch
-Donald H. Rumsfeld

Marijuana Commission
-Shafer's forthcoming statement to press
-President’s convictions

Shafer left at 3:34 pm.

Conversation No. 568-5

Date:  September 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:34 pm and 3:38 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Swearing-in ceremony

Press
-Location in Oval Office
-Photographs
-Signal
-Exit

Remarks

Swearing-in ceremony
-Ezra Solomon
-Judge Charles R. Richey
-Bibles
-Frank C. Carlucci, III

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:38 pm.

Conversation No. 568-6

Date:  September 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:34 pm and 3:56 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull met with Ezra Solomon, Mrs. Janet Lorraine Solomon, Catherine Solomon, Janet Solomon, Lorna Solomon, Herbert Stein, Judge Charles R. Richey, and George P. Shultz; the White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

The President's location

Photo session
-Position of participants
-Mrs. Solomon

Press

The President entered at 3:38 pm.

Greetings
-Richey
-Mrs. Solomon

Swearing-in ceremony
-Introduction
-Ezra Solomon
-Oath of office

Instruction from photographer

Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Significance of the day
-Congressional committee
-Economic policy
-International economic policy
-Reputation of Solomon

Photograph of family

Positioning for photograph
-Shultz
-Pictures

Presidential gifts
-Cufflinks
-Mrs. Solomon
-Pin with Presidential seal
-Solomon's daughters
-Size of pins
-Richey
-Cufflinks
-Richey
-Background
-Early job
-Frances P. Bolton
-Legislative Council
-Appointment
-Office procedure
-Dictaphones
-John J. Sparkman
-Columbus, Ohio
-Time

Copies

Pins
-Boxes

Children
-School

Residence
-Georgetown section of Washington, DC

Congratulations
-Farewells

The Solomons, Stein and Shultz left at 3:44 pm.

Peter [Surname unknown] entered at 3:44 pm.

Richey's law clerk
-Catholic University
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Presentation of gifts

Frank C. Carlucci, III, Mrs. Jean Phyliss (Anthony) Carlucci, Karen Carlucci, Frank Carlucci, IV, Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Carlucci, II, and Donald H. Rumsfeld entered at 3:44 pm; the White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Presidential seal

Home

Time

Family picture

Carlucci's government career
-Department of State
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]

Photograph

Swearing-in ceremony
-Oath of office

Shultz

Separate photos
-Positioning of people
-Richey
-Parents of Carlucci

Presidential gifts
-Cufflinks

Golf
-Golf ball
-Money
-Time
-Recreation

Carlucci
-State Department assignment in Brazil
-Type of work
-OEO
-Rumsfeld
-Brazil
-Cuts in embassy staff
-Work with Carlucci
-Results of cuts

School
-Beginning of term
-Place

Carlucci, et al. left at 3:56 pm.

Conversation No. 568-7

Date:  September 9, 1971
Time:  3:56 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

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Bull left at 3:56 pm.

Conversation No. 568-8

Date:  September 9, 1971
Time:  3:56 pm - 3:57 pm
Location:  Oval Office

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Butterfield's schedule
-John B. Connally

Haldeman and Butterfield left at 3:57 pm.

Conversation No. 568-9

Date:  September 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:58 pm and 5:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Vietnam
-Troops
-Numbers

Public appearances
-The President's appearances
-Frequency
-Impact of communication
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Frequency
-William L. Safire
-National television

-Talk with students
-Talk with Plumbers' Union members
-Awareness by people
-Impact of television
-Effort at communication
-Effectiveness
-Contact
-College presidents, business leaders
-Effort by the President

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:58 pm.

John B. Connally

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:05 pm.

-Effect of communication
-The President's effort

Speechmaking
-Interest by people
-Question and Answer [Q&A] sessions
-Radio appearances
-Number of people reached
-Radio speeches, newspaper story
-Effort by the President
-Story
-The President's September 9, 1971 speech before Congress
-Announcement

Press relations
-Meeting with the press
-Timing
-Location
-Oval Office
-Value
-Q&A session
-In Detroit (September 23, 1971)
-Effectiveness
-September 9 speech
-Probable effectiveness
-Timing
-August 15, 1971 economic speech
-News coverage
-Political reaction

Connally entered at 4:05 pm.

Greetings

Speech by the President before Congress, September 9, 1971
-Effectiveness
-The President's delivery

The economy
-Domestic economy
-Possible future actions
-Need for confidentiality
-Lack of consensus
-Meetings with the President
-Formulation of opinions
-Advice
-Labor, agriculture, business
-Haldeman
-Arnold R. Weber
-George P. Shultz
-Paul W. McCracken
-Notetaking
-Small groups
-Cost of Living Council [COLC] meeting with labor leaders
-Number of people
-Setting
-Labor
-Agriculture
-Experts
-Weber
-McCracken
-Shultz
-Herbert Stein
-Communication
-Wage-price freeze
-Announcement
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Issues
-Domestic area
-Wage and price freeze
-Possible further action
-Timing
-1972 elections
-The President's meetings with special interest groups
-Meetings
-Labor
-Business
-Rollbacks
-International area
-Europe
-Paul A. Volcker's comments
-Markets
-Belgium, the Netherlands
-Pivot plan
-Gold price
-European Economic Community [EEC, Common Market]
-Exchange rates
-Floating currency
-Monetary issues
-Areas of responsibility within the US government
-Trade, defense
-Commerce, Defense, State, and Department of Treasury
-Exchange rates
-Focus
-Trade and tariff issues
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Unilateral action
-Devaluation of currencies
-Yen
-World War II
-Japan
-The Netherlands
-Switzerland
-Belgium
-US reaction to moves against the dollar
-Difference in focus
-State Department
-Nathaniel Samuels
-Group of Ten meeting
-Finance ministers
-Federal Reserve banks
-Perceptions on jurisdiction and purview of Government departments
-State and Treasury Departments
-Focus of negotiations
-Power of foreign ministers
-Compared to the Secretary of the Treasury
-Fixed
-State Department
-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-Treasury Department
-Bankers
-US strategy
-Pressure on US
-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak
-Floating
-Japan
-Negotiations
-Trade
-Textiles
-Canada
-US concessions
-Latin America
-Reaction to surcharge
-Canada
-Tariff
-General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade [GATT]
-Connally's conversation with Volcker’s unknown counterpart
-Trade action
-Canadian Parliament
-International reaction
-Japanese, Canadians, British, French, Germans
-Perceptions of action
-American press
-Japanese public statements
-Surcharges
-Latin America, Canada, Mexico
-President’s position
-US strategy
-Connally's lunch meeting with Henry A. Kissinger
-Connally's conversation with Shultz
-Negotiations
-Strategy
-State Department focus
-William P. Rogers
-Treasury Department
-Commerce Department
-Handling by US
-State Department
-Rogers
-Focus
-Ambassadors
-Peter G. Peterson
-Participants
-Connally
-Shultz, McCracken, Rogers
-Handling
-Need for negotiating team
-Peterson
-Latin American strategy
-Mexico, Brazil, Argentina
-Surcharge
-US assurances
-Handling of tariff situation
-EEC
-Japan
-Canada
-GATT
-Public relations
-International press
-New York Times, Washington Post
-Time, Newsweek, Life, Business magazines
-Television networks
-Connally's Conversation with Kissinger
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer

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INTELLIGENCE

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-Shultz, McCracken, Connally, Peterson
-Robert D. Murphy
-State Department
-Manpower
-Resources
-Projected action in trade relations
-New bloc
-Connally’s conversation with the President and Kissinger
-Japanese
-Stance on future prospects
-Kakuei Tanaka, Takeo Fukuda
-Europe
-Germany, Great Britain
-EEC
-International monetary situation
-US stance
-Desire for order
-The President, Connally, Shultz, Peterson
-Arthur F. Burns, Rogers
-State Department
-Unknown person, Philip H. Trezise
-Treasury Department
-Volcker
-Unknown person
-Trezise
-Burns
-Volcker
-Rogers
-Burns
-Views
-Group of Ten
-Composition
-Strategy
-Handling
-Context
-Political interests
-Nature of decisions
-Responsibility
-Free trade
-US compared with other nations
-President’s economic speech before Congress, September 9
-Political considerations
-Competition
-Connally’s visits abroad
-Connally’s view
-International monetary situation
-Kissinger
-US position compared to rest of the world
-Soviet Union, People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Kissinger
-Comments of Sino-Soviet experts
-Llewellyn E. (“Tommy”) Thompson, Jr. Charles E. (“Chip”) Bohlen
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Possible summit
-Post-World War II period
-Great Britain
-Germany
-Japan
-Latin America
-Idea of US world responsibility
-US stance
-Problems at home
-Great Britain
-Rolls Royce deal
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Perceptions
-Kissinger
-Peterson
-San Clemente meeting
-Japan, Germany
-Shultz’s view
-Handling
-David M. Kennedy
-Fixed parity
-Burns
-European central banks
-FRB
-Kissinger
-Shultz
-Peterson
-Connally
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Busing
-State Department
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Rogers

The economy
-Staffing in international economic effort
-Murphy, Robert Anderson-type person
-Thomas C. Mann
-Colvey T. Oliver
-Mann
-[Unintelligible name]
-George W. Anderson, Jr.
-Franklin D. Murphy
-Establishment
-PRC initiative
-Soviet Union
-Japan
-C. Douglas Dillon
-Gordon Gray
-Coordination of situation
-Peterson
-Memorandum on Japanese negotiations
-Revaluation
-Position of the US
-Soviet Union, PRC
-Japan, European countries
-Impact of changes in trade relations
-Japan
-Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Canada, Mexico, Japan
-Europe
-Arab Countries
-Black Africa
-Australia
-Latin America
-Latin American divergence
-Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia
-Peru, Bolivia, Chile
-Venezuela
-Military aid
-Middle East
-Arabs
-European relations

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MIDDLE EAST

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-Organization of efforts

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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-State Department and Defense Department
-Frank F. Church
-US military missions in foreign countries
-President’s forthcoming press conference
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Connally’s testimony
-Dollar exchange rates
-Forthcoming action
-Kissinger
-Need for confidentiality
-State Department
-US emissary
-Chile, Mexico
-Pierre Elliot Trudeau
-Kissinger
-Mann
-Latin America, Canada
-Abilities

Hoyt Ammidon
-Possible role with administration
-Medal of Freedom

Connally's schedule
-Kennedy Center concert

The economy
-Wage and price freeze
-Currency devaluation
-Wage and price freeze
-Forthcoming action
-Public opinion
-Timing
-Governor of Texas
-Labor
-Administration stance
-Attitude

Connally and Haldeman left at an unknown time before 5:06 pm.

Conversation No. 568-10

Date:  September 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:05 pm and 5:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Telephone call from Rose Mary Woods

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:06 pm.

Conversation No. 568-11

Date:  September 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:05 pm and 5:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 8-78]

Conversation No. 568-12

Date:  September 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:05 pm and 6:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

President’s schedule
-John B. Connally
-Concert Hall opening at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
-Attendance
-Connally

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman was present at an unknown time after 4:05 pm.

-Connally
-Reception

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods between 5:06 pm and 5:08 pm.

[Conversation No. 568-12A]

[See Conversation No. 8-79; three items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone call]

Kennedy Center Concert
-Reception
-Presidential box, anteroom
-National Symphony Orchestra
-Arrangements
-Timing, transportation

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 5:11 pm.

Federal Court appointments
-Raymond R. Shafer
-Circuit Court
-Unnamed candidate for military court seat

The President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon between 5:11 pm and 5:12 pm.

[Conversation No. 568-12B]

[See Conversation No. 8-81; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone call]

Shafer
-Position
-1968
-Support for Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Pennsylvania election results
-Administration's stance on appointments

Administration
-President’s previous conversation with John B. Connally
-Memorandum form President
-Negotiations with the Japanese
-Peter G. Peterson’s receipt
-Instructions
-Devaluation
-Handling of memorandum
-Signing
-Coordination and consultation
-George P. Shultz
-Memos
-Handling
Japanese negotiations
-William P. Rogers, Peterson
-Connally
-State Department
-Arthur F. Burns
-Exchange rates

Administration
-Peterson
-Routing of memos
-Action paper

Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 5:12 pm.

Memorandum on Japanese negotiations
-Percentage rate
-Memorandum from Connally
-Handling
-Peterson, Henry A. Kissinger
-The President's role
-Connally's input and role
-Paul A. Volcker
-Devaluation
-Handling

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 5:25 pm.

Appointment
-Unknown woman [Romana A. Banuelos?]
-President’s schedule
-California
-Connally
-Timing

Haldeman talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 5:12 pm and 5:25 pm.

[Conversation No. 568-12C]

Request to join meeting

[End of telephone call]

The President's September 9, 1971 speech
-Henry Cabot Lodge
-Vatican emissary
-The President's standing among Catholics
-Massachusetts

President’s schedule
-Al Smith dinner
-Invitation
-1971 compared to1972
-Possible remarks

Kissinger entered at 5:25 pm.

The President's September 9, 1971 speech

Memorandum on Japanese negotiations
-Connally
-Butterfield
-Kissinger, Peterson
-Handling
-Revaluation
-Treasury Department
-Handling
-Agency responsibilities
-Connally
-Volcker
-Coordination
-Focus
-Treasury
-State Department
-Peterson
-Instruction to Kissinger
-Telephone call to Connally
-Handling
-Volcker-Kissinger conversation
-Senior Review Group
-Focus
-State Department
-Volcker's possible actions
-Peterson
-Connally, Kissinger
-Roles
-Burns, State Department (Rogers)
-Philip H. Trezise
-Connally
-The President
-September 9, 1971
-Conclusion
-Audience response
-Connally
Volcker

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Relations with other countries
-Action on Latin America
-Military forces
-Peterson, George P. Shultz, Connally, Kissinger, State Department
-Philosophy
-Other countries
-Burns
-Central bankers
-State Department
-Nathaniel Samuels
-Rogers
-Treasury Department
-Volcker's handling of rate issue
-Trezise's negotiations with the Japanese
-Connally
-State Department
-Kissinger
-Peterson
-Response
-Unknown person
-[Forename unknown] Walker
-Peterson
-Kissinger's forthcoming telephone call to Connally
-Trezise

The economy
-Peterson
-Handling of bureaucracy
-Staff Man
-Line Man
-Possible Cabinet role
-Opening
-Departure of Maurice Stans
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Handling of Stans’ economic committee
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Role of assistants to the President vis-a-vis the bureaucracy
-Handling of roles
-Policy group
-Kissinger, Shultz, the President, Connally
-Peterson
-Cabinet presentation
-Focus
-Handling of current role
-Bureaucracy
-Staff roles
-White House
-Bureaucracy
-Connally
-Trip to Europe
-Future meeting
-The President, Kissinger, Shultz
-Handling of economic relations
-Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Japan
-The President
-Eisaku Sato
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Rolls Royce
-Interests
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Georges J.R. Pompidou

State Department

The President's September 9, 1971 speech
-Reaction
-George S. McGovern
-Frank F. Church
-Public attitude

Memorandum on Japanese negotiations
-Kissinger's forthcoming call to Connally
-Butterfield
-Kissinger, Peterson
-Focus of efforts
-State Department
-Volcker

Kissinger left at 5:43 pm.

Volcker's action

Connally
-White House contact
-Haldeman
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Handling
-Reaction to the President's September 9, 1971 speech

The President's September 9, 1971 economic speech before Congress
-Length
-Rhetoric
-Reaction

Catholics
-Possible Al Smith dinner speech
-Length, focus
-Gridiron dinner remarks
-Henry Cabot Lodge
-Main speaker
-Focus
-Catholic support for the President
-Massachusetts
-New York

The President’s schedule
-Connally

The President's September 9, 1971 economic speech
-Reaction
-The press
-Congress
-Wage and price freeze duration
-Clark MacGregor
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Reaction
-Tax proposals
-Shultz
-Coordination on lifting freeze
-Announcement
-Connally
-William L. Safire's draft
-Telephone call

Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:43 pm and 6:00 pm.

Haldeman talked with Shultz at an unknown time between 5:43 pm and 6:00 pm.

[Conversation No. 568-12D]

[See Conversation No. 8-82]

[End of telephone call]

The economy
-Handling of issues

Winston L. Prouty
-Health
-Jennette Herbert (Hall) Prouty
-Telephone call
-Son-in-law's conversation with Charles W. Colson
-Impending death
-Funeral
-President’s attendance
-Handling
-Impact
-Military aide
-Lovella (Carver) Dirksen

Vermont
-Governor
-Deane C. Davis
-Robert T. Stafford
-Appointment to seat held by Prouty

Prouty
-Past support for the President

Kennedy Center
-Mass by Leonard Bernstein
-Forthcoming New York Times review
-Lyn [Franklyn C. Nofziger?]
-Amalgam of West Side Story, Jesus Christ Superstar, Hair

The President's September 9, 1971 speech
-Response
-Sense of leadership
-Delivery
-Television ratings

Kennedy Center
-Eisenhower Center
-Financial costs
-Delays in construction
-Air routes to National Airport
-Jet traffic

Schedule
-September 10, 1971
-Labor group
-Japanese

The President and Haldeman left at 6:00 pm.

Conversation No. 568-13

Date:  September 9, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:00 pm and 8:26 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service] met.

The President’s location
-Return to residence

[Unintelligible]

This recording was cut off at an unknown time before 8:26 pm.