Conversation No. 578-1

Date:  September 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:13 am and 9:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Major league baseball
-Washington Senators
-Last game
-Date
-[RFK Stadium]

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:05 am.

Conversation No. 578-2

Date:  September 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:13 am and 9:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman; an unknown person was present at the beginning of the conversation.

President's schedule
-September 24
	-Afternoon
-Departure for Northwest trip
-Day
-Time

	Press relations
		-The President’s question and answer [Q&A] session at Detroit Economic Club, September 23, 1971
-Television coverage
	-Evening news

-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Time Length
-Wage and price control Phase II question
-News reporters coverage
-Comparison to television coverage
-Haldeman's conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Type of coverage
-Effect
-Impact
-Ziegler's analysis
-Amount of coverage
	-Demonstrators
-Television coverage
-"Today Show"
-Lead story
	-Wage and price control
	-Type of coverage
		-Still shots
-Demonstrators
-President's comments
	-Pollution
	-Employment
	-Amount of coverage
		-CBS
-Question on Supreme Court nomination
-Television coverage
-Impact
-Frequency
-Local telecasts
-Detroit
-Coverage for administration
-Chicago
-Illinois
-Wisconsin
-Indiana
-Ohio
-Key States
-Michigan
-Time
-Length of coverage
-Effort
-Ziegler's handling of press
-Ziegler's analysis on coverage
-Administration's position
-Type of impact
-Amount of effort
-Pros and cons for results
-President's appearance
-Questions and answers
-Preparation
	-Type of question
	-Responses
	-President's responses
-Questions asked by newsmen
				-Politeness
					-Pros and cons
-Antagonism
-Comparison to press conference
	-News coverage
		-Unknown person
		-Time of day
		-Television
		-Detroit
-News coverage
	-Night time
	-Past experiences
	-Coverage
	-President's efforts
	-Trips
	-Guidelines by administration
	-Restrictions on questions
	-Balance of questions
	-Foreign
	-Domestic
	-Questions
	-Vietnam
	-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
	-Conservative revolt
		-Patrick J. Buchanan
	-Significance
	-Number of people
	-Types of questions
	-Election in Vietnam
	-Number
		-Nguyen Van Thieu
	-People’s Republic of China [PRC] initiative
	-Vietnam
-Technical preparation and staffing
-Mark I. Goode
-Type of individual needed
-Richard A. Moore
-Director of operations
	-President's experience in Detroit
	-Introduction of President for newsman
	-Panel of questioners
	-Television audience
	-Awareness
	-Type of introduction
	-Television and radio audience
	-Need for introductions
	-Radio audience in Michigan
	-Comparison to television audience
	-Lack of knowledge of President's appearance
-Demonstrators
-Location
-Moore
-Goode
-William H. Carruthers
-Demonstrations
-Moore
-Goode
- Carruthers
-Demonstrators
-Moore
-Completion of question period
-Cut-off
-Goode or Moore
-Control of situation
-Format
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW] speech
-Future press situations
-Limitation on answers
-Buchanan
-Number of words
-Background information
-Wage and price freeze question
-Number of words statement
-International monetary conditions
					-Profits
			-Preparation of answers
				-Thought process
-Type of response
-Number of words
-"One liners"
-Henry A. Kissinger's preparations
-John B. Connally's preparations
-Buchanan
-George P. Shultz
-Kissinger
-Paul W. McCracken
-Questions
-Types of questions
-Question of who should answer questions
-Back ups
			-Buchanan
-Review of speeches
-Example
	-The President’s comment about welfare and work
-Speech writers
	-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Buchanan
-Politics
-Repetition by President
-Concern
-John F. Osborne
-John F. Kennedy
-Quote
-Number of repetitions
-President's speeches to Congress
-Type of lines
-Repetition
-Types of lines
-Welfare and employment
-Type of line
-Impact
-Repetition of statements
-Possible audience assumptions
-Old material compared to new material
-Listening ability of audience
-Appearances after 9:00 pm
-Television coverage
-Questioners
-Atmosphere
-Inhibitions because of television
	-Detroit television
-Working people
-Location
-Office compared to home
-Detroit trip
-Type of coverage
	-Preparation
-Grand Rapids
	-Demonstration
	-Willie J. Usery
	-Teamsters
	-United Auto Workers [UAW]
					-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organization [AFL-CIO]
	-Reasons for demonstration
	-Anti-police
		-Blacks
	-Anti-war
	-Organization
	-Signs
	-Actions
	-Laughter
-Audiences
-Type
-Advance men
-Planning for audience
-Program
-Warm-up of audience
-Rock music
-Meeting with milk producers
-Detroit Economic Club
-Detroit response to President's appearance for Economic Club
-Amount of preparation time
-Precedent
-Detroit
-President's appearance
-Impact
-Press reactions

PRC announcement
-Kissinger
-Connally

Press relations
-Phase II
-Possible press conference
-Line of questioning
	-Teachers’ salaries
-Specifics of questions
-Comprehensiveness
-Duration
-Connally

Haldeman's conversation with Arthur F. Burns
-Meeting
	-State Department

The President and Haldeman left at 9:05 am.

Conversation No. 578-3

Date:  September 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:05 am and 9:52 am
Location:  Oval Office

Manolo Sanchez met with an unknown people.

	Situation Room

[Unintelligible]

Sanchez and the unknown people left at an unknown time before 9:32 am.

Conversation No. 578-12

Date:  September 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:05 am and 9:52 am
Location:  Oval Office

An unknown person [Secret Service agent] talked with an unknown person.

	[Unintelligible]

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:52 am.

Conversation No. 578-4

Date:  September 24, 1971
Time:  9:52 am - 10:29 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

President's schedule
-Forthcoming Florida trip
-Washington Senators game
-President's attendance
-San Diego Padres
-C. Arnholt Smith
-Possible move

John B. Connally and Arthur F. Burns entered and Haldeman left at 9:53 am.

Reception by the President

Pierre-Paul Schweitzer
	-Possible invitation to reception
		-Connally
-Impact
-Credentials
-Travel
-Meetings with foreign leaders
-Programs
-Possible meeting with President
-Result
-Usefulness to administration
-Intermediary
-Initiative
-Depreciation of money
-Percentage
	-Japan
-Friend

US international economic policy
-Reason for meeting between President, Connally and Burns
-Cabinet members
-Need for unified answers
-Strategy
-Europeans' attention
-Conflicting position for US
-Assistant Secretary, Secretary Maurice H. Stans, David M. Kennedy
-European negotiating strategy compared to US negotiating strategy
-Negotiations
-President's, Connally's and Burns's role
-United position
-William P. Rogers
			-Nathaniel Samuels
-Peter G. Peterson
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Possible speech by the President
-Conversation between the President and Connally
-Preparation
-US position
-Connally speech
-Reception by President
				-View of Peterson group, Paul A. Volcker group, State Department, Connally, Burns
-Reception by President
-Informal remarks
-Time length
-Questions at Detroit Economic Club
			-Connally speech
-US position
-Strategy
-Fixed exchange systems
-Option for future
-Connally's speech
-Offering of a plan
-Discussion
-Solutions
-Avoid negativity
		-Issues
-Import surcharge
-Gold
-Position of Connally and Burns
-Changing the price of gold
-Congress's approval
-Protectionism
-Domestic climate of opinion
-Difficulties
-Possible risks
-Import surcharge
-Possible removal
-Restrictions
-Free-floating currency
-Transitional period
-Advantages for free market
-Deputy Prime Ministers of economics
-Group of Ten
-Revaluation
-Removal
-Reciprocal action by Europeans
-Transition period
-Free floating currency
-Reactions by foreign countries
-Risks
-Problems
-Re-alignment
-Amount
-Surcharge
-Changing price of gold
-Reasons
-Re-alignment
-Yielding by individual countries
-Transitional float
-Changing price of gold
-Removal of import surcharge
-Re-alignment
-Market determination
-Country determination
	-Japanese yen
	-Canadian dollar
	-German mark
	-French franc
-Transitional period
-Reactions
-Risk involved
-Yen compared to the dollar
-Percent
-Control of float
-German mark
-US position
-Changes in administration
-Import surcharge
-Removal
-Free floating currency
-Capital controls
-Reactions in foreign market
-Stopping compared to starting controls
-European countries
-Intelligence
-Relations with US
-Comparison with US
-US proposal
-European Finance Ministers' possible reaction
-Acceptance of conditions
-More conditions
-Quotas
-Tariffs
-Quotas
-Oil import problems
-Textiles
-Steel
-Agricultural commodities
-European nations
-Gold price
-William Proxmire's views
-House of Representatives
-Henry S. Reuss
-Capitol Hill
-Reservations of price of gold
-Debates
-Increase of price
-Amount of money
-Percentage
-Rewards to producers, speculators
-South Africa
-Soviet Union
-France
-Official price
-Date
-Current price
-Charge
-Date
-Impact
-Bargaining position
-US interests
-Price of gold
-Economic significance
-Political significance
-European position
-Need to de-emphasize
-US position
-Proposed solution
		-Rogers
		-Stans
	-Burns's role
-United front
-French
-Germany
-Japan
-Possible conversation with Burns or Connally

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	FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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	US international policy
-Germany
-Relationship with US
-Conversations with Burns
-Europeans
-Relationship with Japan
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Willy Brandt
	-Berlin
-Japan
-Conversation with Earl Of Cromer
-US policies toward Britain
-South Africa
-Rhodesia
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Conversation with Cromer
	-Jordanian crisis
-Great Britain's position
-Relations with US
-Common Market
-European Common Market
-Great Britain
	-The President’s comments during 1969 trip to Europe
	-Economic aspect
-Political future
-Germany
-France
-Italy
-Political responsibility
-Position in Common Market
-United trading unit
-Number of people
-Political issue
-US position
-Importance
-Relationship with Great Britain
-Economic and political considerations
-France
-Gen. Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Connally's conversation with Kissinger
-Great Britain
-France
-Germany
-Japanese
-US position
-Relationship of politics and economics
-Time frame for Common Market
-January 1973
-France
-Decision
-Decision
-International political considerations
-US domestic political scene
-1972 elections
	-Cabinet Room conversation
-Anti-foreigner attitude
-US interests
-US deal
-Timing
-Importance
-Possible speech by President
-Connally
-President's remarks
-Reception
-Governors' attendance
-President's knowledge
-Connally's knowledge
-Possible reactions by foreign economic ministers
-US domestic scene
-President's effectiveness in comparison to foreign economic scene
-IMF
-Television coverage
-Type of impact
-US domestic issues
-Connally
-Burns
-President's appearance
-Remarks
-Central Bankers of Group of 10
-Dinner given by Burns
-Private dinner
-Burns's home
-Unknown person
-Meetings with Burns
-Previous Cabinet meeting
-Time factor
-David N. Packard
-World governed by reason
-Emotions
-Foreign countries
-Interests
-Trade
-Business pressures
-Political problems
-Central Bankers' analysis
-Recession
-Japan
-Recession
-Germany
-Recession
-Recession
-Inflation
-International recession
-US role
-Europe and Japan
-Inflation
-Comparison to US
-US anti-inflation policy
-Type
-Comparison to other countries
-Report to President
	-Quadriad meeting
-Report from Burns to President

Connally's schedule
-J. William Fulbright

John Foster Dulles

Connally left at 10:27 am.

Burns's schedule
	-White House dinner for Japanese
	-Haldeman's conversation with Burns
-Rogers
	-Burns's attendance
	-Invitations
	-State Department
	-Japanese
	-Breakfast meetings
	-Japanese

Burns left at 10:29 am.

Conversation No. 578-5

Date:  September 24, 1971
Time:  10:33 am – 11:44 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Dinner
-Arthur F. Burns
-Invitation
-Concern

The President’s trip to the Detroit Economic Club
		-Press coverage
-Questions and answers
	-"Today Show"
		-Time and length of filming
		-Ecology
		-Employment
		-Phase II
		-Surcharge
		-Interest rates

		-Supreme Court
	-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
		-Time length

Astronauts' visit to White House
-Helen A. Thomas
-Coverage
	-News summary
-President as tour guide
-Lucy A. Winchester
-Coverage (press story)
-President as tour guide for White House
-History
-Abraham Lincoln
-Emancipation Proclamation
-Lincoln bedroom
-Winston S. Churchill story
-Lincoln Sitting Room
-Secret staircase
-Locked doors
-Children
-Type of story
-Thomas
-Type of stories
-"Back stairs at the White House" story
-United Press International [UPI] service

President's People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Japan
-Relationship with Japanese legislators
-Public relations aspect
-Latin America
-Robert H. Finch
-Rumsfeld and Finch
-Possible appearance in small Latin American countries
-Taiwan
	-United Nations [UN]
		-Taiwan seat
	-World politics
	-Domestic politics
		-Conservatives
			-Seating of PRC in Security Council
-UN

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	TAIWAN

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-UN votes
	-Small actions
		-Compared to US and Great Britain
		-George H.W. Bush
			-Personal representatives
-Haldeman
-Possible conversations
					-Bush
	-Henry A. Kissinger

President's schedule
-Planning Board of White House Conference on Aging
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Purpose
	-The President’s Chicago speech
-President's interest
-Time
-Length of day
-Arthur S. Flemming

Press coverage of administration
-Questions and answers [Q&A]
-Future events
-Amount of preparation
-Phase II
-International monetary situation
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-National defense
-Budget
-Televised press conference
-Preparation
-Ronald L. Ziegler
	-Speech in California

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:33 am.

-Kissinger
-Location
	-California

Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Vietnam

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:03 am.

Kissinger's schedule
-Speaking appearances
-Dinner
-Taft Schreiber
-Number of people
-Coverage
-David Frost
-CBS
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Philadelphia meeting
-President's approval
	-Hugh Scott
-Princeton University
-Yale University
-Oklahoma
-Ohio State University
-University of Illinois
-University of Chicago
-Northwestern University
-Comparison to Illinois
-Harvard
-Yale
-Princeton University
-New Jersey
-Rutgers University
-Ohio State
-Number of people
-City
-US
-Television coverage
-University appearances

Jewish sector
-Impact for administration
-John N. Mitchell
-Speaking appearances
-Money
-Impact for administration
-Kissinger's speaking appearances
-Contributions
-Israel
-Amount of money
-Jewish sector
-Staff
-Murray M. Chotiner
	-Unknown Israeli General
	-Moshe Dayan
	-Jewish support in US
-Jewish support
-Support for President
-Israel
	-US aid

Press relations
	-The President's trip to the Detroit Economic Club
	-Questions asked
	-Effect
	-Precision
	-Dullness
	-Politeness
	-Advance man
	-[Unknown advance man]
	-Dwight L. Chapin
	-Conversation with [Forename unknown] Sisler [?] and Director
	-Television coverage
	-Types of questions
		-Henry C. Cashen, II
	-Restrictions
	-Future situations
	-Campaign
	-Types of questions
	-Public desire
	-Good questions
	-Citizens' panel in Detroit
-Questions
-Television coverage
-Past situation
-Type of questions
-Timing
-Screening questions
-Telephone call-ins
-Telethon
-Citizens' panel in Detroit
-National television
-Questions
-Phase II
-Peter G. Peterson
-IMF
-President's appearance
-Speech
-Decision
-President's conversation with Burns and John B. Connally
-President's appearance
-Peterson
-President's appearance
-Connally's analysis
-American audience
-Reception
-Speech
-Impact for economics
-George P. Shultz
-Paul W. McCracken
-Free market
-Shultz
-President's speech
					-Connally's impact
-President's knowledge
-Detroit Economic Club speech
-President's speech
-Knowledge
-Balance
-National television
-US interests
-Applause
-American audience
-Information
-IMF
-Confusion
-Businessmen compared to general public
-Barriers to trade
-Questions asked
-Press conference
-Detroit Economic Club
-Type of question asked regarding PRC
-Connally
-Trip to Europe
-President's response
-John Foster Dulles's diplomacy
-Type of question
-Tone, format, content
-Type of response
-Point of question
-Response
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Responses
-Number of words

President's schedule
-Federal Communications Commission [FCC]
			-Senator John L. McClellan
-Mitchell's opinion
-Cable television
				-Friend of administration
-President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania
-President of organization of African unity
				-Attendance
	-Five foreign ministers
-William P. Rogers
-David D. Newsome
-Length of time
-Farewell call
-Bogdan Crnobrnja
-Belgrade, Yugoslavia
-Public relations
-Josip Broz Tito
-Future situations
-Agha Hilaly of Pakistan
			-Conversation
			-Presidential gift
				-Wristwatch
-Kissinger
-Farewell call
-Meeting with the President
-Pictures
-Farewell calls
-Future
-Procedure
-Informal dinner with million dollar contributors

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			-Location
-Camp David
			-Timing
				-Phase II announcement
			-Stag dinner
			-Length
	-Elkins, West Virginia
-Helicopter trip
-Camp David
-Returns
-Editorial writers
-Pittsburgh
-Meeting with the President
-Date
	-Forthcoming announcement about visit to Soviet Union

Press relations
-Questions and answers
-Subjects
-Ziegler
-California trip
-Questions posed
-John A. Scali
-President's action
		-Stories
-National television
	-Oval Office press conference
-Idea of performance
-President's knowledge

William M. Magruder
-Meeting
	-Research and development [R&D]

	Editorial

Milton Friedman and George P. Shultz entered and Haldeman left at 11:03 am; Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins was present at the beginning of this meeting.

Greetings

Introductions

Testimony

Photographs

General conversation
-Photographs
-Meeting
-Burns
-Connally

US foreign economic policies
	-IMF
-Burns
-Conversation with the President
-Rogers
-Maurice H. Stans
-US position
-Gold prices
-Henry S. Reuss
							-William Proxmire
-Europe and Japan
	-Possible recession
		-Inflation
		-US
-Burns’s position
	-Fixed currency rates
-Connally
-Burns
-Surcharge
-Capital controls
-European reactions
-Quotas
-Steel, oil
-Capital controls program
-Problems
-Rejection
-Burns

Unknown person [Manolo Sanchez?] entered at an unknown time after 11:03 am.

Refreshments
-Coffee
-Tea

Unknown person [Sanchez?] left at an unknown time before 11:44 am.

US foreign economic policies
-Connally
-Memorandum to administration and Burns from Friedman
-October1968
-Close gold window
-Capital controls
-The President's conversation with Burns, September 24
-Connally
-International economists
-Popular belief of failure
-Trip abroad
-Connally's position
-Timing
-World situation
-President's action
-Connally
-Press criticism
-Sensitivity
-European trip
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Capabilities
-Dinner party given by Shultz
-Date
-Connally
-Friedman
-Ezra Solomon
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Controls on wages and prices
-Political problems
-Domestic scene
-International scene
-US position
-Success
-Gold prices
-Raise
-Lower
-Elimination
-Meaning
-Burns's explanation
-Ritual of economics
-Convertibility
-Camp David meeting
-Burns's position
-Mystique
-Political implications
-Hypothetical situation
-Central banker
-Congressmen
-Dollar standard
-Response
-Domestic front
-Changes in the price of gold
-Impact
-Dollar amounts
-Europeans' position
-Maintenance of sales
-Benefits for US
-Future implications
-Import surcharge
-Possible changes
-Date
-Time length
-Benefits for US
-Japanese yen
-Float
-German mark
-Pressure
-Equilibrium of prices
-Percent
-Japanese yen
-Depreciation
-Willingness for depreciation by foreign countries
-Japan
-Reductions in trade barriers
-Numerical shift of balance of payments
-Present system
-Flexibility in currencies
-Productivity
-Possible illusions
-Surcharge and exchange rate
-Imports compared to imports and exports
-Definition related to surcharge and exchange rates
-Equilibrium
-Removal of surcharge
-Aid to export companies
-Agriculture industry
-Reactions to raising surcharge
-Exporters
-American goods
-Lower prices
-Impact on farmers
-Agricultural commodities
-Pro agriculture position
-Protectionism in US
-Previous Cabinet meeting
-American foreign policy
	-1916-1968
	-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
-Benevolent paternalism
-Changing American policy
-Benevolent paternalism to cooperative partnerships
-Possible speech
-Questions
-Opportunities
-Competition
-Import surcharge
-Importance
-Deadline
-Date
-Suspension of surcharge
-Plan
-Stipulation
-Floating currencies
-General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade [GATT] rules
-Latin America
-GATT rules
-US position
-Violation
-Belief
-Floating currencies
-Japan, Great Britain, France, West Germany
-Canada
-Germany
-Qualifications
-US position
-Japan, Britain
-Importance
-Surcharge
-Floating currency
-Trade
-Japan
-Automobiles
-US sales
-Percentage
-Date
-Surcharge
-Removal
-Yen
-Appreciation
-Value
	-Automobile industry
-Effect
-Political consideration

US domestic economic policies

US international economic policies
-Prohibition of private ownership and purchase of gold
-Elimination
-Current action
	-Shultz
-Connally
-Bureaucracy
-Timing
-Note from Shultz
-US patriotism
-Ownership of gold
-Pros and cons
-US legislation
	-Executive Order
-Treasury Department position
-Gold Reserve Act
	-Section Three
	-Regulation by Secretary of Treasury
	-Holding of gold
-Executive Order
-Executive Order
-Political question
-Conservatives
-Gold Reserve Act
				-History
					-Date of establishment
					-Purpose
						-Prohibiting private profit
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
					-Expropriation
						-Comparison
			-Fidel Castro
			-Chile
				-Anaconda Company
	-Roosevelt
-Connally

US domestic economic policies
-Bureaucracy
-Changes
-Opposition
-Government reorganization
-Revenue sharing
-Welfare reform
-Congress
-Opposition to change
-Economic goals
	-Price control
-Possible dangers
-Suppression of inflation
-Congressman
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Spending more money
	-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
	-Printing more money
		-Political factors
-1972 election
-Upsurge of prices
-1970 recession
-Possibility of another recession
-1974
-Setback of economic goals
-Democratic victory
-Avoidance of recession
	-Money supply
		-Burns
		-Congress
			-Deficit
		-FRB
		-Increase
		-Burns
		-Rate of increase
		-Percent
		-Directions
		-Repercussions
		-Expansion
		-Positive movement
		-Figures
		-Retail sales
		-Auto sales
		-Reasons
		-Freeze
		-Housing starts
		-Inventories
		-Consumer purchasing power
		-Savings
		-Real spendable earnings
		-Momentum
		-History
		-Action of expansion
		-1933-1937
		-Growth
		-Rate
-Great Depression
-Date
-Type of recession
-Growth
		-1970 Recession
-Reasons
	-Previous factors
	-Unemployment figures
-Unemployment
-Men in workforce
-Number
-Vietnam
-Problems
-Geographical distribution
-California
-Chicago
-Gary, Indiana
-Connecticut
-Wichita
-Current economic atmosphere
-Washington, DC
-Unemployment
-Future situation
-Post-election period
-Figures
-Maintenance
-Technical problems of Phase II
-President's previous action
-Politics
-Approval
-Speculations
-Controlling prices
-Public support
-Already-existing economic factors
			-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Sanction policy
-Industries
-Control of wages and prices
-Effect
-Wage and price increase
-Approval
-Disapproval
-Deadline
-Effect
-Number of days
-Pressure
-Cosmetic influence
-Shultz, Herbert Stein
-Restraints
-Supervision
-Major industries
-Effect on inflation
				-Bureaucracy
-Decisions
-Deferred increases
-Impact
-Deferred rate increases
-Labor-management panel
-Speculation
-Effect
	-Automobiles
-Union and management policies
-US society
-Contract between two parties
-Valid
-Arguments against administration's policies
-Contract
-James W. Roach
-Labor relations
-History
-Wildcat strikes of 1930's
-Union leaders
-Contracts
-Importance of contracts
-Validity
-Wage and price increases
-Government position
-Union leaders
-Possible effect on contract
-New contract
-Railroad union
-Contract
-Result
-Burns
-Equity
-Meeting between Burns and Shultz
-Guidelines
-West coast strike
-Length
-Percentage of proposed wage increase
-Cause for strike
-Contract
-Percent
-Burns's position
-Strike
-Longshoreman, coal miners
-Steel settlement
-Wages and prices
-Friedman's analysis
-Burns
-Wage and Price Review Board
-Legal precedent
-History
-1932
-Eugene Meyer
		-FRB
											-Reconstruction Finance Corporation [RFC]
-Deferred contracts
-Impact on wages and prices
-Economic system
-Complexities of system
-Guidelines
-Numbers
-Averages
-Effect on unions
-Principles of economics
-Congress
-Freeze
-Effect on price index
-Percentage deviation
-Walter E. Heller
-Prediction of numbers
-Alan Greenspan's prediction

General conversation

US economic policies
-Congress
-Labor leaders
-Businessmen
-Business Council
-Labor
-Speculators
-President’s announcement
	-Japan

Shultz and Friedman left at 11:44 am.

Conversation No. 578-6

Date:  September 24, 1971
Time:  11:44 am - 12:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman and William M. Magruder.

Greetings

Progress report

Unknown person

New technology opportunities program
- Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Japan
-1972 US elections
-US position
-Future plans
-Objective

President's schedule
-Time

New technology opportunities
-US national needs
-Magruder's research
-Congressional study
-International transfer of technology

-National Aeronautics and Space Council
-Position for future developments
-SST
-Date
-Trade organizations
-Letters from Magruder
-Type of response
-Ideas
-James T. Lynn
		-Government initiatives
			-Tax incentives
				-Congress
				-Research and Development [R&D]
-Innovation of industry in government
-Task forces
	-Scientific and engineering
		-Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
	-Anti-trust laws
		-Lewis A. Engman
		-John N. Mitchell
		-John B. Connally
		-Report
	-Industry and government
	-Available initiatives
	-Economics
	-Early depreciation
	-Paul W. McCracken
	-Solomon [Surname unknown]
	-Impact on labor law practices
	-Examples
	-Effect
	-George Meany
	-Jim Lewin [?]
-International transfer
-Initiatives
-Assistant Secretaries
-Type of initiatives
-Technological resources
-Human resources
-Natural resources
-Community and economic development
-Approaching Congress
-Date
-Report
-Technology
-Needs
-Gen B. A. Schriever and Harold A. Geneen
-Management
-Financing
-Blue Ribbon Council
-Industrial input
-Results
	-Timing
-Administration's position
-National response
-Strategy
-Cancer
-Amount of money
-Actions taken
						-Elliot L. Richardson and Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Bureaucrats
-Former, traditional procedure of action
-Strategy
-Methods
-Psychological effect
-Comparison to traditional procedure
-Manhattan Project
-Moon shot
-Idea of new agency
-Possible impact
-Idea of taking action
-Comparison to traditional government agencies
-Ehrlichman
-Subsidizing American industry
-Competition with Japan
-Tax policy
-Initiatives
-Responses from various agencies
-Department of Treasury
-Department of Commerce
-Law enforcement
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Arrests
-Reactions
-Heroin bust
-Amount of money
-Washington Star
-Press response
-Location in paper
-National Air Space Administration [NASA], Atomic Energy Commission [AEC], Department of Defense [DOD]
-System management capabilities
-Feasibility
-Market and public needs
-Management capabilities
	-Manhattan and Apollo Projects
-James C. Fletcher
-George M. Low
	-Systems management initiatives
-Possible future situation
	-Comparison to Apollo
	-Samuel C. Phillips
		-Air Force
	-NASA's capabilities
		-Experience
-Department of Transportation [DOT]/NASA package
-SST
-Other nations' plans
-Concorde
-A-300 Airbus
-Mercure[?]
-Boeing
	-Italians
	-General Electric [GE]
		-Jet civil engine
			-France
				-Senegman [?]
	-Pratt and Whitney
-Japan
-Type of program
-NASA, DOT, Commerce Department
-Noise reduction
-Staff
-Package
-SST
-Civil aviation industry
-William Proxmire
-Gaylord Nelson
-Democrats
-Unemployment
-New possibilities
-Deadline
-Date
	-Education and tax reform
	-Education costs
	-Relationship to rebate of property taxes
	-California case
	-Employment
	-Number of people
	-Department of Treasury
		-Value-added tax
	-Response in numbers
	-Inclusion of program
	-Taxes
	-Edwin S. Cohen
	-Conversation between Ehrlichman and Connally
-US position in world
-SST
-Question of technical advancement
-Exports
-Percentage of Gross National Product [GNP]
	-Comparison to Canada, Japan and Great Britain
-Type of market in comparison to rest of world
-Japan
-Europe
-Impact on US market
-Competition
-Exports
-Scientific community
-Problems
	-Inertia
	-Regulators
	-Basic research
-National Science Foundation
	-Director, Dr. William D. McElroy
	-Political appointment
	-Possible people
	-David

	Appointments
	-Supreme Court

Ehrlichman and Magruder left at 12:05 pm.

Conversation No. 578-7

Date:  September 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:05 and 12:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

President met with Alexander Butterfield.

President's schedule

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:07 pm.

Conversation No. 578-8

Date:  September 24, 1971
Time:  12:07 pm - 12:23 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Melvin R. Laird, Brig. General Cunningham C. Bryant, Brig. General Benjamin L. Hunton, and Rear Admiral Samuel Gravely; the White House 
photographer was present at the beginning of this meeting.

Greetings
	Press photos
	-Arrangements

Military personnel policies
	-Women
	-Navy
	-One star ranks
	-Promotion to Commodore
	-Ranks
	-Army
	-Air Force
	-Navy
	-Promotions
	-Intelligence
	-Medical Corps
	-WAVEs
	-Supply
-Promotion policies
-Type of individual
-Jackie Robinson
-Game against Oregon
-Type of player
-Kennie Washington
-Montreal
-Brooklyn Dodgers
-Major League player
-Breaking color bar
-Vida Blue
-George Preston Marshall
-West Virginia
-Jim Brown's efforts against Washington Redskins
-Comparison between sports and armed forces
-Laird and Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Peace time forces
-Blacks
	-Ranks
	-Proportion compared to White
-Volunteer policies
-Promotion potential
-Enlisted individuals
-Officer corps
		-Promotion policies
			-Reasons
-Future needs
-Support for military men
-Promotion opportunities
-Washington, DC National Guard
-Black officers
-Population
-Promotion opportunities
-Respect
-President's military aide
-Lieutenant Colonel Vernon C. Coffey, Jr.
-Type of job
-Spirit
-Racism
-US military service
	-Prejudices
	-Opportunities
	-Reverse discrimination
-Leaders
-Opportunities for blacks
-"Uncle Tom" category
-All-volunteer force
-Opportunities
-Occupation
-Minority groups
-US history
-New York
-Jews
-Professions
	-Teaching
		-Catholics
		-Protestants
-Irish-Americans
-Effectiveness in big-city politics
-Opportunities
-Comparison to Protestants
-Political recognition

Presidential gifts
-Cuff links
-Golfers
-Golf balls
-Golf game
-Practice

	Laird and JCS

	Copies of photos

Laird, et al. left at 12:23 am.

Conversation No. 578-9

Date:  September 24, 1971
Time:  12:23 pm - 12:32 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull, Michael "White Antelope" Naranjo, Mrs. Michael "Desert Flower" Naranjo, Mrs. Larry Underwood, and Donald E. Johnson.

Greetings
-White House

Introductions

Presentation to the President
-Indian heritage
-Sculpture of Pueblo Indian dancer
			-Wax mold

				-Bronze
-Naranjo's background
-Ability as artist
-Naranjo's family

Art
-President's background
-Abilities in school

Press photographs
-Arrangements

Members of the press entered at an unknown time after 12:23 pm.

[Photographs]

Introductions
-Frank Cormier
-Associated Press [AP]
-Helen A. Thomas
-United Press International [UPI]

Indian sculpture
-Method of construction
-Emotions involved
-Indian dancing
-Continuous procedure
-Wax mold
-Period of time of planning
-Number of hours
-Indian dance
-Observation by Naranjo
-Reservation
-Work
	-Weight
-President's knowledge of art
-Indian sculpture
-Indian dancer
-Naranjo
-Service to country
	-Sacrifice
-Sculpture
-Indian heritage
-Handicap
	-Determination
	-Creativity
	-Strength of character
-Example
-Continuation of work
-Themes
	-Biblical figures
	-Greek mythology
	-Indian heritage

Pakistan sculpture
-Age
-Profile
		-Greek Buddha
			-Gift from King of Afghanistan
				-Age
-History
-Greek culture

Presidential gifts
-Money clip
-Presidential seal
-Cuff links
-US seal
-US seal
-Oval Office ceiling and rug
-Stars
-Eagle
-Palm
-Cuff clip
-Money clip

Indian heritage
-President's coach at Whittier College
	-Wallace (“Chief”) Newman
	-University of Southern California [USC]

General conversation

Naranjo, et al. left at an unknown time before 12:32 pm.

Michael Naranjo
	-Face
-Sensitivity of hands
-Thomas
-The President’s remarks

Bull and Johnson left at 12:32 pm.

Conversation No. 578-10

Date:  September 24, 1971
Time:  12:32 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
-Photograph
-Dwight D. Eisenhower portrait
-Meeting with Mrs. J. Willard Marriott
-Location
	-Cabinet Room
-Gift
	-Compact

The President and Bull left at 12:32 pm.

Conversation No. 578-13

Date:  September 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:32 pm and 12:44 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] talked.

	[Unintelligible]

	The President’s location

Conversation No. 578-11

Date:  September 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:46 pm and 1:32 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
[This recording began at an unknown time while the conversation was in progress]

	President’s appearance in Detroit
	-Detroit Economic Club
	-News stories
		-Radio
			-Lyndon B. Johnson [?]
	-Unknown reporter
	-J. Willard Marriott
	-Questions asked of President
	-Reports of President's appearance
	-Length
	-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] interview with audience
	-Type of reactions
		-Lynn A. Townsend
	-President's appearance
	-Amount of work

President's schedule
-Patrick J. Buchanan

-Statement for President
-Changes
	-Possible questions
		-Detroit trip
			-Audience
				-Compared to prime time
-Press conference
-Prime time
-Possible questions to be asked

President's appearance in Detroit
-Detroit Economic Club
-Review on President's appearance by Walker Sisler[?]
-Impact
-Free enterprise
-Union reactions
-Location of club
-Michigan
-Review by Russel A. Swaney
-President's appearance
-Positive response
	-Protest
-Format
-Steel industry panel member
	-Response
-Review by William B. Milliken
-Impact of President's appearance
-Positiveness
-Review by Robert P. Griffin
-Favorable
-Newspapers
-Detroit Free Press
-Pictures

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 12:59 pm and 1:11 pm.

[Conversation No. 578-11A]

[See Conversation No. 10-1]

[End of telephone conversation]

President's schedule
-Detroit
	-Sisler
-Previous appearance

The President talked with John N. Mitchell between 1:11 pm and 1:13 pm.

[Conversation No. 578-11B]

[See Conversation No. 10-2]

[End of telephone conversation]

President's schedule
-John D. Ehrlichman

Long weekend

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:11 pm.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:32 pm.

President's golf game
-Mitchell
	-Work
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell

US economic policies
	-Expectations
	-Detroit trip

President's schedule
-Northwest trip
-Montana
-President's arrival
-Crowd for President's arrival
	-Kalispell Airport
-Libby Dam
-Activities
		-Helicopter sightseeing
-Michael J. Mansfield
-President's visit
-Statements on President's foreign policy
-Airport
	-Crowd for President's arrival
-Hotel
-Alaska
-President's schedule
-Receptions
-Walter J. Hickel’s home
-Fifty states
	-President's visits
		-West Virginia
			-Queen of Festival
				-Daughter of Harley O. Staggers
			-Staggers
				-Network
-Robert C. Byrd

Press relations
-Daniel L. Schorr
-Credibility
-President's campaign speech
		-Criticism
	-CBS
	-Charles W. Colson
		-Note from Haldeman
-Role as commentator
-Criticism of President's speech
-Kennebunkport, Maine
-Colson's meeting
-Wire service
-Criticism of President
-Role as commentator
-The Administration’s possible response
-Colson's possible efforts
-CBS affiliates
-Peter M. Flanigan
	-Television affiliates
-Quotes
	-Criticism of the President
		-Programs
		-Motives
-Quotes
	-The President and people

This recording was cut off at an unknown time before 1:32 pm.