Conversation No. 581-1

Date:  September 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:00 am and 9:20 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President's schedule
-Meeting with George P. Shultz, Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-The President's trip to Florida
-Shultz
-Location of meeting
-Time
-The President's meeting with Robert H. Finch
-Finch's forthcoming Latin American trip
-California trip
-Date
-John N. Mitchell
-George H.W. Bush
-Peter G. Peterson
-Actions as spokesman for the administration
-Coordination with John B. Connally
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Possible statement by the President on federal pay raise
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Date
-Meeting with group of Southern Democrats regarding Dulski-Waldie Resolution
-Time
-Forthcoming vote
-The President's meeting with Sir Alexander F. (“Alec”) Douglas-Home
-Length
-Possible federal pay raise statement
-Preparation
-Draft statement
-Time of release
-Preparation
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Type of statement

-Impact
		-West Coast dock strike
-Meeting with Southern Democrats, September 30, 1971
-Time
-Shultz
-Time of meeting
-The President's meeting with leaders of various national educational organizations
-Number of members
-Time, length of meeting

Meeting with education group
-Shultz
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Sidney Marland

President’s schedule
		-Luis Echeverria
	-Henry A. Kissinger’s recommendation
		-Bogdan Crnobrnja
			-Kissinger’s recommendation

US domestic activities
-Tom C. Huston
-Work on bombing halt study
-Copies of study
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-1968 studies
-President Lyndon B. Johnson
-Date
-Richard M. Helms
-Possible call from Ehrlichman or Haldeman
-Daniel Ellsberg
Charles W. Colson
-Possible Cabinet meeting
-The President's role
-Follow-up action

Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Statement on Vietnam negotiations
-Follow-up by administration
-Allen S. Drury
-Comparison of Kennedy to character in book Advise and Consent
-John F. Kennedy
-Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Apology scenario comparison
-Vietnam issue response by Republicans
-Senator Barry M. Goldwater
-Compared to others

US economy
-Car sales
-Foreign cars
-Inventories
-Situation 
-Knowledge

George Meany
-Comment about Richard H. Poff

Supreme Court appointment
-Letter to the President from a group of Congressmen on Poff's possible nomination
-Congressmen Joe D. Waggoner, Thomas B. Abernethy, Earle Cabell, Al Ullman, Walter Flowers, Ed Edmondson, Omar Burleson [(or) Bill D. Burlison?], Don Fugal [?], Martha W. Griffiths [?], W. R. Poage, Robert L.F. Sikes, William L. Hungate, James A. Haley, William H. Natcher, James A. Burke, Wayne Aspinall, Richardson Preyer, David Henderson, Graham Purcell, Wright Patman, Carl D. Perkins, John C. Kluczynski, William M. Colmer, Jim Wright, W. C. Daniel, Richard Ichord, Bob Casey, Watkins Abbitt, Thomas N. Downing, Paul G. Rogers
-Conservatives and liberals

The President's Northwest trip
-Montana
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Reactions to the President's appearances and statements
-Newspaper reaction
-Democrats, Republicans
-Tim Babcock and J. Hugo Aaronson
-Visit by the President
-Reaction
-Oregon
-Leaders
-State chairmen
-Media coverage
-Washington state
-Reactions by crowds
-Demonstrators
-Political effect
-Type of media coverage
-Reactions by leaders in the state
-Alaska
-Reactions to the President's visit
-Walter J. Hickel and state Republicans
-Herbert G. Klein's arrangements
-Local Republican officials
-Reactions
-Hickel

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Ehrlichman
-Meeting with Bush

Albert Sindlinger
-Handling
-Paul W. McCracken
-Colson
-Luncheon
-Possible contract
-Church service
-Invitation
-Arthur F. Burns

The President's schedule
-Meeting with editorial writers
-Date
-Timing
-Announcement of trip to the Soviet Union
-Types of questions
-Phase II economic policy

Funeral for Justice Hugo L. Black
-The President's attendance
-Possible reaction
-Connally
-News coverage
-Event 
-Pros and cons of news coverage

James D. (“Don”) Hughes
-Replacement as military aide

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Andrei A. Gromyko
-News coverage
-Type of story
-International Monetary Fund [IMF] reception
-News coverage
-Type of story
-Public familiarity
-Washington newspapers comparison with regional newspapers
-Black's death

Kissinger entered at 9:18 am.

Schedule
-Bush
-Kissinger's office

Kissinger's trip to the People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Forthcoming United Nations [UN] vote on China membership
-Date
-Changing dates
-Possible effect
-The President's meeting with Gromyko
-Peking
-Options on handling
-The President's meeting with Bush

The President, Kissinger and Haldeman left at 9:20 am.

Conversation No. 581-2

Date:  September 30, 1971
Time:  9:22 am - 9:54 am
Location:  Oval Office

Henry A. Kissinger met with George H.W. Bush.

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The President entered at an unknown time after 9:22 am.

Greetings

Taiwan's position in the United Nations [UN]
-Debate and voting
-Kissinger’s trip to the People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Procedural vote
-Type of results
-Sir Alexander F. (“Alec”) Douglas-Home
-Handling of vote
-First vote
-Important question vote

-Procedural vote
-Albanian resolution
-Voting results
-Dual representation
-Situation 
-Scandinavian countries
-US-PRC relations
-Date of trip by Kissinger
-UN vote
-Date, projections
-Timing compared to 1970
-Forthcoming vote
-Possible options for us actions
-Security council
-US domestic politics
-US strategy
-Handling of vote
-Kissinger's trip to the PRC
-Ronald L. Ziegler's press release
-Preparations
-Press coverage
-Impact
-Debate
-Date
-Albania
-Date of debate, vote
-Delay
-US speech
-Timing
-Kissinger's trip to the PRC
-Debate
-Date
-Procedure at united nations
-Handling
-William P. Rogers
-Speech
-Timing
-US speech
-Voting procedure
-Possible results
-Allies
-Japan
-Situation 
-US
-Message
-Eisaku Sato
-Handling of situation
-Delivery
-Scenario
-Bush’s role in New York at the United Nations
-Perceptions
-Communications between the US and Peking
-Effect on domestic political scene
-Effect on voting results
-Peking

Foreign policy
-Kissinger's discussion with bush
-Date of PRC trip
-Status
-Soviet Union
-Negotiations with the soviets
-Knowledge by Bush and Rogers
-PRC trip
-Dates
-The PRC
-Possible Chinese reaction
-The president's meeting with Gromyko
-Soviet Union summit
-US-Soviet Union summit
			-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Announcement date
-UN vote
-Effect of perceptions of US relations with the Soviet Union and the PRC
-Timing
-Peking
-Albania
-Peking’s actions
-UN seat
-Editorial coverage
-New York Times
-US reporting
	-Nicaragua
	-New Zealand
	-Australia
	-Japan
-US communications with the PRC
-Peking
-Trip
-Debates on UN seat
-Bush's possible actions
-Announcement of PRC trip
-Kissinger's action
-Preparation for the President's trip
-Date
-The PRC trip
-Speculation
-The President's trip
-Date
-Rogers
-Date
-Congress
-Communication between the President and Bush
-Bush’s possible action
-UN procedure and principles
-UN members
-Perceptions of the us public
-The Middle East
-Namibia
-UN Security Council
-The PRC and the UN
-Bush’s actions
-PRC announcement
-Procedural vote at the UN

Bush left at 9:38 am.

	Foreign policy
-Rogers
-PRC trip
-Possible call to Rogers
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Trip date
-Date

Soviet Union
-The President's private meeting with Gromyko
-The Middle East
-United Arab Republic [UAR [Egypt]
-Iran
-Israel’s sovereignty
-US-Soviet meeting
-Kissinger
-Vietnam war
-Vietnam
-Settlement of war
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Gromyko
-Vietnam war negotiations
	-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Eight points
-Status
-Proposal to Hanoi
-Leonid I Brezhnev
-Relations with the US
-Kissinger's possible conversation with Gromyko
-Economics
-Foreign relations
-Idea of peace
-Comparison to Bolivia
-The president's meeting with Gromyko
-Nicolae Ceausescu's meeting with the president
-The President's action during meeting
-SALT
-Berlin
-SALT
-Offensive weapons
-Defensive weapons
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Kissinger's possible conversation with Gromyko
-Vietnam
-Effect on Soviet Union summit
-Status
-Date
-Announcement
-Military options
-US Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Timing of foreign policy action relating to the Soviet Union and the PRC
-Congress

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 9:22 am.

The president's schedule
-John D. Ehrlichman

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 9:53 am.

Soviet Union
-Effects of foreign policy action
-Summit
-Rogers
-Role
-Germany

The president's schedule
-Gromyko's meeting with Kissinger
-Time
-Reception
-Meeting with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Shultz
-Meeting with Haig

Vietnam
-Options
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Statement on Vietnam negotiations
-US position
-Gromyko
-The PRC

	The Middle East
		-US actions
			-Yitzhak Rabin

Ehrlichman entered at 9:53 am.

Middle East
-Romania
-Soviet Union
-US-Soviet Union relations
-Interim Middle East settlement
-US-Israel relations
-Comparison to Soviet-US relations
-Interim settlement
-Kissinger's meeting with Dobrynin

Kissinger left at 9:54 am.

US domestic issues
-Housing
-The President's conversation with Richard M. Daley
-George P. Shultz and the President
-Appeal of case
-Two similar cases
-Chicago
-Federal government
-Chicago
-Appeal to the Supreme Court
-Government position
-Relation to Chicago results
-Appeal
-The government's case
-Further action
-Appeal
				-Acceptance of situation
-Appeal
-Possible interpretation by public
-Actual administration position
-Comparison to handling busing issue
-Letter to Daley from Shultz or the President
-Forthcoming meeting with leaders of national educational organizations
-The President's role
-Dr. Sidney P. Marland, Jr.
-Issues
-Freeze, Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Arnold R. Weber
-Clark MacGregor
-Welfare reform
-Support
-Effect on the administration's position
-Issue
-Temporary jobs
-Budget restrictions
-Administration's position on welfare
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Revenue sharing
-Conversation with governors
-Tax reforms
-Treasury Department

John B. Connally
-Schedule, responsibilities
-Edwin S. Cohen's work on monetary problem
-Effect on administration's staff and work
-Long term effect
-Conversation between the President and Connally
-Anti-trust meeting
-Connally's presence
-Issue focus
	-Monetary issues
	-Phase II
	-Tax reform
		-Date
			-Wilbur D. Mills
				-Speeches
-Military procurement
-Congress
-F-14 aircraft
-Vote on anti-ballistic missiles [ABMs]
-Time stipulation
-Debates
-MacGregor
-Changes in vote numbers

The President's forthcoming meeting with education leaders
-Marland's role

Ehrlichman left at 10:05 am.

Conversation No. 581-3

Date:  September 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:05 am and 10:07 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Forthcoming meeting
-Arnold R. Weber's absence

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:07 am.

Conversation No. 581-4

Date:  September 30, 1971
Time:  10:07 am - 11:03 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John N. Mitchell.

Greetings

Report
-George Meany
-Civil rights advocates

-Motivation for Meany's comments
-Discrimination in unions

Supreme Court appointees
-Richard H. Poff
-Civil rights issues
-Possible problems
-American Bar Association [ABA] members
-Letter of support from House of Representatives members
-Liberals and conservatives
			-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Image
-Civil rights manifesto
-States' rights
-Civil rights legislation
-Racism
-Southern background
-Poff's bill on Supreme Court appointment
  qualifications
-Use of name in a law firm
-Actual practice
-ABA ruling
-Poff's action
-Virginia
-Poff's qualifications

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	Supreme Court appointment
		-Poff
-Poff's practice of law
-Brief filed with ABA Committee
-Felix Frankfurter
-Requirements for Supreme Court appointment
-Participation on Judiciary Committee
-Practice of law
-Time length
-Congress
-Submission of Poff's name
-Possible results
-G. Harrold Carswell, Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr.
-Civil rights issue on Capitol Hill
-Hypocrisy
	-Meany
-Congress's reactions to Poff
-ABA approval
-Reaction in the Senate
-Southern background
-John L. McClellan's conversation with the President
-Mitchell's possible conversation with McClellan
-Poff as candidate
-Areas of support
-Number of votes
-The President's conversation with Hugh Scott
-Robert P. Griffin
-ABA
-Submission of Poff's name
-Effect on other announcement
-Date
-Possible non-approval by the ABA
-Effect on submission of Poff's name
-Lawrence Walsh
-Efforts
-Mitchell's stipulation
-ABA
-ABA endorsement issue
-Public statement on qualifications
-Judiciary Committee qualifications
-Time factors
-ABA
-Qualifications for appointee to Supreme Court
-Felix Frankfurter's qualification
-Hugo L. Black's qualification
-Submission of Poff's name
-Date
-Commitment of votes for Poff
-Hugh Scott
-Griffin
-Roman L. Hruska
-Other Congressional leaders
-Telephone calls to Congressmen
-White House staff's concerns
-Clark MacGregor
-John D. Ehrlichman
-MacGregor
-Ehrlichman
-Focus on other issues
-Tax bill
-Conservative compared to liberal candidates
-Women appointees
-Judge Mildred L. Lillie
	-California
-Experience
-Age
-Support
-Ronald W. Reagan, prosecutors, Samuel W. Yorty
-Political party
-Qualifications
-Sylvia Bacon
-Law school
-Lillie
-Law school record
-Bacon
-Vassar College
-London School of Economics
-Harvard University
-Master of Law degree at Georgetown University
-Stance
-Criminal field
-Family background
-Political party
-Age
-Colleagues
-Mitchell’s contact with Bacon
-Qualifications
-Lillie
-Comparison to Bacon
-Age
-Supreme Court term
-Precedent for women
-Bacon
-Age
-Supreme Court term
-Age
-Representation of youth
-Potter Stewart
-Age
-William O. Douglas
-Age
-Black's funeral
-Health
-Bacon
-Lillie
-Circuit Court
-Southern United States
-Need for appointee
-William French Smith
-California
-Qualifications
-ABA
-University of California
-Harvard
-William H. Mulligan
-Smith
-California
-Credentials for the state of California
-Earl Warren
-Women appointees
				-Government employment
-Emotions
-Comparison to astronauts
	-Burger's reaction
-Behavior
-Politics
	-US poll results
	-Election of a President
		-Effect of female appointee on election
	-Women's liberation
		-Need for women's viewpoint on Supreme Court
-Women appointees
			-Warren Burger
-Oveta Culp Hobby
-Politics
-Percentage points of election support
-Liberals
-Lillie
-Bacon
-Comparison to Lillie
-Age
-Civil rights
-Lillie
-Political position
-Political party
-Effect on politics and the Supreme Court
-Political pressures to vote for a woman
-Birch Bayh
-Edward M. Kennedy
-California judges
-Number
-Possible candidates
-Minnesota
-Harlan's background
-Black
-Seat vacancy
-Smith
-Comparison to Burger
-Lillie
-Reagan's analysis, Evelle Younger
-Stance on criminal law
-Age
-Criminal law
-Younger's analysis
-Call to Mitchell
-Shirley Hufstadler
-Reaction
-Lillie
-Qualifications
-Reactions
-Criminal law
-William Rehnquist's analysis
-Political position
-Reagan
-Submission of name
-Time
-Comparison of Lillie, Bacon
-National political experience
-Washington, legislation
-Previous court experience
-Submission of Lillie's name
-Effect on Poff's appointment
-Question of timing
-Possible problems
-Submission of Poff's name
-Date
-Senate confirmation
-Smith
-Age qualifications
-Term on Supreme Court
-Experience
-Personality of individual
-Lillie's age
-Old age
-John McClellan
-Age
-Support of the President

	Cable television legislation
	-McClellan
-Administration position

Supreme Court
-Women appointees
			-Timing in society
			-California appointee
				-Impact
-Potential problems during election period
-Precedent
	-Women's liberation
		-Ronald L. Ziegler
	-Politics
	-Women's groups
	-Replacement by general integration
	-Education
	-Political standing
	-Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Tricia Nixon Cox
	-Younger generation
	-Appeal of women's liberation
	-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
	-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Conversation between Mitchell and Burger
-Burger's feelings about women appointees
-Lillie
-Burger
-Conversation between Mitchell and Burger about appointment
-Douglas's comment
-Number of women
-Bacon and Lillie
-Presentation before ABA
-Lillie
-Qualifications
-Conservatism
-Potential problems
-Robert H. Finch, Sam Yorty
-Race issues
-Court experience
-Number of years
-Impact in terms of experience
-Sarah T. Hughes
-State of California
-Representation on Court
-Lillie
-Letter to Mitchell from Tom Redden
-Recommendation
-Women appointees
-Time in society
-Politics
-Hassles a woman will encounter as first woman on Supreme Court bench
-Virginia H. Knauer
-Poff
-ABA
-Possible reactions and results to appointment
-Administration's possible actions
-Hershel Friday
-Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
-Age
-Confirmation of appointment
-ABA reaction
-Hershel Friday
-Date
-Poff

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:07 am.

	President’s schedule
	-Finch

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

Supreme Court confirmations
-Opening scenario
-Battle
-Congress
-Southern judges

Finch
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
-Trip to Latin America
-Possible topics to cover in the meeting
-Mitchell's trip to California
-Finch's attendance

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Meeting with Reagan
-Ambassadorship

California
-Lillie nomination
-Reagan
-Alan Cranston, John V. Tunney
-Recommendations

Finch entered at 10:50 am.

The President left at 10:50 am.

Greetings

Finch's schedule
-Mitchell's trip

Mitchell's schedule
-Problem
-Supreme Court appointee
-Verification panel
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]

Unknown person [Monagan?]
-University position
-Unknown person's resignation from seat

California

Supreme Court appointments
-California
-William French Smith
-Relationship with Finch
-Resume

The President entered at an unknown time after 10:50 am.

Greetings

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Appointment of woman
-Mexican
-Philip V. Sanchez
-Cuban
-Puerto Ricans

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Proposal of Latin American trip for Finch
-The President's conversation with William P. Rogers
			-The President's status
			-Nelson A. Rockefeller's mission
-Trip for Finch
-Rogers's opinion
-Time length
-The President's 1958 trip
-Organization of Finch's trip
-Similarities
-Itinerary
-Brazil
-Argentina
-Chile
-Recommendation by Rogers
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Preparation of trip
-Meeting between the President, Rogers and finch
-Photos
-Meeting with Ambassadors
-Briefings
-Mexico
-Venezuela
-Colombia
-Peru
-Juan Velasco Alvarado
-Brazil
-Argentina
-Dictators
-Finch’s schedule
-South America
-Caribbean
-Barbados
-Major areas of South America
-Brazil, Bolivia
-Press coverage
-Language
-State Department official with knowledge of Spanish
-Rockefeller trip comparison
-Size of staff
-Trip 
-President’s counsellor
-US position
-Economics
-Surcharge
-US actions
-Agnew's trip to Greece

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		-Trip
-Africa
-Liberia
-Airplane for trip
-James D. (“Don”) Hughes
-Possible conversation between Finch and Rogers
-Recommendation for Finch from Rogers
-Charles Myers
-Relationship with Finch
-Aid for trip
-Rogers
-Preparation

Finch and Mitchell left at 11:03 am.

Conversation No. 581-5

Date:  September 30, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:18 pm and 12:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger and William P. Rogers

The President's schedule
-Delay
-Rogers
-Appointment

Bull left at 12:20 pm.

Conversation No. 581-6

Date:  September 30, 1971
Time:  12:20 pm - 12:45 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with William P. Rogers and Henry A. Kissinger.

The President's schedule

Souvanna Phouma

Rogers's schedule
-Lunch with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-New York

United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan
-Timing of Kissinger's trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Possible Chinese action
-Internal political situation in the PRC
-Kissinger's trip to the PRC
-Timing
-UN vote
-Result
-Threats by us conservatives
-Japan
-Australia
-New Zealand
-Kissinger's trip to the PRC
-Status
-UN vote
-State Department official
-Announcement
-Status, options
-PRC
-Possible action

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-US political/domestic situation
-George H.W. Bush's efforts
-UN
-The President's meeting with Bush, morning of September 30, 1971
-PRC trip and UN vote
-Timing of trip and UN vote
-Gromyko's trip to the US
-Timing
-Gromyko's previous visit to the US
-Announcement of Soviet Union summit
-PRC trip
-Delay
-Timing with UN vote
-Possible implications
-Status of trip to the PRC
-Timing
-Gromyko's previous trip to the US
		-Effect of announcement of Kissinger's trip to the PRC compared to actual trip to the PRC
-Timing with UN vote
-[Unintelligible]
-Announcement of trip
-Ronald l. Ziegler
-Regular briefing
-Details of trip
-Kissinger, Dwight L. Chapin
-Preparation for forthcoming trip by the President
-Date of vote
-UN debate
-Date
-Announcement of trip
-Announcement of trip
-Date
-US-Soviet Union relations
-Meeting with Dobrynin
-PRC
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Announcement of Soviet trip
-Date
-Potential situation
-Dates
-The PRC
-US position

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-Perceptions
-Date of PRC trip
-US dealings with the Chinese
-Announcement of trip
-Kissinger's PRC trip compared to the President's PRC trip
-Time interval

Rogers's schedule
	-Dobrynin
-Gromyko
-The President's conversation with Gromyko
-Issues
-PRC
-Middle East
-Brezhnev

Rogers's forthcoming meeting with Gromyko
-US-Soviet Union relationship in the Middle East
-Rogers's conversation with soviets
-Egypt and US relations
-Israel and US relations
-US position
-Soviet Union's view of Middle East relations
-Conference on European security and cooperation
-Handling by Rogers
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-The president's conversation with Gromyko
-SALT and Europe
-Wording of the President's statement
-Rogers's discussions with the Soviets
-The President's conversation with Gromyko

Rogers left at 12:36 pm.

US foreign policy
-Announcement of PRC trip
-Congressional action in the US
-Josip Broz Tito's trip to the US
-Announcement of PRC trip
-Timing
-Rogers
-Date of announcement
-Kissinger's PRC trip
-Timing
-Rogers's analysis
-Vote in UN
-Timing of Kissinger's presence in the PRC
-Rogers
-Analysis
-US position
-Public appearance
-US communications with the PRC
-Announcement
-Gromyko's visit to the US
-Dates of trip and announcement
-UN debate and vote
-Previous years' schedule
-Kissinger's presence in the PRC
-Possible speech by Bush
-Haig's trip to Vietnam
-Kissinger's meeting with traveling members
-Results of trip
-Domestic situation
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Samuel David Berger
-Tran Kiem
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Charles Whitehouse
-Kissinger's trip to the PRC
-Rogers's analysis
-Dates of communication with PRC
-Schedule
-Tito visit
-Trip by Kissinger
-Georges J.R. Pompidou

Kissinger left at 12:45 pm.

Conversation No. 581-7

Date:  September 30, 1971
Time:  12:45 pm - 12:51 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Virginia H. Knauer, Lt. Gen. Herman Nickerson, Jr., Richard H. Grant, Marion F. Gregory. 
[The White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting]

[General conversation]

Consumerism
-Date

Credit unions
-Enrollment of the President
-Increase of enrollment
-More effective operations

	Gifts
		-Presidential cufflinks

Knauer, et al. left at 12:51 pm.

Conversation No. 581-8

Date:  September 30, 1971
Time:  12:51 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with newspaper carriers

Bull left at 12:51 pm.

Conversation No. 581-9

Date:  September 30, 1971
Time:  12:51 pm - 12:58 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with L. Scott Olson, Curtis Sliwa, Jimmy French, Kevin Markwell, Christopher Messina, Bruce Hynes, David Bell, Jr., Glenn Norris, Millard Hall, David Byers, John Neeld, John Neurschwander, Gretchen McHale, Charles W. Colson, Neal Ball and DeVan L. Shumway.
[The White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting]

Greeting

Introduction
-L. Scott Olson

Home towns of carriers

Jimmy French, Philadelphia Daily News
-Support for the President

Presidential gifts

Delivery of newspapers

Olson, et al. left at 12:58 pm.

Conversation No. 581-10

Date:  September 30, 1971
Time:  12:58 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with George P. Shultz
-Herbert Stein

Bull left at 12:58 pm.

Conversation No. 581-11

Date:  September 30, 1971
Time:  12:58 pm - 2:11 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with George P. Shultz and Herbert Stein.

Greetings

US economic policies
-Memo from Arthur F. Burns to Shultz

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 12:58 pm.

Copies
-Shultz
-Stein

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 2:11 pm.

Setting up of group
-Problems
-Type of situation
-Individuals involved
-Connally

Henry A. Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 12:58 pm.

The President's schedule

Refreshments

The President and Kissinger left at an unknown time before 2:11 pm.

The President's view of the budget

Arthur F. Burns's actions

Steel contract
-Employers' fears regarding Phase II

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:58 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:11 pm.

The President entered at an unknown time after 12:58 pm.

US economic policy
-Decisions
-Forthcoming election
-Memo
-Burns's proposals
-Persistence
-Meetings with interest groups
-Role
-Fears of unregulated economy
-Wages and prices
-Burns
-Post-freeze action
-Rate of thaw
-Rate increases
-Percentage
-Labor reactions
-Government board and standards
-Cooperation from labor
-Tripartite board
-Labor group
-Review of standards by government
-Strike negotiations
-Harry Bridges
-Settlement
-Wage issue
-Contract
-Amount
-Time duration
-Percentage
-Tripartite board with labor
-Effect
-Standards
-Results on wage system
-Increases compared to decreases
-Business reaction to Wage Board
-Criticism from public members of Board
-Voting
-Possible walkout by labor members
-Labor domination
-Decrease
-Possible results from Wage Board
-Demands from labor
-Participation in standard-setting and contracts
-Confrontation between government and labor people
-Perception of government, labor
-Particular issues
-Handling
-Results
-Burns
-Labor problems
-Future
-Options
-Inflation
-Tighter standards
-Wage Board, Cost of Living Council
-Apportionment of blame
-The President
-Wage-price Board
-Burns
-Freeze
-Specifics
-Equity
-Question of workable process
-Solving problems
-Methods of delay
-Mechanism
-Milk pricing
-Bureaucracy
-Booklet
-Goals
-Interest
-Wages
-Organization chart
-Cost of Living Council
-Frank Fitzsimmons
-Agriculture
-Staff
-Price/cost/profits board
-Pay Board
-Rent Board
-George W. Romney
-Procedure
-Results
-Bureaucracy
-Rent control
-Desirability
-The President's announcement on Phase II
-Rent control
-Procedure
-Landlord's controls
-Stipulations
-Impact before 1972 election
-Handling of rent issue
-Price/cost/profits board
-Standards
-Romney
-Price/Cost/Profits board
-Perceptions of term "profit"
-Politics
-Profits
-Banks
-Federal Reserve Banks
-Profit margins of firms
-Wages and prices
-Productivity
-Prices
-Inelasticity
-Reduction
-Raising profits
-Business interests
-Wall Street
-Price Commission or board vis-a-vis an administrator
-Judgmental nature of task
-Automobile industry
-Deferred wages
-Price reduction
-General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, American Motors Corporation [AMC]
-Controlling profits
-Legal situation
-Setting prices
-Price fluctuations
-Profits
-Absorbing costs
-Inflation
-Windfall profit problem
-Action on prices
-Government role
-Revenues
-Proposal of plan to the President
-The President's trip to Florida
-Draft of speech for the President
-The President's possible speech on economics
-Forum, structure of remarks
-Time length
-Connally
-Answering questions
-The President's knowledge of subject
-Memo on economics
-The President's proposed speech on economics
-Introductory type of remarks
-Connally's actions
-Comparison to statement on freeze
-Cooperation by labor and public
-Appeal by the President
-Tripartite board
-Handling of establishment
-Preparation for labor group
-Service on board by labor group representatives
-Possible problems
-Domination by labor unions
-Need for balance between labor and public groups
-Labor
-Shultz and Stein's roles, responsibilities
-Need for a board
-Stein's son's views [Benjamin Stein?]
-Wages
-Raising
-Effect on lower wages
-Korean War period
-Tripartite board
-Burns
-Option
-Labor's role
-Burns's position and attitude
-Connally
-Connally
-Analysis and strategy
-Anti-labor, anti-"little man"
-Interest rates
-Profits
-Connally and Cost of Living Council
-Trade
-Transitions
-Freeze
-Burns's reactions
-Labor reactions
-Length of freeze
-Labor contracts
-Management
-Reaction to contract issues
-James M. Roche
-United Auto Workers [UAW] demands
-Memo
-UAW contract status
-Effect on prices
-Further action
-Dates, timing
-Shultz
-Labor
-The President's schedule
-Dates
-Reasons for timing of announcement
-Effect on stock market
-The President's decision on commission/board
-Dates
-Timing
-Speculations
-Rent control
-General price control
-Title of board
-State, local and federal government pay
-Potential problems
-Health industry
-Government responsibility
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Medical areas
-Growth
-Atypical labor management structure
-Non-profit nature
-Construction industry
-Health industry
-Government control
-Funds
-Stipulating conditions
	-Phase II
	-Allegations of permanent control
	-Health industry
	-Health, Education and Welfare [HEWs] plans
	-Voluntary cooperation
-Price, profits focus of board
-Stans
-Burns
-Name as reflection of content
-Windfall profits
-Price and profits
-Use of word "rent"
-Cost/price/profit board
-Price and profit board
-Reasoning for name
-The word "cost"
-Connotations of profit
-Burns's suggestion and approval of terms
-Words "rent" and "price"
-Title
-Government pay
-Local interests
-Legislators
-Arizona
-Patriotism
	-Raising taxes in cooperation with the freeze
	-Question by legislators of government expectations
	-Productivity
-Problem of federal government instructing state and local governments
-Revenue sharing
-Situation 
-Congress's role, options
-Possible establishment of an Office of Price Administration
		-Phase II
	-Cost of Living Council
	-Task force on de-control
	-Tax board for controls
	-Phasing out of controls
-Establishment of new economic boards
-Staffing
-Assignment of existing personnel vs. Congressional responsibility
-Congressional control
-Restraints
-Connally
-Cabinet response
-Assignment of personnel
-Importance of task
-Perception of war against inflation
-Assignment of personnel
-Interest rates
	-CPI
-Burns
-Raising money supply
-Current trends
-Effect of decline in supply
-Problems
-Control of interest rates
-Appeasing people
-Burns
-Money supply
-Possible problems
-Connally
-Connally
-Chairmanship of several banks
-Effect
-Schedule
-Economic plan
			-Taking action
-Shultz's and Stein's knowledge
-Connally
-The President's trip to Florida
-Shultz, Stein and Connally
-Tripartite board option
-Burns
-Connally
-Deadline of freeze
-Labor
-Perceptions of effect of action
-Question of George Meany's intentions
-Profits
-Productivity Commission
-Enlargement
-State and local government
-Agriculture
-Status 
-Third quarter
-Money supply
-Burns
-Second quarter
-Percentage
-Rising trend
-Correlation between rise in CPI and money supply
-Date
-Congressional action
-Investment credit
-Passage in Congress
-Effect
-Proposal compared to actual results
-Camp David economic meeting
-Longshoremen's and coal industry's labor settlement efforts
-Effect

Working schedule for Stein, Shultz and the President
-Meeting
-Date
-Connally
-Date
-The President's trip to Florida
-Connally
-Meeting
-Date
-Economic experts
-Announcement on post-freeze economic action
-Date
-Difference of dates
-Effect
-Federal pay increase
-Hearings by Senate Banking and Currency Committee
-Date
-Effect
-Television coverage
-Time of day
-The President's trip to West Virginia
-Newspaper coverage
-Handling
-Prime time television
-The President's appearance, options
-Time
-Connally's appearance
-Conversation between Connally, Shultz, and Stein
-Effect of announcement
-Wage and price freeze announcement
-Date
-Time of day
-Conversation between Connally, Shultz and Stein
-Supporting material
-Type of atmosphere
-Time of day
-Length of the President's October 7, 1971 speech
-Connally
-Briefing role

Shultz and Stein left at 2:11 pm.