Conversation No. 584-1

Date:  October 5, 1971
Time:  8:56 am - 9:02 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with William P. Rogers.

[See Conversation No. 10-40]

Conversation No. 584-2

Date:  October 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:02 am and 9:12 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:12 am.

Conversation No. 584-3

Date:  October 5, 1971
Time:  9:12 am - 1:11 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

[Forename unknown] Wilson
-Discussion of unknown person

The President's previous conversation with William P. Rogers
-Middle East
	-Henry A. Kissinger
	-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-New York Times
-Tad Szulc
		-Kissinger and Rogers

The President's schedule
-Possible trip
-John N. Mitchell
-Staff responsibilities
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Timing
-National Federation of Republican Women
	-Timing
-Press conference
-Florida
	-Disney World
-Charlotte
	-Camp David
-The President's work habits
-George P. Shultz
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Kissinger
-[Unintelligible]
-John B. Connally

-Kissinger

	-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Middle East
-Soviet Union

	The President’s schedule
		-National Federation of Republic Women
-Florida
	-Disney World
-Eisenhower Theater
-World Series game
-Baltimore

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 9:25 am.

-Trips
-Dr. D. Elton Trueblood
-The President's 10:00 am meeting
-Connally, Shultz, Herbert Stein
-Paul W. McCracken

Butterfield left at an unknown time after 9:25 am.

-Congress

Congressional relations
-Clark MacGregor
-Performance
-Supersonic Transport [SST]

The President's schedule
-Blair House renovations
-Charles W. Colson
-Cabinet Officers and Congressmen
-Commendation notices
-Rose Mary Woods [?]

France
	-Trade
		-Unknown person’s [Winton M. (“Red”)] Blount action
	-Anti-drug efforts
	-Administration’s action

Letter from Robert C. Tyson
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
	-Revisions
-Television policy
-The President's request of Kissinger
		-Reply
		-Invitation to White House dinner
-Unknown volunteer
-Presidential certificate of appreciation
-Citation for volunteer service

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	The President’s schedule
-Thanksgiving
-Christmas
-Florida
-California
	-White House receptions
	-White House press office

Public relations
-Look magazine
-Allen S. Drury
-Interview with the President
-Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
-Press
-Christmas receptions
	-White House Staff
-Congress
	-The President’s attendance
-MacGregor
-Ziegler
-White House Staff and Cabinet
-Invitation language

Blair House
-Receptions
	-Youth event
-Congressmen
-Conservatives
-George Putnam
-Business Council
-Flanigan
-Congressmen
-Room size
-Youth

Possible Tennis match at the White House
-Billie Jean King
-Adam [Arthur] Ashe
-Stan Smith
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Rowland Evans
-Television coverage

	[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
		-Comment on Supreme Court
			-Possible White House response

Evening at the White House
-Lawrence Welk
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Independent networks
-Paul W. Keyes

Reception
	-Conservative newsmen
-Barry M. Goldwater
-James L. Buckley

Charles S. Rhyne
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
	-Possible ambassadorship
			-Robert Strausz-Hupe

Maurice H. Stans
		-Proposed trip to Moscow
		-Peter G. Peterson

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:25 am.

Item for Colson

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:10 am.

The President's schedule
-Timing of press conference
-Kissinger
	-Questions on economy
	-Phase II
-Kissinger
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Forthcoming announcement of Soviet Summit
-Vietnam
-Briefing book for President
	-Phase II
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Forthcoming meeting with Aldo Moro
-Detroit
-Press
-Reporting outside of Washington
-Compared with Washington
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Montana
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Press coverage

Frank Leonard
-Compared to William L. Safire
-Article on the President's accomplishments
-Welfare
-Drugs
-Vietnam veterans
-Foreign aid
-Education reform
-Rogers
-Republican National Committee [RNC] newsletter

Praise for the President
-Robert H. Abplanalp and Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Hobart D. Lewis
-New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Denver Post

Press
-Denver
-President’s humor
-Local press
[-Unintelligible]
-John F. Osborne

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:25 am.

The President's schedule
-Connally

Bull left at 10:06 am.

The President left and John B. Connally, George P. Shultz, Paul W. McCracken, and Herbert Stein entered at 10:06 am.

Jeb Stuart Magruder's conversation with Connally

Haldeman left at an unknown time after 10:06 am.

The President entered at an unknown time after 10:06 am.

Salutations
-Shultz
-Book read by the President

Economy
-Phase II
-Shultz
-Profits
-Changes from memorandum
-Goals
-Workings of the President's advisers
-Arthur F. Burns
-Negotiating new contracts
-Burns's memorandum
-Rollbacks
	-Strikes
		-Steel companies
-General Motors
-Follow up to the wage and price freeze
-Pay Boards
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Responsibility
-Inflation
	-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
		-Future
-Wholesale prices
-John A. Volpe
-Japanese
-Honda
-Foreign policy
-Regional differences among Americans
-Productivity
-Cost of living factor
	-Unemployment
		-Youth
-Comparisons
-Wage payments
-Pay Boards
-Union contracts
-Wage and price problem
-Unemployment
-Labor-management positions
-Edward N. Cole
-Union negotiations
-Burns
-Fiscal monetary policy
-Contingency for next year
-Outlook
-Interest rates
		-Burns
		-The President’s view
-COLC
-No-growth argument
-The President's reference to a generation of peace
-Middle East
-Cuba
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-Importance of goal
-Institutions being created
-Stein
-Pay Board
-Price Board
-Connally
-Profits
-Windfall
-Price reductions
-Attitudes of businessmen
-American leadership class
-Inflation
-Outlook
-Policy of Commission

Haldeman entered at 11:00 am.

-Beliefs of the American people
-Labor
-George Meany
-Rebozo
-Price Commission
-Windfall
-Burns
-David Rockefeller
-Connally
-Pay Board
-Price Commission
-Prices
-Labor unions
-Meany
-Dividends
-Pay Board
-Price Board
-Political standpoint
-Prices
-Price Commission
-Interest
-Dividends
-Federal Reserve
-Burns
-Camp David
-COLC
-Secretary of the Treasury
-Charls E. Walker
-Donald Rumsfeld
-Haldeman
-Connally
-Responsibilities
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Staff support
-COLC
-Mortgage question
-George Romney
-Burns
-Prime rate
-Rumsfeld
-Rent
-Price Commission
-Rent Board
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Price Commission
-Voluntary compliance
-Jawboning
-COLC
-Membership
	-State and local government participation
	-Businessmen
-Virginia H. Knauer
-Consumer Affairs representative
-Lon L. Fuller
-Unintelligible man
-Phillip Areeda
-Fuller
-Timing for announcement
-Poll
-Press
-Audience potential
-Business people
-The President's press conferences
-The President's speech, November 3, 1969
-Summary
-Price Board
-Wage Board
-Timing for announcement
-Noon
-"I Love Lucy"
-"As the World Turns"
-"Love is a Many Splendored Thing"
-Evening
-West Coast
-Temporary measures in Phase I
-10% surcharge
-Wage and price freeze
-Timing for announcement
-Daytime
-Stock market
-Need for consultations
-Wage and price freeze
-Situation to follow
-Labor leaders
-Prime time announcement
-Meaning of Phase II
-Call for support from American people
-Labor council
-Timing
-Friday news shows
-James D. Hodgson meeting with Meany
-Public anticipation of Phase II
	-Louis P. Harris
-Phrasing
-Introduction
-Conclusion
-Summary
-Pay Board
-Salaries
-Price Board
-Windfall profits
-Reason for Phase I's success
-International scene
-Emphasis on success of Phase I
-Length
-Competition from other programs
-Timing
-Audience size
-Businessmen
-Need for consultations
-Timing for briefings
-Dan Rather
-Importance as newspaper story
-Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Los Angeles Times
-Dealing with the press
-Labor support
-Prime time announcement
-The President's schedule
-Tun Abdul Razak
-Draft of speech
-[Unintelligible]
-William L. Safire
-Concern about leaks
-Safire
-Burns
-Interest and dividends

Shultz, McCracken, and Stein left at 11:59 am.

The President's schedule
-Connally
-Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
	-Event
-Connally's schedule

Supreme Court
-Conservative appointments
-Sevareid’s comment
-William J. Brennan, Thurgood Marshall, Potter Stewart, William O. Douglas

Chile
-Salvador Allende Gossens
	-Expropriation
	-Connally’s view
	-Washington Star and Washington Post
-Expropriation
	-Peru
	-Bolivia
-Connally’s view
-The President’s view

Connally left at an unknown time after 11:59 am.

Timing of announcement

The President left at an unknown time after 11:59 am.

The President entered at an unknown time before 12:02 pm.

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger at an unknown time between 11:59 am and 12:02 pm.

[Conversation No. 584-3A]

Request for meeting

[End of telephone conversation]

Timing of Phase II announcement

Connally
-Graham

The President's schedule
-Safire
-Kissinger

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 12:02 pm.

Kissinger's schedule
-Comments to press
			-PRC
-John A. Scali
-Ziegler
-Media

Economy
-Phase II announcement
-Timing
-Ziegler

Chile
	-Connally
-Allende
	-Expropriation
	-The President’ view
	-Kissinger’s previous conversation with Connally
	-US policy
-Peruvians
-Bolivia

The President's Schedule
-Meeting with Latin Americans leaders
	-Forthcoming trip of Robert H. Finch
		-President’s previous conversation with William P. Rogers
-Mexico
-Mexico City
				-Acapulco
-Brazil
-Brazilia
-Luis Echeverria Alvarez
-Rogers
-Finch’s trip
-Department of State
	-Rogers
	-Logistics

Ziegler entered at 12:05 pm.

Forthcoming trip to PRC
-Briefing
-Ziegler's presentation
-Kissinger's schedule
-Timing of PRC trip
-Kissinger's presence
-Kissinger's presentation
-American policy vis-a-vis Chinese domestic situation
-Preparations for the trip
-Taiwan
-The President's background preparation
-Detroit
-Oregon

Kissinger's relations with the press
-Max Frankel
-New York Times
-Press participation on Kissinger's PRC trip
-[Unintelligible]
-David Kraslow
-Editorial boards's position
-Osborne
-Mike Wallace

Kissinger's schedule
-Mansfield
-Mao Tse-Tung
-J. William Fulbright
-Vietnam
-Edward W. Brooke
-Missiles
-Carl B. Albert

July 15, 1971 announcement

Press briefing
-South Vietnamese elections
-Hanoi
-Peking

PRC
-Announcement on October 14, 1971
-Congratulatory comments
-Gerald R. Ford
-Identical announcement from the PRC
-Media interest
-Newspapers
-Television
-Alfred Le S. Jenkins
	-Responsibilities
-Scheduling of stories
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] announcement
-July 15th announcement
-Phase II
-Taft-Hartley Act
-Liberal distrust of the administration
-Robert Pierpoint
-Views of the press
	-Communism
-Credibility gap
	-John D. Ehrlichman
-Lyndon B. Johnson administration
-Vietnam
-Hanoi
-Cambodia
-Ottawa
-PRC
-Indochina
-Ralph T. Albertazzie
-White house staff interest in PRC trip
-Anticipated stress of trip by president
	-Background preparations
-Compared with Andrei A. Gromyko visit
-Background preparations
	-Briefing papers
-Anticipated negotiations
-Stans
-Japanese
-Middle East
		-Preparation for the President’s trip
-Kissinger's projected format in Peking
-Chou En-lai
-Negotiating groups
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Rogers
-Communiqué
-Projected announcement of date of President's trip
	-Timing
-United Nations [UN] vote
-Timing

The President's schedule
-Safire

Ziegler left at 12:33 pm.

PRC
-Unknown man
-Ziegler's press briefings

	Soviet Union-US Summit
		-Forthcoming announcement
			-Ziegler
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Soviet-American relations
	-Dobrynin’s comments
	-John F. Kennedy
			-Middle East

	Schedule of events
		-Vietnam
			-Peace talks
				-Possible US airstrikes
			-Nguyen Van Thieu
				-Haig

Kissinger's schedule
-New York
-Mahmoud Riad
-Rockefeller
-Middle East
-Chile

William L. Safire entered and Kissinger left at 12:38 pm.

The President left at an unknown time after 12:38 pm.

The President's forthcoming speech
	-Timing

The President entered at an unknown time before 1:05 pm.

The President's speech announcing Phase II
	-Timing
	-Content
		-Wording
		-Length
-Herbert Stein
-Scheduling
-Wage and price freeze
-Progress report
-Goal
-Need for interests to cooperate
-Prosperity without war
-Employment
-Inflation
-Prices
-Windfall profits
-International importance
-Interest rate
-Pay Board
-Congress
-Duration of program
-Cooperation of groups
-Phase II
-Peace and prosperity without inflation
-Impact of PRC announcement
-Temporary nature of program
-Bureaucrats
-Pay Board and Price Board
-COLC
-Future briefings
-Connally, Shultz, McCracken
-Cost of Living Council
-Themes
-Sacrifice
-Confidence
-Purpose
-Follow-up by experts
-The President's schedule
-Time draft required
-Follow-up
-Announcement
-Timing
-COLC
-Prime time
-California
-Press
-New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal
-Prime Time
-Press conference
-COLC
-Safire's assignment
-The President's schedule

Safire left at 1:05 pm.

Safire
-Raymond K. Price

The President's speech announcing Phase II
-Length

Rose Mary Woods
-Health

Rogers and Kissinger
-Trip

Ron [Surname unknown]

Haldeman left at 1:11pm.

Conversation No. 584-4

Date:  October 5, 1971
Time:  1:11 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

Greetings

Request for meeting

Conversation No. 584-5

Date:  October 5, 1971
Time:  1:11 pm - 1:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:11 pm.

The President's schedule
-Barber

Bull left at 1:15 pm.

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Letter to medical staff of unknown hospital
-Sending Presidential gifts

[Woods took dictation]

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Guest list for church services
-Ralph Bateman
-Perle Mesta
-Dr. D. Elton Trueblood

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Pictures of the President
-Japanese
-The President and Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Wedding of Tricia and Edward R.F. Cox
-Marjorie P. Acker
-Possible recipients
-Official family portrait
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Mrs. Nixon
-Possible recipients

The President's schedule
-Speech, October 7, 1971
-Woods’ schedule
	-Typing of speech

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Woods left at 1:25 pm.

Conversation No. 584-6

Date:  October 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:25 pm and 1:32 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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

Conversation No. 584-7

Date:  October 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:25 pm and 1:32 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown woman.

The President's schedule
-Charles W. Colson
-Henry A. Kissinger

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 1:32 pm.

Conversation No. 584-8

Date:  October 5, 1971
Time:  2:13 pm - 2:29 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger's schedule
-Request for television appearance
-Ronald W. Reagan
-View of People’s Republic of China [PRC] announcement
	-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Robert Pierpoint
July 15, 1971 announcement

Stephen B. Bull [?] entered at an unknown time after 2:13 pm.

The President's schedule

Bull [?] left at an unknown time before 2:29 pm.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Tun Abdul Razak

	Foreign affairs
	-PRC trip
	-History of preparations
-Opposition
	-Senate
	-Public opinion
	-Bureaucracy
-The President’s efforts
		-Soviet Union trip
			-Linkage
			-President’s policies
				-US-Soviet Summit
-Cienfuegos

-Jordan
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Soviet preference as to negotiating parties
-The President's performance
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-John F. Kennedy
	-Llewellyn E. Thompson, Jr.

The President's international record
-Rumania
-Yugoslavia

North Vietnamese
-Hanoi
	-Peace prospects
		-Kissinger’s view

Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Vietnam War
-Hanoi
-Soviet Union
-PRC
-Soviet interests
-Nikolai V. Podgorny
-Peking

Vietnam
-Nguyen Van Thieu

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 2:13 pm.

Item for the President

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 2:29 pm.

Soviet Union
-Aleksei N. Kosygin
		-Concern about Soviet-American relations
	-W. Averell Harriman
	-Edward M. Kennedy
	-Edmund S. Muskie

Vietnam War
-Press coverage
-Hanoi

Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:13 pm.

The President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:29 pm.

Ronald L. Ziegler’s efforts
-John P. Sears view
-John N. Mitchell
-Campaign, 1972
-Credibility
	-Press
	-Kissinger’s assessment
-Herbert G. Klein
-William Moyers
-James C. Hagerty
-Pierre Salinger

	Press reports
		-Rumors
		-Publicity

Vietnam
-Xuan Thuy
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
	-Negotiations with the North Vietnamese
-Elections
-Thieu
	-Effect on US domestic situation
	-US proposals

PRC initiative
-U. Alexis Johnson
-Mood
-Thailand
-Taiwan
-State Department
-The President's concern
-Representation in United Nations [UN]
-Soviet Union
-Official treatment 
-American press
-Soviet announcement
	-Possible effect
-Kissinger's activities
-Accidental War Treaty
-Berlin Agreement
-Soviet summit

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-Technique for relations with Chinese
		-Weekend events
	-Chinese reactions
	-Negotiations with PRC
		-Kissinger’s comments
	-State Department

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Vietnam War
-Possible conclusion
	-Kissinger’s view
-Bombing strikes
-Prisoners of war [POWs
-Kissinger's advice
-Timing
			-Possible effect on peace negotiations

The President's foreign policy
-Summit
-Soviet Union
-PRC
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [Salt]
-Berlin Agreement
-Accidental War Agreement
-Berlin Agreement
-Press commentary
-Compared with PRC announcement
-Compared with Soviet Summit announcement
-John F. Kennedy

Kissinger's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Tun Abdul Razak

Kissinger left at 2:29 pm.

Conversation No. 584-9

Date:  October 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:29 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people met.

The President's location
-Barber shop

George [Surname unknown]

The unknown people left before 11:59 pm.