Conversation No. 607-1

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  8:24 am - 8:25 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

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Butterfield left at 8:25 am.

Conversation No. 607-2

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  8:26 am - 8:30 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Hugh Scott.

[See Conversation No. 13-23]

Conversation No. 607-3

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:30 am and 8:40 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 8:40 am.

Conversation No. 607-4

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  8:40 am - 10:35 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Previous dinner for Josip Broz Tito
	-Haldeman's mother
	-Previous State Dinners
	-Strolling strings
	-Dancing

	-Trumpets
-Pageantry
-Entertainment
-Gail Robinson
-The President’s view
-Peggy Lee
-Social aides
-Mrs. Broz's conversation with Mrs. Haldeman
-Paul W. Trousdale

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 8:40 am.

Cigars
-Tito
	-Gift from the President

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:58 am.

Tito
-The President’s view
-Travels
-Compared with Haile Selassie
-Communist countries
-Europe
	-Spain
-Latin America
-Middle East
-Far East

Yugoslavia
-People 
	-Croatia
	-Serbia
	-The President’s view
	-Haldeman’s view
-History

Arrival ceremonies

Clifford M. Hardin
-Possible successor
-Clarence D. Palmby
-Donald E. Johnson
-John C. Whitaker
-Background
	-Education
	-Farm implement business
	-Chicken feed business
	-Farm accounting
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Johnson
	-The President’s view
-Letter after the President's election
-Proposed meeting with the President
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
-Haldeman’s schedule
-Possible press announcement
-Hardin’s forthcoming trip to Turkey

Winton M. (“Red”) Blount
	-Forthcoming resignation as Postmaster General
-Possible press announcement
-John G. Tower
-Unknown man
-John J. Sparkman's appearance
	-The President’s view
		-Compared to Tito

Tito
-The President’s view

Previous Senate vote
-The President's previous telephone call to Hugh Scott
-Robert C. Byrd's efforts
-Vietnam negotiations
-Cambodia

Henry A. Kissinger
-Previous conversation with Haldeman
	-Haldeman’s view
-William P. Rogers
	-Kissinger’s view
-Views on United Nations [UN] vote to expel Taiwan
-Schedule
-Previous trips to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Press coverage
	-The President’s view
		-The President’s forthcoming trip to PRC
		-Kissinger’s proposed trip to PRC
			-Rogers

Rogers
	-Role on the president's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Comments regarding the President's statement on UN vote
-Kissinger
	-Rogers’s appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
		-Television
-Previous conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler
			-Haldeman’s view
-Treatment by the White House
	-Proposed trips to Europe and Latin America
	-Haldeman’s view
	-Compared to John B. Connally
	-Statements by Rogers
		-Compared to other Cabinet officers
-Congressional testimony

UN vote to expel Taiwan
-The President's statement
-Connally's views

Connally
	-Haldeman’s view
-Views on William L. Calley, Jr.
-Reaction to UN vote
-George H.W. Bush

Bush
	-Haldeman’s view
	-Compared to Connally
-Comments to the President on UN vote

Rogers
-Comments on the President's statements
-UN vote
-Nguyen Van Thieu
	-Kissinger
	-The President’s view
	-Haldeman’s view

UN vote to expel Taiwan
-Kissinger's reaction
	-The President’s view
-Conservatives' reaction
	-Ronald W. Reagan
	-Jews
	-Haldeman’s view

John W. Rollins
-Previous conversation with Haldeman and John N. Mitchell
-Supreme Court nominees
-Support for fourth party
-Possible candidates
-Shirley Chisholm
-Jessie L. Jackson
-Financial support
-Chisholm
-Julian Bond
-Jackson
-Possible pay off for candidate

UN vote to expel Taiwan
-Press coverage
-Follow-up votes
-Conservatives' reaction
-The President's telephone call to Reagan
-Rogers

Conservatives
-White House treatment
-Supreme Court nominees
-Taiwan
	-Forthcoming US-PRC talks

Neo-isolationism
	-The President’s view
			-UN
		-Elmer H. Bobst
		-Delegates' reaction to vote on Taiwan
			-Reaction of average voters

Louis L. Banks
	-Fortune magazine
-Editorial director of Time
-Hedley W. Donovan
-Henry A. Grunwald
-Haldeman’s view
	-PRC
	-Economy
-Donovan
-Selecting for "Man of the Year"
			-Banks and Donovan
	-Donald McI. Kendall's role
	-Kissinger
			-Rogers

	News magazines
	-Supreme Court nominees
	-Richard A. Moore
	-Presidential appointments

"Man of the Year"
-Possible selection of the President
	-Kissinger
-Timing
	-President’s forthcoming trips to PRC and Soviet Union
	-1972 election
-Alternatives
	-Foreign individuals
-George E. Allen
-Willy Brandt's efforts in 1970
	-Time editorial board
	-Norway

Rogers
-Forthcoming Congressional testimony
-Frank F. Church 
-Efforts
-Views on the President and Kissinger
-Kissinger
	-The President’s view
		-UN
			-PRC
-White House treatment
	-White House comments on the State Department
-State Department's comments on the President's policy
-Kissinger's actions
	-Haldeman’s view
-Views on PRC
	-The President’s view
-Role in US foreign policy
	-Haldeman’s view
		-PRC
				-Vietnam
				-PRC
	-Berlin
	-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
	-Soviet Union
-Relations with State Department
-Compared with Kissinger
	-The President’s view
	-Haldeman’s view

	The Administration’s foreign policy advisors
	-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Rogers
	-The President’s view
-Kissinger
	-Haldeman’s view
	-Kissinger
	-Haldeman’s view
	-The President’s view
		-UN
		-Thieu

Connally
-Advice to the President
	-Calley
-Haldeman’s view
-Staff selection
-Advice to the President
	-UN
		-Bush
-Staff needs
-Advice to the President
	-Calley
		-Popular reaction
			-Cambodia
			-Haldeman’s view
				-Street demonstrations
				-State legislatures

UN vote to expel Taiwan
-Ziegler's handling
-The President's statement
	-Rogers
	-PRC
	-UN
-Connally's advice
-Bush
-Ziegler's statement

Ziegler
-Performance 
-Compared to Kissinger
-Compared to Herbert G. Klein
-James E. Bassett
-Background
	-Haldeman’s view

	Public relations
	-The President
	-Press coverage
	-Reaction
	-John F. Kennedy
	-Lyndon B. Johnson

Kissinger
	-Rogers
-Possible conversation with Mitchell

Previous State dinner for Tito
-Spiro T. Agnew's schedule

	US Ambassador to Spain
	-Cornelius V. (“Sonny”) Whitney
	-Louie B. Nunn
	Mitchell
	-The President’s view
	-Wife

Previous State dinner for Tito
-Mrs. John E. Swearingen
-Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Coors
-Haldeman’s view
-Vocational Guidance Committee
-Golden, Colorado

Secretary of Agriculture
	-Committee
-Donald E. Johnson
-Haldeman's possible conversation with Bryce N. Harlow
-The President’s view

Veterans Administration [VA] head
-Possible retired military officer
	-Marines
	-Navy
	-Army
-Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.

	Agnew
	-Forthcoming foundation speech
	-Barry M. Goldwater
		-Possible controversy
		-Edith Efron's book [The News Twisters]

Efron's book
-Roscoe Drummond
-Sales
-Charles W. Colson
-Drummond's comments
	-Federal Communications Commission [FCC]
	-Congress

The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
	-Ziegler
-Selection of media representatives
-Rogers's role
-Kissinger's role
	-Haldeman’s view
-Rogers's role
	-The President’s view

Kissinger
-Health
-Schedule
-Proposed meeting with Rogers

Rogers
	-Proposed trip to the Soviet Union
	-Advance for forthcoming US-Soviet Summit
		-Role of the Secretary of State
			-Advance staff
			-Dwight L. Chapin
			-Kissinger
	-Advance for President’s forthcoming trip to PRC
	-European Security
	-Normal diplomatic relations
		-PRC

Previous State dinner for Tito
-Activities
	-Dancing
	-Reception line
-President’s previous conversation with Rose Mary Woods
-Attendees
	-White House staff
	-Helmut Sonnenfeldt
	-Kissinger
	-Haig
	-The President’s instructions

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Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-The President’s view
-Haldeman’s view
		-John N. Mitchell

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	Wives of Administration officials
		-Carol (Crothers) Finch
			-Haldeman’s view
		-Brigid Peterson
			-Haldeman’s view
			-The President’s view
		-Sally Flanigan
-Peter G. Peterson
-The President’s view
-Haldeman’s view
		-Wives of public officials
			-Haldeman’s view

Secretary of Agriculture
-Haldeman's forthcoming conversation with Harlow

The President's schedule
-Arthur F. Burns
	-Timing
-James D. (“Don”) Hughes
-Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft
-Timing

Scowcroft
-Air Force
-Haldeman’s view
-Compared to Hughes
-Requirements for position

The President's schedule
-Boy Scouts
-Silver Buffalo award
	-The President’s view
		-Forthcoming meeting with Tito
			-Arrival ceremony
			-Honor guard

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 8:40 am.

Dog

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:58 am.

The President's schedule
-Hotel

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 8:40 am.

Kissinger's location
	-State Department

Congress

Bull left at an unknown time after 9:58 am.

Kissinger's schedule

Conservatives
-Comments on the President's policies
	-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
		-Press conferences
-Harry S. Dent
-The President's policies
	-The South
	-Supreme Court nominees
		-Textiles
		-Busing

Burns
-Actions

The President's schedule
-Previous meeting with Connally
		William H. Sullivan

Rogers
-Loyalties
	-State Department
		-Sullivan
		-The President’s view

Kissinger entered at 9:58 am.

George P. Shultz
-Possible memorandum 
	-The President's forthcoming meeting with Burns

Haldeman left at 9:58 am.

Kissinger
-Jet lag
-Hughes
-Schedule
	-New York

Tito
-Visit to US
-Previous visit in John F. Kennedy Administration
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Photographs
-Comment on UN vote to expel Taiwan

Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Forthcoming meeting with PRC officials
	-UN

UN
-PRC’s role
-Taiwan
-Possible expulsions
	-Israel
	-Portugal
	-South Africa
	-US policy

Bush
-Activities
	-The President’s view
-Colson

UN
-Delegates' reaction to Taiwan vote
-Vote on Taiwan
-Timing
	-Kissinger's previous conversation with Shirley Temple Black
-New York Times previous editorial
	-US policy
		-PRC
		-Soviet Union
		-Thieu
-Europeans
-Netherlands
-Brandt

Bull entered at 10:04 am.

The President's schedule
-Telephone call from Rogers

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:36 am.

UN vote to expel Taiwan
-New York Times previous editorial
-Great Britain
-W. Averell Harriman's previous comments on "Today" show
	-US reaction
		-Dunkirk
-Connally's views
	-Bush
-Harriman
-New York Times
	-Kissinger’s view

The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Selection of news media
	-Wire services
	-Television
-New York Times

Kissinger's schedule
-Rogers
-Forthcoming conversation
-Communiqué
-The President's forthcoming trip to PRC

Tito
-Comments on USSR
-Leonid I. Brezhnev

Europe
-Relations with US
-UN vote on Taiwan
-New York Times editorial
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Norway
-Denmark
-Iceland
-Scandinavian countries
-Great Britain
-France
-Belgium
-Italy
-Austria

UN vote on Taiwan
-Recording of delegates reaction
	-US reaction
	-Colson
		-William L. Calley, Jr. court martial

	Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Rogers
-US reaction to UN vote to expel Taiwan
	-US foreign policy
	-Rogers's views
		-Berlin
		-PRC
	-The President's view
	-The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
		-Rogers's role
		-Communiqué
			-Kissinger’s view
				-President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
				-State Department
				-Kissinger’s previous trip to PRC
			-The President’s instructions
	-The President’s view
		-Soviet Union
		-India
		-Japan
		-Taiwan
	-Haig's possible visit

	US support of the UN
-Tito
-Haldeman
	-United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization [UNESCO]
-Multi-national aid
-Paul G. Hoffman committee [United Nations Development Program]
-Kissinger’s view
-Views of Connally and Rogers
-The President’s instructions
	-National Security Council [NSC]
		-Multilateral aid compared to bilateral aid
-Congress

Previous Senate vote
-John Sherman Cooper-Church amendment
-Scott
	-Comments
		-UN vote on Taiwan
		-Cooper-Church vote

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Le Duc Tho
-Possible Congressional action
-Article by Foreign Minister of North Vietnam
-Future
-Thieu
-South Vietnamese military capability
-Kissinger’s view
-Military situation
	-US Prisoners of war [POWs]
	-South Vietnamese situation
	-North Vietnamese situation
	-Infiltration by North Vietnamese
		-Flooding
		-Typhoon

	Press relations
	-UN vote to expel Taiwan
	-New York Times 
	-News magazines
			-The President's forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
		-Press coverage
		-John F. Kennedy's test ban

Polls

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UN vote to expel Taiwan
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Hubert H. Humphrey's comments
-Chiang Kai-Shek

The President's proposed meetings
-Europeans
	-Forthcoming European Summit
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Brandt
-Kissinger’s view
	-Pompidou
	-Brandt
	-Edward R.G. Heath

US-British relations
-Common Market
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Earl of Cromer
	-US-PRC relations
	-British-PRC relations
		-State Department
			-UN
			-Kissinger’s previous trip to PRC
		-The President’s view
-British relations with Europe
	-Kissinger’s view

Connally's forthcoming trip
	-Forthcoming memorandum from Kissinger
-The President's forthcoming letters to Chiefs of State
	-Eisaku Sato
-Ferdinand E. Marcos
-The President’s instructions
	-NSC
-Meetings with f leaders
-US Ambassadors
	-Leonard Unger
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
		-Kissinger's message to Sato's assistant
		-Lt. Gen. T.N.J. Suharto
-Kissinger's preparation of talking paper
-Connally's previous television appearance
	-Kissinger’s view

The forthcoming year
-1972 election

US foreign policy
	-PRC
	-Vietnam
	-Middle East
	-Soviet Union
-Middle East
	-Kissinger’s view
	-Israel
	-Soviet Union
	-Yitzhak Rabin
-International monetary situation
-Roles of Kissinger, Shultz, Peterson
-Peterson memorandum
-Burns's views
-Connally's views
	-Popular views
		-Trade
-Europeans
	-Kissinger’s view
-Kissinger’s forthcoming conversation with Shultz
-Connally

Blount

Kissinger left at 10:35 am.

Conversation No. 607-5

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  10:35 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 13-24]

Conversation No. 607-6

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:35 am and 10:36 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:36 am.

Conversation No. 607-7

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  10:36 am - 10:45 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with William P. Rogers.

[See Conversation No. 13-25]

Conversation No. 607-8

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:45 am and 10:46 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Winton M. (“Red”) Blount

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:46 am.

Conversation No. 607-9

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:45 am and 10:46 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:46 am.

Conversation No. 607-10

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  10:46 am - 11:00 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Winton M. (“Red”) Blount and Alexander P. Butterfield; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of this meeting.

Alabamians

Post Office
-Board of Governors appointments
-Confirmation hearings
-Hiram L. Fong
-Gale W. McGee
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Hugh Scott
-Fong
-Blount's previous conversations with Bryce N. Harlow
-Harlow's possible conversation with Fong
	-Fortune 500
-Butterfield's forthcoming conversation with Harlow
	-The President’s instructions
-Partisanship
	-Blount’s view
-Status
-Employment
-Amount of mail delivered
-Blount's replacement
-Blount's previous meeting with Robert V. Hansberger
-Hansberger
-The President’s view
-Requirements

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	US Senate
-John J. Sparkman
-Age
	-Appearance
		-The President’s view
-Health
	-Effect
		-Committee hearings
-The President’s view
	-Vietnam
-Blount’s view
-Primary election
	-Potential opponents
	-Blount’s view
	-The President’s view
		-Allen J. Ellender
	-Age
		-The President’s view

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Alabama
	-The President’s view
		-George C. Wallace
		-College football
-James B. Allen
-The President’s view
-Blount’s view
-J. Lister Hill
-Blount's possible activities
-Urbanization
	-Birmingham
	-Mobile
	-Montgomery
		-“Heart of Dixie”
	-"Cradle of the Confederacy"
		-Jefferson Davis

Blount
-Service with Administration
	-The President’s view
-Letter of resignation
-Announcement
	-Timing
	-The President's forthcoming response
-Announcement
-Blount's political plans
-Sparkman

	President’s approval rating
		-Forthcoming trip to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
		-Economy

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:46 am.

Blount

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:00 am.

Auburn University football team
-Ralph (“Shug”) Jordan

University of Alabama football team
-Paul W. (“Bear”) Bryant

Blount's wife

Blount and Butterfield left at 11:00 am.

Conversation No. 607-11

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  11:01 am - 11:30 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Arthur F. Burns.

Winton M. (“Red”) Blount
-Political plans
-John J. Sparkman
-Announcement
	-Timing

Sparkman
-The President’ view
	-Age
	-Appearance

National economy
-Economic indicators
-International monetary situation
-Henry A. Kissinger's role
-John B. Connally
-George P. Shultz
-Peter G. Peterson
-Burns’s forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
	-Gold
-Kissinger's views
-Willy Brandt
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Edward R.G. Heath
	-European Common Market
		-France
	-Middle East policy

France
	-Burns’s view
	-Popular opinion
-The President's relations with Pompidou

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 11:01 am.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:30 am.

France
-The President's previous meeting with Pompidou in New York
	-Chicago
-Kissinger’s view
-Kissinger's relationship with Valery Giscard D'estang

National economy
-Economic indicators
	-Burns’s view
-Charles W. Colson's possible arrangements for dinner
-Gustave L. Levy
-Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker
-Previous dinner
-Liquidity
-Money supply
-Critics of the rate of growth
-Unemployment
	-The President’s view
-Connally's views
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Interest rates
-Burns’s views
-Liquidity
	-Banks
	-Corporations
-1960s
	-The President’s view
		-Capital investment
-Prospects for 1972
	-Recession
	-Recovery
-The President's program
-George Meany
-Possible action
	-Burns’s view
		-Possible speech by the President
			-Wage and price freeze
			-1972 election
			-Burns’s view
				-Business Council
		-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
		-Criticism
		-Profits
		-The President's statement to unknown steel worker
			-Detroit
-Meany
-Participation
-The President’s view

International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Leadership position
-Burns's conversations
	-Great Britain
	-Germany
	-France
-Pierre-Paul Schweitzer
	-Burns’s views

Alcoholic drinks
-The President
	-Public speaking
	-Political campaigns
	-State dinners
-Josip Broz Tito
-The President’s view
-Yugoslavia
-Burns's experience
-The President

IMF
-Leadership position
-Jelle Zijlstra
-Connally's dispute with Burns
-Burns's research
-Burns's previous conversation with Connally
					-Burns's credibility
				-Connally’s credibility
	-Connally's Views
	-Possible meeting with Connally
	-Conversations
	-Views on US economy
		-Rate of appreciation
		-Balance of payments
			-IMF
						-Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development [OECD]
	-Burns’s views
		-Paul A. Volcker

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 11:01 am.

[Unintelligible]

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

Connally
-Burns’s view

Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-Vacancies
-Andrew F. Brimmer
-President’s previous conversation with William P. Rogers
-Possible role with administration
	-United Nations [UN]
-Appointments
-Carl Thompson
-Burns’s view
-Biographical sketch
-The President’s view
	-Connally's views
		-Texas
-Requirements
-Unknown man from Atlanta
-Martin C. (“Marty”) Anderson
-Burns’s view
-Timing
-Burns's forthcoming conversation with Frederic V. Malek
-Burns's possible conversation with Connally

Burns's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Kissinger

Burns left at 11:30 am.

Conversation No. 607-12

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:30 am and 11:33 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Clifford M. Hardin

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:33 am.

Conversation No. 607-13

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:30 am and 11:33 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 13-26]

Conversation No. 607-14

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  11:33 am - 12:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with William D. Ruckelshaus, John D. Ehrlichman, and John C. Whitaker; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of this meeting.

	Greetings

The President's schedule
-Boy Scouts

The President talked with Glenn Davis between 11:34 am and 11:35 am.

[Conversation No. 607-14A]

[See Conversation No. 13-27]

[End of telephone conversation]

Certificates
	-High school

Ruckelshaus
-Duties
	-Indiana
	-Vance Hartke
		-The President’s view
	-Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
		-Ruckelhaus’s view
-The President’s view

Presentation of gifts by the President

Boy Scouts

Ruckelshaus left at 11:36 am.

Secretary of Agriculture
-Possible announcement
	-Timing
-Timing of Clifford M. Hardin's resignation
-Donald E. Johnson
-Possible views of Farm Bureau
-Frank Willoby
-Agribusiness
-Robert R. Spitzer
-Roger Fleming
-Clarence D. Palmby
	-The President’s view
-Earl L. Butz
-Johnson
-Palmby
-Farm Bureau
-Requirements
-Bryce N. Harlow
	-Ehrlichman’s view
-Confirmation
-Possible reaction by farmers

Hardin entered at 11:39 am.

-Hardin's resignation
-Successor
-Timing of announcement
	-Farm union
	-Farm Bureau
	-Charles M. Teague
-Jack R. Miller
-Hardin's forthcoming trip to Turkey

Food and Agriculture Organization [FAO]
-Forthcoming conference in Rome
	-Announcement of Hardin’s resignation
	-Hardin’s forthcoming trip to Turkey
-Previous conference
-International Labor Organization [ILO]
-George Meany

Grain sale to the Soviet Union
-Amount of sale
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Thomas W. (“Teddy”) Gleason
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.'s possible role
-James D. Hodgson
-George P. Shultz's comments
-Hodgson's views
	-National Security Council [NSC]
-Charles W. Colson's possible role
-Jesse M. Calhoon
-Price of corn
-Possible administration action
	-Great Britain
-Duluth
-Chicago
-Great Lakes
-The President’s instructions
	-Colson
	-Hodgson
	-Haig
-Continental Grain's statement
-Gleason
-Haig's possible conversation with Hodgson
-The President’s view
-Value
-Future
-US-Soviet relations
-Palmby
-Gleason
-Possible administration actions
	-Haig
	-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Hodgson
-Colson
	-“Hardhats”
	-Calhoun
-Embargoes
-Special grain price
	-Kansas City
-Shippers
	-Continental grain
-Previous grain sale to Soviet Union
	-1963
	-John F. Kennedy
	-Wheat
	-US bonds
	-Shipping
	-Use of Agriculture Department funds
-Seafarers' union
-Diversion of Continental Grain shipments
	-Rotterdam
	-Berlin

Secretary of Agriculture
-Hardin's successor
-J. Phil Campbell
-Hardin’s view
	-Political plans
		-Georgia
		-Fire ants
-Palmby
-Hardin’s view
-Campbell
	-Farm Bureau
-Richard E. Lyng
-Palmby
-Claude W. Gifford
-Hardin’s view
-Butz
-Hardin’s view
-Ezra Taft Benson
-Nebraska
-John A. Love
-Hardin’s views
-Robert C. Hill
-Hardin’s view
-The President’s view
-Johnson
-Hardin’s view
	-Iowa
	-Views of Farm Bureau
	-Veterans Administration [VA]
	-The President’s view
-Clayton K. Yeutter
-Hardin’s view
	-Background
	-Role at Department of Agriculture
-Palmby
-John N. Mitchell
	-Campaign
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Wife
-Hardin's wife
-South America
-Previous conversation with Hardin
-Farm Bureau
-William H. Rehnquist
-Background and experience
-Requirements
	-The President’s view
-Yeutter
-Whitaker’s previous conversation with Harlow
-Experience
	-The President’s view
	-Ehrlichman’s view
	-South America
	-Congress
-Roman L. Hruska
-Mitchell
-Relations with Norbert Tieman
-Potential
-Harlow
-Forthcoming meeting between Hardin and the President
-Palmby
-The President’s view
-Hardin's tenure in office
-Possible comments by White House and Hardin

Hardin's wife

Hardin, et al. left and Stephen B. Bull and Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 12:13 pm.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Boy Scouts
	-Photograph
	-Presentation of Silver Buffalo Award
	-White House tour

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:14 pm.

	Unknown photographer
		-Birth of daughter

Ziegler left at 12:14 pm.

William Harrison Fetridge, John W. Starr, Walter L. Lingle, Jr., Alden G. Barber, Tony Allen, Paul Grimes, Kevin Ivery, Dennis L. Spencer, Robert L. Avery, Robert Meek, Grant Soukup, Darry L. Bellard, Michael S. Jones, Kenneth Spann, Ehrlichman, William F. Rhatican, and Bull [?] entered; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of this meeting.

Introductions
	-Mount Vernon, Virginia
		-New York
-Washington, DC
-California
-Philadelphia
-Baltimore
	-Baltimore Orioles
	-Baltimore Colts

Arrangements for photograph

Presentation of Silver Buffalo award

Presentation of certificate by the President
	-Operation Reach
		-Lingle
	-Athletes' efforts against drug abuse
	-World Series
	-Football

Presentation of gifts by the President

Tour of the White House
-Mrs. [Michael J.?] Farrell

The President's schedule

Photographer's baby daughter
	-Associated Press [AP]
-Presentation of gifts by the President
-Photographer's wife

Fetridge, et al. left at 12:25 pm.

Conversation No. 607-15

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  12:25 pm - 12:27 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Marjorie (“Miss Wool”) Sharp
-Sherman P. Lloyd

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:27 pm.

Conversation No. 607-16

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  12:27 pm - 12:32 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Sherman P. Lloyd, Marjorie Sharp, [Forename unknown] McCormick, Edwin E. Marsh, and John E. Nidecker; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of this meeting.

Introductions

Marjorie Sharp
-University of Utah
-Mormon pioneers
-Grandfather

Presentation to the President of sheep skin
	-Camp David
		-Australia

Presentation of gifts by the President

White House tour

Sharp, et al. left at 12:32 pm.

Carroll Kilpatrick, Mary Jo Kilpatrick, Frank Kilpatrick, and Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 12:33 pm; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of this meeting.

University backgrounds
	-Medical School
		-University of Wisconsin
		-University of Vermont

Southern accents
-North Carolina
	-The President’s education at Duke University
-South Carolina

Presentation of gifts by the President

Medicine
	-Pediatrics
-General practice
	-The President’s view
	-Psychosomatic illness

Kilpatrick, et al. left at 12:35 pm.

Conversation No. 607-17

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:35 pm and 12:36 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with John R. Price, Jr.

Sheep skin

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:36 pm.

The President left at 12:36 pm.

Conversation No. 607-18

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  12:36 pm - 12:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

John D. Ehrlichman met with John R. Price, Jr.; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of this meeting.

Sheep skin

The President entered at an unknown time after 12:36 pm.

Arrangements for photographs

Gail Robinson
-The President’s view
-Experience

-"Lucia di Lammermoor"
-Franco Corelli

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  7m 36s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Domestic Council
-Policy formulation
-New towns/national growth policy

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[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  2m 36s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:36 pm.

The President's schedule
	-Forthcoming meeting with James D. (“Don”) Hughes

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:59 pm.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  5m 56s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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Price's experience as an Administration official

Presentation of gifts by the President

Price’s experience as an Administration official
	-Welfare reform
		-Camp David

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  1m 38s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4

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Terence Cardinal Cooke
-Al Smith dinner
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
-The President's schedule

Price and Ehrlichman left at 12:59 pm.

Conversation No. 607-19

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  12:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

[Unintelligible]

The President's schedule
-Executive Office Building [EOB]

Sanchez left at 12:59 pm.

Conversation No. 607-20

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  1:00 pm - 1:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with James D. (“Don”) Hughes and Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft.

Hughes's forthcoming assignment
	-Bergstrom Air Force Base
		-Austin, Texas
		-9th Air Force
		-University of Texas
	-Bette Hughes

Hughes's role on White House staff
	-The President’s view
		-Camp David

		-Cabinet officers
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Constance M. Stuart
-Lucy A. Winchester

Military aides
-John V. Brennan
-Vernon C. Coffey, Jr.
-Coast Guard
-Duties
	-Florida
	-California

Scowcroft’s domestic situation
	-Wife
	-Home
		-Bethesda, Maryland

Hughes's schedule
	-Timing of departure
	-Scowcroft’s promotion

The President's forthcoming trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Coffey
-Scowcroft
-Henry A. Kissinger

Scowcroft and Hughes left at 1:06 pm.

Conversation No. 607-21

Date:  October 29, 1971
Time:  1:06 pm - 1:28 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President's schedule
	-Forthcoming event
			-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Stephen B. Bull
-Boy Scouts
-The President’s view

Secretary of Agriculture
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Clayton K. Yeutter
	-Age
-Clifford M. Hardin's views

White House staff
-Age
	-The President’s view
	-Haldeman’s view
	-Ronald L. Ziegler
	-Dwight L. Chapin
	-Daniel Patrick Moynihan
	-Walt Disney organization
					-Haldeman's previous conversation with unknown man at Disney World
-Youth compared to age
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Possible conversation with William P. Rogers

Secretary of Agriculture
-Donald E. Johnson
-Bryce N. Harlow's views
	-Department of Agriculture staff
	-Farm organizations
-Harlow
-Hardin's views
-Clarence D. Palmby
-Harlow's views
-Harlow
-Qualifications
	-Haldeman’s view
	-John B. Connally
-Henry L. Bellmon

Arthur F. Burns
-Previous conversation with Haldeman
	-Forthcoming meeting with Frederic V. Malek

	The President
		-Possible vacation
			-Golf

United Nations [UN] vote to expel Taiwan

Israel
-Rogers
-Previous conversation with John N. Mitchell
-UN
	-Arab countries
	-New York

	Rogers
		-Forthcoming vacation
-The President’s previous meeting with Burns, Connally and George P. Shultz
-Haldeman’s view
	-Compared to Kissinger
	-John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
	-Charity event

[Unintelligible]

The President and Haldeman left at 1:28 pm.