Conversation No. 624-29/625-1

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:06 pm and 4:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John B. Connally, John D. Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz and Henry A. Kissinger.
[Continued from OVAL624/an unknown portion of the conversation was not recorded during the changing of reels]

House Resolution [HR] 1
-Senate action

Kissinger's schedule
	-Forthcoming meeting with Japanese Ambassador

India-Pakistan
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Pakistan Ambassador
-State Department
-Statement
-The President's instructions
-Assistant secretaries

1973 budget
-Department of Defense
	-Amount
-Military forces
-Barry M. Goldwater and John G. Tower
-Tactical aircraft
-Submarines
	-Weapons system
-Melvin R. Laird
-Forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
-David Packard
-Thomas H. Moorer
-Air defense
-National defense
	-Amounts

-Kissinger's possible meeting with conservatives
-Memorandum
-Laird
-Negotiations

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India-Pakistan
-Kissinger's possible action
-Edward M. Kennedy's statement in India
-US policy
-India
	-Loans
	-Henry Kearns

Laird
-Memorandum

Portugal
-United Nations [UN] action regarding Senegal
-William P. Rogers
-US position
-Previous UN vote on Taiwan
-President’s forthcoming meeting with Georges J.R. Pompidou in the Azores

Kissinger left at 4:17 pm.

Connally's previous press conference
-Tricia Nixon Cox's views

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Connally's schedule
-Forthcoming conversation with the President

International monetary situation
-Connally's forthcoming conversation with unknown person
-Gold
-The President's previous meeting with Arthur F. Burns and Connally

Connally left at 4:19 pm.

1973 budget
	-Arthur S. Flemming
	-Conversation with Ehrlichman
	-Performance in office
-Social Security
-Leonard Garment's views
-Medicaid prescriptions
-Amendment to HR 1
-Federal employees' pay
-Clark MacGregor's possible efforts
-Medicaid prescriptions
-Ehrlichman's forthcoming conversation with Flemming

Pending legislation
-Tax Bill
-Financing of presidential campaigns
-Ehrlichman's meeting with MacGregor and House Republicans
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Possible veto
-Lobbyists
-Effect
	-The President’s view
		-Democrats' motives
		-George C. Wallace
-William L. Springer's views
-William E. Brock, III's views
-Ehrlichman's forthcoming conversation with Charles W. Colson
-Businessmen
-The President's possible veto
-Possible congressional action
-Possible veto

State of the Union speech

Value Added Tax [VAT]
-Connally's views
-White House handling
-The President's possible efforts
-Possible poll

Pending legislation
-Tax Bill
-Shultz's forthcoming call to Brock
	-Colson
-Possible veto
-Connally

The President's schedule
-Departure
-Shultz

Ehrlichman and Shultz left at an unknown time before 4:35 pm.

Conversation No. 625-2

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:19 pm and 4:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Unknown people
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

The President talked with an unknown person [H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman?] at an unknown time between 4:19 pm and 4:35 pm.

[Conversation No. 625-2A]

The President's schedule
-Departure
-Press

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-John [Surname unintelligible]

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:35 pm.

Conversation No. 625-3

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:19 pm and 4:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man.

Bills to sign

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 4:35 pm.

Conversation No. 625-4

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:19 pm and 4:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

The President's schedule
-Departure

Conversation No. 625-5

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:19 pm and 4:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

The President's schedule

Conversation No. 625-6

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:19 pm and 4:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Call to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Departure time
-John D. Ehrlichman

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:35 pm.

Conversation No. 625-7

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  4:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 15-138]

Conversation No. 625-8

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  4:35 pm - 4:51 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.

The President's forthcoming State of the Union speech
-Medicaid prescriptions
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-Pension vesting
-Health care for aged
-Nursing homes
-Property taxes
-Wilbur D. Mills
-John B. Connally
-Possible study

The President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat’) Nixon between 4:37 pm and 4:38 pm.

[Conversation No. 625-8A]

[See Conversation No. 15-139; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

State of the Union speech
-Medicaid prescriptions
-Alternatives
-Russell B. Long
-Property taxes
-Medicare
-Mills
-Property taxes
-White House Conference on Aging
-Follow-up

White House conferences

1973 budget
-Environment
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Water projects
-Lake Superior
-Big Cypress Swamp
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-John C. Whitaker
-Pending legislation
-The President's position
-Press conference
-San Clemente
-Magazine editorial
-Grand Tetons
-The President's position

The President's schedule
-Roles of George P. Shultz, John B. Connally and Ehrlichman in the President's absence
-Paul W. McCracken
-Herbert Stein
-Connally
-Role

Value Added Tax [VAT]
-Ehrlichman's meeting with unknown man in McCracken's office

The President's schedule

Previous topics of discussion

The President and Ehrlichman left at 4:51 pm.

Conversation No. 625-9

Date:  November 24, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:51 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people met.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown people left at an unknown time before 11:59 pm.

Conversation No. 625-10

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  8:25 am - unknown before 8:38 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Earl L. Butz
-Confirmation
-Clark MacGregor

1973 budget
-Federal pay
-George P. Shultz

The President's schedule
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC] program
	-“A Day in the Life of the President”
		-The President’s view
		-Ronald L. Ziegler
		-Shultz, John D. Ehrlichman and Henry A. Kissinger
-Unknown man

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 8:38 am.

Conversation No. 625-11

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:25 am and 8:38 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-John N. Mitchell

Bull left at an unknown time before 8:38 am.

Conversation No. 625-12

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  8:38 am - 10:42 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John N. Mitchell, John D. Ehrlichman, Clark MacGregor and William E. Timmons.

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Pending legislation
-Tax Bill
-Forthcoming Senate-House conference
	-Wilbur D. Mills
-Revenue-sharing
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-John O. Pastore's amendment
-Tax check-off provision
-MacGregor's possible conversations
-Russell B. Long, Wallace F. Bennett, John W. Byrnes and Mills
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.’s amendment
	-Pastore
-Possible veto
	-Possible special session of Congress
-Financing political campaigns
-"Added Dollar" concept
-Treasury Department role
-Democrats
-Joseph W. Alsop's previous column
-Baker and Pastore amendments
-Effects
-Public hearings
-1966 congressional action
-Robert F Kennedy and Albert A. Gore, Sr.
-Possible effects
-Convention delegates
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr. and Clifford P. Case
-Pastore amendment
-Possible veto
-Byrnes's views
-William L. Springer’s views
-Possible effects
-The President's previous conversation with George E. Allen
-William Jennings Bryant/William McKinley campaign
-Harry S. Truman
-Campaign workers
-Jews and labor
-Democrats
		-Israel
		-Dwight D. Eisenhower's policy
		-John Foster Dulles
		-Gamal Abdel Nasser
-26th Amendment 
-Financing political campaigns
-Possible effects
-Blacks
-Intelligence
-George C. Wallace
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Democrats
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Wallace
-Possible veto
-William E. Brock, III's views
-Effects
-Public relations
-Possible leak
-Bennett and Byrnes
-Mills
-Byrnes
-Mills
-Byrnes
-Possible veto
-Everett M. Dirksen
-Possible veto
-Business
-Alan Cranston
-Possibilities in House
-William M. Colmer and Joe D. Waggonner, Jr.
-George H. Mahon
-MacGregor's previous conversation with administrative assistant
-Mills
	-The President’s view
-Unknown man
-Possible veto
-Special session
-Karl E. Mundt
-William Proxmire
-Byrnes
-Mahon
-Colmer
-Financing political campaigns
-Possible effects
-Democrats
-Possible presidential candidates
-The President's schedule
-Possible veto
-The President's schedule
-Possible veto
-Special session
-The President's economic policy
-Possible veto
-Special session
-Long and Mills
-The President's possible speech
-Possible letter
-John B. Connally

Aged
	-Social Security
-Inflation
-The President's constituency

Pending legislation
-Tax Bill
-Congress
-Financing political campaigns
-Democratic National Convention
-Phone company
-News report
-Congress
-Welfare reform
-The President's schedule
-Possible veto
-Pastore amendment
-The President's possible statement
-Conference Committee
-The President's possible statement
-Possible letter
-Senate conferees
-Mills, Long, Byrnes and John C. Stennis
-The President's possible letter
-Effect
-Content
-Conference Committee
-Possible instructions
	-Pastore Amendment
-Possible special session
-Possible veto
-Financing political campaigns
		-Israel
-Golda Meir’s possible visit to the US
	-US military assistance
		-American Jews
		-The President’s policy
		-The Presidential election
-State Department
-American Jews
-American Quakers
-The President's policy
		-1972 campaign
		-Democratic candidates
		-Financing
-Possible problems
-Effect
-Proliferation of parties
-Owing debts to supporters
-Democrats
-Labor councils
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Baker's views
-Responsibility to supporters
-Humphrey and Muskie
-Responsibility to supporters
-Arthur Summerfield's efforts
-Business community
-1964 and 1968 campaigns
-Barry M. Goldwater
-MacGregor's work
-Effect
-Puerto Rican experience
-Tax argument
-Tax evasion
-The President's possible statement
-People's Republic of China [PRC] announcement
-The President's possible letter to Congressmen
-Publicity
-Response
-The President’s views
-Ronald L. Ziegler's possible statement
-MacGregor's possible statement
-Congress's schedule
	-Connally’s view
-Possible special session
	-Timing
-The President's schedule
	-Bermuda
	-Azores
-Possible special session
-Conflict with the President
-Cabinet's possible action
-The President's economic program

National economy
-The President's program
-Proxmire's views
-Effectiveness
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Prediction by New York firm

Pending legislation
-Tax Bill
-Possible veto
-Businessmen
-Charles W. Colson, William L. Safire and Peter M. Flanigan
-MacGregor's conversation with William S. White
-Horace C. (“Chappie”) Rose
-Shultz

Los Angeles Times story on Vietnam
-Doves
-Robert B. Semple, Jr.
-Ziegler's statement

Pending legislation
-Domestic issues
-PRC trip announcement
-Tax Bill
-Financing political campaigns
-MacGregor's possible statement
-Creation of new jobs
-Congressional action
-Possible veto
-Mitchell's possible statement
	-Constitutionality
-The President’s possible statement
-Possible veto
-Mills's possible action
-Elliot L. Richardson's possible statements
	-Federal spending
		-Political campaigns
-MacGregor's possible statement
-Congress's schedule
-Effect
-Congressional action
-Effect
-Possible veto
-Purpose
-Effect of legislation
-Possible veto
-Mills
-Timing
-Stock market
-PRC trip announcement
-Stock market
-Southern Democrats' views
-Thomas G. Wicker's views
-William H. Rehnquist

The nation
-Politics
-The President's accomplishments
-Supreme Court

Pending legislation
-Tax Bill
-Timing of vote
-MacGregor's possible meeting
	-Mills
-Possible veto
-Effect
-Financing political campaigns
-Stewart J.O. Alsop's previous column
-Effect
	-The President’s view
-Welfare reform
-Government reorganization
-Revenue-sharing
-Tax Bill
-Financing political campaigns
-Legislative history
-Pressure on presidents
-"Bad" provisions of "good" bills
-Effect
-Newsmen's views
-Howard K. Smith
-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
-MacGregor's possible statement
-Robert F. Kennedy and Gore
-Effect of passage
-Effects
-Number of parties
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Wallace
-John F. Kennedy
-As national issue
-Ehrlichman's forthcoming conversation with Herbert G. Klein
-MacGregor's possible statement
-Congress's schedule
-House version
-Gerald R. Ford and Hugh Scott
-The President's schedule
-Financing political campaigns
-Ford's views
-Brock's views
-Previous conversation with the President
-As national issue
-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak
	-Finances of Republicans and Democrats
-Possible statements
-Robert J. Dole
-Samuel L. Devine
-John [Surname unintelligible]
-Waggonner, Mahon, and Olin E. (“Tiger”) Teague

Southern Democrats supporting the President's programs
-Republican opposition in 1972
-Mahon's conversation with MacGregor
-Michael J. Mansfield amendment
-Previous records
-Timmons's research

Earl L. Butz
-Confirmation
-Robert C. Byrd
-Alternatives
-Clarence D. Palmby
-John H. Kyl
-Farm organizations
-Views of Bryce N. Harlow and John C. Whitaker 
-Selection
-The President's meeting with Carl T. Curtis
-MacGregor's knowledge
-Views of Dole, Jack R. Miller and Curtis
-Confirmation
-MacGregor's efforts
-George D. Aiken's suggestions
-Butz's association with related organizations
	-4-H
-MacGregor's conversation with Herman E. Talmadge
-Miller's views
-Ezra Taft Benson and Orville L. Freeman
-Possible actions in office
-Confirmation
-Constituents' letters to James B. Pearson
-Whitaker's possible efforts
-American Farm Bureau
-Performance
-Clifford M. Hardin’s view
-Alternatives
-Palmby
-Possible withdrawal of nomination
-Confirmation
-Effect on Rehnquist and Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
-Paul J. Fannin's views
-Effect on Rehnquist
-Administration's efforts
-Possible withdrawal of nomination
-Aiken's conversations with MacGregor
-Miller
-Pearson
-MacGregor's conversations
-Timmons and Thomas C. Korologos
-Mitchell
-Possible withdrawal of nomination
-Administration's efforts
-MacGregor's conversation with Miller
-Walter J. Hickel

MacGregor's schedule

Mitchell, et al., left at 10:42 am.

Conversation No. 625-13

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  10:45 am
Location:  Oval Office
The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 15-140]

Conversation No. 625-14

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  10:45 am - 11:02 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

John B. Connally
-Call to Kissinger
-The President's schedule
-Foreign visits and visitors
	-Group of Ten meeting
-1972 election
The President talked with Clark MacGregor at an unknown time between 10:45 am and 10:58 am.

[Conversation No. 625-14A]

[See Conversation No. 15-141]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Foreign visits and visitors

-1972 election
-Peru
-Mexico
-Italy
	-Aldo Moro
	-Connally's call to Kissinger
		-Previous United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan
-Pierre E. Trudeau
-Timing
-Arrangements
-Japan
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Soviet Union
-Italy
-Canada
-Italy
	-Timing
	-White House stag dinner

India-Pakistan
-Indira Gandhi's conversation with Kenneth B. Keating
	-Indian policy
-US policy
-Economic aid
-Washington Special Action Group [WSAG]
	-Military aid
-Kissinger’s background briefing
-US aid
-Indian policy
	-Soviet Union
	-PRC
-US aid
-State Department

Prime Minister Wasfi Tell of Jordan
-Assassination

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Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 10:58 am.

Ziegler's conversation with John D. Ehrlichman

Ziegler's briefing
-Timing
-The President's schedule

Ziegler left at 10:59 am.

Kissinger's forthcoming call to Connally

The President's schedule
-Previous meeting with Connally, Arthur F. Burns and Kissinger
-News story
-Connally's conversation with Kissinger
-Burns
-Leak

Connally
-Forthcoming call from Kissinger
-The President's schedule
-State Department

Kissinger left at 11:02 am.

Conversation No. 625-15

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:02 am and 11:11 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 15-142]

Conversation No. 625-16

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 11:02 am until 11:13 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

[Conversation No. 625-16A]

[See Conversation No. 15-143]

Conversation No. 625-17

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:13 am and 11:14 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 15-144]

Conversation No. 625-18

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  11:14 am - 11:16 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with John N. Mitchell.

[See Conversation No. 15-145; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 625-19

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  11:20 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 15-146]

Conversation No. 625-20

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  11:20 am - unknown before 11:49 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

The President's schedule
-William Thacher Longstreth

-Possible call from the President
-Invitations to White House

The President dictated a letter to Longstreth at an unknown time between 11:20 am and 11:25 am.

Letter to Longstreth
-Betty [Surname unknown]
-Previous mayoral election in Philadelphia
-The President's previous experience

[End of dictation]

Forthcoming White House dinner
-Unknown man
-John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy

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White House dinner
	-Unknown man

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Woods's schedule
	-The President’s foreign travel

The White House operator[?] talked with the President at an unknown time between 11:20 am and 11:25 am.

[Conversation No. 625-20A]

[Unintelligible]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule

The President talked with Clark MacGregor between 11:25 am and 11:26 am.

[Conversation No. 625-20B]

[See Conversation No. 15-148]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Woods

The President talked with John J. Rooney between 11:27 am and 11:28 am.

[Conversation No. 625-20C]

[See Conversation No. 15-149]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Woods
-Henry A. Kissinger
-California
-The President's conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Secretaries
-Stephen B. Bull
-James D. (“Don”) Hughes
-Staff
-Unknown woman
-Presidential travel
-Staff
-Size

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Pending legislation
-Tax Bill
-Possible veto
-MacGregor

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Woods left at an unknown time before 11:49 am.

Conversation No. 625-21

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:28 am and 11:49 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 15-150]

Conversation No. 625-22

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  11:49 am - 11:51 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Richard G. Shoup.

[See Conversation No. 15-151]

Conversation No. 625-23

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:51 am and 11:53 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 15-152]

Conversation No. 625-24

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  11:53 am - 12:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[Conversation No. 625-24A]

[See Conversation No. 15-153]

Clark MacGregor and Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 12:03 pm.

Greetings

[End of telephone conversation]

Pending legislation
-Tax Bill
-MacGregor's forthcoming statement
	-Financing of political campaigns
-Content and Phraseology

-Effect of public financing of political campaigns
-Constitutional amendment
-The President, John F. Kennedy and Harry S. Truman
-Congress's schedule
-National economy
-Jobs
-Inflation
-Financing of political campaigns
-The President's schedule
-Return from California
-Possible veto
-Effect
-The President's previous conversation with William E. Timmons

MacGregor and Ziegler left at 12:17 pm.

Conversation No. 625-25

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  12:25 pm - 12:34 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President's schedule
-Trips
-Staff
	-Size

San Clemente
-Office space

West Wing of White House
-Office space
	-Reception area
-Alexander P. Butterfield, Dwight L. Chapin and Stephen B. Bull
-Lyndon B. Johnson

-Renovation
-Expense
-General Services Administration [GSA]

-The President’s schedule
	-Trips
		-Staff
		-Limitations

West Wing of White House
-GSA design
-Johnson
-Changes in design
-Waiting room
-Shelly A. (Scarney) Buchanan
-John B. Connally example
-Cabinet Room and Roosevelt Room
-Location of secretaries
-Bull
-Waiting room
-Connally example
-Roosevelt Room
-Roosevelt Room
-Cabinet Room
-Table
-Map Room
-Use
-Cabinet Room
-Use
-Roosevelt Room
-Secretaries
-Bull
-Secretaries
-Chapin
-Bull
-Location

The President and Haldeman left at 12:34 pm.

Conversation No. 625-26

Date:  November 29, 1971
Time:  12:52 pm - unknown before 1:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

[Unintelligible]

White House staff
-Harry S. Dent
-Raymond K. Price, Jr. and Patrick J. Buchanan
-Leonard Garment
-Organization
-The President's schedule
-John D. Ehrlichman and John C. Whitaker
-Buchanan
-Television
-Frederic V. Malek
-Possible call from Haldeman
-Price

Public relations
-Press conference
-Forthcoming National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC] television show
-Foreign visits and visitors
	-The President’s forthcoming trips
		-Azores
		-Bermuda
		-Key Biscayne
		-San Clemente
-John B. Connally’s call
-Italy
	-Scope
-Haldeman's conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-Publicity

-Connally
	-Forthcoming Group of Ten meeting
-Foreign policy focus
-Phase II boards
-Press

1973 budget
-Aged
	-Political consideration
		-Environmental and youth groups
-Medicaid prescriptions
-Drug manufacturers
-Business discounts

White House conferences and commissions
-Future plans

White House staff
-Foreign travel
-Maurice H. Stans
-1972 campaign
-Foreign travel
-Stans
-John A. Volpe
-Stans
-Robert H. Finch
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Micronesia
	-The President’s view
	-Haldeman’s view
	-Kissinger
-Staff

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The President's schedule
-National 4-H Congress in Chicago
-Universities
-Foreign visits and visitors
-Forthcoming trip to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Brazil
-Kissinger
	-Press

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[Duration:  47s  ]

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The President left at an unknown time before 1:11 pm.

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:52 pm.

[Unintelligible]

The President entered at an unknown time after 12:52 pm.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  13s  ]

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The President's schedule
-Clark MacGregor and Ronald L. Ziegler
-Ziegler's press briefing

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:11 pm.

-Earl L. Butz swearing-in ceremony [?]
	-Thursday

News Story
-Los Angeles Times
		-John N. Mitchell
	-Views regarding Jews

The President's schedule
-Golda Meir
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-National 4-H Congress

Ronald L. Ziegler and Clark MacGregor entered at 1:11 pm.

Pending legislation
-Tax Bill
-Financing political campaigns
-MacGregor's statement
-Possible veto
-Robert F. Kennedy and Albert A. Gore, Sr.
-Possible veto
-Possible special session of Congress
-Russell B. Long's views
-Child care deduction
-Financing political campaigns
-William E. Timmons
-Joe D. Waggonner, Jr.
-Possible meeting with Charls E. Walker
-Possible meeting with Walker
-Financing political campaigns
-Television time
	-Provision 315
-George C. Wallace
	-Blacks
-Previous Washington Post editorial
-Effect
	-The President’s view
		-Labor unions
-Television time
	-The President’s view
-Networks' views
-John B. Anderson
-Effect on stock market

Ziegler and MacGregor left at 1:24 pm.

MacGregor
-Value of work

The President's schedule
-Press conference
-Lewis
-Trip to Chicago
-Lewis
-1973 budget
-Caspar W. Weinberger and George P. Shultz

Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:24 pm.

-Unknown man
-Meeting with the President

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:35 pm.

-1973 budget
-Press conference
	-Timing
		-Azores

Pending legislation
-Tax Bill

-MacGregor's statement
-Possible veto

The President's schedule
-Foreign trip
-Florida
-New York
-Return from foreign trip

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 1:35 pm.