Conversation No. 676-1

Date:  March 1, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:12 am and 8:32 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Henry A. Kissinger’s schedule
-Request for contact

Bull left at an unknown time before 8:32 am.

Conversation No. 676-2

Date:  March 1, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:12 am and 8:32 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Henry A. Kissinger’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Barry M. Goldwater

Bull left at an unknown time before 8:32 am.

Conversation No. 676-3

Date:  March 1, 1972
Time:  8:32 am - 8:33 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s schedule

Butterfield left at 8:33 am.

Conversation No. 676-4

Date:  March 1, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:33 am and 8:40 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule
	-Possible appointment with the White House barber
		-The Carlton Hotel [?]

Bull left at an unknown time before 8:40 am.

Conversation No. 676-5

Date:  March 1, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:33 am and 8:40 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule
-Possible appointment with the White House barber
	-The Carlton Hotel [?]

Bull left at an unknown time before 8: 40 am.

Conversation No. 676-6

Date:  March 1, 1972
Time:  8:40 am - 8:43 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President’s schedule
-Possible trip to West Virginia
	-Flooding
-Forthcoming trip to Florida
-Possible trip to West Virginia
	-Darrell M. Trent
	-Gen. George A. Lincoln
-Robert C. Byrd
-Possible brief remarks by the President

Butterfield left at 8:43 am.

Conversation No. 676-7

Date:  March 1, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:43 am and 8:50 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President’s schedule
	[Appointment with the White House barber]

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 8:50 am.

Conversation No. 676-8

Date:  March 1, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:43 am and 8:50 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 20-134]

Conversation No. 676-9

Date:  March 1, 1972
Time:  8:50 am - 9:08 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 20-135; two items have been withdrawn from this conversation]

Conversation No. 676-10

Date:  March 1, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:08 am and 9:10 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule
-Appointment with the White House barber

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:10 am.

Conversation No. 676-11

Date:  March 1, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:08 am and 9:10 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with John B. Connally
-Time

The President and Bull left at an unknown time before 9:10 am.

Conversation No. 676-12

Date:  March 1, 1972
Time:  9:23 am - 9:50 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John B. Connally.

Connally’s schedule
-Testimony
-House Banking and Currency Committee
-Price of gold
-Wright Patman

-Henry S. Reuss

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National economy
-Gold
-Interest rates
-Money supply
	-M1

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 9:24 am.

Barry M. Goldwater

Backgrounder
-Time of completion

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Time

Kissinger left and Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 9:25 am.

The President’s schedule
-Possible trip to West Virginia
-Charleston
-Flood area
-Robert C. Byrd
-Gen. George A. Lincoln
-Byrd
-Charleston
-Flood area
-Viewing
-Helicopter
	-Lorado, West Virginia

Butterfield left at 9:30 am.

National economy
-Money supply
	-M1
	-M2
-Indicators examined
	-Compared to October 1968
			-Administration’s reactions
	-Connally’s view of public mood
		-Washington Post
		-Meat prices
			-Cost of living
			-Press coverage
				-Pay Board
				-Price Commission
			-Charles W. Colson
				-Previous memoranda to Connally
							-Connally’s possible meeting with supermarket executives
						-Meat prices
				-Polls
				-Louis P. Harris
		-The President’s view
		-Enactment of wage and price controls in August 1971
-Press coverage
-Washington Post, Washington Star
-Administration attitude
	-Treasury Department
	-Federal Reserve Board
	-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]

Connally’s previous meeting with Thomas G. Corcoran
-The People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Political situation
-Labor
-Coalition government
-Mood of the US
-Administration role
	-November 1972

National economy
	-Pay Board
	-Price Commission
-Wage and price increases
-Food prices
-January index
-Television media coverage
-Meat import prices
-Unemployment
-Job security
-Administration’s role
-Foreign competition
-Employment
	-Inflation

-Arthur F. Burns
-Schedule
-Convertibility
-American people’s views
-Aid To foreign countries
-Great Britain
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]

Issues in the US
-Busing
-Racial problem
-Effect on election
-Florida primary
-Texas
	Dallas
	Houston
-North and South
-Job security
-Job maintenance
-Foreign competition
	-Labor
-Confidence
-In administration
-General economic condition
		-Cost of living
		-Connally’s view

Life cycles
-People
-Women
-Men
-Nature
	-Spring
-Winter

Labor
-Possible settlement with longshoremen
-Pay Board
-Strike possibilities

National economy
	-Stock market
	-Indicators
	-Machine tool orders
		-Investment tax
	-Automobile sales
		-Compared to last year

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	Congress
		-Leadership
	-House of Representatives
	-Ways and Means Committee
		-Wilbur D. Mills
					-John W. Byrnes, Jackson E. Betts, Carl B. Albert, Michael J. Mansfield, Hugh Scott, Gerald R. Ford

	National economy

	Connally’s forthcoming testimony

Connally left at 9:50 am.

Conversation No. 676-13

Date:  March 1, 1972
Time:  9:50 am - unknown before 9:57 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President’s schedule
-Possible trip to West Virginia
	-Charleston
-Flood inspection
	-Construction workers
	-National Guardsmen
-Man, West Virginia
	-Refugees
-Robert C. Byrd
	-Busing
-Butterfield’s recommendations
-Time involved

-Gov. [Arch A. Moore, Jr.]
	-Charleston
-Helicopter
-Flood damage
-Lorado, West Virginia
-Man, West Virginia
-Gen. George A. Lincoln
	-Regional office of the Office of Emergency Preparedness
-Damage to dam
-State responsibility
-Company responsibility
		The President’s concern
			-Byrd
			-Forthcoming call to Moore
-Key Biscayne
-Charles G. ("Bebe”) Rebozo
	-The President’s arrival

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 9:57 am.

Conversation No. 676-14

Date:  March 1, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:50 am and 9:57 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:57 am.

Conversation No. 676-15

Date:  March 1, 1972
Time:  9:57 am - 11:19 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with John B. Connally
-Testimony
-Request for Ronald L. Ziegler

	Bull left at an unknown time before 10:00am.

		-Haldeman’s schedule
-West Virginia flood damage
	-Lack of landing space
		-Compared to Mississippi
-Robert C. Byrd
-Forthcoming call from Haldeman or Clark MacGregor
-Decision
	-Helicopter

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An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:57 am.

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:00 am.

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Ziegler entered at 10:00 am.

The staff’s forthcoming trip to Florida
	-Ziegler’s participation
-Orlando
	-Disneyworld
-Arrangements
-Schedule
-Participants
-Henry A. Kissinger’s, staff
-Winston Lord
-Jonathan T. Howe
					-Ziegler’s staff
-Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-John A. Scali
	-Key Biscayne
-Buchanan
-Rose Mary Woods
-Entertainment
-The President’s possible trip to Disneyworld
-Patriotic theme
	-Hall of Presidents
	-Liberty Square
-Previous visits by Haldeman and Ziegler
-Activities available
	-Compared to Disneyland
						-Lake
							-Beach
							-Surfing
							-Water skiing
						-Horseback riding trails
						-Sailing
	-Florida primary
	-Effect on trip

Ziegler’s press schedule
-Briefings
	-Ziegler’s afternoon briefings
	-The People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip; Soviet trip
	-Gerald L. Warren’s morning briefing
		-Postings
-Kissinger’s backgrounder
	-[Forename unknown] Dudlin, James A. Michener and Robert [?] Boyd
	-Television network
	-Broadcast journalists
	-Wire services
-Leaders of Congress
-Bipartisan leadership
-Possible PRC trip
	-Hugh Scott
	-Michael J. Mansfield
	-Chou En-lai
	-Washington Post
				-US- PRC exchange
				-Taiwan, Republic of China
				-Ping Pong players
				-Ballet dancers
				-Taiwan
					-Walter H. Judd
					-United Nations [UN] vote to expel Taiwan
				-US commitments
				-Congressional leader’s reactions
					-The Presidents previous meeting with Congressional leadership
			-John C. Stennis

	PRC trip
-Effect of return from the PRC on participants
	-Press

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-Press members reactions
-Awareness of significance
	-News summaries
	-Public reaction
	-State dinners

-Kissinger’s schedule
	-Forthcoming backgrounder

Ziegler left at 10:12 am.

Ziegler
-The PRC trip
-Work during the trip
	-The President’s view
	-Haldeman’s view
		-Hugh S. Sidney

PRC
-Sidey’s article
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Press exposure
-View of the PRC
-Possible trip to the PRC
	-The President’s view
	-Press interest
		-Compared to second dinner
		-Compared to second moon landing
-Scott and Mansfield
-Trips to the PRC
-Public interest
-The President’s status as first official visitor
-Kissinger’s efforts
-Candidates possible trips
-Press coverage
-Reception by the PRC
		-Publications
			-Polling
				-Haldeman’s efforts
				-John N. Mitchell
	-Press reaction to the People’s Republic of China trip
	-Monday
	-Layout suggestions
	-Pictorial coverage
	-Homecoming of the President
-Thank you letters for the PRC trip
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Kennedy
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

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	Presidential gifts to government officials
	-Gifts to the Cabinet
		-Boxes
	-Gifts to the Congressional leadership
		-Teacups

	The President’s recent meeting with Connally
		-Pay Board, Price Commission

Congress
-Leadership
-Connally
	-Senate
	-Ways and Means Committee
-Testimony by Cabinet officers
-Haldeman

William P. Rogers
-Flag pin
	-Cambodia
		-The President’s previous meeting with the Cabinet
-Previous telephone call to the President
-Call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-The President’s schedule
-Time of call
-Timing of the President’s return call
	-The President’s forthcoming trip to Florida
		-Rogers’s possible participation
		-Announcement
			-Ziegler
			-Haig
-PRC
	-Compared to Taiwan
-Rogers’s travels abroad
	-Soviet Union
	-Yugoslavia
		-The President’s previous trip to Yugoslavia
		-Romania
		-Yugoslavian security
-The President’s possible telephone call
-Rogers’s comments
	-The President’s view
		-Ziegler

	The President’s forthcoming meeting with Haig

The President’s Florida trip

Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:12 am.

Meeting with Haig

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:14 am.

	Florida
		-Weather
			-Camp David

The PRC trip
-Homecoming
	-Television
		-Akron
		-Columbus

Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:12 am.

Haig’s location
	-Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:14 am.

	The PRC trip
-Possible support to country
	-Ziegler
	-Openness with the PRC
		-Shanghai Communiqué
	-America’s reaction

	Press conference
		-Television exposure
			-Busing
			-New Hampshire
			-Economy
			-Unemployment
		-Timing
			-PRC trip
			-New Hampshire primary
				-Haldeman’s view
			-Florida primary
	-Forthcoming messages to Congress
	-Special Message to the Congress on Health Care, March 2
				-Urban message
				-Special Message to the Congress on Older Americans, March 23
	-Special Message to the Congress on Science and Technology, March 16
	-Law Enforcement Assistance Administration [LEAA] message
	-Special Message to the Congress on Equal Educational Opportunities and Scholl Busing, March17
	-Special Message to the Congress on Welfare Reform, March 27

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The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Reactions
	-Staff
	-Cabinet
-Congress
-Buchanan
-Taiwan

	Buchanan
		-Shanghai communiqué
		-Participation in PRC trip
			-The President’s view
-William F. Buckley Jr.
		-Haldeman’s view
			-Purchases by Buchanan and Buckley
			-Buchanan’s photograph
-Chinese ballet
	-The President’s view
		-Compared to Soviet ballet
			-Swan Lake
-Chinese and Soviets
-Compared by Buchanan
		-Shanghai communiqué
-Taiwan
-Buchanan’s previous conversation with Kissinger
	-Communism
		-Kissinger
			-Ronald W. Reagan
			-Barry M. Goldwater
		-Efforts
			-Haldeman’s forthcoming call to Buchanan
				-Florida
		-Speechwriters
-William L. Safire and Price
-Participation in the President’s forthcoming Soviet trip
-Travel accommodations
	-Number of planes
		-Shanghai Communiqué
			-The Presidents view
				-Conservative constituency
			-Buckley

	Republican views
		-Kissinger’s briefing
-John G. Tower
-Wallace F. Bennett
-James L. Buckley
-Gordon Allott

Kissinger’s schedule
-Florida
-Possible meeting with James Buckley

The PRC trip
-Rogers
-Recent talk with Haig
	-Haig compared to Kissinger
-Taiwan
-Opinion of Chinese society
-Transportation
-Korean War
-Population
-Communism
	-Example of Haldeman’s interpreter
		-Mao Tse-tung
-Classes
-Leaders
	-Compared to American society
		-Discipline
-Improvements since revolution
-Concept of freedom
-Mao Tse-tung’s programs
	-Inspiration for the masses
		-Spiritual
		-Intellectual
	-Compared to the early Catholic Church
-Rogers’s use of background material
-Kissinger’s view
	-Long March
	-Children

	-Shanghai
	-Physical fitness

Buchanan
-Future talk with Haldeman
	-Haldeman’s view
-The President’s view
	-Buchanan’s possible resignation

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The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Herbert G. Klein
-Desire to travel on the President’s plane
-Work done on plane
	-Haldeman’s staff
		-Logistics
	-Kissinger’s staff
		-Substance

Buchanan
-Shanghai communiqué
-Ziegler
	-Ziegler’s view

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming trip to Florida
-White House staff
-Relaxation
-John D. Ehrlichman
	-Staff meeting
-Camp David
-Connally
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Cabinet members
-Staff accommodations
	-George P. Shultz’s stay in Florida
	-Forthcoming staff visit to Disneyworld
-Allin’s schedule
-Maimi
-Fort Myers
-Work on news summaries
	-Haldeman’s view
	-Trip to Florida
		-Fort Myers
-Kissinger’s staff
-Kissinger
-Per diem for staff members and their families at Disneyworld
-Sandy Quinn
-Background
-Press relations for the President, 1962
-Klein
-Reagan

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					-Walt Disney

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White House gifts from the President’s trip to the PRC
-Possible telephone call to Rose Mary Woods
-The President’s brothers
	-Tea sets
	-Rose Mary Woods
		-Candy for staff
			-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Marjorie P. Acker entered at an unknown time after 10:12 am.

-Acker’s possible telephone calls to the President’s and Mrs. Nixon’s brothers
-The President’s brothers
-Ryan families
-Bender family
-Ryans
-F. Donald Nixon
-Edward C. Nixon
-Wives
-Postcards from the President
-Tea sets
-Children
	-Elephants
	-Dolls
	-Scrolls
-Clara Jane Nixon
-Ed Nixon
-Ryan families
-Ed Nixon
-Mitchell

Acker left at an unknown time before 11:14 am.

Rose Mary Woods
-Schedule
	-The President’s view

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The PRC trip
-Eating and sleeping habits
-The President 
-Haldeman
-The President’s view
-Haldeman’s view
	-Key Biscayne
		-Sleep
-The President’s view
	-Kissinger
-Haldeman’s view

Butterfield entered at 11:14 am.

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming briefing
	-Warren
	-Announcement
	-The President’s forthcoming trip to Florida
	-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
	-Ehrlichman
	-Domestic Council
	-Busing
	-Kissinger
	-Mrs. Nixon
	-Connally [?]
	-California

Butterfield left at 11:17 am.

Haldeman’s forthcoming call to Buchanan
-Florida trip
	-Staff plane
		-Haldeman’s view
		-Orlando
		-Miami

Haldeman left at 11:19 am.

Conversation No. 676-16

Date:  March 1, 1972
Time:  11:19 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 20-136]

Conversation No. 676-17

Date:  March 1, 1972
Time:  11:22 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 20-137]

Conversation No. 676-18

Date:  March 1, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:22 am and 11:26 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with George P. Shultz

Bull left and Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:22 am..

Florida trip
-Transportation
	-Dogs
-Sanchez

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:26 am.

Conversation No. 676-19

Date:  March 1, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:22 am and 11:26 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

	The President’s schedule
		-The President’s forthcoming meeting with George P. Shultz

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:26 am.

Conversation No. 676-20

Date:  March 1, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:22 am and 11:26 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President’s schedule

Alexander P. Butterfield left at an unknown time before 11:26 am.

Conversation No. 676-21

Date:  March 1, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:22 am and 11:26 am
Location:  Oval Office

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 20-138]

Conversation No. 676-22

Date:  March 1, 1972
Time:  11:26 am - 12:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with George P. Shultz.

The President’s schedule

Shultz’s previous trip to Key Biscayne
-Ezra and Janet Solomon
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo

John B. Connally’s testimony

The President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon between 11:27 am and 11:29 am.

[Conversation No. 676-22A]

[See Conversation No. 20-139; one item has been withdrawn]

[End of telephone conversation]

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:29 am.

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Bull left at an unknown time before 11:31 am.

The People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Shultz’s view
	-Mrs. Nixon
-Today show
	-Barbara Walters
	-Herbert E. Kaplow
-Public reaction
	-Taiwan, Republic of China
		-Ezra Solomon’s view

Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:29 am.

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Bull left at an unknown time before 11:31 am.

-Taiwan
-World reaction
	-United Nations [UN] vote
		-The President’s view

The President talked with Ronald H. Walker between 11:31 am and 11:32 am.

[Conversation No. 676-22B]

[See Conversation No. 20-140]

[End of telephone conversation]

The PRC trip
-Taiwan
-US military presence
	-Vietnam War
-Shultz’s and John D. Ehrlichman’s previous trip to Hong Kong
	-Briefings
		-Counsel General

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	INTELLIGENCE

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Current issues
-Foreign aid bill vote
-Continuing resolution
-Signing
-Radio Free Europe
-Private funding
-Allen J. Ellender
-J. William Fulbright
-Forthcoming memorandum
-Funding
-Textile trade agreement
-Possible executive order
-Fundraising meeting
-Maurice H. Stans
	-Possible signing
		-Timing
			-Florida
-School legislation
-Ehrlichman, Edward L. Morgan, John N. Mitchell, Shultz, Elliot L. Richardson

The PRC trip
-The President’s meeting with Mao Tse-tung
-The President’s meeting with Chou En-lai
-The President’s view
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Willy Brandt
-Public perception
-The President
-Edmund S. Muskie comparison
	-New Hampshire
-Candidates
-Press
-Conduct
-Mrs. Nixon
-Press
	-Great Wall
-Muskie comparison
-New Hampshire
-Hubert H. Humphrey comparison
	-Florida
		-Naples

	Busing
		-Ehrlichman
			-Mitchell

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Richard G. Kleindienst confirmation hearings
	-Anti-trust case relationship

Social Security
-Increases in benefits
-Wilbur D. Mills
-The President’s position
-Connally, Richardson, Herbert Stein and Shultz
-Debt ceiling testimony
-Connally and Shultz
-Mills’s actions
-Humphrey’s stand
-Shultz’s view
-House Resolution [HR 1]
	-Increase of taxes
		-1976
	-Increase of fund outflow
-Raise in benefits
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]

Labor relations
	-Wage and price issue
	-Forthcoming meeting of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Stein, Connally and Shultz
-Possible strikes
	-Longshoremen
-Administration program
-Postal strike
-Use of troops
			-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
	-Reaction to troops
	-George Meany
-White House relationship with labor
-International Brotherhood of Teamsters
-Number of strikes in the US
	-Economic impact
-President’s previous meeting with construction representatives
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Meany

Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:32 am.

Henry A. Kissinger’s schedule
-The President’s schedule
	-Departure time for Florida

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:05 pm.

Connally
-Meeting with the President
-Testimony
-Arthur F. Burns
-Convertibility
-The President’s view

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Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:32 am.

Kissinger’s schedule
	-Departure time for forthcoming trip to Florida

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:05 pm.

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[Duration:  1m 4s  ]

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Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:32 am.

The President’s schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:05 pm.

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	Labor relations
-Businessmen
-Labor 
-James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa
-Meany
	-The President’s view
-Meany
	-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Talk with Shultz
	-Invitation to breakfast
		-Timing
	-Vietnam
		-Statements
			-News summary
-Event in Augusta, Georgia
	-Mitchell, Shultz, Meany, and [Forename] O’Connell
-The President’s forthcoming meeting with Meany
		-Haldeman
-PRC
-Taiwan
	-Shultz’s previous budget briefing
-Board of Communications Satellite Corporation [COMSAT]
-Meany’s acquaintance on the board
-PRC
-Kissinger’s possible meeting with Meany
-Republican right wing

Kissinger’s previous meetings
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Ronald W. Reagan
-William F. Buckley, Jr. [?]

National economy
-Money supply
	-Connally
-Indicators
-Unemployment figures
	-Shultz’s view
-Retail sales
-Compared to previous year
-Money supply
-Seasonal factors
-Psychological factors
	-Laos

Kissinger entered at 12:05 pm

Foreign aid bill

Florida
-Kissinger’s possible trip

The PRC trip

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-The President
-Muskie comparison
	-New Hampshire

Shultz left at 12:08 pm

Kissinger’s press conference
-Frank [Surname unknown]
-Stanley Karnow
	-Shanghai
-Taiwan
	-Cabinet
	-Withdrawal of US forces
-The PRC trip
-Questions and answers
-John A. Scali and Ronald L. Ziegler
-Background
-Chou En-lai
-Taiwan
-Washington Post editorial
	-Kasnow
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s meeting with William P. Rogers
-Rogers’s previous telephone call to the President

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 12:09 pm.

		-Kissinger’s previous meeting with Goldwater
	-Shanghai communiqué
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with James L. Buckley
-The President’s instructions to call Lyndon B. Johnson

Butterfield left and Haldeman entered at 12:10 pm.

-Scali’s view
-Talk with Haldeman
-The President’s work during the PRC trip
	-Corrections to draft communiqué
	-Chou En-lai
-Johnson
-Kissinger’s possible call to Meany
	-The President’s forthcoming breakfast with Meany

Haldeman left at 12:12 pm.

PRC trip
	-House of Representatives
	-Committee invitation
		-Kissinger testimony
	-The President’s view
		-Kissinger’s possible informal meeting at Blair House
			-Foreign Relations Committee
			-Notes
	-Marvin L. Kalb
	-Goldwater
	-Blair House
	-Kalb
		-Offer of prime time
-Haig
	-Rogers
	-State Department
	-Taiwan
-Rogers
	-Recent comments
	-State Department
	-James B. Reston column
		-View of the President

Kissinger’s schedule
	-Forthcoming trip to Florida

The President and Kissinger left at 12:17 pm.