Conversation No. 48-1

Date:  February 23, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:16 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Cabinet Room

The President met with Dr. Edward E. David, Jr., Dr. John D. Baldeschwieler, David Z. Beckler, Dr. Ivan L. Bennett, Jr., Dr. Detlev W. Bronk, Dr. Solomon J. Buchsbaum, Dr. Theodore L. Cairns, Dr. Lee A. DuBridge, Dr. Val L. Fitch, Dr. Herbert Friedman, Dr. Richard L. Garwin, Dr. Murray Gell-Mann, Patrick E. Haggerty, Philip Handler, Dr. Hubert Heffner, Dr. Donald F. Hornig, Kenneth Harry Olsen, Dr. Herbert A. Simon, Dr. Lloyd H. Smith, Jr., Dr. Gerald F. Tape, Dr. Harland G. Wood, Dr. John Truxal, and Frank R. Pagnotta
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

	Search for cure for cancer
		-National Cancer Authority
			-Approaches
			-Goals
			-Public support
		-Commitment of $100,000,000
			-Public support
		-Statistics of death from cancer
		-Economic cost of death from cancer
		-Cost of fighting cancer
		-National Institutes of Health [NIH] responsibility
		-Scientific disciplines related to cancer research
		-Precedential value of separate agency
			-Cardiovascular disease
			-Treatment of cancer compared to treatment of other diseases
		-Prospects for success
		-NIH
			-Leadership
			-Public fears
		-Need for individual as a symbol
		-Size of federal appropriation
			-Public relations

	Environment
		-Clean energy

	Future shock
		-New technology
			-Effect of introduction
		-Cloud seeding of hurricanes
			-Effectiveness
			-Public response
			-Use of media to educate public
			-International problems

	International trade and productivity
		-Productivity gains
			-Unemployment and inflation
			-Administration=s aims
				-Role of research and development
			-Unemployed scientists and engineers
			-Tax credits
				-Scope
				-Effect
					-Unemployment
				-High technology
				-Ways and Means Committee
			-Employment devices
				-Political problems
			-Manpower Training Bill
			-Public service jobs
			-Number
			-Abundance of students in United States
			-Balance of payments
				-Agriculture
				-High technology fields
				-National Science Foundation
				-Nature of unemployed

	Lunch

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		Italy

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The President left at 1:03 pm

	[General conversation/Unintelligible]

David, et al. left at an unknown time before 11:59 pm

Conversation No. 48-2

Date:  Unknown between February 23 and February 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:03 pm, February 23 and 11:45 am, February 25, 1971
Location:  Cabinet Room

Unknown persons met

	Preparation of Cabinet Room for upcoming meeting

	[Unintelligible]

	Preparation of Cabinet Room for upcoming meeting
		-Demonstration

Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 11:45 am

Conversation No. 48-3

Date:  February 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:56 am and 11:50 am
Location:  Cabinet Room

The President met with Mary D. Stifflemire, Bernice V. Alexander, Judith L. Johnson, William G. Hyland, W. Marshall Wright, Peter W. Rodman, C. Fred Bergsten, Harold H. Saunders, Nancy L. Meinking, Arnold Nachmanoff, Colonel Robert M. Behr, John H. Holdridge, John Glancy, Colonel Richard T. Kennedy, Winston Lord, Sheila R. Lopez, Dianne C. Matthews, Julienne L. Pineau, Dr. K. Wayne Smith, Helmut (AHal@) Sonnenfeldt, and Henry A. Kissinger

	Air Force One
		-Photographs

The President left at an unknown time before 11:45 am

	Changes in something
		-Review by the President

The President entered at 11:45 am

	Signing of message
		-Pens
		-Secretaries
			-Gifts

	The President=s appreciation for staff=s efforts

	Appreciation of the President=s efforts

Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 11:50 am

Conversation No. 48-4

Date:  February 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 10:00 am until 12:35 pm
Location:  Cabinet Room

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew met with William P. Rogers, Melvin R. Laird, Richard M. Helms, Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, John N. Irwin II, Henry A. Kissinger, George H. W. Bush, U. Alexis Johnson, Frank J. Shakespeare, Joseph J. Sisco, Alfred L. Atherton, General Alexander M. Haig, Jr., John H. Holdridge, Harold H. Saunders, and Colonel Richard T. Kennedy

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[National Security]
[Duration:  37m 18s  ]

	VIETNAM

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:00 am

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:40 am

The President entered at 10:40 am

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	Walter F. Mondale
		-Attacks on administration
		-Caucus of Democrats [?]
			-Edmund S. Muskie
			-George S. McGovern
			-Kissinger
			-Rogers
			-Laird
			-Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson
			-73 Group
			-72 Group
		-Administration counter to criticism
		-Democratic support

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	Congressional resolution
		-Effect on congressional activity
			-Selective Service Act
				-Democratic Policy Committee
			-Funding for air activity
				-Effect on troops

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[National Security]
[Duration:  6s  ]

	VIETNAM

	MIDDLE EAST

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Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 12:35 pm