Conversation No. 68-1

Date:  Unknown between August 1 and August 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:00 am, August 1 and 5:22 pm, August 5, 1971
Location:  Cabinet Room

Unknown people met

	Television
		-Television sets
		-Unknown woman
			-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
		-AToday@ show
			-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
			-Illinois
				-[Forename unknown] Baker [?]

Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 5:22 pm, August 5, 1971

Conversation No. 68-2

Date:  August 5, 1971
Time:  5:22 pm - unknown before 6:20 pm
Location:  Cabinet Room

The President met with Claude Gifford, Thomas Huheey, Royal Fraderich, Wayne Swegle, Joseph A. Elliott, Cordell W. Tindall, Richard E. Albrecht, Ferdie J. Deering, William D. Knox, Robert G. Rupp, Lane Palmer, Jack Pickett, and Herbert G. Klein; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

	Photograph of group
		-Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins
		-Palmer

	Farmers

	Schedule
		-Blair House

	Special interest groups
		-Editors of business magazines
		-Editors of farm magazines
			-Communications with White House
				-Secretary of Agriculture
				-Klein
		-Farmers
			-Number
				-The press
			-Contributions
			-National economy
				-Balance of payments
				-US industry
					-Trade balance
						-Agriculture
				-Status of agriculture
					-The President as vice president
						-Dwight D. Eisenhower
					-Eisenhower administration
						-US position in world

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	Japan

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				-Current US trade balance
					-Imports
				-US agriculture
					-Productivity
						-Impact on US balance of trade
							-President=s meeting with businessmen
								-Growth of government
								-Steel industry
						-Compared to industry
						-French, British, German, Russian farmers
						-Marketing, equipment and research
						-US industry
							-Import quotas
						-Competitive position
						-Support prices
							-Clifford M. Hardin
							-Food prices
								-Compared to rest of the world
					-Position of Republican administrations
					-Farm income
						-Dairy prices
						-Hog prices
						-Soybean prices
						-Cattle prices
						-Cost-price squeeze
				-President=s trips to farm areas
					-Alabama, Oklahoma, Iowa, Ohio, and Illinois
					-Position of rural America
						-Need for public support for programs
						-ASalute to Agriculture@ Day
						-Question of competitiveness
							-Industry
						-Farm subsidies
						-Revitalization
							-Movement away from farm areas
								-President=s trip to New York City
								-President=s trip to Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota
							-Importance to the rest of the country
				-Impact of inflation
					-Equipment costs
					-Farm laborers
						-Organized labor
							-Rail strike
							-Steel price increase
							-Wage increases
						-Publishers

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	Italy

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					-Equipment costs
					-California
						-Cost of supervision of loans
				-Rural development
					-Farmers= Home Administration
					-Need for revitalization
						-Federal action
							-Congressional action
								-Revenue sharing
							-Cabinet Committee study
								-Banks
							-Appropriation of funds
							-Revenue sharing
							-Agricultural Extension Service
								-Government reorganization
								-Riverside, California
									-President=s uncle
								-Tindall
						-Need for coordination
							-Congress
								-William Talmadge bill
									-Hubert H. Humphrey bill
								-Tindall
						-President=s schedule
				-Inflation
					-Wage-price controls
						-President=s Office of Price Administration [OPA] experience
					-Productivity Commission meeting on September 21, 1971
						-Industry
							-Construction settlements
								-President=s meeting with John A. Volpe
									-Kansas City settlement
									-Florida
							-Effect of war
				-Unemployment
					-Comparison to Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy administrations
						-Vietnam war
							-Prosperity with peace
							-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
					-Effect on US position in world markets

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	Japan, Europe, People’s Republic of China [PRC]

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					-US position
				-Administration action
					-Productivity Commission
					-Wage-price controls
						-John C. Stennis
							-John Kenneth Galbraith=s testimony before Senate committee
						-Role of government in economy
							-Low cost food
							-Food stamp program
							-Welfare and public assistance programs
							-Property taxes
								-Revenue sharing program
								-Elderly
									-Iowa
									-Chicago, Illinois
								-Possible action
									-John B. Connally
									-Ronald W. Reagan
				-Foreign markets

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	Japan

[To listen to the segment (5m15s) declassified on 02/28/2002, please refer to RC# E-544.]

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				-Drought in farm areas
					-Relief
						-Cloud seeding
						-Technological development
							-Desalinization
				-Farm income
					-Paul W. McCracken
						-Supermarket prices
							-Meat prices
					-Public image of farmers
						-Consumer prices

	President=s schedule
		-Blair House dinner

Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 6:20 pm

Conversation No. 68-3

Date:  August 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:22 pm and 6:20 pm
Location:  Cabinet Room

Unknown people met

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO.  1
[Non-historical]
[Duration:  26m 15s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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The unknown people left at an unknown time before 6:20 pm

Conversation No. 68-4

Date:  August 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:22 pm and 6:20 pm
Location:  Cabinet Room

Unknown people met

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Non-historical]
[Duration:  2m 2s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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The unknown people left at an unknown time before 6:20 pm

Conversation No. 68-5

Date:  August 5, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:22 pm and 6:20 pm
Location:  Cabinet Room

Unknown people met

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Non-historical]
[Duration:  1m 1s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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The unknown people left at an unknown time before 6:20 pm

Conversation No. 68-6

Date:  August 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:14 am and 10:05 am
Location:  Cabinet Room

General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met with unknown men

	Preparation for meeting
		-Briefing books
		-Seating arrangements
			-President
			-Vice President
			-Melvin R. Laird
			-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
			-Henry A. Kissinger
		-Briefing materials
		-Seating arrangements
			-President, Vice President, JCS, Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, Kissinger, Laird, David Packard

Haig, et al. left at an unknown time before 10:05 am

Conversation No. 68-7

Date:  August 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 9:14 am until 11:54 am
Location:  Cabinet Room

Unknown people met

	Preparation of room for Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS] meeting
		-Seating arrangements

Unknown men entered at an unknown time after 9:14 am

		-President, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

	Agnew
		-Newspaper report

	Forthcoming meeting
		-Seating arrangements

General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and an unknown man entered at an unknown time after 9:14 am

			-President, JCS, Agnew
			-Haig
			-Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, Agnew, JCS
		-Agenda
		-Seating arrangements

Members of the JCS entered at an unknown time after 9:14 am

	Seating arrangements
		-President, Agnew, Melvin R. Laird, David Packard, Moorer, Henry A. Kissinger

Agnew entered at an unknown time after 9:14 am

	Greetings

	Order of presentation
		-Army, Air Force, Navy
		-Marine Corps
			-General Leonard F. Chapman, Jr.

	Kissinger

	Football

The President met with Agnew, Laird, Packard, Moorer, General John D. Ryan, General William C. Westmoreland, Chapman, Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., Kissinger, and Haig; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

	National defense
		-Political conservatives

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration: 11s  ]

	DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

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		-Budget
			-John B. Connally, George P. Shultz
				-Briefing
					-Laird
					-President, Vice President
					-William P. Rogers

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	Defense

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		-Presentation
		-Budget
			-Public reaction to taxes
			-Personnel

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	Defense

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	[General conversation/Unintelligible]

	Presentation of gifts by President

	[General conversation/Unintelligible]

The President, et al. left at 11:54 am

Conversation No. 68-8

Date:  August 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:54 am and 12:00 pm
Location:  Cabinet Room

Members of the Cambodian delegation met

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	Cabinet Room

	Schedule

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:54 am

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:00 pm

[To listen to the segment (24m42s) declassified on 02/28/2002, please refer to RC# E-546, E-547.]

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Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 12:00 pm