Conversation No. 477-10

Date: April 12, 1971
Time: 2:30 pm - 3:37 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
                                                                     Conv. No. 477-9 (cont.)
     President’s schedule
          -Meeting with Maurice H. Stans
          -John N. Mitchell
          -Stans
                -Schedule
          -Mitchell
                -Schedule
          -Stans
                -Schedule
          -Peter G. Peterson
                -Relationship with Stans

     Polls
             -President’s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
             -Viewers/non-viewers
                   -Difference in attitudes

     President’s use of media
          -Television
          -Message
          -Television
                -Scheduling
          -President’s interview with American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE], April
                16, 1971
          -Radio
          -Reporters
                -Possible schedule
          -Press conference, April 29, 1971
                -White House photographers dinner
          -Scheduling
          -Television appearances
                -Frequency
          -Oval Office press conference
          -Frequency of press conferences
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     -Options
     -Schedule
     -Evenings prior to press conferences
     -Correspondents’ dinner
     -Photographers’ dinner
     -Friday evenings

Demonstrations                                                Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)
    -Plans of demonstrators
    -Dates
         -April 24, 1971
    -Possible vandalism
    -Disruptions
         -Dates
               -April 25 through May 5, 1971
         -Plans
               -Blocking bridges and traffic
               -Sit-ins
               -Interference with unknown employees
               -Telephone systems
               -Radio
                     -Hanoi
                           -Announcement of insurrection and martial law in Washington
               -Cutting power sources in Washington
               -Rock Creek Park
                     -Campsite
                     -Federal troops
    -Campus support
    -Groups
         -National Coalition Against the War
         -People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice
         -Communists

President’s schedule
     -Press conference, April 30, 1971
           -Anniversary of Cambodia speech, April 30, 1970
     -Florida
     -Press conference
     -Voluntary action meeting
     -Cabinet meeting
           -Rescheduling
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         -Preparation
               -Oval Office press conference
               -Press conference
                    -Television
         -Reviewers
         -Editors
               -Frank van der Linden
               -Allen S. Drury                                Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)
               -Victor Lasky
         -Stories
         -Press conference
               -Scheduling
         -Florida
               -Scheduling
               -Photographers
         -Weekend
         -Camp David
               -Scheduling
         -Sequoia
         -Demonstrators
         -White House
         -Press conference
         -Cabinet meeting
         -Chamber of Commerce
         -Cabinet meeting


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    Youth
         -Richard A. Moore
         -High school juniors and seniors
         -Potential support
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          -Pliability
          -College juniors and seniors
          -Objectivity
          -Workers
          -Letters to classes
          -High school graduations
                -Radio and television broadcast
          -Voters                                               Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:30 pm

     Peterson’s arrival
          -Meeting with President

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:50 pm

     Paul W. McCracken
          -Picture
          -Inflation alert announcement
          -Schedule
                -Photo session

Peterson entered at 2:50 pm

          -Book on Vice Presidency
          -Interview with President
                -President and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
          -Notes on Vice Presidency

     Peterson’s schedule
          -Time-Life interview
                -Remarks
                -Possible questions
                -Vietnam
                -President’s position
                -Questions on negotiations

     People’s Republic of China [PRC]
          -US relations
          -Visit of ping-pong team

Haldeman left at 3:00 pm
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-Background
-Time-Life
-President’s initiatives
-State Department objections
-Relaxation of trade and travel restrictions
      -Timing
      -Henry A. Kissinger                           Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)
-State Department
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Time-Life
-US position relative to PRC and USSR
-Bridge
-Japanese role
      -Broker
      -Eisaku Sato
      -Trade
-Modus vivendi with US
-Compared with USSR
      -Politics/philosophy
-US position
-President’s initiatives
-State Department
      -Llewellyn E. (“Tommy”) Thompson, Jr.
      -Charles E. (“Chip”) Bohlen
      -Warsaw talks
      -USSR
      -Bureaucracy
      -Kremlinologists
-Benefits
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Indira Gandhi
-Nicolae Ceausescu
-US-Soviet relations
-US policy
-Chinese/Soviet radio broadcasts
-Sino-Soviet relations
-Ping-pong team visit
      -Significance
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          -Opening
                -US strategy
                      -Timing
                -PRC suspicion
          -Isolation
                -Consequences
                -US-USSR
                -Dangers                                         Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)
                -Nuclear capacity
                -Chou En-lai
                -Leadership
                -Knowledge of non-communist world
                -USSR
                -US
                -Japan
                -Isolation
                -Dangers
                -US policy
          -Trade
          -Political difficulties
          -US alliance with Taiwan
                -Korea
                -Philippines
          -Trade relaxation
          -Forthcoming announcement
          -Relaxation of trade restrictions
          -President’s initiative
          -State Department
          -Time magazine article

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 3:00 pm

     President’s schedule

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 3:11 pm

     East-West trade
          -Relationship to President’s PRC initiative
          -USSR
          -US policy
          -Yugoslavia
          -Romania
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     -Prospects
           -Relation to events
           -Timing
     -Scope
     -Difficulties
     -Time-Life
           -Peterson’s schedule
     -Review                                             Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)
     -USSR
           -Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
           -Berlin
     -Middle East
     -USSR
           -Trade credits
           -Negotiations
     -PRC
     -USSR

Productivity Council
     -Importance
     -US trade position
     -Engineers
     -Scientists
     -Industrial research
           -Supersonic Transport [SST]
     -Need for US excellence
     -Nuclear power
     -Administration’s position

State Department
      -William P. Rogers
      -Peterson
      -Reorganization
      -Rogers
      -George P. Shultz
      -Economics
      -Foreign Service
      -Shultz
      -Agnew
      -Rogers
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     US world position
         -Foreign policy
         -Economics
         -Nuclear parity
         -Military parity
         -Local wars
         -Nikita S. Khrushchev
         -President’s 1959 remarks                            Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)
         -Vietnam
         -Economic competition
               -US
               -Western Europe
               -Japan
               -PRC
               -USSR
         -Latin America
         -Africa
         -Middle East
         -Great Power competition
         -Population
               -PRC
         -Investment
         -Trade
         -Aid package
         -National Security Council [NSC]
         -Domestic Council
         -International economic area
         -Difficulties
         -US policy
         -Strategy
         -Historians
         -Possible Time-Life cover
         -Rogers
         -John B. Connally
         -Shultz
         -Clifford M. Hardin
         -Cabinet
         -Winton M. (“Red”) Blount
         -Defense Department

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 3:00 pm
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     President’s schedule
          -Arrival of Shultz

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 3:11 pm

     US economic position
          -Peterson’s outline
                                                                 Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)
Shultz entered at 3:11 pm

          -Timing
          -Bipartisanship
          -President’s experiences as congressman
          -Marshall Plan
                -Bipartisan support
          -North Altantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
          -Arthur H. Vandenberg
          -Christian A. Herter
          -Economic policy
          -Foreign policy
          -Bipartisanship
          -Labor/business
                -Isolationism
          -Economic plan
                -Shultz, Connally, and Peterson
          -President’s philosophy
          -Peterson’s Time-Life meeting
                -Schedule
          -President’s meetings with Peterson
          -President’s initiatives
          -Roy L. Ash Council
          -Intra-administration coordination
          -Progress
          -Opportunity for change in dialogue
          -Committees
                -Citizens groups
                -Composition
                      -Economists, businessmen, labor
          -National leaders
          -Committee
                -David Rockefeller
                -Andre Meyer
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          -Easterners versus Westerners
          -Patrick E. Haggerty
          -Howard C. Petersen
          -International Harvester
                -Chicago
          -William Blackie
                -Caterpillar
                -Peoria                                  Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)

Textiles
     -David M. Kennedy
           -Schedule
     -Stans
           -Schedule
     -Strategy meeting
     -Japan
           -Negotiations
     -Meeting
     -Approach
     -President’s position
     -Connally, Rogers
     -Melvin R. Laird
     -Kissinger
     -Laird
     -Stans
           -Schedule
     -Kissinger
     -Taiwan
           -Military aid
     -Korea
           -Military aid
     -Economics
     -President’s schedule
           -ASNE meeting
     -Schedule
     -State Department
     -Korea
     -Taiwan
     -Hong Kong
     -Negotiations
     -Japan
     -Background
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           -State Department views
           -Negotiations
           -State Department
           -Peterson’s possible conversation with Kissinger
           -PRC/Taiwan
           -Rogers’ trip to Latin America
           -U. Alexis Johnson
                                                                 Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)
Peterson left at 3:21 pm

     Civil rights
           -Black Caucus
                 -Policy review
                       -Timing
           -Dr. Arthur A. Fletcher
                 -Ten-year program
           -Civil Rights Commission
                 -Reverend Theodore S. Hesburgh
                 -Questionnaires to departments and agencies
                 -Domestic Council and Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
                 -Discussion with departments and agencies
                 -Responses
                 -Coordination effort

     Housing
         -Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD] policy
         -Review
         -Civil Rights Commission
         -Policy review
         -Forum
         -Announcement by President
         -General Services Administration [GSA]
         -Defense Department policies
               -Fair housing for personnel
         -GSA site selection criteria
               -Public access
               -Open housing for employees
               -Fair housing element
         -Administration’s policy
         -Issue
               -Degree of sensitivity
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     -GSA site selection
           -Fair housing
           -Zoning
           -Blacks
     -GSA leasing
           -Congress
     -Policy issue
     -Internal Revenue Service [IRS] building in Fresno        Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)
     -Possible GSA directive
     -Issue
     -GSA criteria
     -Civil Rights Commission’s questions to GSA
     -GSA statement on policy
           -Criteria on available housing
           -Fair housing
           -Assumptions

Federal government employment
     -”Philadelphia plan”
     -Orders
     -Textile cases
     -Affirmative action plan
           -Federal government requirements
           -Minority employment
           -OMB goals
     -Civil Service Commission [CSC] policy towards agencies
           -Timetables
           -Remedial action
           -Recruiting
           -Merit system
     -Administration’s policy
           -Political considerations
           -OMB
           -Publicity
                 -Press releases
     -Demagoguery
           -Race
     -Promotions
     -Supergrades
     -”Low key”
     -CSC
     -OMB’s approach
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           -Publicity
                -Problems
                      -Race
                      -Demagoguery
           -Congress
           -OMB’s approach

     Stans’ trip                                                     Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)
          -Europe


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Shultz left at 3:37 pm