Conversation No. 500-11

Date: May 18, 1971
Time: 10:26 am - 11:03 am
Location: Oval Office

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

     President's schedule
          -"Open Door Hour"
          -Meeting with business magazine editors
          -Meeting with National Small Businessman of the Year
                 -Duration
          -Meeting with Arthur Gordon (“Art”) Linkletter
                 -Views
                 -Courtesy towards President
                 -Press photograph
                 -Value compared with meeting with small businessman
          -Meeting with National Small Businessman of the Year
                 -Peter M. Flanigan
                 -Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
                 -Award
                       -Previous press coverage
                 -Length
          -Meeting with state legislators
          -Meeting with National Small Businessman of the Year
                 -Value compared with awards given by Maurice H. Stans
                 -Press play
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      -Atkins
-President's call to William P. Rogers
      -Forthcoming meeting
-Types of events
-Business magazine editors' interview
      -One-on-one interviews
            -Compared with interviews with Time, Newsweek, New York Times
      -Book and Quill Award to President                  Conv. No. 500-10 (cont.)
-Fortune, Time, Newsweek, New York Times
      -Herbert G. Klein
      -John B. Connally
            -Work
      -Stans
      -Peter G. Peterson
-Business Council
      -Connally
            -Work
-Business magazine editors
      -Peterson
      -George P. Shultz, Paul W. McCracken, Peterson, Stans, Klein
      -Attendees
            -Peterson
            -Klein
      -Dinner
            -Stans
            -Peterson
      -Interview
-Briefings
      -Klein
      -Senators and Congressmen
      -Effect
-Business events
      -A list of top business magazines
      -Interviews with Time, Fortune, New York Times, Forbes
      -Business magazine editors' interview
      -Shultz and Klein
            -Balance of payments questions
      -Connally
            -Scotland[?] speech
      -Klein
      -Connally
-Possible meeting with John D. Ehrlichman
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               -Supersonic Transport [SST]
               -Time
          -Gerard C. Smith meeting
               -Length

[The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger at an unknown time between 10:26 am and 11:03
am]
                                                                     Conv. No. 500-11 (cont.)
[Conversation No. 500-11A]

          -Railroad strike
          -Smith meeting
                -Length
                -Time

[End of Telephone Conversation]

          -Meeting with Ehrlichman
              -Time
          -Meeting with Smith
              -Length
              -Possible postponement
                    -Kissinger
          -Meeting with Ehrlichman
              -Time

[Haldeman talked with John D. Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 10:26 am and 11:03
am]

[Conversation No. 500-11B]

     Ehrlichman's schedule
           -Meeting with President

[End of telephone conversation]

     President's schedule
          -Robert H. Finch and Donald H. Rumsfeld
                 -Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
                      -Language of forthcoming Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
                            announcement
                 -Upcoming Congressional vote [Mansfield Amendment?]
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          -Possible dates
     -Quadriad meeting
          -Conduct of meeting
     -Other meetings
          -May 27
          -May 28
     -Kennedy Center event, May 27, 1971
     -Meeting with Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al Saud [King ofConv.
                                                                 SaudiNo.      May
                                                                          500-11
                                                                      Arabia],   (cont.)
                                                                                    28,
          1971
          -Details
          -Date

President's plane
     -David M. Kennedy
     -A June trip by the President
     -Other users
            -Connally
            -Cost
            -Department budget
            -State Department and military planes

Edward Ridley Finch
    -Edward R.F. Cox
    -Profession
    -Air Force reserve
          -Retirement rank
                -James D. Hughes
                -Possible action by President
                     -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

United Nations
     -George H.W. Bush
          -A speech
               -Holding sessions in other countries

President's schedule
     -Lyndon B. Johnson Library opening
            -Connally, Rogers, Bush, William F. (“Billy”) Graham, Bryce N. Harlow, Julie
                  and David Eisenhower
            -Friday, May 21, 1971
     -Option of Washington or Florida
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Railroad strike
     -Senate handling
           -Japanese
           -Compared with foreign policy

Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield Amendment
    -Senators' views
           -Compromise efforts                                  Conv. No. 500-11 (cont.)
    -Mansfield's position

Senate
     -Lack of leadership
     -Antiballistic missile treaty [ABM]
     -President's meeting with Republican leaders, May 18, 1971
           -Effect
           -Value
     -An unknown man [Ehrlichman or Clark MacGregor[?]]
           -Possible John Sherman Cooper meeting with President

SST
      -President's meetings with Senators
            -James L. Buckley, Wallace F. Bennett, Clifford P. Hansen, Cooper
            -Effects
      -Cooper
            -Position
      -Ehrlichman
      -Cost figures from Boeing Corporation
            -Accuracy
                  -Ehrlichman
      -Allen J. Ellender's position
            -Views on cost
            -Views on SST administration
            -A luncheon
      -Margaret Chase Smith
            -Relations with the President and the Administration
      -Ellender
      -Boeing

President's schedule
     -A group advocating Social Security increases
            -Welfare
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Haldeman left at 11:03 am.