Conversation No. 530-12

Date: June 29, 1971
Time: 12:11 pm - 12:42 pm                                           Conv. No. 530-11 (cont.)
Location: Oval Office

H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Peter G. Peterson met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

     President's schedule
          -Unknown man
          -Mrs. Frank Mason
          -Stephen B. Bull
                 -Visit of mother to White House

The President entered at an unknown time after 12:11 pm.

           -Timing

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:20 pm.

     Peterson's aide
          -Richard V. Allen
                 -Declassification project
                 -Forthcoming conversation with Haldeman
          -Martin C. (“Marty”) Anderson
                 -Conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
                 -The Federal Bulldozer
                 -Arthur F. Burns
                 -Possible relationship with Peterson
                 -Background with administration
                 -President's schedule
                       -Possible meeting with Anderson
                 -Allen
                 -Peterson's possible conversation with Burns


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                                                          Conv. No. 530-12 (cont.)


                 -Views with family assistance plan
                 -Experience
            -Allen
                 -Work with another project
            -Anderson


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    Allen
            -Possible role with administration
                 -James R. Schlesinger
                       -Requirements for job

    Peterson's aide
         -Anderson
                -Relations with Henry A. Kissinger
         -Allen
                -Relations with Kissinger
         -Anderson
                -Knowledge and ability
         -Peterson's role
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               -William P. Rogers
               -John B. Connally
          -Allen
               -Compared with Anderson
                     -Area of focus
          -Anderson
               -Talks with Ehrlichman
               -Experience of people leaving government and Washington
                                                                  Conv. No. 530-12 (cont.)
                     -Thomas Wolfe

Haldeman left at 12:24 pm.

     Rogers
         -Conversation with Peterson
         -Need for individual in high State Department position
              -Peter M. Flanigan
         -Role with State Department
         -Compared with President

     Peterson
          -Role with administration
                -Cabinet
                -President's conversation with Haldeman
                -White House staff compared with Cabinet
                -Unlikely areas
                      -Agriculture
                      -Justice
          -Development of Peterson's staff
          -Access to President
          -International economy
                -Political issue
                      -Connally contrasted with George P. Shultz
          -Relations with Connally
                -Political issues
                -Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
                -International economy
                      -Expropriation

     Connally
         -View of President's image
              -Lyndon B. Johnson
              -Contrasted with President
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     -View of President's image

Foreign policy
     -President contrasted with Connally
     -Rogers
     -President's comments to National Commission on Productivity
           -Challenges and opportunities of world trade
     -Long-term nature of planning                            Conv. No. 530-12 (cont.)

National economy
     -Prospects
     -Economists
     -Gross National Product [GNP]
     -Stock market
     -Employment
     -Inflation
     -Confidence in the economy
     -President's conversations
           -Gordon M. Metcalf
           -Edward W. Carter
           -Retail sales
     -Retail sales
           -Low inventories
     -Connally
     -Wage and prices
           -Wage and Price Board
           -Steel industry
           -Businessmen's view of unions
           -Burns’ view on freeze
           -Possible effect of freeze on economy
     -New plant and equipment
           -Foreign competition
           -Investment credit
                 -Wilbur D. Mills
                       -Failure to introduce bill
                 -Connally's administrative action
                       -Depreciation
           -Technology
                 -Space program
                 -Money spent on research and development

Peterson's possible role with administration
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Peterson left at 12:42 pm.