Conversation No. 531-29

Date: June 29, 1971
Time: 5:50 pm - 6:29 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with James D. Hodgson and George P. Shultz
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     President's previous meetings with National Commission on Productivity [Productivity
          Commission]
          -Effect
                 -Maurice H. Stans
                 -Environmental considerations

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:30 pm.             Conv. No. 531-28 (cont.)

     Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:29 pm.

     Environmental regulations
          -President's conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
          -Cost of pending projects
          -Hodgson’s actions
          -Stans’ group

     President's previous meeting with Productivity Commission
          -Future
                 -Decline of military activity
          -Economic dominance
          -Purpose
          -US position in world
          -Environmental concerns
          -Nuclear power
          -I. W. Abel's comments on consumption
          -Economic expansion

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:30 pm.

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:29 pm.

     President's schedule
          -Management group meeting, July 6
                 -Attendants
                       -Chief Executive officers
                       -Bargaining officials
                 -Structure
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Economy
    -US Steel Corporation
         -Settlements
         -Results

President's schedule
     -Management group, July 6
            -Chief Executive Officers                          Conv. No. 531-29 (cont.)
            -Bargaining officials
            -Number of attendants
                  -Steel companies
                  -Labor organizations
            -President’s goals
            -Announcements
            -President's previous comments
            -Research
                  -Applied
                  -Basic

Presidential anointments
     -J. Curtis Counts
           -Job offer
           -Salary
           -Conversation with Hodgson
           -Forthcoming conversation with Hodgson
                 -Expression of President’s support
     -National Labor Relations Board [NLRB] counsel
           -Peter G. Nash
           -Conversations with Charles W. Colson, Ehrlichman, Frederic V. Malek,
                 Congress
           -Hodgson’s Congressional contacts
           -Nash
                 -Background
                 -Support
           -Richard T. Burress
                 -Background
                 -Relationship with Hodgson
                 -Opposition
           -Nash
                 -Support from business
                 -Hodgson's conversation with Gerald R. Ford
                      -Burress
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          -Ford's possible meeting with Nash
          -Malek’s investigation
          -Ford
          -Burress
                -Views of Arthur F. Burns and Bryce N. Harlow
          -Nash
                -Ford's support
                -Hodgson's conversations                      Conv. No. 531-29 (cont.)
                     -Peter H. Dominick
                     -Paul J. Fannin
                     -Jacob K. Javits
     -Burress
          -Possible role with administration
                -Malek

Congressional Conference Committee
    -F. Edward Hébert
    -Actions
    -Senate version of military pay

Supersonic Transport [SST]
     -Leonard Woodcock
          -Position on SST
          -Relationship with Walter F. Mondale and Vance Hartke
          -International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural
                Implement Workers of America [UAW]
     -Hubert H. Humphrey's vote
          -George Meany

Environment
     -Edmund S. Muskie
          -Meany's response
     -John B. Connally
     -Stans
     -Administration's position
          -Cost-benefit ratio and analysis
                -Land reclamation
     -Popular opinion
     -Leadership position
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Economy
    -Competition
    -Changes in totalitarian societies
    -Changes in democratic societies
    -Privatization of public services
          -Trash collection as example
                -Samuel W. Yorty's electoral victory
          -New York City                                          Conv. No. 531-29 (cont.)
          -Savings
    -Productivity Commission
          -Harllee Branch, Jr.
          -Schedule

Research and development
     -Shultz's possible meeting with Peter G. Peterson
     -Ehrlichman
     -National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
           -Funding
     -Tax program
           -Value added tax
     -SST
     -Saline water
     -Nuclear power
     -Productivity Commission's efforts
     -NASA and defense budget cuts
     -Priorities
           -President’s conversations with Peterson, Ehrlichman
     -Woodcock
     -Environment
           -Automobile emissions
           -River clean-up
                 -Connally’s view
                       -Sewage, irrigation run-off
     -Nuclear power, saline water
     -Foci for US efforts
           -Peterson’s comments
           -Japanese efforts
     -Tax program
           -Private research
     -Germans, Japanese, Soviets, Chinese
           -Government subsides
     -Government subsidies
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               -Lockheed
                     -President's statement
               -Boeing
               -General Dynamics
          -Balance of payments
               -Computers
                     -Space industry
                     -Military                                   Conv. No. 531-29 (cont.)
                     -Census
               -Government subsidies
               -Government efforts
               -Private enterprise
          -Telecommunications
          -Tennessee Valley Authority [TVA]
          -NASA
               -James E. Webb
               -Contractors
          -Nuclear power plants
          -Atomic Energy Commission [AEC] activities
               -Privatization
               -Argonne Lab
               -Brookhaven Lab
          -Symbolism
               -Social spending, deficits
               -Response to critics
               -Creation of wealth

     Productivity Commission
          -Meany, Woodcock, Abel, Joseph B. Beirne
          -James M. Roche
          -Branch
          -Edward W. Carter
          -Research and development
                -Necessity
                -Support

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 5:50 pm.

     President's schedule

     Rose Mary Woods’ schedule
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The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 6:29 pm.

     Research and development
          -Possible September 1971 conference
               -Productivity Commission
               -Papers for discussion
               -Statement
                                                                    Conv. No. 531-29 (cont.)
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:50 pm.

     President's schedule
          -Henry A. Kissinger
          -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:29 pm.

     Research and development
          -Possible September 1971 conference
               -Walter B. Wriston
               -Meany
               -Howard W. Johnson
                     -Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]
               -President

     Labor support for administration
          -Extent
          -Issues
                -Muskie
                -President

     National economy
          -Connally
          -Retail sales
          -Unemployment
                -Programs for hiring blacks
                      -Effectiveness
                      -Timing
                -Youths
                      -Students

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