Conversation No. 554-3

Date: August 4, 1971
Time: Unknown between 12:27 pm and 1:43 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

     President's schedule

     News conference
         -Analysis of questions
              -Economy
              -People's Republic of China [PRC]
              -Vietnam
              -Pakistan
              -Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
              -Conservative revolt
              -Busing
              -Benefit of infrequent news conferences
              -Spiro T. Agnew
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              -Economy
                   -Arthur F. Burns
                        -President's defense
                              -Pay increase
              -PRC

    [Pause]

    Margaret Chase Smith
        -Conversation with Haldeman
              -Smith’s schedule
                    -Possible meeting with the President
              -President's schedule
                    -Possible trip to Bangor, Maine
                    -Conflict with Smith’s schedule
              -Haldeman’s call

    President's schedule
         -Meeting with ambassador Henry J. Tasca
                -Henry A. Kissinger
         -Trip to New York


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    Economy
        -Need to present administration position
              -Farm magazine editors
              -Opinion makers
        -William L. Safire
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Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 12:27 pm.

     Press conference
           -Andrei A. Gromyko
                -Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
                      -Conversation with Kissinger
                           -Reference
                -Meeting with the President
                      -Possible summit
           -Kissinger’s concern
                -Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
           -Gromyko

     US foreign relations
          -Forthcoming meetings
               -Timing
                      -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] compared to PRC
               -Gromyko
                      -Talks with the President
                            -Invitation
               -USSR
                      -Possible pressure
                            -PRC
               -USSR
                      -Bilateral agreement
                            -PRC
          -Suggested letter
               -Leonid I. Brezhnev

     Press conference questions
           -Pentagon Papers
           -Agnew
           -Conservative revolt
           -United Nations [UN] vote
           -Vietnam
           -News bulletins
                -PRC
                     -Forthcoming trip by President
                           -Relationship to Vietnam
                -Economy
                     -Wage and price board
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                  -Inflation
           -PRC
                -Trip
                -Vietnam war
           -Vietnam war
                -Negotiations
           -PRC
                -Trip
                      -Detente
           -Vietnam
                -Casualties
                -Impact of Cambodia, Laos operations
           -Economy
                -Vietnam

Vietnam War
     -Negotiations
         -North Vietnam
     -Hanoi's statements
         -PRC
                 -US
         -Le Duc Tho
     -PRC's statements
         -US military withdrawal
         -Kissinger's visit to Peking
                 -Nguyen Van Thieu

PRC
      -Possible purchases from US
            -Boeing 707's and 727's
            -Analysis
                  -Long-term expectations
            -Announcement
                  -Timing
            -Forthcoming trip by President
                  -Relationship
            -[Forename unknown] Burger [sp?]
            -Size
      -Prisoners
            -Edward M. Kennedy's statement
            -Possible release
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                -Timing
                     -President’s trip
           -Kennedy’s statement
           -Chou En-lai
           -Kennedy
                -Possible administration response
                     -Public pressure

Kennedy
    -Pakistan
         -Refugees
    -PRC
         -United Nations [UN]

PRC
      -Forthcoming trips
            -Working group
            -Timing
      -President's press conference answers
      -Vietnam War
            -Importance as issue
            -Press conference
                  -Seven points
                  -President’s handling
      -Kissinger's actions
            -Press
                  -Scrutiny

Vietnam negotiations
     -Press
          -Speculation
               -Dobrynin

Democrats
    -1972 election
          -Statement of principles

Pakistan
     -William P. Rogers
           -State Department
           -UN meeting
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               -Publicity
               -As spokesman
               -Television image
                    -Press conference
                          -Cameras
                               -William H. Carruthers
                          -Glasses
                          -Lighting


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    Rogers
        -PRC
               -Businessman’s reception
         -Administration
         -State Department
         -Pakistan

    President's schedule
         -Henry J. Tasca
         -John B. Connally

    Tasca
         -State Department
         -Capitol Hill

    Press conference
          -Vietnam negotiations
               -Seven points
                    -Helen Thomas
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                           -New York Times
                -Established channels

     Soviet summit
          -Timing
          -Relationship to PRC trip
               -Timing

     Middle East
         -PRC
               -Chou En-lai
                   -Foreign policy briefing, May 1971
                         -USSR

Kissinger left at an unknown time before 1:43 pm.

     President's schedule
          -Tasca
                 -Schedule
                      -Foreign Affairs Committee
          -George P. Shultz

     Cabinet meeting
          -Alexander P. Butterfield
               -Blue-collar workers
          -Connally
               -Economy
          -Agnew
          -Connally
          -George W. Romney
          -John A. Volpe
          -Maurice H. Stans
          -Shultz
          -Duration

     President's schedule
          -Connally
                 -Forthcoming meeting
          -Shultz

     Economy
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     -Press conference
          -Profits
     -Unemployment rate
          -Instructions to Charles W. Colson
                -Dan Rather
                -Frank Stanton
     - Nixon trouble theme
     -News reporting
          -Foreign policy as issue
                -Difficulty

President's schedule
     -National Business Council for Consumer Affairs
            -Meeting, August 5, 1971
                  -Location
                         -Indian Treaty Room
            -Commerce Department, Consumer League, Federal Trade Commission [FTC],
                  Food and Drug Administration [FDA], Anti-trust division of Justice
                  Department
            -Participants
                  -Donald S. Perkins
                         -Jewel Companies, Inc.
                  -Robert J. Keith
                         -Pillsbury Company
                  -Archibald McG. Foster
                         -Ted Bate and Company
                  -J. J. Riccardo
                         -Chrysler Corporation
                  -Edgar H. Lotspeich
                         -Proctor and Gamble Company
                  -Justin W. Dart
                  -Grant G. Simmons, Jr.
                  -Barron Hilton
                  -Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
                  -Thornton F. Bradshaw
                         -Atlantic-Richfield Corporation
                  -V. J. Skutt
                  -Stuart D. Watson
                         -Dow Corporation
                  -Donald Hall
                  -Robert O. Aders
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      -President's participation
            -Press coverage
            -Working paper
                  -Positives on economy
                  -Press coverage
-Bill signing
      -Appalachian Regional Commission
            -Economic Development Act extension
      -Jennings Randolph, John Sherman Cooper, Howard H. Baker, Jr.
            -Lockheed bill
-Baker
      -Political matters
            -John N. Mitchell
-Defense budget
      -Kissinger’s recommendations
            -Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS], National Security Council [NSC], service
                  secretaries meetings
      -Kissinger
      -JCS
-Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Haji Abdul Razak bin Dato’ Hussain
      -Office call
      -Forthcoming trip, October 1971
            -Canada
            -UN General Assembly
                  -Speech
            -Rogers
                  -Luncheon
            -President’s role
                  -Meet and greet
-Office press conferences
      -Frequency
      -Connally
      -Frequency
      -Preparation
      -Television
      -Depth of answers
-Use of time
      -Forthcoming meetings
            -Cabinet meeting
            -Romney
            -James L. Buckley
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                      -Farm magazine editors
                      -Reception for supporters
                            -Carl B. Albert
                            -Girls Nation
                            -Rudolph A. Peterson
                            -Environmental report
                -Office press conference
                      -News stories
          -Office press conference
                -Economy
                      -Blue-collar workers
                            -Herbert E. Kaplow
                      -Burns
                            -Request to see the President
                            -Transcript
                                  -William L. Safire
                                  -Peter G. Peterson
                                  -Safire
                                  -Peter Peterson
                                        -Bohemian Grove
                      -Peter Peterson
                            -Compared to Safire

     Personnel
          -Clifford M. Hardin
                -Future plans
                     -Rogers
          -Henry L. Bellmon
                -Bryce N. Harlow
                -Agriculture Department
          -Louie B. Nunn
                -Mitchell
                -Harlow's reaction
                     -Farm credentials
                           -Farm vote

     President's schedule
          -Connally
          -Peter Peterson

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 12:27 pm and 1:43 pm.
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[Conversation No. 554-3A]

[See Conversation No. 7-59]

[End of telephone conversation]

     President's schedule
          -Nunn
          -[Grand Teton National Park] ceremony
          -Speech preparation
          -Washington, DC
                 -Activity
          -Participation in park ceremony
                 -Rogers C. B. Morton
                 -[Illinois] State Fair
          -Defense budget
                 -Meetings
                        -NSC and JCS

Haldeman talked with Connally at an unknown time between 12:27 pm and 1:43 pm.

[Conversation No. 554-3B]

[See Conversation No. 7-60]

[End of telephone conversation]

     President's schedule
          -Connally
          -Signing activity
          -New Hampshire and Maine
          -New York
                 -Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
          -California
                 -Yorba Linda
          -Park ceremony
          -Illinois and Ohio
          -Illinois State Fair
                 -Park
          -Dallas
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          -Speechwriting
          -Illinois State Fair
                -Abraham Lincoln
                -Importance
                -Timing
                -Park
                -Governor [Richard B. Ogilvie]
                -Remarks
                       -Greetings
                -Park
                -Activity
                -Forthcoming meeting

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 1:43 pm.