Conversation No. 566-18

Date: August 17, 1971
Time: Unknown after 3:26 pm until 4:30 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

     National economy
          -Stock market
                -Volume of trading

The President talked with the White House operator at 4:12 pm.

[Conversation No. 566-18A]

[See Conversation No. 8-26]

[End of telephone conversation]

     National economy
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          -Stock market
               -Volume of trading

     President's speeches
          -Importance
          -Preparation
          -Informal comments with statement
          -Importance
          -Public attention
                 -Knights of Columbus
          -Preparation

The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 4:12 pm and
4:20 pm.

[Conversation No. 556-18B]

[See Conversation No. 8-27]

[End of telephone conversation]

     Connally's schedule
         -Meeting in Roosevelt Room

     President's speeches

     President's schedule
          -Connally
          -Barber

Haldeman left the room at an unknown time after 4:12 pm.

Haldeman entered the room at an unknown time before 4:20 pm.
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     President's speeches
          -Preparation
                 -Milk producers
                      -Audience
                           -Size

Alexander Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 4:12 pm.

     Connally's schedule
         -Cost of Living Council [COLC] meeting

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 4:20 pm.

     President's schedule
          -Possible call to Connally

     -National economy
          -President’s program
                -Republicans

     President's forthcoming speeches
          -Distribution to press
                 -Statement
          -Knights of Columbus
          -Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
          -Unknown man's practices
                 -Repetition
          -Preparation
                 -Quotes
                       -Repetition
                            -William L. Safire
                            -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
                            -Television
                            -Compared to stories
                                  -John R. Brown
                                  -Television

     National economy
          -President's program
                -Timing
                      -International monetary conditions
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           -Reaction
                -Democrats
                -News media

News media
    -Charles W. Colson
    -Herbert G. Klein
    -White House correspondents
    -President's press conference
    -Administration’s attitude
    -Colson
    -President's forthcoming trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
    -Hunger conference
    -Food stamps
    -Youth conference
          -Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
          -President's schedule

Youth
    -Attitude toward the Administration
    -Robert H. Finch
          -Role

Finch
     -Schedule
          -California
     -Role with administration

Donald H. Rumsfeld
    -Role with administration
          -George P. Shultz [?]
               -Wage and price freeze
          -Possible post
               -Office Emergency Preparedness [OEP]
                     -Gen. George A. Lincoln

OEP
      -Personnel
           -Peter G. Peterson
                 -Current responsibilities
                 -Wage and price freeze
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                -Rumsfeld
                -Arnold R. Weber
                -Rumsfeld
                     -Experience
                           -Congress
                           -Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]

Butterfield entered at 4:20 pm.

     President's schedule
          -Illinois
          -Grand Tetons
          -Briefcase
          -Possible phone calls
                 -Presidential notes
                 -Clark Reed
                 -Harry S. Dent
                 -J. P. McCarthy
                 -Jobs for veterans
                 -William S. White
                 -Reed
                 -Loretta Young
                 -J. Peter Grace
                 -Whitney N. Seymour, Jr.
                 -Norman Vincent Peale
                 -Revenue sharing
                 -Harley Ranch [?]
                 -Thomas J. Bannan
                 -Al Stratton, Jr.
                 -Otto N. Miller
                 -Chet Holifield
                 -Number

The President, Haldeman, and Butterfield left at 4:30 pm.
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