Conversation No. 581-1

Date: September 30, 1971
Time: Unknown between 9:00 am and 9:20 am
Location: Oval Office

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

     The President's schedule
          -Meeting with George P. Shultz, Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
          -The President's trip to Florida
                -Shultz
                      -Location of meeting
                            -Time
          -The President's meeting with Robert H. Finch
                -Finch's forthcoming Latin American trip
                -California trip
                      -Date
                      -John N. Mitchell
          -George H.W. Bush
          -Peter G. Peterson
                -Actions as spokesman for the administration
                -Coordination with John B. Connally
                      -Conversation with Haldeman
          -Possible statement by the President on federal pay raise
                -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
                      -Date
          -Meeting with group of Southern Democrats regarding Dulski-Waldie Resolution
                -Time
                      -Forthcoming vote
          -The President's meeting with Sir Alexander F. (“Alec”) Douglas-Home
                -Length
          -Possible federal pay raise statement
                -Preparation
                -Draft statement
                -Time of release
                -Preparation
                      -Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
                -Type of statement
                      -Impact
          -West Coast dock strike
          -Meeting with Southern Democrats, September 30, 1971
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                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                Tape Subject Log
                                  (rev. 10/06)
                                                                   Conv. No. 581-1 (cont.)


          -Time
     -Shultz
          -Time of meeting
     -The President's meeting with leaders of various national educational organizations
          -Number of members
          -Time, length of meeting

Meeting with education group
     -Shultz
     -John D. Ehrlichman
     -Sidney Marland

President’s schedule
     -Luis Echeverria
           -Henry A. Kissinger’s recommendation
     -Bogdan Crnobrnja
           -Kissinger’s recommendation

US domestic activities
     -Tom C. Huston
           -Work on bombing halt study
                -Copies of study
           -Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
                -1968 studies
                      -President Lyndon B. Johnson
                      -Date
                      -Richard M. Helms
                             -Possible call from Ehrlichman or Haldeman
           -Daniel Ellsberg
Charles W. Colson
     -Possible Cabinet meeting
           -The President's role
     -Follow-up action

Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
    -Statement on Vietnam negotiations
          -Follow-up by administration
          -Allen S. Drury
                -Comparison of Kennedy to character in book Advise and Consent
          -John F. Kennedy
                -Nikita S. Khrushchev
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                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                 Tape Subject Log
                                   (rev. 10/06)
                                                                     Conv. No. 581-1 (cont.)


                     -Apology scenario comparison
     -Vietnam issue response by Republicans
          -Senator Barry M. Goldwater
                -Compared to others

US economy
     -Car sales
           -Foreign cars
           -Inventories
                -Situation
                      -Knowledge

George Meany
    -Comment about Richard H. Poff

Supreme Court appointment
     -Letter to the President from a group of Congressmen on Poff's possible nomination
           -Congressmen Joe D. Waggoner, Thomas B. Abernethy, Earle Cabell, Al
                 Ullman, Walter Flowers, Ed Edmondson, Omar Burleson [(or) Bill D.
                 Burlison?], Don Fugal [?], Martha W. Griffiths [?], W. R. Poage, Robert
                 L.F. Sikes, William L. Hungate, James A. Haley, William H. Natcher,
                 James A. Burke, Wayne Aspinall, Richardson Preyer, David Henderson,
                 Graham Purcell, Wright Patman, Carl D. Perkins, John C. Kluczynski,
                 William M. Colmer, Jim Wright, W. C. Daniel, Richard Ichord, Bob
                 Casey, Watkins Abbitt, Thomas N. Downing, Paul G. Rogers
                 -Conservatives and liberals

The President's Northwest trip
     -Montana
          -Michael J. Mansfield
          -Reactions to the President's appearances and statements
     -Newspaper reaction
          -Democrats, Republicans
     -Tim Babcock and J. Hugo Aaronson
          -Visit by the President
                 -Reaction
     -Oregon
          -Leaders
                 -State chairmen
                       -Media coverage
     -Washington state
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                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. 10/06)
                                                                  Conv. No. 581-1 (cont.)


          -Reactions by crowds
                -Demonstrators
          -Political effect
                -Type of media coverage
          -Reactions by leaders in the state
     -Alaska
          -Reactions to the President's visit
          -Walter J. Hickel and state Republicans
          -Herbert G. Klein's arrangements
                -Local Republican officials
                      -Reactions
          -Hickel

The President's schedule
     -Meeting with Ehrlichman
     -Meeting with Bush

Albert Sindlinger
     -Handling
           -Paul W. McCracken
                 -Colson
                       -Luncheon
           -Possible contract
           -Church service
                 -Invitation
                 -Arthur F. Burns

The President's schedule
     -Meeting with editorial writers
          -Date
                 -Timing
                      -Announcement of trip to the Soviet Union
          -Types of questions
                 -Phase II economic policy

Funeral for Justice Hugo L. Black
     -The President's attendance
           -Possible reaction
           -Connally
           -News coverage
                 -Event
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                           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)
                                                                      Conv. No. 581-1 (cont.)


                           -Pros and cons of news coverage

     James D. (“Don”) Hughes
          -Replacement as military aide

     The President's schedule
          -Meeting with Andrei A. Gromyko
                -News coverage
                      -Type of story
          -International Monetary Fund [IMF] reception
                -News coverage
                      -Type of story
                -Public familiarity
                -Washington newspapers comparison with regional newspapers
                -Black's death

Kissinger entered at 9:18 am.

     Schedule
          -Bush
               -Kissinger's office

     Kissinger's trip to the People's Republic of China [PRC]
          -Forthcoming United Nations [UN] vote on China membership
                -Date
                       -Changing dates
                             -Possible effect
                                  -The President's meeting with Gromyko
                                  -Peking
                       -Options on handling
          -The President's meeting with Bush

The President, Kissinger and Haldeman left at 9:20 am.