Conversation No. 618-23

Date: November 15, 1971
Time: 12:18 pm - 12:50 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with George E. Allen; the White House photographer was present at the
beginning of the meeting.

     Greetings

     Photograph session

     Refreshments

     Allen's schedule
          -Palm Springs
          -Herbert W. Kalmbach

     The President's schedule
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        -Allen
        -[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
             -Allen's story regarding Dwight D. Eisenhower
        -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
        -Kalmbach

Budget
    -Continuing resolution
         -Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
         -District of Columbia [DC] funds
         -Defense Department
         -Congress action
               -Possible furloughs for federal employees
    -Harry S. Truman
         -Congress
               -1948

John C. Stennis
     -Allen’s schedule
     -Conversation with the President
           -Amendment regarding Cambodian aid
           -Senate

[Forename unknown] Brennan [sp?]
     -Georgetown

Allen
        -Southern congressmen

Foreign aid
     -House vote on continuing resolution
           -Southern Democrats
           -The President's conversation with John N. Mitchell and Clark MacGregor
                -Forthcoming elections

Allen
        -Political background
              -Democratic National Committee [DNC]
              -Truman
              -DNC
                    -Ed Blake [?]
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               -Frank Walker
               -Franklin D. Roosevelt
           -Conversation with Truman
               -Voting

Dwight D. Eisenhower
    -Feelings toward Truman

Truman
    -Intelligence
          -Allen’s view
    -Eisenhower
    -Dean G. Acheson

Acheson

National economy
     -Foreign aid
     -United Nations [UN]
     -US standard of living
           -Trade

UN

The President's performance in office
     -Washington Post

Demonstrations

The press
     -Relations with the President
     -The President's previous press conference

Vietnam
     -Previous troop withdrawal announcement
          -Negotiations
                -Prisoners of war [POWs]

National economy
     -Stock market
           -Phase II
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     -Status
           -Contrasted with 1968
                -War and inflation
     -Unemployment
     -Inflation
     -The President's program
           -Phase II
                -Effect on the stock market

US relations with People's Republic of China [PRC]
     -Taiwan, Republic of China
     -US relations with Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] and Japan
     -Louis's [Surname unknown] views

Henry A. Kissinger
    -Lyndon B. Johnson and Truman

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

John B. Connally
     -Edmund S. Muskie, Edward M. Kennedy and Hubert H. Humphrey

Kennedy
    -Presidential prospects
          -Youth, blacks, women

The Vice President

Henry A. Wallace
    -Edwin W. Pauley
    -Nomination of Roosevelt in 1944

Roosevelt
    -Health in 1944
          -Schedule
               -Edwin M. (“Pa”) Watson
    -Conversation regarding Wallace
          -Walker
          -Edward J. Flynn
          -Edward J. Kelly
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    The Vice President


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    Politics
          -Money
          -Vice Presidency
          -Money
               -Television
               -Truman's 1948 campaign
                     -Louis A. Johnson
                     -David K.E. Bruce
                     -William P. Lane, Jr.
                     -Bernard M. Baruch

    UN vote on Taiwan
        -Delegates' reaction
              -George H. W. Bush

    Presidency
         -The President's schedule
               -Eisenhower
                     -Golf
               -Truman
                     -Poker
         -Perspective
         -The President's handling
               -Polls
                     -Truman
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Politics
      -Money and the Vice Presidency
          -Importance

Youth
    -Drug addiction
    -Efforts of presidency
    -Allen's employee's views
         -University of California

Justin W. Dart

Asa V. Call
     -Health
          -[Forename unknown] Friedman's [sp?] report
     -Allen's confirmation to Reconstruction Finance Corporation
          -[Forename unknown] Bartlett
          -William F. Knowland

National economy
     -Money supply
           -Arthur F. Burns
           -William McChesney Martin
           -The President's program
           -Burns
                 -Forthcoming conversation with Allen
                      -1960 election
                            -Martin
                                 -Robert B. Anderson
     -Connally's views
     -Unemployment

Harry L. Hopkins

National economy
     -Employment
           -Hopkins
           -Work Projects Administration [WPA]
                -Roosevelt
           -Public Works Administration [PWA]
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     Presentation of gifts by the President

     Story
             -Nikita S. Khrushchev
                  -Josef V. Stalin
                        -Letters

Allen left at 12:50 pm.