Conversation No. 763-23

Date: August 7, 1972
Time: Between 3:51 pm - 4:12 pm
Location: Oval Office

Peter M. Flanigan met with Stephen B. Bull.

       Presentation of Presidential gifts
            -Louisiana
            -Watch

The President entered and Bull left at 3:51 pm.
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Council on International Economic Policy [CIEP]
     -The President’s possible meeting with Henry A. Kissinger,
      George P. Shultz, Flanigan, Herbert Stein, Peter G.
      Peterson
           -Possible subjects of meeting
                 -Peterson's report
                        -Trade
                        -Leonid I. Brezhnev
                        -William D. Eberle's previous meeting with Kakuei Tanaka
                        -European Economic Community [EEC]
                              -Relations with US       on economic matters
                                    -Sweden
                                    -Austria
                                    -Switzerland
                                    -Possible confrontation between the US and the EEC
                 -The President’s view
                        -US-EEC relations
                        -US-Soviet Union trade
                              -State Department
                        -US-Japan trade
                              -The President’s forthcoming meeting with Tanaka
                        -US-EEC relations
                        -Peterson
                        -Eberle
                        -Flanigan, Kissinger
                        -Peterson
                        -US-Soviet Union trade
                        -US-Japan trade
                              -Hawaii
                        -State Department
                              -Leaks
     -US-EEC relations
           -EEC policies
                 -Effect on Atlantic System
                 -Reaction by Congress
           -Administration policy
                 -Confidential basis of work
                        -European press
                              -John B. Connally
     -US-Japan trade
           -Possible trade agreements
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                -Tanaka
                      -Kissinger’s staff
                -The President’s forthcoming meeting with Tanaka
                -Eberle
                -The President’s forthcoming meeting with Tanaka
                      -Anticipation of trade agreements
                            -Avoidance of letdown
     -Monetary policy
         -Shultz
                -Policy group
         -Forthcoming meeting of International Monetary Fund [IMF]
                -Timing
                -Finance ministers
         -Positive nature of recent US positions
                -Possible statements by the President
                -The President's involvement in policy making
         -Flanigan’s forthcoming meeting with Shultz
                      -US policies
                            -Effect on 1972 election
                            -Possible US leadership position
                                  -George S. McGovern
                                         -Knowledge of international monetary matters

Corporation for Public Broadcasting [CPB]
     -Appropriations bill
           -The President's veto
           -Casper W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
           -John O. Pastore
     -Changes in structure
           -Thomas B. Curtis
                 -Chairman
           -Henry Loomis
                 -President
           -Nominating board
           -Policy board
           -Public affairs
           -Martin Z. Agronsky show
                 -Ford Foundation funding
                       -Distribution
                             -Educational and cultural material

1972 election
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-The President's advisors
     -Flanigan, Kissinger, and Stein
           -Nonpolitical roles
     -Kissinger
           -Dinners
     -John D. Ehrlichman
           -Role in domestic policy
           -Role in campaign
     -Foreign policy advisors
           -Melvin R. Laird
           -William P. Rogers
           -Flanigan's lack of involvement in political meetings
           -Stein
                  -Charles W. Colson
                  -Meet the Press
                  -Avoidance of partisan appearances
                        -McGovern speeches
           -Kissinger
           -White House staff briefings
                  -Clark MacGregor
                  -Robert R. Brown
           -Speeches by Flanigan
                  -Jobs
                  -Adherence to issues
     -Flanigan
           -Private contacts
           -Fund raising role
                  -Restraint
                        -Stein
                        -Kissinger
     -Kissinger
           -Previous speech at University Club
                  -New York
                  -Previous policy barring Jews from admission
     -Possible briefings by Flanigan
           -Donald McI. Kendall’s group [Business and Industry for the Re-
           election of the President]
           -Rogers
           -Kissinger
           -Stein
     -Ehrlichman
           -Avoidance of fundraisers
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                         -Press briefings
                               -Ronald L. Ziegler
                   -Kissinger

       Robert O. Blake
             -Connection to Whittier, California
             -R. Sargent Shriver
                   -Deputy Chief of Mission [DCM]
             -Ambassador to [Mali]
             -W[illiam] Averell Harriman
             -Adlai E. Stevenson, II
                   -United Nations [UN]
             -Party allegiance
             -Family
                   -[Marjorie (Edwards) Blake]
                   -Frank O. Blake
                          -Herman L. Perry [?]
             -Shriver
                   -Statements while Ambassador to France
                          -Arthur K. Watson
                   -The President’s view
       Shriver
             -Rogers
                   -Offer to Shriver of position as Ambassador to the UN
                   -Flanigan’s possible meeting with Rogers
             -Filing of speeches by ambassadors
                   -State Department
                   -Individual embassies
             -Possible statements on Vietnam
                   -Rogers
             -The President’s view
             -Robert J. Dole’s statement
             -Flannigan's possible meeting with Rogers

Flanigan left at 4:12 pm