Conversation No. 827-22

Date: December 20, 1972
Time: 3:51 pm - 4:24 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

       The President’s schedule
            -Meeting with Saul Pett
                  -Pett’s writing style
                         -New York Times, Washington Post
                         -Associated Press [AP]
                  -Henry Burroughs
                         -Photograph session

Ziegler left and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 3:52 pm.

       Haldeman’s schedule
            -Trip to Florida

       The President’s schedule
            -Vacation
                  -White House staff
                         -Charles W. Colson
                  -Timing
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                                                              Conversation No. 827-22 (cont’d)

                        -Congressional relations
                              -Reconvention
                        -Vietnam negotiations
                              -Settlement agreement

       Vietnam negotiations
            -Settlement agreement
                   -Nguyen Van Thieu
                         -US military action
                              -US-North Vietnam bilateral deal
                                     -Peace with honor
                   -US terms
                   -South Vietnam
                         -Army

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time before 3:59 pm

       Public relations [PR]
             -Memorandum from Patrick J. Buchanan to the President
                    -Possible book by Buchanan
                          -Girard Company, Pennsylvania bank
                          -Length
                          -Subject
                                 -National interest
                          -James A. Michener
                          -Barbara Ward
                          -First term
                                 -Policies and decisions
                                       -Philosophical foundations
                                       -Richard M. Nixon Doctrine
                                       -Vietnam War
                                       -People’s Republic of China [PRC]
                                       -Soviet Union
                                       -Supreme Court
                                       -Bureaucracy
                                       -New American Majority
                                 -Photographs
                                       -Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
                          -Duration
                          -The President’s interview with Garnett D. (“Jack”) Horner
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                                                             Conversation No. 827-22 (cont’d)

                         -Bias
                         -Distribution
                         -Second term
                         -Stance vis-a-vis administration, White House
                         -Michener
                         -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
                               -Presentation of the President
                                     -Tone

       The President’s schedule
            -Meeting with Saul Pett
                  -Decision making
                         -Press relations
                         -The President’s demeanor
                               -Coolness
                         -Analyses

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:52 pm.

       The President’s schedule
            -Meeting with George P. Shultz
            -Trip to Florida
                  -Helicopter
                  -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
            -Meeting with Shultz
                  -Haldeman’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:59 pm.

       Press relations
             -Decision making

Shultz entered at 3:59 pm.

       Greetings

       Press relations
             -Pett

       Economy
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                                                     Conversation No. 827-22 (cont’d)

     -Pre-January 1973
     -Wage and price control system
     -Trade bill

The President’s schedule
     -Meeting with the Productivity Commission
           -Frank E. Fitzsimmons, I[lorwith] W[ilbur] Abel, George Meany, Paul Hall,
            United Auto Workers [Pat Greathouse], John H. Lyons, railroads [C. L.
            Dennis]
           -Quality
           -Business Council
           -Meany
           -Access to the White House
                  -Peter J. Brennan
                  -Meany, Fitzsimmons
           -Business Council

Second term reorganization
     -Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]
           -Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
                 -Dr. James R. Schlesinger message to Shultz
                       -Dixy Lee Ray
                              -Promise
                              -Women
                 -Energy Research and Development [R & D]
                       -National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
                       -Interior Department
                 -Schlesinger
                 -John D. Ehrlichman
                       -Possible conversation with Schlesinger
                       -Schedule
                              -California
                                    -Sun Valley
                       -Conversation with Shultz
                 -NASA
                       -James C. Fletcher
                 -Scientists
                       -National Science Foundation
                 -Operational job
                 -Conversation with Shultz
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                                                   Conversation No. 827-22 (cont’d)

                -Energy
                     -Interior Department
                            -John C. Whitaker
                            -Rogers C. B. Morton
                     -Shale, coal, gas
                     -Canada, Soviet Union
                     -R & D
                -Conversation with Shultz

Economic policy
     -Wage and price controls
          -Duration, continuation
                -PR
          -Labor relations
                -Food prices
                -Construction, state and local government wages
                -Freezes
                      -Medical costs
                -Memorandum
                -Advisory Committee to Cost of Living Council [COLC]
                -Wage standard
                -Food prices
          -Congressional relations
          -Timing
                -January 1973 messages
                -Christmas-New Year’s Day
          -Congressional relations
                -Consultations
                -Cabinet Room meeting
                      -Timing
                      -Bipartisanship
                      -William E. Timmons
                            -Series of meetings
                                  -Vietnam War
          -Decisions
                -Announcement
                      -Timing
          -The President’s philosophy
                -Free trade
          -Food prices
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                                              Conversation No. 827-22 (cont’d)

           -Earl L. Butz
                  -Politics
                  -Extension of Economic Stabilization Act [?]
                         -Announcement
                               -Timing
           -Meat
     -Congressional relations
           -Cabinet Room meeting
                  -Timmons
     -Committee structure
           -Announcements
           -Leaks
-Trade negotiations
     -Shultz’s previous conversation with the President
     -Europeans
           -1973
     -Authority
           -Congressional relations
     -John F. Kennedy round
     -Nixon round
     -Authority
     -Adjustment assistance
     -Escape clause
     -Adjustment assistance
           -Labor relations
                  -1962 compared to 1972
                         -Job loss
                  -Benefit levels of unemployment insurance
                  -Pension rights
     -Authority
           -Multilateral agreements
                  -General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade [GATT]
                  -Mutual tariff reductions
           -US jobs, business
           -Sanctions
           -Multilateral agreements
           -Bilateral agreements
                  -Japan, Canada
           -Voluntary quotas
           -State Department
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                                                     Conversation No. 827-22 (cont’d)

                -Congressional relations
                       -Shultz’s meetings with Russell B. Long and Wilbur D. Mills
          -US interests
                -Reduction of trade barriers
                       -Congressional relations
          -Congressional relations
                -Long, Mills
                -Politics
          -Monetary negotiations
          -Japan
          -Reduction and imposition of trade barriers
     -Taxes
          -Congressional relations
                -Mills
                       -Hearings
                             -Timing
                                   -January 1973
                             -Duration
                             -Panel discussions
                                   -Administration participation
                             -Administration proposals
                                   -1972 campaign
                                         -Statements
                                   -Shultz’s memoranda
                                         -Tax simplification
                                   -Possible meeting with Edwin S. Cohen
                -Long
                       -Meeting with Shultz
                             -Mills
                             -Support for the President’s policies
                                   -Republicans
                                         -1972 election
                                   -1974 election
                             -Consultations

Arthur F. Burn’s schedule
     -Trip to Bonn, West Germany, January 1973
           -Monetary
     -Possible meeting with the President
           -Purpose
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                                                            Conversation No. 827-22 (cont’d)

                  -Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
                       -John E. Sheehan

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:59 pm.

       The President’s schedule
            -Helicopter
            -Signing letters

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:29 pm.

       Second term reorganization
            -Sheehan
                  -Sub-Cabinet
                        -Shultz’s forthcoming conversation with Burns
                  -The President’s conversation with Burns
                  -FRB
                        -Sub-Cabinet
                              -Under Secretary
                                    -Shultz’s forthcoming conversation with Burns

       Burn’s schedule
            -Trips to France, Britain
                  -Trip to Bonn

       1972 campaign
            -Burns
                 -Conversation with Shultz

       Burn’s schedule
            -Possible meeting with the President
                  -Trip to Japan
                        -Shultz’s conversation with Burns
                        -Timing
                              -Spring 1973
                  -Sheehan
                        -FRB

       Second term reorganization
            -International Monetary Fund [IMF]
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                                                              Conversation No. 827-22 (cont’d)

                    -Alternate governor
                          -Sheehan
                                -William P. Rogers
                                -Shultz’s conversation with Burns

       Economic policy
            -Trade negotiations
                 -Politics
                 -Congressional relations
                        -Timmons
                        -Domestic Council
                              -Politics

Shultz and Haldeman left at 4:24 pm.