Conversation No. 643-10

Date: January 3, 1972
Time: 3:07 pm - 3:40 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry Ford II, Edwin D. Etherington, Charles W. Colson and Rayburn
Hanzlik; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

     New Year's greetings
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    Introductions

    Seating

    Briefcase

    Etherington
         -Key Biscayne
         -Home in Hobe Sound, Florida

    National Center for Volunteer Action [NCVA]
         -The President’s gratitude
         -Importance
         -Funding
              -Ford's letter to the President
              -ACTION
              -Budget for 1973
              -Private sector
                    -Government


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                -Private sector
                      -Competition with other organizations
                      -Pledges
                -Ford's letter to the President
                -Pledges
                -White House aides
                      -Financial supporters
                            -Election year
                -Tax deduction
                      -Internal Revenue Service [IRS] ruling
                -The President’s instruction
          -Project
                -The President's recent conversation with Robert H. Finch
                -Local centers network
                      -Number operating
                            -Timing
                      -Number forming
                      -Money from ACTION
          -Awards dinner
                -The President's attendance

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:07 pm.

     The President's schedule
          -Datebook
               -Retrieval

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:30 pm.

                -Scheduling

     NCVA
        -Awards dinner
            -The President's presence

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:07 pm.

     Datebook

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:30 pm.
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     NCVA
        -Awards dinner
            -Date
            -The President's presence

Manolo Sanchez [?] entered at an unknown time after 3:07 pm.

     Refreshment
          -Sanchez

Sanchez [?] left at an unknown time before 3:30 pm.

     NCVA
        -Awards dinner
             -Date
             -Location
                   -Kennedy Center
                        -Size
                        -Reservation
                        -Board meeting
                        -Honorees
             -Honorees
             -Date
                   -The President's forthcoming trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
                        -Press
                   -The President's schedule
                        -California
                        -Trip to PRC
             -Fund-raising possibilities
                   -Pre-dinner gathering
                        -The President's presence
        -Advertising
        -Funding
             -Amount
             -ACTION appropriations
        -Programs
             -"Right to Read"
                   -Volunteers
                        -The President
                   -Blacks
                   -Non-English language speakers
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                -“New math”
          -“Aid to the Elderly”
                -Volunteers
                      -Ages
                            -College students
                      -“Right to Read”
          -Funding
                -Costs
                -Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW] grant
                      -Elliot L. Richardson
                      -Hanzlik, Finch and Etherington
                      -Colson's forthcoming conversations
                            -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and George P. Shultz
                            -Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
                      -The President's support
                      -ACTION budget
                            -Congressional support
                -Costs of “Right to Read” and “Aid to the Elderly”
                      -HEW
                -Richardson
                      -Support
                -Support from the President and Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
                      -“Right to Read”
                -Richardson
                -Mrs. Nixon
     -Organization
          -Chairmanship
                -Ford's forthcoming resignation
                -Etherington's possible succession
                      -Etherington's work with Frederic V. Malek
                      -Ford’s future role
          -Presidency
                -Schedule
                -Salary
                -Etherington's work

Malek

William D. Eberle
     -Job
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Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:07 pm.

     Peter G. Peterson
           -Forthcoming meeting with the President

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:30 pm.

     Eberle
          -Previous role
                -American Standard
          -Peterson
                -Forthcoming meeting with the President
          -Previous support for Etherington
          -Forthcoming meeting with the President
                -Eisaku Sato

     Malek
         -Performance
         -Support for women
              -Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
                    -[Marina von Neumann Whitman]
                    -Herbert Stein
                    -Ezra Solomon
                    -Paul W. McCracken
                    -Whitman
                          -Women in government

     International monetary agreement
           -John B. Connally
                -Work with Group of Ten

Peterson entered at 3:30 pm.

     Greetings

     NCVA awards dinner

Ford, Etherington, Colson, and Hanzlik left at 3:30 pm.

     The President's schedule
          -Forthcoming meeting with group on trade legislation
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                -Council on International Economic Policy [CIEP]
                -Issues to be discussed
                      -Gold price
                            -Legislation before Congress
                                  -Banking Committee
                                  -Generalized preferences
                                        -Ways and Means Committee
                                        -Senate Finance Committee
                                  -Timing
                                        -Paul A. Volcker's views
                                        -Eberle
                                              -European Economic Community [EEC]
                                        -Agriculture issue
                                              -Connally’s view
                                                    -Forthcoming talk with Peterson
                                                    -Politics
                      -Agriculture
                            -Citrus and tobacco
                            -Grain
                                  -Midwestern states
                                  -Eberle's work
                            -Congress' actions
                      -Measures to Congress
                            -Timing
                                  -State of the Union message
                                  -Hearings
                                  -Debate
                                  -Filibuster
                                  -The President's forthcoming meeting with Connally
                                        -California
                                  -Peterson's forthcoming call to Connally
                                  -Filibuster
                      -Trade legislation
                            -Timing
                                  -Delay
                                  -Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
                                        [OECD] trade group report
                                  -Congress
                                  -Eberle

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:30 pm.
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                -Request for Shultz's presence

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:40 pm.

                -Issues to be discussed
                      -Trade legislation
                            -Exchange rate
                            -Other legislation
                                  -Revenue sharing, health
                            -Ways and Means Committee
                                  -Senate Finance Committee
                                  -Wilbur D. Mills
                                  -James A. Burke
                                       -Vance Hartke-Burke Bill
                                             -Labor
                                       -Relationship with Mills
                            -Prospects
                                  -The President’s view
                                       -Peterson’s memorandum
                                       -Protectionist measures
                                       -Peterson's responsibility
                                       -William P. Rogers
                                       -Peterson
                                             -Business community
                                       -Connally
                                       -The President’s comments
                                       -Public statements
                                             -Peterson, Rogers, Connally, Stein
                                       -US credibility abroad and at home
                                             -Protectionism

     Trade legislation
          -Rogers
                -Generalized preferences
                      -Recent conversation with the President
                      -Submission to Congress
                            -Timing
                            -"Christmas Tree" approach
                      -Staff meeting
                      -Clark MacGregor
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                           -Consultation

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:30 pm.

     The President’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:40 pm.

                                 -Instructions
                                       -Forthcoming talk with Rogers
                                             -Foreign policy concerns
                      -Quotes

     Press coverage
           -Peterson
                 -New York Times
                      -Charts

     State of the Union message
           -Staff contact with Congress, business
           -1972
           -Themes
                 -Confidence, employment, competition

     Peterson's schedule
          -California
          -Japan

     Japan
          -Negotiations with US
              -Eberle
              -Kakuei Tanaka
              -Maurice H. Stans

The President and Peterson left at 3:40 pm.