Conversation No. 698-2

Date: March 30, 1972
Time: 3:13 pm - 4:40 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

     Press briefing
           -Railroad strike
           -Sheet metal workers
           -Railroad Emergency Act
                 -George P. Shultz
                      -Memorandum
                      -Documents
                            -Emergency Board
                                  -[James D. Hodgson]
                                  -The President's signature
                 -Work stoppage
           -Carl B. Albert
                 -Wage and price freeze
                      -Ziegler's unsuccessful attempt to telephone John B. Connally
                      -Ziegler's talk with Herbert Stein
                      -Administration's response
                            -Connally
                            -Arthur F. Burns
                            -Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
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                                 -Stein
                           -Inflation
                           -Program
                                 -Goal

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:13 pm.

     The President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:17 pm.

     Weather
         -Spring
              -Flowers

     Press briefing
           -The President's schedule
                 -Meeting with Frank E. Fitzsimmons
                      -The President’s previous breakfast with George Meany
                      -Photograph
                      -Purpose
                            -Labor situation
                                 -West Coast dock strike

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 3:17 pm.

     Press briefing
           -William J. Porter
                 -Vietnam negotiations

Ziegler left at 3:19 pm.

     Foreign policy
          -Kissinger's meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
               -Soviet trip
                     -Polish stopover
                           -Cable from Warsaw
                           -Leonid I. Brezhnev
                           -Compared to the President’s trip to Romania
                           -Soviet response
                           -Domestic considerations
                           -US-Soviet Summit
               -Vietnam
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                        -The President’s previous telephone conversation with Kissinger
                        -Withdrawal deadline
                             -Prisoners of war [POWs]
                             -Military aid
                                   -North Vietnam
                                   -South Vietnam
                             -Timing
                             -Offensive

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:19 pm.

     The President's schedule
          -Meeting with Fitzsimmons

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:24 pm.

     Foreign relations
          -Kissinger's meeting with Dobrynin
                -Vietnam
                      -Withdrawal deadline
                           -Soviet and US military aid
                                -Economic aid

     The President's schedule
          -Meeting with Fitzsimmons
               -Kissinger's meeting with Harold J. Gibbons
                      -Gibbons
                           -International Brotherhood of Teamsters

Bull, Fitzsimmons, Charles W. Colson and Shultz entered at 3:24 pm.

     Greetings

     Introductions
           -Kissinger

     International situation
           -Kissinger’s possible briefings of Fitzsimmons
                -Soviet summit
                -National defense
                -Meany
                -The People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
                -Gibbons’s previous trip to North Vietnam
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                 -Soviet summit

     Kissinger's meeting with Gibbons
          -Possible comments by North Vietnamese
          -Gibbons’s comments on Today show
                -POWs

     Kissinger's briefing of Fitzsimmons
          -Timing
                -Soviet summit
                       -Arms control
     Golf

Kissinger left at 3:27 pm.

     The President's forthcoming meeting with Brezhnev

     Photograph

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:40 pm.

     Labor situation
          -Fitzsimmons
                -Pay Board membership
          -Cost of living

Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins entered at an unknown time after 3:27 pm.

     Photographs
          -Atkins

Atkins left at an unknown time before 4:40 pm.

     Labor situation
          -Meany's resignation from the Pay Board
                -Effect on the President's labor relations
                     -Unions
                            -Construction workers
                            -Teamsters
                            -American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial
                            Organizations [AFL-CIO]
          -White House role
          -Meany
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          -Fitzsimmons's advice
          -Peter J. Brennan
          -AFL-CIO
          -Meany
                -Resignation from the Pay Board
                -Unions
                      -Rank and file
                      -I[lorwith] W[ilbur] Abel
                      -Fitzsimmons
                -Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson
                      -Candidacy for presidency
                -Leonard Woodcock
                -Establishment of the Pay Board
                -Woodcock
                      -Walter P. Reuther

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time before 4:40.

     Refreshments

     Labor situation
          -Meany
                -Woodcock
                     -Loan of money
                          -AFL-CIO
                          -Rubber workers
                          -Steel workers
                          -Teamsters
                          -Peter Bommarito
                          -Abel
                          -Fitzsimmons
                                -United Auto Workers [UAW]
                          -Collateral
                                -Property
                                       -Manchester Union Leader
                     -AFL-CIO
                     -Endorsement of Edmund S. Muskie
                          -New Hampshire primary
                          -Florida primary
                          -Illinois primary
                          -Nomination
          -Abel
          -Floyd E. (“Red”) Smith
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-Woodcock
-Nathaniel Goldfinger
-Pay Board
      -Meany resignation
      -Woodcock resignation
           -Fitzsimmons
                 -UAW
      -Meany resignation
           -Colson's talk with Fitzsimmons
                 -Food prices
-Meany's relationship with the President
      -National security
-Fitzsimmons's remaining on the Pay Board
      -Reactions
           -Polls
           -Letters of congratulation
                 -Examples
           -Albert E. Sindlinger
                 -Call to Fitzsimmons
           -Public opinion
-Industry
      -Connally
      -Reduction of food prices
           -Retailers
           -Connally's meeting with food chain executives
           -C. Jackson Grayson, Jr.’s forthcoming meeting with middlemen
-Meany
      -Control of profits
      -Economic Stabilization Act
           -Fitzsimmons's statement
           -Andrew Biemiller
           -Compromise
                 -Wages and prices
           -Controls
           -Democratic controlled Congress
                 -Legislation
                       -Inflation
                       -John F. Kennedy administration
                       -Lyndon B. Johnson administration
                       -End of Vietnam War
                             -Economic implications
-Economy
-Fitzsimmons
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     -Experience in organized labor
           -Length
           -Purpose
                 -Representing workers
                       -Negotiation compared to confrontation
                             -Strikes
                                   -Reasoning for remaining on the Pay Board
-Teamsters
     -Membership
           -Morale
     -James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa
           -Colson
           -John N. Mitchell
                 -Understanding of Hoffa’s role
                 -Fitzsimmons's request to smoke
                 -Fitzsimmons's talks with Mitchell and Colson
           -Talk with Fitzsimmons regarding future
                 -Schedule
                       -St. Louis
                       -Florida
                 -Josephine Hoffa
           -President's previous contact
           -Talk with Fitzsimmons
                 -Wage Board
                 -[William Loeb]
                       -New Hampshire
                 -The President
                 -John English
                 -Gibbons
                 -Fitzsimmons's election as President of the Teamsters
-Hoffa
     -Tom Flynn, Secretary of the Treasury of the Teamsters
           -Death
     -Gibbons
           -Possible election as Secretary of the Treasury of the Teamsters
           -St. Louis
           -Relationship with Hoffa
     -Morris Shanker’s meeting with Fitzsimmons
           -Hoffa's attorney
                 -Lewisburg Penitentiary
     -Ray Sheskin [sp?] from Chicago
     -Flynn
     -Gibbons
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     -Activity in the Teamsters Union
           -Violation of clemency agreement
     -Murray W. ("Dusty") Miller
     -Activity in union
           -1973
                 -End of restrictions
           -Commitment from Fitzsimmons
     -Josephine Hoffa
           -Visit
                 -Hoffa's union involvement
                 -Hoffa's son
           -Health
           -Hoffa's union activities
                 -Joseph Diviney
                 -Einar Mohn
           -Fitzsimmons's schedule
                 -Florida
           -San Francisco
           -Hoffa's union involvement
                 -Gibbons
                 -Miller
                       -Brother's death
                 -Allen Dorfman
                 -Fitzsimmons's meeting with Hoffa
           -Health
     -Meeting with Fitzsimmons in San Francisco
           -Teamsters
                 -Election
                 -Growth
                 -Reputation
-Teamsters
     -Hoffa’s resignation from presidency
     -Fitzsimmons as president
           -Change in constitution of the union
                 -Succession to presidency
     -Hoffa
           -Clemency restrictions
           -Union involvement
     -Central states conference
     -Eastern conference
           -Message to Hoffa
     -Western conference
           -Fitzsimmons
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          -Southern conference
                -Miller
          -Presidency
                -Fitzsimmons's authority
          -Tucson, Arizona
                -Meeting
                      -Western conference
                -Fitzsimmons's speech
          -Administration policies
                -The President
                      -Success
          -Fitzsimmons's speech
                -Seattle, Washington
          -Fitzsimmons's endorsement of a candidate for the presidency
                -Lee Kearney [sp?]
     -New York
     -John V. Lindsay
     -Unknown name [Mayo?]
     -Unknown person
     -Nelson A. Rockefeller
     -Loeb
          -New Hampshire
     -Mitchell
          -The President

The President's schedule
     -Philip V. Sanchez
           -Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]

Economy
    -Dock strike
        -Harry Bridges
        -Meany
        -Thomas W. (“Teddy”) Gleason
        -Fitzsimmons's speech in New York
               -Theodore Kheel
               -Bridges
                    -Gleason's support
               -John M. Bowers
                    -Gleason’s support of Bridges
                    -William M. Chester, Jr.
        -Bridges
               -Agreements discussed
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       -Job disputes
             -Longshoremen
             -Teamsters
       -Pay Board
       -Thomas E. Flynn
-Pay
     -Fitzsimmons's advice
           -James J. Reynolds [?]
           -Pay Board
-Newspaper ads
     -AFL-CIO
-Bridges's meeting with Fitzsimmons
     -Chuck Belsa [?], Chester
     -Bridges's communist associations
     -AFL-CIO
     -Meany
     -Woodcock
     -Smith, Abel
-Meany phone conversation with Fitzsimmons
     -Council meeting
           -Longshoremen strike
                 -Teamsters
                 -Garment workers
                 -Cement finishers
                 -Glass bottle blowers
     -Pay Board
           -Commitment to the President
                 -Shultz
           -Meany's resignation
           -Unknown person
           -Connally
           -Donald H. Rumsfeld
           -Proposed meeting with the President
-Updates
     -Fitzsimmons to Shultz
-Teamsters
-Bridges
     -Shipping containers
           -Guaranteed fund
                 -Charges
                 -Courts
           -Possible longshoremen union consolidation with Teamsters
           -Executive Board
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                 -Congressional leaders
                     -Meetings with the President
                 -Meany
                     -Pay Board
                     -Strikes
                           -Effects
                                 -Anti-strike legislation
                     -John L. Lewis

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:27 pm.

     Ashtray

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:40 pm.

     Labor situation
          -Pay Board
                -Meany
                     -Lewis

     Columbia Country Club
         -Fitzsimmons’s application
         -The President
               -Golf
               -Shultz
               -Fitzsimmons
               -Mitchell

     Gifts

     Pay Board
          -Fitzsimmons's request of Colson
                -Fitzsimmons's call to Bob [last name unknown]

     Golf
             -Unknown man [Shultz?]

     Fitzsimmons
           -Colson
           -Shultz
           -Meeting with the President

Fitzsimmons, Colson and Shultz left at 4:40 pm.
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