Conversation No. 867-13

Date: March 2, 1973
Time: Unknown between 12:30 pm and 12:47 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Paul Findley, Richard K. Cook, and Helmut (“Hal”) Sonnenfeldt; the
White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

       Greetings

       Photographs

       Meeting with President

       Resolution in Congress on Atlantic Union
            -President’s discussion with Sonnenfeldt
                   -Problem
                   -President’s endorsement of legislation
                         -1951, 1968
                         -Findley’s answer
                         -Compared to Equal Rights Amendment [ERA]
                               -President’s intervention
                                      -State legislatures
                                            -Montana
                         -Letter for use by Findley

       US-Europe relations
           -Problems
           -European security conference
           -President’s sponsorship of Atlantic Union
                 -Problems
                 -Compared with Congressional endorsement
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     -Mutual Balanced Force Reduction [MBFR]
     -Trade negotiations
     -Common market
     -President’s political capital
           -Atlantic Union compared ERA

Atlantic Union
      -President’s identification with goal
      -Findley’s resolution
            -Language
      -Joint resolution
            -President's signature
                   -Willingness
      -Letter for use by Findley
            -Effects on Europe
                   -Security conference, MBFR
            -Importance of Atlantic community
                   -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
      -Effect on the People's Republic of China [PRC]
            -North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
                   -Japan
      -Effects on monetary crisis
            -Note of stability

Resolution's status in Congress
     -House of Representatives
     -Senate
            -Rules Committee
                  -Deadlock
     -Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen
            -Foreign Affairs Committee

John B. Anderson
     -Sponsorship of a resolution
           -Rules Committee
     -Senate candidacy

Foreign policy
      -House, Senate
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                 -Experience
                      -Anderson, Donald H. Rumsfeld


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     Illinois politics
            -Candidates
            -Adlai E. Stevenson, III
                   -Senate experience
                   -Need for opponent
            -Rumsfeld
                   -Ability
                   -Candidacy for Senate
                         -NATO ambassador


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      Congressional relations
           -Public support for President
                 -Spending control
                 -Rural Environmental Assistance Program [REAP]
                 -Water and sewer grants
           -March 1, 1973 vote
           -Chance of override of possible veto
                 -Gerald R. Ford
                       -Vocational Rehabilitation bill
                              -Democratic strategy
                                   -Vocational Rehabilitation, Older Americans Act
                                    [Amendment of 1973]
                                   -Ford
           Albert H. Quie
                 -Authorization
           -Appropriations
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                                                      Conversation No. 867-13 (cont’d)


            -Legislation
            -Impoundment
      -Veto override
            -Support for President
                   -House of Representatives
            -Opposition to tax increase
            -Public relations [PR]
                   -Poll questions
                         -Aid to poor
                               -San Diego
                         -Tax incentives
                               -San Diego
      -Legislative amendments
            -Funding programs
                   -Taxes compared to debt ceiling
      -Veto override
            -Republican support
                   -Vocational Rehabilitation bill [?]
            -Appropriations
      -Issues of taxes
      -1958 veto override
            -Samuel Rayburn, Lyndon B. Johnson
                   -Republican support for Eisenhower veto

Photographs

President’s letter for use by Findley

State of the world message

Sonnenfeldt
     -Treasury appointment
           -Conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
           -George P. Shultz
           -Nature of job
           -Political work
           -Shultz
                  -Economic focus
                       -Europe
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                                    Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. June-2010)
                                                             Conversation No. 867-13 (cont’d)



Findley, et al, left at 12:47 pm.