279–14

Conversation No. 279-14

Date: September 22, 1971
Time: 12:55 pm - 1:50 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

The President's schedule
-Arrival time, Detroit Economic Club


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-Dinner
-Arrival
-Time


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-Dinner
-Departure time
-Hotel
-Dinner
-Washington, DC departure time
-Arrival time
-Kissinger
-Meeting with John B. Connally
-Meeting between the President, Henry A. Kissinger and Connally
-Time and date
-Monetary situation
-Meeting between the President, Connally, and Arthur F. Burns
-Time
-Length of meetings
-Arrangements for the President's morning schedule
-Detroit Economic Club
-Length of question and answer [Q&A] session
-Introduction of the President
-Question period

Public relations
-Mail project
-Helen M. Smith
-Roland L. Elliott in the White House mail room
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-Work
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Radio talk show
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Cabinet meeting, September 24, 1971
-Attendance
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Senior staff members
-Working meeting
-Robert J. Dole
-George H.W. Bush
-United Nations [UN]
-Robert H. Finch, Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Dole

Paul W. Keyes
-Miss America
- Laugh-In
-[Laurie Lee Schaefer, Phyllis Ann George]
-Public relations for the administration

The President's schedule
-Burns’ view
-Meeting recommendation
-Connally
-Pierre-Paul Schweitzer

Campaign contribution
-Connally
-Armand Hammer
-Amount
-President’s view
-Further efforts
-Maurice H. Stans

Ronald L. Ziegler

Labor

Blacks
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-Organized groups
-Marching
-Shirley Chisholm

Professional lobbyists
-Business Council
-Peter M. Flanigan

Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Latest figures

Justices
-John M. Harlan
-Haldeman's conversation with Mitchell
-Harlan's health
-Justices [Hugo L. Black and Harlan]
-Announcement of resignation
-Effect

Kissinger
-Reaction on Vietnam announcement
-Front page story
-The President's conversation with Kissinger
-News commentators
-North Vietnam
-Reaction
-Opposition
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Bombing

Personnel
-Finch
-Mitchell
-Status
-Haldeman's conversation with Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Kalmbach
-Solution
-Finch
-Role in administration
-Counsel
-California
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-Activities
-International drug interdiction


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-National figure
-Role in administration
-Meeting with youth
-College campuses
-Appearances in California
-Rotary Club
-Republican Club dinners
-Marge Turner
-Attendance
-Public speaking
-Size of audience
-Type of organizations
-Trips
-Latin America
-Ambassadorship to Mexico
-Voters
-Texas, California
-Public appearances
-College campuses
-Votes
-Other organizations
-Blair House
-Listening to groups
-Surrogates for the President
-Finch
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-Rumsfeld
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Senators
-Liberal candidates


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Presidential appointment
-Romana Acosta Banuelos
-Swearing-in ceremony
-News coverage
-Los Angeles Times
-Minorities
-Blacks
-Mexican-Americans
-Mexico
-Spanish
-Cesar Romero
-American success story
-Family business
-Family
-Sons
-Daughter
-Accomplishments
-Horatio Alger type
-Catholicism
-Visit to the President
-Signatures
-Spelling
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The President's schedule
-Groups visiting the President
-Bowling alley event
-Race car drivers
-Visit, September 21, 1971
-Effect
-Racing magazines
-Coverage
-Reception
-Number of guests
-Guests
-Popularity
-Youth
-Hot rods
-Drag races
-Lions Club activities
-Teenagers
-Motorcycles
-Motorcycle group
-Hell's Angels
-Detroit Economic Club
-Oregon

Kissinger's schedule
-Public appearances
-Philadelphia World Affairs Council
-Foreign relations
-Council on Foreign Relations
-Hugh Scott
-Spokesman for administration
-As a speaker
-Effect on audience
-Television
-Return from the People’s Republics of China [PRC]

The President's schedule
-Unknown meeting
-Arrangements
-Banuelos
-Swearing-in ceremony
-Attendants
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-Family
-Location
-Oval Office
-Aldo Moro
-Date
-Announcement on Soviet Summit
-Kissinger
-Columbus Day
-Meeting with Moro
-Length
-Italian-Americans
-The President's Trip to Florida
-Columbus Day
-Moro meeting
-John A. Volpe

George W. Romney
-Trip to Michigan

Public relations
-Michigan
-Gerald R. Ford
-Impact of economic issues
-Detroit Economic Club
-The President's visit to Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire
-Massachusetts
-Public response to the President's visit
-Harvard University
-Boston
-Students
-US public
-Boston
-Harvard students
-Boston Common
-Effect on the President
-Other colleges
-The President's visit
-The President's public appearances
-Testimonial dinners
-Massachusetts
-[Edward W. Brooke]
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J. Edgar Hoover
-Jack N. Anderson's column
-The Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Handling
-Staff
-Tenure in office
CPI
-Analysis
-Components
-Automobiles

The President's schedule
-Connally
-Dinner
-Conference Room
-Connally and Mitchell
-Camp David
-Cabinet Room
-Meetings

Thelma C. (“Pat’) Nixon
-News coverage
-Public response
-Television

Media [?]
-Coverage
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-Campaign
-Democratic candidate
-George C. Wallace
-Vietnam
-Kissinger
-Perceptions
-Announcement of the PRC trip
-Announcement of Soviet summit
-Viewpoint
-Trip to the PRC
-Current situation
-Experts
-Mao Tse-tung
-Rumors of death
-President’s view on impact

PRC

[Unintelligible]

USSR
-Forthcoming Summit
-Andrei A. Gromyko, Rogers

Herbert W. Kalmbach


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Haldeman left at 1:50 pm.
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