281–26

Conversation No. 281-26

Date: October 21, 1971
Time: 10:55 am - 11:40 am
Location: Executive Office Building

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

The President's schedule
-Telephone calls
-The President’s instructions
-Warren E. Burger
-Rose Mary Woods’ role
-John A. Volpe
-Woods’ role
-Herbert G. Klein
-Statements on the President's Supreme Court appointees

Supreme Court appointments
-Media comments
-Klein

Pay Board appointment
-Candidates
-Selection process

The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 10:55 am and
11:04 am.

[Conversation No. 281-26A]

[See Conversation No. 12-35]

[End of telephone conversation]
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Cabinet
-John N. Mitchell
-Robert H. Finch
-John B. Connally
-Melvin R. Laird
-Use of Presidential plane

The President talked with John B. Connally between 11:04 am and 11:14 am.

[Conversation No. 281-26B]

[See Conversation No. 12-36; two items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

Telephone calls
-Mitchell
-Connally

Supreme Court nominations
-American Bar Association [ABA]
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s press briefing

Economics
-Pay Board
-Contrasted with the Price Commission
-Confidence of business community
-Importance of appointment

Willy Brandt's winning of Nobel Peace Prize

People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative

Time magazine
-Man of the Year
-Henry A. Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-The President
-Letters from advertisers
-The President
-Administration’s accomplishments
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-Hedley W. Donovan

Nobel Peace Prize
-The President
-Gerard C. Smith
-The President

Supreme Court nominations
-Leaks
-William L. Safire
-Background story
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Richard A. Moore

Ziegler entered at 11:25 am.

Supreme Court appointees
-Possible responses to the media
-Ziegler's schedule
-Attorney General
-ABA
-Role in selection process
-Herschel H. Friday
-Dan Rather
-Friday
-John L. McClellan
-Safire
-John A. Scali
-Possible responses by Ziegler

Ziegler left at 11:30 am.

The President's schedule
-The President's meeting with Ruth Voss
-Francis L. Dale
-Volunteer efforts

Public relations
-Rose Mary Woods
-Efforts
-Possible role
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-Jack J. Valenti
-White House staff's attitudes
-Woods
-Connally
-Performance
-Compared with other Cabinet members

William P. Rogers
-Kissinger
-Soviet Union
-Legislative meeting
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-John Foster Dulles
-Role
-Mitchell
-Connally
-Mitchell
-John Sears
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey

White House staff
-Leonard Garment
-Meeting with students from Kent State
-Glenn A. Olds

Supreme Court appointees
-Possible reaction
-Joseph L. Rauh, Jr.
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Louis P. Harris poll
-Public support

Polls
-Harris poll
-Washington Post
-Approval ratings of the President
-Opinion Research Company [ORC]
-Charles W. Colson
-Harris poll
-Distribution
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-George H. Gallup poll
-Distribution
-White House investigation
-Kennedy

The President's schedule
-Presentation of diplomatic credentials
-Unknown ambassador

The President and Haldeman left at 11:40 am.